Star Citizen Just Had its Biggest Crowdfunding Day Ever With $3.5 Million in 24 Hours

I want shorter games with worse graphics made by people who are paid more to work less and I'm not kidding.

This thing is a scam, and you're all being taken for chumps. The only worse fraud than SC is buying Fatalities on Mortal Kombat.

This project is baffling

After a decade and an astronomical amount of money spent, this thing is still in pre-alpha. People have left school, got married, have kids, played and forgotten No Man's Sky, Elite Dangerous, and now Starfield, and there is still no Star Citizen.

It's time to accept that Star Citizen will NEVER be released, because what Chris Roberts is selling is "dream as a service" which can be anything you want it to be, and one that never has to end for as long as the "game" is still in development.

The moment an actual product is released is the moment the flow of money will stop.

Wait, people are still dumping money into this?

As a day 1 backer i would like to offer my sincerest apologies.

This is just like EVE Online for me - I am more interested in reading about the drama than the actual game itself.

I dont have the energy to care about this game, just like I dont have the energy to care about George RR Martin or Patrick Rothfuss never finishing their products either.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_video_games_to_develop

I finally tried this game and holy shit is it terrible. The UI is janky and unintuitive. The movement is slow and stiff or sonic on crack and nothing in-between. The frame rate is terrible even on a decent machine with appropriate settings. Just overall a bad experience. I don't care if it's still "In development" get your fundamentals right before you go adding more shit.

Stop giving these scam artists money.

Scam Citizen still hustlin

JFC, I guess there's a lot of suckers in the world

Wtf

I am not proud to say I was an original backer, but luckily only for like 25 bucks.

It became clear after a year or two it was vaporware. even if a product ever comes out it'll not be what I backed originally, which was Privateer TNG. So I stopped following the game, never played any of the tech demo's and just shake my head warily when I see news articles like this. Bernie Madoff is in jail for basically the same thing. How can people still support this travesty.

I dumped $60 into this like... 12 years ago I think? I knew it was a Chris Roberts scam but was willing to take a chance on modern freelancer.

How the fuck are people still pumping money into this? How is this not been exposed as a government or criminal front?

Isn’t Star Citizen that grift game?

It's depressing to know that it's actually apparently more profitable to never really release a game than to release one and it be moderately popular

What exactly is this game trying to be?

Sometimes I wish Fdev had done a better job of updating elite dangerous and really putting in effort for cleaning up mechanics issues.

But then I see stupidity like this and realize I am so much better off lmao. At least I have a 1:1 milky way game to play whenever I want.

Public broadcaster radio just struggled to raise $500k for charity, and then get to see this bullshit.

Star Citizen players and Escape from Tarkov players. Both think their game will be finished before they are copied/cloned by a faster/better studio.

I think I've reached the point where no one will be able to convince me that Star Citizen is not a money laundering front.

How the fuck are people still falling for this scam? Oh right, half of our country worships a braindead cheeto blob. edit: Damn so many trump simps in the thread. "omg everything politik" yeah welcome to fucking lemmy

I literally can't play this game, my PC has 16GB of RAM and it runs out of free memory after like 10 minutes and crashes to desktop. When your "fix" is to just buy more RAM or increase your page file size, then your game is a fucking scam. I understand new games require more powerful hardware, but this is Amazon lumberyard ffs.

I honestly feel like they should just release Squadron 42 now and then do Star Citizen. Let us have the ships and combat in an Ace Combat style game just in case Star Citizen never release.

Is that Mark Hamill?

it's a huge success story for Star Citizen. I htink they are delighting the dreams of people who want to travel and work in space, but know they can never afford to really do so. Bethesda's Starfield is a sort of attempt to do Star Citizen, but it's just not as gritty and realistic as Star Citizen.

I’m so happy that I’m on the sidelines of all this. I think watching is significantly more enjoyable than being part of it.

Is it worth pirating to play it single player today and get an idea of its current state? Or is the game online only?

Spacebourne 2 immediately comes to mind. It's only one dude doing everything, so it's both amazing and lacking at the same time.

Also Evochron Legacy, a real passion project of a space sim.

Sunk cost fallacy

Cause it's the game dev that never ends it just goes on and on my friends…

WARNING

This ROBERTS SPACE INDUSTRIES. You game locked for virus and crime.

Please send further $3.5 MILLION USD in iTunes GIFT CARDS to further unlock services and ships in the future maybe.

"(On SQ42) ...but our plan is to be feature and content complete by the end of 2019, with the first 6 months of 2020 for Alpha ... and then Beta." - Chris Roberts, 2018

So "feature complete" comes before alpha and beta???

I really confused by all this hate. Has anyone here actually tried to play the actual game? It's pretty damn impressive what they have now.

It seems a lot of people haven't played it. It's quite playable and has less bugs than the average new AAA game.

It's currently got 4 planets, each with 3 or more moons, and many stations that can be visited. 6+ game loops and around 30 flyable ships.

Yeah people spend way too much real money on it, but 90% of the fly read ships are purchasable in the game. At least give the damn game a shot before you shit on it. The community is super nice and willing to help new comers.

Edit: Not sure why everyone is so upset. This is my experience and every argument I've seen against sc is about bugs or spending real money on ships. Let people enjoy the games they want without getting so mad cause someone likes a game you don't.

What are they gonna do with that money, buy some new office paintings?

Well, I guess I expected too much of the lemmy community to not leave a bunch of idiotic, uninformed, seething comments on anything SC related.

It's just reddit without all the content.

Omfg this timeline sucks soooo bad