At this point, I'm just looking at all this as an interesting social experiment on sunk cost fallacy

I wonder how long they can go without delivering on anything

Game development as a service.

I got no sympathy for anyone that is disappointed and continues to "pledge" to this "game". I mean hell a few years ago they got me and I "pledged" $200 for a ship that I may or may not still have. but then afterwards I felt like a rube.

So I get it, I fell for it once, but still no sympathy for anyone that continues to do so.

When this game is released the setting is going to be ancient history.

I very much doubt that when (if) the game releases, it will be worth the wait and live up to the hype.

It's been in development for 15 years. Duke Nukem whatever was only in dev hell for 14. Y'all ever gonna admit you got scammed?

You know, when they mentioned 8k textures 10 years ago, I laughed because it was so overshooting gaming standards that it was laughable. Now I'm think they will be just on track when it actually launches.

Star Citizen may very well be the single greatest argument for Scrum Masters on Dev teams.

Talk about infinite scope, holy shit.

As a very early backer of S42 way back in apparently 2012: It never ceases to annoy me that The Wing Commander Guy has once again managed to do everything possible to NOT make a fucking Wing Commander. This is, what, the third big clusterfuck and the first one where there was nobody to take it away from him and just finish it themselves? But, whatever.

As a big fan of elite games: I am really glad star citizen "exists" to contrast Elite Dangerous and has led to some truly amazing games in the genre. Some of which actually ARE more Wing Commander than not (Everspace 2 is basically the Freelancer that was promised). Now we just need some studio to make a proper Freespace game.

All that said: I don't like it but I weirdly keep coming back to the thought process that Star Citizen actually IS delivering on its "promise" to the backers... of the past decade or so. Not the OGs. Fuck us.

Because they were never sold on actually playing a game. They were sold on a dream. It is the same logic by which you watch Aisha Tyler do VO for a Tom Clancy game and think that you and your friends are also going to be super sweaty tier seven operators. Or how you watch your favorite group of online youtubers read off their pre-written jokes and pretend to be shocked while playing "friendslop" games. Or... you are a non-sicko who read too many AARs of Dwarf Fortress and thought you would boatmurder too.

Its the idea of spending money to Dream. You know you'll never actually do what you saw the pretty people do. But you THINK you will and, by owning a copy of Garry's Mod that you will never boot up, you think you will too.

Obviously the star citizen heads are spending WAY more than 20 bucks a pop and some are buying multiple megaships they'll never use meaningfully. But it is hard to not see parallels to the people who buy a DCS plane because they want to pretend that one day they will learn how to fly that jet.

And... truth be told, I think I've gotten my money's worth out of the annual charity streams where Drew Scanlon (The Blinking White Guy) and Vinny Caravella attempt to play Star Citizen and spend an hour or two crashing to desktop, getting confused, and accomplishing absolutely nothing. Hell, I think there were a few years where they never even found each other in the space station?

Also, as much as Freelancer hurt, I'll never stop laughing/being annoyed that he managed to take a sci-fi movie starring Freddie Prinze Jr AND Baby Busey AND Matthew Lillard and turn it into a charisma-free void with no redeeming qualities. Like, you gotta put some fricking effort into that. Those guys could make reading the dictionary be entertaining.

Store Citizen missing deadlines like that is to be expected.

After much careful reflection on this news, here is my response: HAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA!

I think I could have written this headline 6 years ago.

I remember them announcing that SQ404 was entering a "polishing" phase in late 2023.

At that point and to this day, they failed to finalise a flight model, develop an armour/shield system and implement engineering gameplay.

Arguably these are critical elements for a release with space sim gameplay. Although if SQ404 does release, I think it will be 30 hours of Wing Commander The Movie level cut scenes (space bulldozer) and script, with bored sounding Hollywood actors counting the seconds till they can leave Chris Roberts' mocap studio.

Inside Chris Roberts' Mocap Studio:

Roberts: Hehehe. Hey, Mark! You know how I came up with the Vanduul? Hehe.

Hamil: No, how?

Roberts: Ehehe. Vandals to Vanduul! Get it? Hehehe. Pretty smart, right? Hehehe.

Hamil: Very original.

Roberts: Did you know the Vandals were a Germanic tribal grouping that raided the Roman Empire? Bet you didn't know that! Hehehe.

Hamil: I am in awe of your creativy!

Roberts: I know, right! Hehehe.

Ok Mark, enough farting around. Pretend you are riding a space bulldozer!

Meanwhile I've done five or six playthroughs of Freelancer while this game has been in development and had more fun than I'll ever have with Star Citizen.

Sigh deeply, rub their foreheads, and open their wallets.

I've spent hardly any money on that game. I did the first 20 bucks. Then a 15 to get a tiny mining ship to help get in-game money. But I wouldn't have even gotten it if it wasn't for my partner REALLY liking the "game."

I might like it too... if it actually worked and every bug I've ever encountered being perfect for setting all my progress to zero or even backwards. Because you have to buy supplies to do a mission.

So fuck that. I'm not playing it until I can make progress- which will be never.

The scam is eternal.

It'll be released when the original backers grandchildren have kids 😂

I think it's high time we just ghosted any news of this scam of a game and studio.

I was this 🤏 close to buying squadron 42 years ago, as it was just about to get released. dodged that bullet.

Color me surprised. I still think this whole thing is a big scam, like a money laundering scheme or some grift.

What an insane and unprecedented surprise.

All I really wanted was SQ42 back when I supported it on Kickstarter. With my 20 bucks there's no regret, but it's quite funny where things have gone since then.

I install the latest alpha once every year and am both amazed and disappointed.

I don't expect SQ42 to be released before 2030 and I do expect it to be a buggy, unoptimized mess when it finally arrives.

I've been thoroughly entertained all those years, though.

We are gonna get gta 8 before we get star citizen.