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For schadenfreude-enjoying sickos that want to know the latest about Star Citizen's ongoing grift spiral, here's a new video from an increasingly jaded big spending fanboy. (www.youtube.com)
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"Pyro," the second star system of Star Citizen (out of one hundred originally promised as initial kickstarter goals a decade ago), was itself promised years ago and has once again been delayed until next year. Again.

Also, as a partial explanation to the baffling fact that this grift keeps breaking its old funding records year after year, new information reveals that there are less overall users than previous years, but those that are left are spending more and more.

The internal contradictions are intensifying. curious-marx

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm not sure they're going to hit their 2014 release date at this rate

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Best comment of the thread chefs-kiss

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I have heard of your legendary Star Citizen hate and I wish I had heard it sooner

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Oh, I have such sights to show you. sus-torment

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7SIP0NDfM2yyHKfRmCAociCcJKZHHY0E

Sure, this video series is old... but very little has changed since its last episode except more money coming in and more vague promises and airbrushed tech demos coming out.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

What's funny is it came up in the minecraft server about clipping through the modded trains and I instantly thought of the Star Citizen trams.

Minecraft mods = $1 billion video game

I gave them $200 3 or 4 years ago obama-sad

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Imagine if Minecraft was so jank that it was a fairly common, even potentially repeatable, glitch where just walking could get you falling through the planet into its core where a terrifying amalgamation of not-despawned dead player bodies are all clumped together like a Symphony of the Night boss.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (3 children)

lmfao how did they do even manage to create this?? please tell me you have screenshots

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

There's usually a compilation of the worst bugs in each release if you search YouTube

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I need to see this so badly

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Not on hand, but I know there's compilation videos that show the spaghetti code hellscape for a few seconds at a time.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Turns out the Lament Configuration was the Star Citizen we made along the way. no-no-no-wait-wait-wait

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

this is definitely a feature

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago

ss overall users than previous years, but those that are left are spending more and more.

Whales are honestly something else

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

after the creators spent millions on yacht trips and vacations in bora bora (i assume) and spent months in hospitals battling their laughing-at-these-rubes related injuries, the game still only has ONE MAP?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Yep! And the map isn't even a 1:1 "realistic" star system as promised, but instead roughly 1/4 scale with a bunch of asspulls and a lot of empty nothing between bespoke but still kind of boring points of interest that look like late 90s malls.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Looks like less content than a single system in freelancer which launched almost half a century ago

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Freelancer was better because Chris Roberts was eventually stopped from micromanaging it completely to death.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I enjoyed Freelancer, sure it was pretty basic for a game released in 2003, but there was a serious dearth of space exploration games.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I wonder how much of that is them using an unsuitable engine. Originally they were using whatever version of CryEngine was current in 2012, and the consensus was that it could never handle a space exploration game. They've probably gone through more engines than Daikatana at this point, though.

boring points of interest that look like late 90s malls

That's just Starfield except it cost $1 billion and you have to pay for a spaceship with real money.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I wonder how much of that is them using an unsuitable engine.

A lot of it. Chris Roberts is a my-hero tier incompetent fool that is only slightly better actual tech stuff because he did have a direct hand in a few 90s games before he started drinking from the Cup of Management instead.

Because he's an incompetent fool, he took one look at CryEngine, said "WOW THAT LOOKS EPIC" and made no further investigation into whether it'd suit the game he wanted to make.

Do you know that Star Citizen takes place on a CryEngine map, even now, but with the physics engine spaghettified to the point of making every meter of that "tropical island" map count as a staggeringly vast distance? It's why there's so many weird physics bugs... CryEngine is required to see "space" as underwater too, which adds its own complications.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Do you know that Star Citizen takes place on a CryEngine map, even now, but with the physics engine spaghettified to the point of making every meter of that "tropical island" map count as a staggeringly vast distance?

I didn't know that, I assumed that at this point they must've switched engines, but CIG's incompetence really knows no bounds.

Is that one Wing Commander fansite guy still covering SC? The one who wore an authentic pilgrim necklace from the terrible Wing Commander movie. I think he even worked in the company at some point?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I didn't know that, I assumed that at this point they must've switched engines, but CIG's incompetence really knows no bounds.

They call it "StarEngine" now but it's mostly because of a successful legal struggle with the people that own CryEngine where they slapped a new label on a horridly scarred and deformed CryEngine core.

Is that one Wing Commander fansite guy still covering SC? The one who wore an authentic pilgrim necklace from the terrible Wing Commander movie. I think he even worked in the company at some point?

If that's the same fanboy I've heard of, well, he has been sort of swept under the rug years back for... reasons. libertarian-alert

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

A whole bunch of nothing between some points of interest? So unintentionally accurate to what space is like!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

You're right, though Star Citizen makes those points of interest more boring than in real life because they're just an aging Gen-X techbro's idea of what futuristic looks like (malls with hot dog stands and climbing walls, pretentious Apple store aesthetics) with the added risk of falling through the ground to your death.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

People tell me hating star citizen isn't a personality trait. But it is and I even put it on my CV.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I mean we are just few years from people born after Star Citizens first announcements becoming adults and who still can't play in Star Citizen XD

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I'm not anti hating star citizen i hate the game and enjoy it failing it's my daily bread

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm in need of some schadenfreude right now, and Star Citizen one is one of the best, have you got some more, preferably in written form?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Lol and that was post from 4 years ago. Thanks.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If you go to the end of that thread it updates to today, if that helps. I started from the beginning because it had a bit of an "intro" to it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh shit 2617 pages

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

ENJOY! feast-1 feast-2

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I love how this person is just dedicated to not being mad, like this vidja game is their child.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They put a lot of money into that grift. They don't want to freak out about that no matter how bad it gets.

I've put no money into the grift (I was tempted early on before I knew more about it, I admit), so for me this is all spectator sport and a good time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

(I was tempted early on before I knew more about it, I admit)

I dunno what it is about my vibes detector, but I locked on to Chris Roberts being bad somewhere around 1994 when Wing Commander 3 came out. I just couldn't do cringe FMV games at the time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

His ego trip definitely soared in WC3, and he's been chasing that dragon ever since.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

My guild used to give a Star Citizen buyer(? Player?) crap about still believing in it circa 2017. At this point it just feels bad to tease him though.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

How is Star Citizen even still a thing when Elite Dangerous has existed for years now?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Chris Roberts has a cult of personality around him, makes amazing bullshit promises, and aging gamedads that are obsessed with avoiding woke see an old bloated grifter like him as some kind of savior.

Some of it is that the remaining devotees have already put so much money into the grift and don't want to feel like fools, so they put in more over time instead.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's kinda shocking that he still has a fanbase, he made some pretty good space dogfighting games 30 years ago and not much else. It's also pretty much been established that the X-Wing and TIE Fighter games were far superior in everything except presentation.

Roberts obviously wanted to be in Hollywood, not designing games, that's why he shoved as many actors and as much FMV as he could into his games when it became possible. The irony being that when he did make it to Hollywood, everything he was involved in was a failure.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

You wrote a post that said pretty much everything I wanted to say in a post about this just now. I've been replaced! oooaaaaaaauhhh

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy: