>Crowdfunded Star Citizen raises over $148 million, but release date has been postponed indefinitely
>The space exploration game Star Citizen started out small. Developer Chris Roberts had the idea back in 2012 with a goal of raising about $500,000 to launch the project. However, the popularity of his idea sprouted wings and investors came out of the woodwork to help him. Roberts did not want to rely on the usual investors though.
>While the creator of the 1990 hit video game Wing Commander would likely not have had any trouble pitching his game to AAA producers or gathering enough business investors to fund the game, he wanted to avoid the corporate route. Chris had seen how Markus Persson had taken Minecraft from what was essentially a small garage project and built it into what can only be described as a video game and merchandising empire. Microsoft subsequently purchased Persson's company in 2014 for $2.5 billion. Like Persson, Roberts was looking to build his IP independently.
>In 2013, he decided to start a Kickstarter campaign for Star Citizen with the goal of raising $4 million. His real investment goal was $10 million, up from the original $500K due to a much broader vision, but he only expected gamers and enthusiasts to foot $4 million on the crowdfunding site. He expected to get the other $6 million from investors that he already had lined up.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HOLY SHIT MY SIDES CAN'T TAKE ANYMORE
>there are people on Sup Forums RIGHT NOW that fell for the scam
Leo Jones
>People
Dominic Harris
REDDIT BTFO
Mason Stewart
holy fuck. the biggest blunder of our time.
Evan Foster
Is this a report from 2013?
This game never had a set release date
Benjamin King
You EVE players sure are scared.
Lincoln Ortiz
Isn't it just for the singleplayer
Lincoln Murphy
Never ever getting released
Ryan Watson
>AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HOLY SHIT MY SIDES CAN'T TAKE ANYMORE Calm down autismo, the game hasn't had a fixed release date in ages.
Christian Turner
From what I understand, donation goals kept getting met so the game just became bigger and bigger.
Joseph Hernandez
>CIG employees already on full damage control mode
Jayden Smith
Derek Smart was right.
Adam Martinez
Why would Eve players give a shit?
Grandads who play the slow paced Eve are not going to give a shit about Star Citizen, given its fast paced combat.
People who enjoy the depth of Eve won't enjoy it, because Star Citizen won't be nearly as complex.
Scammers won't enjoy it, because RSI are casuals who'll listen to their crybaby fanbase and ban anyone who tries to lie to another player.
Josiah Moore
Can't you play it right now? if you buy a founders pack or whatever
Adam Russell
They've been making significant progress, but the full giant open world public universe part of the game is delayed and has no definite release date, but the other parts like the standalone single player campaign and shit are on their way to completion probably by the end of this year or beginning of next year.
Alpha is still up for anyone to play any of the modules and see what's going on, 3.0 alpha update is coming in july, beta should be here by the end of the year.
It's not on ice or anything.
Jack Gonzalez
Nope, you download the client and it just opens up a black screen with the words "YOU GOT SCAMMED" on it.
Thomas Sanchez
what engine did they switch to a while ago? I forgot.
Look here little faggot, I spent 6500$ on this project, when you make threads like these, I literally get panic attacks and cannot sleep. What do you get out of this? just fucking STOP. The game is FINE, it WILL come out and when it does and I'm enjoying my Genesis-class Starliner while you have NOTHING for not believing in this project.
Kevin Reed
I'm not a shill, I've got no vested interest either, just saying what it is.
I've been looking into it lately.
Michael Ortiz
missing pre-rendered cinematics?
Wyatt Campbell
Careful your shill is showing.
Lucas Bennett
fuck off derek
Jordan Moore
What? I play Eve you faggot, most of the fanbase isn't going to jump ship for a space game with little to no depth compared to Eve, without the years worth of shit they've collected, never mind it being a game that few of them will even be able to run.
Jack Hill
Pretty sure they are still on CryEngine.
James White
they did this to get around having to give refunds out for having missed so many deadlines
Samuel Richardson
no
Ryan Jenkins
>it's been nearly a year since that video came out and the only change was that they released a shitty star marine with bad netcode I want to get off the wild ride
Xavier Thomas
>Nothing like in-game experience in the slightest >Laughably shows people outside of their ships, to salt the wound >Generic shitty sounding rock riff >Fake-voice chat over a battle when all you really hear is autistic frog screams Never laughed so much watching a trailer before.
