Star Citizen: $48,000 is only $334/month for 12 years

The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Video Games > Star Citizen: $48,000 is only $334/month for 12 years

Cutedge: Mar 13, 2006; How can we lose so much more than we had before

So I for some reason got into VR to play Elite Dangerous when Odyssey came out and now I stupidly bought into Star Citizen after looking at it for years, because a bunch of people online keep swearing that the game is real and has things now.

I make terrible decisions with my life.

Anyway I loaded it up and hit the button to go into the sandbox, and made my character with what is one of the weirdest character creation systems I have ever used, and was dropped in I guess my apartment building. Then I walked around and there were a bunch of npcs doing nothing that I can't do anything with. It is flashing literally dozens of help text things at the bottom of the screen, and I wandered around thinking that he game would have something that would allow me to fly the ship I bought to get into the game. So I took a tram to the spaceport and there is nothing there to interact with. Am I missing something? If I wanted to play a game where I walk around a city with nothing to do and npcs stand on top of each other and I can't interact with vendors, I'd play cyberpunk.

Seriously can't someone make a game that is a space world that you can fly around in just sol and fight for control of things, and take over stations or something and it's just a more fleshed out world that isn't a mile wide and an inch deep?

# ¿ Aug 9, 2021 18:48

Adbot: ADBOT LOVES YOU

# ¿ May 16, 2024 15:26

Cutedge: Mar 13, 2006; How can we lose so much more than we had before

BluesShaman posted:

The gently caress is wrong with you?

Oh, lots of things.

pedro0930 posted:

Isn't that this game?
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1079620/Infinity_Battlescape/

I think it's actually this game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIn1_9YvGds

edit: Inifinitey:Battlescape actually does look neat but I shan't dare to dream

Sandweed posted:

Also it sound like you wanna play Starsector.

I might have to look.

TheAgent posted:

get a fuckin refund, like now, you idiot

It just finished processing.

Cutedge fucked around with this message at 22:37 on Aug 10, 2021

# ¿ Aug 10, 2021 22:23

Cutedge: Mar 13, 2006; How can we lose so much more than we had before

some forum guy posted:

Many of us have a hard workday and I think it would be fine to have the choice not to grind for new ships but just buy one.

So like every other modern video game? "I work hard so I should be able to buy things in the game so I don't have to play it because playing this game is work"

same guy posted:

Of course, ship prices should remain high to have a motivation to earn them in game, components should be just buyable with UEC.

Insert EA quote about pride and accomplishment

# ¿ Aug 14, 2021 09:48

Cutedge: Mar 13, 2006; How can we lose so much more than we had before

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/curt-schilling-s-failed-game-studio-finally-sends-last-paychecks-1.1642461

It's like a news story from 10 years into CIG's future

# ¿ Aug 21, 2021 08:02

Cutedge: Mar 13, 2006; How can we lose so much more than we had before

I mean I guess the NVme drive being used for a pagefile is fast, but don't come crying when why the game keeps crashing or you are getting blue screens: https://www.zdnet.com/article/ssd-reliability-in-the-real-world-googles-experience/

# ¿ Aug 31, 2021 18:28

Cutedge: Mar 13, 2006; How can we lose so much more than we had before

Torquemada posted:

Well there are now monkey-paw guy

There would be horses but they need to add tech to make the horses hair grow in real time as you let it sit in your future stable. They are working on redoing the hair tech so this checks out.

Cutedge fucked around with this message at 08:40 on Sep 20, 2021

# ¿ Sep 20, 2021 08:38

Cutedge: Mar 13, 2006; How can we lose so much more than we had before

I said come in! posted:

No Man's Sky got an update today that surpasses everything Star Citizen has been working on for 10+ years.

Seriously, it's the first thing I thought of when I saw their update.

# ¿ Jul 20, 2022 19:36

Cutedge: Mar 13, 2006; How can we lose so much more than we had before

Mirificus posted:

ididmypart.gif

# ¿ Sep 20, 2022 22:24

Cutedge: Mar 13, 2006; How can we lose so much more than we had before

Why do I think Chris Roberts watched Cyberpunk 2077 crash and burn and thought to himself "you know the real mistake they made was releasing the game"?

# ¿ Sep 20, 2022 22:26

Cutedge: Mar 13, 2006; How can we lose so much more than we had before

The Titanic posted:

I've been playing Xenoblade 3 lately and I feel like that game blows everything cig is doing out of the water in any way shape or form.

I can't even wrap my head around how CIGs staff could build something comparable. The only thing they would do is build a CryEngine world and 8K grass textures and 10M poly tents and it would run at 7FPS on a super computer, but nothing else would work in it at all.

