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Star Citizen is a "game" from the creator of the Wing Commander series, Chris Roberts. In 2012 he did a kickstarter wanting to raise 500,000 dollars (with the intent for investors to provide the rest) to make the game. The kickstarter exploded and raised millions by selling "ship packages" (ships you'll be able to own/fly when the game is released); Chris realized that he didn't need investors and created his own website to continue to raise money. To date he's gotten over 160 MILLION dollars for this game. Initially the game's release was going to be in 2014. But since he got so much money (truth is, Chris likes the finer things in life), Chris kept moving the date further, and further, into the future promising that all that cash was going to make the Best drat Space Sim Ever. Now it's the end of 2017 and there's no game. There is a buggy, unplayable, tech demo they call an alpha. It's a real shitshow and the wheels are coming off. Recently, and the reason I'm making this thread, Chris Roberts has started to sell parcels of land in this non-existent space game. It's an obvious cash grab. And obviously the studio is in dire need of money. Since the end is nigh, Rome is burning, and someone is playing a fiddle; please post your funniest star citizen memes, images, photoshops, gifs, or stories as we enjoy the show. Here's a couple of links to bring you further up to speed on what this is all about : https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3773270 - A historical account of Star Citizen drama over the years (OP is kept updated) https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3772600 - A thread about a fellow goon who just so happens to be the public face of this multi-million dollar, multi-national corporation. And here is where you can go if you want to buy land in a non existing video game: https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/transmission/16278-UEE-Land-Claim-Licenses Somebody said this should be in the OP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rc7ywfd1qe8 Here are just a couple pages from our operations manual: OPSEC!! DO NOT SHARE!!! If you're new to this thing, watch this video, then go to the youtube channel and watch the rest. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGq4YEp8QUY spacetoaster fucked around with this message at 07:22 on Jan 3, 2018 |
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Here's some stuff to get us started:
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# ? Nov 30, 2017 20:28 |
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excuse me while i buy some land in the final frontier while you scrubs are out here hating
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# ? Nov 30, 2017 20:32 |
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quote:Kids... if you REALLY want to piss off your parents
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# ? Nov 30, 2017 20:32 |
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On the fence about if you should purchase space land in space in a game that will not be completed until man has colonized actual planets in real life? Well this wonderful post on their forums will surely win you over! By the way, yes, I gave up trying to read that.
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# ? Nov 30, 2017 20:34 |
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Has anybody compared Star Citizen to bitcoin yet
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# ? Nov 30, 2017 20:36 |
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Terrific Accident posted:Has anybody compared Star Citizen to bitcoin yet
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# ? Nov 30, 2017 20:37 |
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quote:CIG is not "selling land." They've been very clear about this. What they are selling is government protection for your land. lol Technically that is all that real life is, too.
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# ? Nov 30, 2017 20:38 |
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Lowtax posted:On the fence about if you should purchase space land in space in a game that will not be completed until man has colonized actual planets in real life? Well this wonderful post on their forums will surely win you over! We have such sights to show you. Cultists. These are just a sampling of the posts on the official forums there.
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# ? Nov 30, 2017 20:40 |
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The rabbit hole with citizens (star citizen supporters) goes quite deep.
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# ? Nov 30, 2017 20:45 |
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Godspeed Pet Tamer Citizen. He just wants to tame random space birds and Chris Roberts and the fat pedo won't let him
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# ? Nov 30, 2017 20:47 |
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Let me know when the playable Derek Smart class is in game
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# ? Nov 30, 2017 20:49 |
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PathAsc posted:Let me know when the playable Derek Smart class is in game They can't even get networking to work on a crysis mod with a dozen players so don't expect the ability to send 4,000 megabyte text files anytime soon. Sorry.
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# ? Nov 30, 2017 20:50 |
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more like shart shitizen cause its poo poo
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# ? Nov 30, 2017 20:52 |
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I got a refund. and I just sold off my last buttcoins. i must be doing something wrong.
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PathAsc posted:Let me know when the playable Derek Smart class is in game There's been a lot of creative goons taking on Derek Smart too.
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# ? Nov 30, 2017 20:54 |
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When these idiots inevitably get sued or go bankrupt, the only assets that creditors, investors, and players will have to fight over will be thousands of hours of mocap.