Blake Barnes
Is star Citizen the biggest pyramid scheme or were there any others that went over 150 mil?
Christian Nelson
>Star Citizen never had a release date
Benjamin Reed
Fuck you
Adrian Richardson
I want to believe that there are real people like this in the world.
Nathaniel Green
You're suffering from buyers remorse.
GET HELP NOW.
Gavin Bell
Its ironic given that the flashy nonsense battling in that trailer looks nothing like Eve, but is dead on for Star Citizen.
Kevin Green
Technically its cryengine, but cryengine with a bunch of shit Amazon added to itm
Nicholas Lopez
They already did that when they changed the tos like a year ago without informing anyone.
Dominic Powell
Right, it's not standard CryEngine, they built and added their own systems for it to get around limitations of the engine, so it's a heavily modified CryEngine.
Kinda like what Respawn did with Titanfall and the Source Engine.
Landon Russell
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Oliver Smith
That game is a perfect example of a limiting release date being a good thing.
Jaxon Mitchell
why does derek smart still post on Sup Forums
Blake Torres
>they built and added their own systems for it to get around limitations of the engine, so it's a heavily modified CryEngine. they didn't.
Amazon bought the source code of Cryengine, and added stuff to it, optimized it, and made it free.
Charles Price
whos derek smart and why are you using him as a boogeyman like a shill?
Adrian Allen
No, they did. They actually talk about that in the latest ATV.
Like the entire object interaction system. They had to build that.
Alexander Jones
Have they even released anything? a demo? an alpha?
Jordan Smith
Yes, it's been a while since I've checked but I think they even released a multiplayer component.
Oliver Adams
>Put down money for a new car >The dealership says it'll take six weeks to be deliveried >Six weeks on, dealer phones you >Car is delayed. His business is suddenly booming so he wants to add more shit to the car to make it better >Tell him you just want the car he was trying to sell, perhaps he should give you that, and you'll buy a new one later, or addons for the current car >Dealer asks everyone else who put money down for the car >Only 5% want their car now, the rest are sure it'll be worth the wait >Five years down the line the dealership won't answer your calls and is selling the drawings of cars he made >You made this happen
Hunter Adams
>"muh derek smart!"
You guys are just deluded. As soon as you admit your money is gone, the better it will be for your mental health.
Benjamin Davis
Yeah the Alpha is out. You acn play it right now, fly around the play area, shoot down pirate npc's do some ICC beacon quests, play the call of duty mode, whatever.
It's just there isn't really enough there to keep the average person interested for more than a few hours.
3.0 is coming in July though and should be a big update with a free fly weekend.
So stay tuned. I wouldn't recommend jumping in yet.
Hunter Hill
>Friend invested in Star Citizen >Showing me his character >Walking around some space station with some other dumb investors >Walk up to his spaceship that cost him $100USD >Some nigga comes and jacks the spaceship >Flies off into nothingness >mfw
Daniel Thomas
stop wasting text in your post you fucking shill. learn to how to post on Sup Forums if youre going to try and blend it faggot.
Lincoln Martin
Derek is a moron who makes his own shitty crowdfunded games who was jealous that Roberts was a better scammer.
The problem is the Cult of SC is worse than both of them combined. Attacking people who criticize their god while they beg for more bull shots, all while in their furry suits.
Kevin Jenkins
A dog shit alpha that runs like complete crap with both shitty frame rates and poor netcoding.
Its like an unfinished, poorly running Elite Dangerous. Which is saying a lot given that Elite Dangerous feels unfinished.
Dylan James
>the $30 I spent in 2012 or something is gone
Oh no...
Juan Carter
>answering questions with facts is shilling
wew lads.
Carter Lee
Post yfw you didn't back Scam Citizen
Christopher Sanders
>Star Citizen >Implying it's a scam You people are stupid. It's not a scam. They will deliver the game, and in it's shittiest state, delivering all features on paper but implemented in the worst way possible Prepare for the No Man's Sky 2, shit will be fun
Mason Ramirez
>so stay tuned >jumping in >Implications that the 'average person' can't enjoy it, but maybe you can, because you're not average! >Just enough errors in the text, textbook false flag viral tactics I hope you don't shill for free.
