Can I... can I tell you a secret?
Hold on to your panties though because this is going to blow you away.
Are you ready?
Ok. Here we go:
The backers don’t actually play games.
They don’t even play Star Citizen when it iterates out.
The game they’re in is a meta social game, and they’re already playing it.
Star Citizen coming out would actually hurt the game they’re currently winning at and enjoying.
They won’t gravitate to another game because they don’t actually want to play the game.
What will eventually happen though is people will get bored. The ELE as it happens may just be the simple fact that they no longer want to spend money on lies. Once their buddies leave their discord’s, and the role play dries up, and there are too many holes in the lore, and the reality of the game solidifies, it comes apart.
I don’t have links to my blog, but I’ll say it again:
Star Citizen coming out and being developed will kill Star Citizen.
It’s fuel is the dreams and fantasies of 40-something’s who are fighting to rekindle a lost art they fondly recall from their youth. CR came in at almost the perfect time to capitalize on this midlife crisis group. Instead of buying their own Porsche’s they’re blowing their money on space ships.
The guys on reddit aren’t funding anything. They’ve already spent their meager amount of money and CIG can collect no more from them. Their defense also isn’t helping anything because the guys funding it ignore them too.
The mmo is happening right now. Once they win it, the money goes away. They won’t invest in another game either. This is the childhood memory game, and soon the midlife crisis will end.
As they get closer to leaving crisis, they’re going to want their money back, too. They’ll probably pay for lawyers as well because they have money to burn from successful and lucrative careers.
The other side of them are the people waiting for it to come out. 3.0 is “that turning point”. The group who isn’t role playing is waiting in the shadows for when their new Eve Online appears. They’ve been lead, oh so wrongly, to believe 3.0 is “that product”.
People are wondering “why stop refunds now? Why before unveiling 3.0 and their biggest achievement??? They’re spoiling their best, possibly last, big opportunity!!”
And I feel you’re only getting half the picture. The other half is what the evocati fuckers have, and are likely filling up their mail with problems. 3.0 is hosed, and it’s bad, and it looks like and plays like a joke of a game; not something a multinational company has been working on 24/7 for over 5 years.
This “stop the refunds now!” is a preemptive play to kill the silent majority of big money whales, waiting in the shadows, who have been paying all along, buying all the stuff, no doubt being fed lies about 3.0 in different methods of communication. Either special forums, private one on one email with their preferred employees, etc.
So really, there’s two fantasy groups who are huge benefactors who need to be stopped before they pull their money out.
1: The fantasy role players playing the game right now (and are almost done with it)
2: The silent majority led to believe 3.0 is where things get real and they can join in to the huge Eve-like mmo universe with a custom character and awesome fleet
Both groups represent huge $$$. Both are about to tucker on out or get real pissed.
Anyhow that’s my hot take. I’m sending this scoop to pixelemonade right now!