[Megathread] Star Citizen

[CogsNCocks]

This is nothing new except there are no set positions for players, but they can move freely. Separate physical grids are pretty common in current games. No boundaries broken. And while it shows some progress in development, it is freaking 6 years already and SC community is "wowing" over the essential things.

That's true, even moving platforms in 2d games are pretty much primitive physics grids. What's your point exactly? There's still no other game that lets you put a bunch of players onto a big ship that's the size of an FPS level and fly around in it. That's a big part of what Star Citizen is about, fufilling the fantasy of having your own massive capital ship and it wasn't long ago that many naysayers such as yourself said it couldn't be done.

At this point, SC is basically freelancer 2.0. Hopefully, it wont end in a same way.

Yes, lol. Freelancer is a great game, it's one of my favourites.

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It's literally "HUBS IN SPAAAAAAACE".

Except they move very very fast!

Yes, and when you're standing on the deck of a space station and one of those ships packed with players flies past in the blink of an eye it's astonishing. If you've ever had to deal with the networking code that comes with your average game engine you would know that it's nothing short of a miracle that the servers don't implode keeping everything in sync. The handful of networking engineers they have working on the game must be some of the best in the business.

[ManiaCCC]

Yes, lol. Freelancer is a great game, it's one of my favourites.

Mine too buddy. But they had to kick CR out of the project to finally finish it. SC has same symptomes so let's hope it is not the same this time.

[Odeezee]

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[Roshar]

https://mmopulse.com/news/star-citiz...0-just-to-view

Star Citizen Offers The Legatus Pack For $27,000 USD, Requires Having Spent $1,000+ Just To View

Imagine if EA, Activision, or Ubisoft did this.

[CogsNCocks]

Imagine if EA, Activision, or Ubisoft did this.

No one would care, those publishers are in hot water for exposing gambling to children through loot boxes which is contemptible. CIG selling a product to people with more money than sense isn't even remotely the same thing. Providing they deliver the product of course, otherwise there will be hell to pay.

[Sanguinerd]

https://mmopulse.com/news/star-citiz...0-just-to-view



Imagine if EA, Activision, or Ubisoft did this.

I'm glad I already got my money back, this just reaffirms my decision.

What a load of shit this entire project has been.

[Yunru]

https://mmopulse.com/news/star-citiz...0-just-to-view



Imagine if EA, Activision, or Ubisoft did this.

I am lost for words. X-4 is starting to look better and more realistic.

[CogsNCocks]

They have had these types of packs for years anyway, it's nothing new.

[Wilian]

Seriously the game has over 150 million in funding and it has the gall to put MT's in a fucking Alpha.

Pre-alpha prototyping & tool/system creation phase*

[Gorsameth]

Aside from the hilarious price which ensures you will never sell more then a tiny hand full (which seems hardly worth the effort of putting the pack together) the mere fact you have to have spend 1k just to see the content is... wow. Thats a new low in MT's.

[Jastall]

Aside from the hilarious price which ensures you will never sell more then a tiny hand full (which seems hardly worth the effort of putting the pack together) the mere fact you have to have spend 1k just to see the content is... wow. Thats a new low in MT's.

It's not microtransactions anymore. More like Mortgage Transactions.

Seems clear to me that the devs don't care about much more than milking the whales dry at this point. So be it, but this game will need to be the second coming of Christ for me to consider buying it, assuming it is ever released anyway. I simply cannot support such outrageously money-grubbing practices.

[CogsNCocks]

Aside from the hilarious price which ensures you will never sell more then a tiny hand full (which seems hardly worth the effort of putting the pack together) the mere fact you have to have spend 1k just to see the content is... wow. Thats a new low in MT's.

You don't actually, you can just contact support and they will allow you to view it on your account.

Hello Citizen,

That message is referring to our VIP packages exceeding $1,100. They're still available for purchase but have been hidden from view to everyone other than our concierge backers. We've done this so as not to intimidate new players, who could potentially think they'd need to spend a great deal of money just to play Star Citizen and be competitive.

If you would like to purchase one of those packages, I can provide you with temporary access to view/buy these packages. This temporary access will last for a week's time. If you purchase one of those packages, you will automatically become a concierge backer and retain permanent access to view/buy those packages. If you have not purchased a package in a week's time your access will expire and you will need to contact customer support to provide you with temporary access again.

Would you like me to go ahead and give you access to view those packages?

Agent Space Ghost
RSI PR

[Gorsameth]

You don't actually, you can just contact support and they will allow you to view it on your account.

Right, because trying to hide this shit is somehow better?

[Lagwin]

https://mmopulse.com/news/star-citiz...0-just-to-view



Imagine if EA, Activision, or Ubisoft did this.

For that amount of money i'd want them to give me a release date and a contract to ensure that they stick to it, so if they didn't i could sue and get the money back

[CogsNCocks]

Right, because trying to hide this shit is somehow better?

I don't like these big packs but it doesn't seem to have hurt them so far. These expensive packs have been around for years anyway, it's nothing new. There's a tiny number of backers who would buy stuff like this, and if they want to help fund the game for the rest of us they can knock themselves out. Also, I wonder if it's just a publicity thing, people go to the website in a state of outrage or curiosity and see that you don't need to pay much to play the game and it ends up working in CIG's favour. I'd imagine they have metrics on these sorts of things.

[Edge-]

No one would care, those publishers are in hot water for exposing gambling to children through loot boxes which is contemptible. CIG selling a product to people with more money than sense isn't even remotely the same thing. Providing they deliver the product of course, otherwise there will be hell to pay.

Yeah no, everyone would care and lose their shit. Gaming press and consumers alike would cry fowl at such an overpriced item existing for sale.

Can we not pretend like the obscenely priced ships that have become standard for the crowdfunding in this game are normal or standard? Because they're not, and they're something that's pretty uniquely "Star Citizen" given how frequently they pop up for sale.

[CogsNCocks]

Yeah no, everyone would care and lose their shit. Gaming press and consumers alike would cry fowl at such an overpriced item existing for sale.

Can we not pretend like the obscenely priced ships that have become standard for the crowdfunding in this game are normal or standard? Because they're not, and they're something that's pretty uniquely "Star Citizen" given how frequently they pop up for sale.

Yeah, there would be plenty of tears and outrage understandably, but I don't see governments around the world hammering out legislations or mass cries for boycotts by organised parents groups. EA or Ubisoft trying to charge tens of thousands for digital items would most likely just result in a lot of pointing and laughing and some quality Jim Sterling videos.

[Edge-]

Yeah, there would be plenty of tears and outrage understandably, but I don't see governments around the world hammering out legislations or mass cries for boycotts by organised parents groups. EA or Ubisoft trying to charge tens of thousands for digital items would most likely just result in a lot of pointing and laughing and some quality Jim Sterling videos.

...was anyone saying that in this thread? The crowdfunding issues with Star Citizen are different from the lootbox debate/controversies/legislation, so if you're trying to connect the two I'm not sure why.

I was simply disagreeing that "no one would care" if major publishers did this. Because they absolutely would.

[Henako]

No one would care

Are you sure? Are you sure? Really, really sure?

[dope_danny]

Man the scam citizen reddit blowup over this has been fun reading.

I just can't believe its been 6 years now. I wonder if that guys whos wife took him to court for remortgaging their house for ships is happy with his unreleased game all these years later?