
Originally Posted by
KyrtF
Again with the "Criticism = Hate". Is it not possible to be simply critical of the work CIG are doing without being labelled by yourself as a "hater"?
Criticism is not the same as "hate" or "want to fail". I, for one, would be overjoyed to discover I am wrong. I'd have a new game to play...for only £50.
At the same time...I ain't blind to CIGs fault or the problems that Star Citizen is facing an I recall enough about development to know that CIG is storing up a huge amount of technical debt, made worse by its failure to adhere to "best practise" for development. But any time anyone tries to get you to address these issues, you simply label them a hater and ignore the point. I'm still waiting to see which one of the points I raised was a "half truth" or for you to list a true innovation by CIG.
To put it another way...you didn't back this game in 2012. You backed a very different game, a game that was a spiritual successor to Wing Commander. That game is effectively dead; we'll have to wait and see if the promised S42 show revives it. Now, you are supporting a very different game that simply shares the same name. Chris Roberts may have been one of that genres defining fathers - though that is stretching things as he arrived ten years after the genre was invented; Elite, 3D Starstrike, Starion, even 3D Space Attack and other games arrived first - but he is not and never has been involved with an MMO. Which is the genre currently being focussed on.
You seem to be thinking that Star Citizen is a very different game from what is currently being worked on. It's an MMO life simulator set in space where you can fly ships, fight and trade. Not a space combat game. Chris Roberts has NO experience developing that type of game and it shows