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[–] TheTetrapod@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reminder that the SC episode of Down the Rabbit Hole came out 7 years ago.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I mean, are people playing and somewhat satisfied? If yes, who gives a fuck about any arbitrary release date?

[–] Eheran@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Why not just release it then if nobody cares anyway?

[–] TigrisMorte@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

They are not finished with it yet and the folks backing it are playing so they see the work and are having fun.

[–] WolfLink@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can go buy it right now, where do you think the 700m has come from?

[–] Eheran@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

From alpha and beta players and of those mostly for stuff in the game, not the game itself. What does that have to do with the topic?

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de -5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's not meh, it's "we've almost raised a BILLION dollars by not releasing this game. Oh by the way, there's no release date yet."

[–] WolfLink@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Those billion dollars come from people buying the game and playing it in its current state.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Lol no it doesn't. It comes from insanely high priced jpegs of ships, and sometimes the rare in game ship.

perfect example 13 days ago on reddit

The RSI Galaxy is a great ship (currently ~$300) and the loaner is an Anvil Carrack which is (currently $600). The Carrack is one of the biggest and best ships for all around activity, but no pilot guns.
Origin 890 Jump ($900) for luxury and is the biggest in-game ship you can buy.
Hammerhead ($700) is the largest combat/gun ship currently, with the Polaris coming out soon.
Reclaimer ($400) is the largest industrial salvage ship.

Absolutely can’t wait until my Galaxy is flyable, still hoping for it to be here by the end of the year

[–] WolfLink@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

With the purchase of any ship (the cheapest ones being $45) you get to play the game and fly the ship(s) you bought in-game.

TLDR it’s a $45 game with microtransactions

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Completely ignoring it, are we? Cool cool

[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 0 points 1 year ago

A tiny amount is, and most aren't. So that should answer your last question.

[–] MojoMcJojo@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Everyone: It's a scam, game runs like crap, so many bugs, etc. etc., all valid points.

People who like it anyway: vrrroooommm weeeeeee, pew pew pew, vsksshhh, crash. Reload. Vrrroooooommm.....

Who cares, go have your own fun, leave us to ours 🙄

Edit: down voted for wanting to have my own fun? Fine, I'll go play with my toy spaceship with out you.

[–] ThePerfectLink@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

If you squint, the Star Citizen logo kinda looks like the symbol for The People's Temple

[–] ThePerfectLink@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Alright, have fun, just remember; don't drink the Kool-aid!

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You're not going to have any luck with the general population. They've been conditioned to hate star citizen by all these lazy asshole "journalists" that can't be bothered to look into what they're writing about past the big dollar sign...

What really pisses me off though is we get the whole "stupid AAA publishers rushed out XYZ game to meet a quarterly financial report!" with every single game that comes out. "Why didn't they just give it time to cook! Release when it's ready!"

Now we have star citizen almost entirely backed by users with no date pressure as there is no publishing company forcing their hand and they're building what will be the most amazing space MMO we're likely to ever see because they have the time and the resources, but instead of awe we get this trash "ItS nOt ReAdY yEt!? MiLlIoNs Of DoLlArS!" article over and over and over again...

If they did actually follow the project they'd know that SQ42 is likely to be released next year and star citizen is already talking about release 1.0...

Bahh bahh bahh goes the media sheep.