Asher Perry
PC wins again baby
Adrian Diaz
t. dreck i didn't back this shitfest, i just want to know why you shill here
Blake Walker
I told him what it is now and told him it's not worth playing yet.
Ryan Campbell
>Hanger module >It runs like shit, controls like shit, and doesn't even look that good. >Flight modules >Plays like shit, still runs like shit >Walking around looking at shoe shops module >Also plays like shit, people still feel like they are running through tar. Also still runs like shit >Shootan module >The worst yet, they took an out of the box fps engine and somehow ruined it. Still runs like shit. >There are people who still expect this to somehow all come together and not be shit
Bentley White
at least I didn't fall for the scam or neither star citizen nor weeb cancer
>Like the entire object interaction system. They had to build that.
that's something they built for the game. that's not the same as changing the engine. requesting link to the ATV
Adrian Bell
It's an addition, a modification if you will, of the engine.
Angel Smith
>buyers remorse over $30 kek The devlogs are pretty cool and they're doing some impressive stuff. The latest interaction build has cockpits working kinda like in DCS.
James Stewart
every game builds stuff in an engine. it's not the same as changing the engine itself. it's all on top. so the engine is the same.
>Have they even released anything? a demo? an alpha?
Yeah a lot. There is a very large group of people on Sup Forums and Reddit who is obsessed with screaming "scam" about this game and ignore all of the actual progress being made.
You can already fly around on big multicrew ships and fight in shit in the one solar system they have up already.
I want to, I wish I could, but there's still just not enough there yet for me to bother.
I'll back it when there is enough of it there for me to play. Honestly I was hoping it would be there by now.
Christopher Parker
what the actual fuck
Kevin Long
>yfw you never backed a single kikestarter
Owen Sullivan
>dumb child tries to explain an investment but doesn't understand and looks retarded
Julian Collins
You can actually see the disgust he feels for those subhuman maggots.
Ryan Torres
Star Citizen is the cod of space games. Looks nice, but has zero substance.
Cameron Evans
You do a pretty good impersonation of a typical redditor.
David Moore
So... this is the power of Star Citizen... whoa...
Hunter Morgan
Its amazing how all this guy was to do was release a kickstarter announcement that jerked PC users off and that automatically gave him millions of dollars that he could run away with.
Oliver Gomez
u mad
Daniel Perez
don't know much about the game itself but i remember there was a dedicated hatedom last year that was posting developers addresses, posting pictures of where their kids went to school, etc etc. is that still going on
Jeremiah Gray
>this retard felt smart writing this garbage up
Gabriel Kelly
t. kuck citizen.
Gavin Mitchell
>tfw didn't back star citizen >tfw the cancerous part of my beloved hobby is buttmad and feels cheated >tfw everyone else fucking knew better than to trust a kikestarter dev
Christopher Adams
Of course it's still going on. Scam Citizens are legit Scientology tier of insane.
Xavier Bell
My fucking dad fell for the scam and still stands by it.
Levi Rogers
How is it dead on Star Citizen if SC is vaporware and never EVER coming out?
Parker Roberts
It's the only one that I'm interested in playing.
All the rest have deficiencies. One Man's Lie has an infinite universe of the same thing you saw before only slightly different and without any of the anomalies that make space interesting, and without anything to do at all. Just a boring gameplay loop of mine to get offworld to go to another world to mine to get off the world to go to another world to mine ad nauseum.
Eve is simply a spreadsheet simulator, nothing interesting there, and it sucks your wallet dry if you try to play it.
Elite Dangerous almost has it but it's 100% flying around, you cant actually go to any of the planets and land on them or do anything remotely interesting. Just fly around in a lackluster universe with little content.
Scam Citizen promises to give that bit extra to make it a fun exploration game. I hope it actually comes to pass eventually. Otherwise, the genre is just dead.
Jayden Martin
>Fly around >Land on station where you can do nothing but get generic "Go here" mission >Kill some people on a barren world >Repeat Wow, on par with the new Mass Effect there buddy, you and your team must be real proud.
Mason Parker
Shouldn't there be a cap on things like that? This always seems to happen with kickstarter projects; "Oh, we got more money than we expected and decided to expand on all the promises and oops, everything kinda imploded. Our bad".
Parker Nguyen
Are the people that call it a scam ignorant of the progress that's made on it? You could give plenty of valid criticism, but "scam" doesn't fall under that.
