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Star Citizen costs exceed Cyberpunk 2077, GTA 5, and RDR2 combined (www.pcgamesn.com)
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[-] Thatoneguyyoulove@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I wanted Star Citizen to work out so badly. In 2012(ish? I don't remember exactly) when I first heard of the game I backed it because a space game where you weren't just your ship but could move around and board other ships sounded like my perfect space game. Now it looks like Starfield may fill that want perfectly. Who knows though maybe one day in the future Star Citizen will actually release.

[-] smolgumball@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Absolutely no way Star Citizen isn't a massive scam. I mean, people can be incompetent, but

over $580 million

...seems like it has to be some kind of upper limit of incompetence?

[-] setsneedtofeed@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I dunno, seems incredibly competent to me.

[-] melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 year ago

It's subject to absurd feature creep and overambition, in addition to regular ol incompetence.

The design goals for Star Citizen are kinda absurd. It's like how the No Man's Sky devs claimed at one point they'd individually simulate air molecules and a unique periodic table, except the difference is that NMS axed that (or more accurately, were never actually doing it) instead of spending the next decade trying to make it work.

At the same time, it helps that their supporters have essentially given them a financial incentive to keep adding feature creep instead of releasing, because if they release a game they can't keep asking for more donations for increasingly lofty goals.

[-] GrindingGears@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago

This game is going to be No Man's Sky 2.0. I'm calling it now. Watching that whole demo the other day, all I could think of was, yep, no man's sky of 2023.

No disrespect to No Man's Sky, because they got that game pretty much sorted. Not sure Bethesda will ever throw that much resources, especially with this news, at Star Citizen. I'll be waiting for the first Steam Sale, and only if they have it mostly sorted by that point. Their track record isn't awesome, in that regard.

[-] melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

You're definitely thinking of Starfield, which is the new Bethesda game. Star Citizen won't be No Man's Sky 2.0, because Star Citizen is never going to come out.

[-] setsneedtofeed@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago

It’s a different kind of beast.

NMS released. They put it in a box and said “This is the finished game”. It was then torn to shreds and the long road of updates was a redemption story for an already released product.

Star Citizen will NEVER be done. It will always exist in some weird development alpha-beta limbo. It’s never going to go on Steam or shelves as a finished product. This allows the developers cover to always say the game is in development as a shield against any and all criticism. From their perspective it’s kind of perfect. Fans throw money at it endlessly and the development never really needs to reach a coherent state of being finished. Why would they ever want to actually release a finished game?

[-] SaltySalamander@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

To have spent that much money and yet not have anything really resembling a game, just a glorified tech demo, is pretty sad.

[-] Bautznersenf@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

What do you mean, just a glorified tech demo? I thought it's almost done??

[-] melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think you're thinking of Starfield, because Star Citizen is nowhere near done. They only have one solar system, with only a few people per instance, terrible optimization, only a fraction of the planned features, etcetera. It's very immersive (aside from all the glitches and low FPS) but there's not much actual content.

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