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Pawn 17 posted:When these idiots inevitably get sued or go bankrupt, the only assets that creditors, investors, and players will have to fight over will be thousands of hours of mocap. you don't get the "vision" man. IF I WANT TO BE AN AIRLINE PILOT IN SPACE MIXING DRINKS ITBDSGE you better be aware of the sway I HOLD. now excuse me while I live in one of the best asteroid condos you will never afford. grabby hands.
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Pawn 17 posted:When these idiots inevitably get sued or go bankrupt, the only assets that creditors, investors, and players will have to fight over will be thousands of hours of mocap. I'm pretty sure there are some videos that Chris's lawyer owns the rights to that could be used for colateral (about 5 dollars).
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its so weird that these people seem to accepting the fact that they will never get to play with half of the ships because they won't pay for them in real life. Like, they just shrug their shoulders and never get to experience most of the content in the game, and are tricked into purchasing just one ship and feeling ownership over it. Just like shrugging "Ahh well I'll never get to play with the super mega ship, I'm just not elite enough." A normal game would let you use all of the ships, they have forgotten this.
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Lowtax posted:On the fence about if you should purchase space land in space in a game that will not be completed until man has colonized actual planets in real life? Well this wonderful post on their forums will surely win you over! I made it to "player-driven, immersive, emergent gameplay" and then blood shot out of my eyes and rear end until I nearly died.
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are the True Believers still going strong or has their fanbase finally started to turn?
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# ? Nov 30, 2017 21:11 |
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THere are a lot of things that bug me about this whole Star citizen thing. But that they call it the 'verse' really bugs me. It's just bad slang and no one would ever use that phrase organically.
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Vargs posted:are the True Believers still going strong or has their fanbase finally started to turn?
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Vargs posted:are the True Believers still going strong or has their fanbase finally started to turn? https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/
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Caesar Saladin posted:its so weird that these people seem to accepting the fact that they will never get to play with half of the ships because they won't pay for them in real life. Like, they just shrug their shoulders and never get to experience most of the content in the game, and are tricked into purchasing just one ship and feeling ownership over it. Just like shrugging "Ahh well I'll never get to play with the super mega ship, I'm just not elite enough." A normal game would let you use all of the ships, they have forgotten this. My understanding is that all those ships will be available in game with in game currency and people are only buying them to "support the game development?" It's pretty lol either way. FactsAreUseless posted:They won't until it comes out, then people will freak out that it's not the game that existed in their head. Yeah this. It'll be Fable tears x 1000.
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FactsAreUseless posted:They won't until it comes out, then people will freak out that it's not the game that existed in their head. Derek Smart is gonna post all your spaceships FAU
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Great idea for a thread!
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FactsAreUseless posted:They won't until it comes out, then people will freak out that it's not the game that existed in their head. This is why it will never be relesed
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# ? Nov 30, 2017 21:23 |
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Chris, and his wife (the VP of marketing), have been judiciously spending every penny on the development of this ambitious game. Notice the half million dollar sports car parked behind Lando in the CIG parking lot. I wonder who that belongs to????? (Chris, duh)
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this fire is going to become amazing
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# ? Nov 30, 2017 21:26 |
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OP I get the gist of this but why give star citizen attention anymore. It's a dying idea of gods and men , I get that, but having people aware of it makes the problem bigger. Let reddit kill it this one time.
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# ? Nov 30, 2017 21:26 |
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Caesar Saladin posted:its so weird that these people seem to accepting the fact that they will never get to play with half of the ships because they won't pay for them in real life. Like, they just shrug their shoulders and never get to experience most of the content in the game, and are tricked into purchasing just one ship and feeling ownership over it. Just like shrugging "Ahh well I'll never get to play with the super mega ship, I'm just not elite enough." A normal game would let you use all of the ships, they have forgotten this. Remember when the ships were just to get funding to release the game and not a business in and of themselves? lol Funny thing is as much as EA wanted SC you think they'd been all the gently caress over making their own space sim, and they'd beat SC to the punch, too. Then people could be spending money on packs of cards with ships on them instead
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Vargs posted:are the True Believers still going strong or has their fanbase finally started to turn? But all the others are irrational exuberance so yeah, they've got a long and painful road to reality ahead.
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i'm proud of u chris roberts, u got hustle and get the nerds riled up
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