Gacha games isn't a scam, it's just legalized gambling for kids. You get exactly what you paid for, a chance to win.

Calling it a scam would imply competence.

By the time it comes out, other games will have already filled its shoes multiple times over. I bet Starfield will have several community mods that do everything Star Citizen does.

Star Citizen delivers exactly what it promises: an infinitely developing sci-fi starship sandbox simulator.

The pace of development is glacial? Well, yeah, this kind of project should have a thriving community of add-ons to be of any use, or have 1000x the developers/artists working on it 24/7... but they decided to follow a single vision, instead of allowing people to fly in copyright infringing X-Wings and dildo shaped ships, so this is the resulting compromise.

I mean it’s Exputer, do they even have human writers?

you can do things in this game that you can’t do in any other.

I'm not a SC hater, and had purchased Squadron 42 almost a decade ago, and I call bull shit on your statement. Please name all of the things you claim it innovates no other game does. I bet you money it does not and you cannot name anything special.

The thing is I got Starfield for free on game pass.... And it scratches the itch along with Starsector.

Played SC before, backed in 2015. SC is shit and a broken piece of vaporware.

Yeah no one can argue that it isn't a giant mismanaged, drastically overdue mess, but it's literally the only game of its kind right now, I haven't played in a little while now, but earlier on I put easily hundreds of hours into it

That being said, God I wish they'd get their shit together and get the damn thing finished.. At least just SQ42..

And I think this is what divides the folks who enjoy Early Access games and those who do not.

I do think it's lovely the kinds of people who acknowledge the warts and yet are still inspired to play.

How much have you spent on it to get the experience you have out of it?

Dev is actually going pretty well. What they have achieved is pretty amazing.

But they are going to say the game is in 'alpha' as long as they can, because it means they can keep collecting "pledges" instead of "paid content".

I bet that has some tax purposes.

You can play the alpha if you please

I believed that like 5 years ago, when S42 was "releasing next year!" Wish I could get my money back.

So uh, what are the story beats of Squadron 42, exactly? And what kind of release date does it have? And say, what exactly, are the features it offers? Because it's been in development for 10 years now, and literally all I've ever heard is 'It'll be good, trust us!', and yet I've seen less gameplay from it then Star Marine.

It is when it's still in Alpha a decade later.

Let's not forget squadron 42 wasn't even a part of the original kickstarter. Just continual scope creep.

Dude, your money’s gone, just accept it and move on