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[–] Seditious_Delicious@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago (10 children)

OK. Never played SC so honest question here; What is wrong if the game is technically not complete? I mean the way I thought is that this means that it keeps evolving and expanding so new content and features become available as the game development progresses. What am I missing? Is this a similar situation to the Eve Online BitterVets?

[–] Allero 8 points 7 months ago

Long story short, they severely fail to deliver on their promises and also mismanaged their development incentives so that they are not financially interested to ever release, or even make the game fully playable.

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

SC is a scam. They sell ships for real money that only half work. The game is riddled with bugs, quests don't complete. Users state is regularly wiped so there's no point on progressing in it and instead of finishing the game they ask players for much more money to work on tiny niche technical problems that sound super important on presentations but don't move the needle even a little bit towards a finished game. At best, it is video game history most expensive physics toy. In reality, when you scrutinize their finances executives have pocketed most of the money raised and devs have been paid poor wages and overworked to a constantly moving target. They have never finished a single roadmap item, but they have announced to fanfare at least 5 different development roadmaps that are the very definition of scope creep. Lots of announcements but never a release. Any competent studio would've delivered at least three completed games in the same timeframe for that amount of money. They're an online asset store that sometimes let's you fiddle with the digital models, not a video game.

[–] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 6 points 7 months ago

Game keeps wiping players inventories including the in-game money used to buy ships. You can't progress in the game, they just wipe you.

[–] BirdyBoogleBop@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 7 months ago

The game is exactly the same as it was the first time I played it except now the lift always shows up.

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[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 7 months ago

What's the latest build weight in at?

It's so many gigs, it's not even worth trying every so often. Every time you load it, gigs to download.

Glad I only ever spent the initial $60

The first big disappointment was the end of the funding rewards. Is any of those original rewards even noticable? Oh yay a fish! And a 42 towel to look at!

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

It's still around?

I remember when Star Citizen first popped up, and it makes me feel old.

[–] RangerJosie@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's called Store Citizen for a reason.

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