Star Citizen depresses me because it has such cool stuff in it and tech and I feel like it would be great ... If they reigned in the infinite scope creep, if they spent more of their time and budget on code refactoring and optimization and actually started squashing the same damn bugs that constantly rear their head in new and ingenious forms.

Like the 20% of the time you are playing and it's working like it should - honestly superb. But not worth it since you're spending the other 80% of the time fighting the UI or crashing to desktop or otherwise occupied in some fuckery of troubleshooting or just having to spend another 30 minutes for the 10th time getting a kit on and getting to your ship.

It's kind of a great cautionary tale, or it would be if they didn't have gobs of money and people still handing them more to worship at the alter of a busted game.

God I tried to play again just a few months ago, saw there was a new home station and thought "cool!" Promptly spawned into falling through the abyss and even after killing myself it wouldn't respawn me properly. So yeah I have up again after that and after I walked around a little and saw all the NPCs are (years later) still standing still or weirdly hovering or not sitting right ... Just ... Yeah.

I know this game is still "in alpha" but like ... Alpha functionality should include letting me spawn in at the starting location I selected. How fucked is CIG ame development process when that's even a thing?

I will be fucking amazed if squadron 42 is real and reliably works. I want it to, I so desperately want to be wrong and have an ostrich sized egg on my face. Pretty sure I'm going to turn out to be right ,sadly.

Anyways just a random rant for the internet.