FishMcCool posted:

Have these people never been underwater?

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Yeah, we just moved it to the left of the Turkish flag. Turns out there's a huge community behind that one!

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What about the blue corner next to the Eminem logo, the green lettice above Ori or somewhere in the among us cursed corner?

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"The less people know, the more stubbornly they know it." - Osho

Is this you?* Replace "general" with "game developer". All other details apply.

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^(\spoiler: this is you)*

Pro tip: unless you have (a) extensive relevant experience and (b) inside knowledge not available to everyone else on how things are being managed within CIG, you do not have any actual evidence to back up your opinion, at all. It is, simply, an uninformed opinion, based mostly on emotion.

It is far more likely that the scope, scale and complexity of the game simply takes this long. In fact, the concept of Occam's razor supports that the reason for something is often the simplest of all the options. The idea that 600+ people are all in on a "grand scam" or, even more laughable, are collectively awful at their jobs (what are the odds? don't tell me the odds!) is far more complex than is needed to explain the development timeframe.

Further, all the extensive evidence in terms of hours-long gameplay discussions from the devs continually supports that it simply is complex and difficult to deliver a game with this much ambition, scale and breadth. Four quarterly releases a year, many with significant updates like 3.15 and 3.17, further demonstrate the a lot of continual progress is being made.

If you think anyone is reading your comments as anything other than an uninformed, emotional opinion, you're suffering from confirmation bias and the false consensus effect.

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Occam's Razor is the principle of not putting something down to complexity which can be put down to simplicity.

So your point would boil down to the Dev team being a group of people who aren't up to the task of delivering a game by virtue of it being too complex for them.

Which sort of backs up what OP is saying because telling someone you are going to do something, taking their money, and then not delivering (whether you mean to or not, is indeed fraudulent - in the UK it is technically theft as defined by S1(1) and S1(2) of the Theft Act 1968.)

For what it's worth I don't agree with either your point or the OPs. Dumping $1000+ on a promise is blind stupidity, but defending non-delivery "because it's complicated, yo" is equally as blind

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No, that would require several COMPLEX things to happen; human resources and hiring managers would all have to be collectively awful at hiring 600+ bad employees. The extensive, years-long evidence via videos, interviews and showcased game tech would have to be deeply faked as it shows skilled resources, immense passion and details on the underlying complexity, and demonstrates that broad ineptitude doesn't exist on this project; the reality of meaty, consistent quarterly updates would have to be a "miraculous anomaly" - based on the inane concept of "we are successful in spite of our inability!".

NONE of the evidence on hand supports any narrative other than the simplest one: the game is complex and a group of intelligent, skilled and passionate developers are making great, continual progress against the context of that reality.

The absolute simplest answer is: the community doesn't understand the development process, doesn't appreciate the complexity and depth of the project, and has no patience.

That is 1000x more likely than any other explanation. It's also 100% true.

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the reality of meaty, consistent quarterly updates

marumaru posted:

"trying to revive my dead acting career"
lol; lmao

Popete posted:

If you hire 600 of the smartest people on Earth and tell them to invent time travel the problem isn't who you hired.

trucutru posted:

Oh, and here is a full fly-over the place that'll introduce years of gameplay. Period!

https://v.redd.it/9tpkr7wjyuq81/DASH_480.mp4?source=fallback.gif

Mendrian posted:

Right obviously the answer is that time travel is just very complicated!

Viscous Soda posted:

I know this has been harped on a lot, but man that looks dated. It's like Playstation 3 era graphics... and not even good PS3 era graphics.

I really think the video is so "swoopy" to try and hide how bad everything looks.

Mirificus posted:

One of the most anticipated features of 3.18...Coffee! Star Citizen #Shorts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_i3ux_LnLM

trucutru posted:

I have been informed by the backers that the lake is the endpoint of the river so you dumb goonie cuntiflas ignoramus.

Behold the bottom of the lake in all its glory!

https://v.redd.it/4w1k4moc7wq81/DASH_480.mp4?source=fallback.gif

Monocle cat will be ecstatic about the fidelity.

Colostomy Bag posted:

It appears you don't understand time travel.

trucutru posted:

Oh, and here is a full fly-over the place that'll introduce years of gameplay. Period!

https://v.redd.it/9tpkr7wjyuq81/DASH_480.mp4?source=fallback.gif

trucutru posted:

Oh, and here is a full fly-over the place that'll introduce years of gameplay. Period!

https://v.redd.it/9tpkr7wjyuq81/DASH_480.mp4?source=fallback.gif

Beet Wagon posted:

It's time for reddit's annual /r/place... experiment? game? gimmick? whatever

Anyway if you're not familiar with /r/place because you have a fully functioning brain, it's a limited time thing where every reddit user can place colored pixels on a big collaborative canvas. Users can draw "over" each other, so it almost always results in some weird subreddit-on-subreddit combat, for example the members of /r/unitedkingdom are currently trying to "colonize" the space occupied by the trans pride flag because of course they are.

In earlier years, /r/starcitizen was able to maintain pretty decently sized logos:



Currently the stickied thread for coordinating placement on /r/starcitizen is 8 hours old, with only 16 replies, most of which are trying to figure out which spot will "let" them put a star citizen logo in place.



Will /r/starcitizen be able to rally its forces to push for victory in this, the dumbest game imaginable? Only time will tell!

trucutru posted:

Now that the canvas has doubled in size both SC and E:D have managed to gain a foothold on the upper right side. Not as big as Oyasumi Punpun (Everybody should read Oyasumi Punpun!) but, then again, that's to be expected.

trucutru posted:

You should see today's Star Citizen Live show!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_x1KxC4-QR8


Oh, and here is a full fly-over the place that'll introduce years of gameplay. Period!

https://v.redd.it/9tpkr7wjyuq81/DASH_480.mp4?source=fallback.gif

Applewhite posted:

I'm no CIG imagineer, but I feel like the view from the cockpit interspersed with a few quick exterior shots of a flying spaceship, maybe with some characters smiling and pointing at things to see would have really sold it.

Dwesa posted:

Dwesa posted:

yeah

so how many of these are astroturfers?
https://twitter.com/SandiRoberts42/status/1508823216915103744

MedicineHut posted:

https://twitter.com/Michael26085163/status/1508832811708469260?s=20&t=lKW458O8NH3CRNoIOYTh-A

Plan R posted:

Next Up -> Submarines! --:> Boomers, Attack Subs! Evade the enemy in a fifteen foot deep trench with a blue texture! Hunt your enemy with constant pinging that can't be shut off but it sounds cool!

Jobbo_Fett posted:

Star Citizen is so old they brought back Squats before they even hit Alpha

MedicineHut posted:

https://twitter.com/Michael26085163/status/1508832811708469260?s=20&t=lKW458O8NH3CRNoIOYTh-A

Viscous Soda posted:

I know this has been harped on a lot, but man that looks dated. It's like Playstation 3 era graphics... and not even good PS3 era graphics.

I really think the video is so "swoopy" to try and hide how bad everything looks.