▲ 310 ▼ Star Citizen has a disastrously laggy stream with horrendous vibes, which isn't a great look when you're past $1 billion in funding (www.pcgamer.com) submitted 3 weeks ago by inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca 123 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] MyOpinion@lemmy.today 75 points 3 weeks ago (9 children) Star Citizen is the biggest scam in gaming. permalink fedilink source hideshow 9 child comments replies: [–] Skipcast@lemmy.world 28 points 3 weeks ago (5 children) Is a heavily mismanaged game. Calling it a scam would be a misuse of the word. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 5 child comments replies: [–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 45 points 3 weeks ago* You only have to visit the secondary market for SC in-game merch to find the scammy bits. The funny this isn't that this game is fully of overpriced, stupid bullshit. It's that six developers who fell out the back of the Wing Commander franchise found a way to bilk people for billions of dollars by creating the thing Mark Zuckerberg has been losing 10x as much on for just as long. Digital real estate. Digital in-game businesses. Digital currency. A clumsy interface with dogshit codebase to match that's sagging under its own technical debt and still ten years behind the development curve. Star Citizen is the Metaverse. permalink fedilink source parent [–] eleijeep@piefed.social 21 points 3 weeks ago (1 child) How many ships have you bought? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Skipcast@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago 0 permalink fedilink source parent [–] architect 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 child) It’s a scam. They scammed the original Kickstarter investors. Ffs i had a whole campaign TEN YEARS AGO that started the refunds! Like I FUCKING STARTED THAT SHIT! If you get a refund in star citizen- YOU’RE WELCOME. It took hundreds of emails of people claiming they were scammed for them to allow refunds! Now over ten years later you chucklefuck losers want to defend that. Get the fuck out! You don’t know what the fuck you are talking about! permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 4 points 3 weeks ago 14 years and they have almost figured out how to have a reloadable rifle. This whole project has become a scam not due to having nothing people can play, but that they have crowd funded over 1 billion dollars (and counting) without (I feel) any real expectations internally of ever having a finished product. Chris Roberts has cemented his legacy as the sole person to ruin his own games. In fact he may have done the most damage to space games then anyone else. permalink fedilink source parent [–] kurcatovium@piefed.social 10 points 3 weeks ago Scam Citizen permalink fedilink source parent [–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 child) Saying this while sitting on a stack of FIFA World Cup discs that date all the way back to the 1990s. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] WalleyeWarrior@midwest.social 6 points 3 weeks ago Those were all at least playable games, and the world Cup editions of FIFA at least came out ever 4 years and had meaningful differences from the previous world Cup edition. And weren't just a glorified NFT scam permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Skipcast@lemmy.world 28 points 3 weeks ago (5 children) Is a heavily mismanaged game. Calling it a scam would be a misuse of the word. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 5 child comments replies: [–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 45 points 3 weeks ago* You only have to visit the secondary market for SC in-game merch to find the scammy bits. The funny this isn't that this game is fully of overpriced, stupid bullshit. It's that six developers who fell out the back of the Wing Commander franchise found a way to bilk people for billions of dollars by creating the thing Mark Zuckerberg has been losing 10x as much on for just as long. Digital real estate. Digital in-game businesses. Digital currency. A clumsy interface with dogshit codebase to match that's sagging under its own technical debt and still ten years behind the development curve. Star Citizen is the Metaverse. permalink fedilink source parent [–] eleijeep@piefed.social 21 points 3 weeks ago (1 child) How many ships have you bought? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Skipcast@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago 0 permalink fedilink source parent [–] architect 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 child) It’s a scam. They scammed the original Kickstarter investors. Ffs i had a whole campaign TEN YEARS AGO that started the refunds! Like I FUCKING STARTED THAT SHIT! If you get a refund in star citizen- YOU’RE WELCOME. It took hundreds of emails of people claiming they were scammed for them to allow refunds! Now over ten years later you chucklefuck losers want to defend that. Get the fuck out! You don’t know what the fuck you are talking about! permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 4 points 3 weeks ago 14 years and they have almost figured out how to have a reloadable rifle. This whole project has become a scam not due to having nothing people can play, but that they have crowd funded over 1 billion dollars (and counting) without (I feel) any real expectations internally of ever having a finished product. Chris Roberts has cemented his legacy as the sole person to ruin his own games. In fact he may have done the most damage to space games then anyone else. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 45 points 3 weeks ago* You only have to visit the secondary market for SC in-game merch to find the scammy bits. The funny this isn't that this game is fully of overpriced, stupid bullshit. It's that six developers who fell out the back of the Wing Commander franchise found a way to bilk people for billions of dollars by creating the thing Mark Zuckerberg has been losing 10x as much on for just as long. Digital real estate. Digital in-game businesses. Digital currency. A clumsy interface with dogshit codebase to match that's sagging under its own technical debt and still ten years behind the development curve. Star Citizen is the Metaverse. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] eleijeep@piefed.social 21 points 3 weeks ago (1 child) How many ships have you bought? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Skipcast@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago 0 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] architect 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 child) It’s a scam. They scammed the original Kickstarter investors. Ffs i had a whole campaign TEN YEARS AGO that started the refunds! Like I FUCKING STARTED THAT SHIT! If you get a refund in star citizen- YOU’RE WELCOME. It took hundreds of emails of people claiming they were scammed for them to allow refunds! Now over ten years later you chucklefuck losers want to defend that. Get the fuck out! You don’t know what the fuck you are talking about! permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 4 points 3 weeks ago 14 years and they have almost figured out how to have a reloadable rifle. This whole project has become a scam not due to having nothing people can play, but that they have crowd funded over 1 billion dollars (and counting) without (I feel) any real expectations internally of ever having a finished product. Chris Roberts has cemented his legacy as the sole person to ruin his own games. In fact he may have done the most damage to space games then anyone else. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 4 points 3 weeks ago 14 years and they have almost figured out how to have a reloadable rifle. This whole project has become a scam not due to having nothing people can play, but that they have crowd funded over 1 billion dollars (and counting) without (I feel) any real expectations internally of ever having a finished product. Chris Roberts has cemented his legacy as the sole person to ruin his own games. In fact he may have done the most damage to space games then anyone else. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 child) Saying this while sitting on a stack of FIFA World Cup discs that date all the way back to the 1990s. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] WalleyeWarrior@midwest.social 6 points 3 weeks ago Those were all at least playable games, and the world Cup editions of FIFA at least came out ever 4 years and had meaningful differences from the previous world Cup edition. And weren't just a glorified NFT scam permalink fedilink source parent
[–] WalleyeWarrior@midwest.social 6 points 3 weeks ago Those were all at least playable games, and the world Cup editions of FIFA at least came out ever 4 years and had meaningful differences from the previous world Cup edition. And weren't just a glorified NFT scam permalink fedilink source parent