[Megathread] Star Citizen

[CogsNCocks]

If it's true that their roadmap is based on JIRA they really should rework that. I work with JIRA daily and if the targeted crowd is the consumer, it should pass through some form of filtering first. Otherwise it does more damage than good.

Maybe you're right, but backers asked for more transparency and that's what they got. Be careful what you wish for?? CIG going dark for long periods of time didn't exactly do themselves any favours either and much worse than the present situation imo. Personally I'm loving the roadmap and quarterly releases and following the ups and downs I know many others who feel the same. They are only showing the public a snapshot of what they want us to see anyway.Those who having trouble with the roadmap and dates tend to be those who are just following the project from a distance through headlines and secondhand information like many on this website. It's probably not worth CIG catering to those people anyway at this point they clearly don't need them. Most of them are just bandwagoners who will change their tune once the tide of opinion eventually changes anyway.

That said, it's down to the project manager not to set unrealistic dates on everything that they know they can't meet.

They are employing scrum sprint runs which is purposely about setting aggressive goals, gritting your teeth to try and meet them before a certain date cut off and reviewing success/failure once time runs out. Rinse and repeat. It's been a very effective strategy for CIG this year.

It seems they're mixing PR with actual targeted release dates. What could possibly go wrong there, I wonder?

From what I've seen it gives the hater/agenda people some ammunition(or at least they think it does, mostly it just makes them look dumb when they get called out) and some weebs on mmo-champion get to play dumb and throw a tantrum. People who are actually following the project closely don't seem to have any trouble with the roadmap and accompanying PR from what I've seen and see it as a positive thing. Sure they are dissapointed when stuff gets pushed but I doubt you find anyone who would prefer no roadmap at all.

[Verdugo]

@CogsNCocks why do you keep shilling for someone that doesnt even pay you?

[Wilian]

@CogsNCocks why do you keep shilling for someone that doesnt even pay you?

Or do they?!

[XDurionX]

Have fun with your great looking 27 grand fleet in an empty game i guess?

[Verdugo]

Or do they?!

Nah, I have seen enough from the Star Citizen community. They are a fucking cult.

[Katchii]

That's why they brought in Erin Roberts as studio director who has a billion dollars worth of successful titles under his belt as a producer and studio director. Then you have the senior producer Eric Kieron Davis who's credits include almost EVERY single Blizzard title and cinematic from Wrath of the Lich King and onwards until he left Blizzard and joined CIG around the time production for Legion was begining. I can go on and on here so just let me know if you need me to list some more people...

You people just can't handle open development. There's always going to be setbacks along the road with projects that have major R&D components. The very nature of R&D is that you are dealing with unknowns. Unknowns in time and complexity.

No, I can't "handle" companies taking a shit load of money from people to create a game, and giving nothing but tech demos and delayed release dates to show for it. The backers are paying for a game, not some R&D project that gives nothing of substance to the people who wrote the check.

I also don't give a shit about those developers and directors on staff at this point. They're past accolades mean nothing if the one they're working on now doesn't get off the ground, and everything thus far shows that this one is FAR from getting off the ground. It's a complete shit show of mismanagement, empty promises and missed/delayed/changed deadlines.

Also, what the fuck is "open development?" That just sounds like a non-word some jackass made up to cover up the fact that they're just fucking around making shit with super fancy computers because of their over inflated budget and very little (if any) idea on how to make it all come together to make a cohesive end product.

[Beazy]

They are employing scrum sprint runs which is purposely about setting aggressive goals, .......

Just because you have a sprint in JIRA, doesnt mean you are setting aggressive goals. . .. who told you that? Do you even know what JIRA is?

If you want to know, you can always ask. . . . Ive been a software developer since 95. Ive used JIRA for years, my team was even in one of the early release pilots for JIRA when branching tracking was still screwed up. You might want to stay in your lane on things you have very little knowledge of. Especially when you're so bad at being condescending.

[Yunru]

Lol this game got burned by this trailer:

[Katchii]

Lol this game got burned by this trailer:

Brilliant! I actually laughed out loud at the obvious dig.

[callipygoustp]

Lol this game got burned by this trailer:

Pretty funny video. "Please send $1000 for the image of a ship you'd eventually like to buy." Solid mockery.

[Odeezee]

ok, today is Citizen Con 2948 presented by Drake!!!!!

for those of you with an account you can log on HERE and watch the livestream. i believe the countdown is local time, otherwise adjust accordingly for your timezone.

see you guys after all the presentations and panels. if you do not have an account fear not, all the videos will be uploaded to the Star Citizen YouTube page the following day.

[Verdugo]

Are they finaly going to admit its a big scam and run away with all the money?

[Ealyssa]

Are they finaly going to admit its a big scam and run away with all the money?

But it's not a scam. It's a cult.

/s

[Majestic12]

I'll be tuning in and commenting here later. Glad the paywall didn't happen or I wouldn't be watching.

[nToxik]

I have $300 in this game. Someone tell me when it comes out!

[Gorsameth]

I have $300 in this game. Someone tell me when it comes out!

When the studio has run out of money or another 10 years have passed. whichever comes first.

[Majestic12]

Stream is up now but the audio is horribly desynced.

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Anyone else getting an early impression that this is starting to feel like Second Life 2? Making coffee in a coffee machine (which also crashes the game), ordering a drink in the bar with icecube-physics, FOIP, good "views" etc.

[quras]

I have $300 in this game. Someone tell me when it comes out!

If you put that much into it, I'd say make sure you "will" the name and password of your account to your kids or grand kids.

At their current pace, you probably wont ever get to see anything much beyond some play testing but they might actually get to play a fully released game when they are older.

[Verdugo]

16-20k viewers on Twitch. Not even on the front page either.

Yeah they definitely Blizzard bois. They so could have charged for this!

Well they could and their cult would still pay for it.

[Kyanion]

16-20k viewers on Twitch. Not even on the front page either.

Yeah they definitely Blizzard bois. They so could have charged for this!

Plenty of people making fun of it in Twitch chat, as they should be might I add.