A game isn't just artwork.

I mean, at this point Star Citizen doesn't even surpass an ubisoft game that came out years ago that people didn't even pay attention imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZG3qWRnx7c

That game had pretty alright space combat and let you go down onto planets in their dumb toys to life game that flopped. And when I see it I'm like if this was multiplayer and half persistent I'd be all over it. But instead, you know, bedsheets.

:sigh:

# ¿ Sep 20, 2022 22:43

Cutedge: Mar 13, 2006; How can we lose so much more than we had before

stats? 2077 better watch out this is the true cyberpunk experience.

https://i.imgur.com/IHunDUT.mp4

# ¿ Nov 2, 2022 23:41

Cutedge: Mar 13, 2006; How can we lose so much more than we had before

quote:

Finally, the VFX team implemented a �task pool,� which allows the artists to tackle various miscellaneous tasks that have accumulated in the backlog.

I'm surprised Chris Roberts didn't have a kickstarter for this after seeing another ad for monday.com

edit: seriously they put "added a new PBI to JIRA with a list of misc tasks" on their accomplishments letter. lol

# ¿ Nov 3, 2022 06:12

Cutedge: Mar 13, 2006; How can we lose so much more than we had before

Doesn�t look like anyone posted this infographics from r/starcitizen_refunds

https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen_refunds/comments/yzjw38/star_citizen_development_timeline_compared_to/

Holy hell lmbo

# ¿ Nov 22, 2022 19:58

Cutedge: Mar 13, 2006; How can we lose so much more than we had before

4th Stimpire Queen posted:

Ok, can anyone tech savvy explain this one to me please?

The solutions:

Befuddled I looked it up and lo and behold, even CIG has this in their official FAQ.

That FAQ sure has a lot of words and hack-rear end solutions for "we have a web server / CDN somewhere that is serving a file and the server has a SSL cert that expired"

# ¿ Jan 19, 2023 19:53

Cutedge: Mar 13, 2006; How can we lose so much more than we had before

4th Stimpire Queen posted:

The Star Citizen FPS experience

Trigger warnings: amazing AI, lifelike NPCs, smart use of cover.

https://v.redd.it/6atqnkikcfda1/DASH_1080.mp4

I shouldn't be surprised that they couldn't even meet the bar set by Elite Dangerous' space legs but seeing it in action is pretty lol

# ¿ Jan 24, 2023 19:20

Cutedge: Mar 13, 2006; How can we lose so much more than we had before

This thread should be gassed at this point honestly

for being about Star Citizen

# ¿ Feb 16, 2023 21:54

Cutedge: Mar 13, 2006; How can we lose so much more than we had before

Apollodorus posted:

And that�s just one progressive issue, to say nothing of the crass dismissal (as lazy poors) of people who see $10k as an irresponsible amount to spend on a nonfunctional video game.

Someone should go suggest that instead of spending thousands of dollars for a fake spaceship in a game that doesn't work, they should instead donate the money to some nonprofit or even the government in order to help fund the development of actual space exploration and scientific research. Be sure to throw in that just giving money to CIG is just lining a business' profitline and isn't actually helping people in the real world. That'd be some good content.

# ¿ Feb 22, 2023 17:06

Cutedge: Mar 13, 2006; How can we lose so much more than we had before

I don't know man, that sounds like SoCIaLiSm

# ¿ Feb 22, 2023 18:18

Cutedge: Mar 13, 2006; How can we lose so much more than we had before

Dwesa posted:

they are always in the beginning stages of development, aren't they?

Star Citizen: We are in the beginning stages of developing

# ¿ Feb 27, 2023 19:44

Cutedge: Mar 13, 2006; How can we lose so much more than we had before

Popete posted:

Man I thought we were past "the cloud" being the hot tech buzzword that CEOs use to get funding.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlBnboI4Vgk

The buzzword now is "industrial metaverse" iirc. Before that it was blockchain unless I'm missing a step.

# ¿ Feb 28, 2023 21:44

Cutedge: Mar 13, 2006; How can we lose so much more than we had before

I mean I loved SWG. I want to have some level of interaction with the world besides doing dungeons and raids. The problem is that SC isn't even set to provide this. They have all this weird tedium that some people apparently want but it's all meaningless busywork like making your bed or other nonsense interactions, but is there a plan to allow you to have a station built in the world? Or can you take over some colony so that your alliance/guild/squadron owns it? Even E:D has that although their system is all background and ultimately doesn't do a heck of a lot unless you want to roleplay the BGS. There is a middle ground that companies can take with this stuff but a lot of companies (cough wow cough) don't' want to add the most basic "everyone has their own guild hall you can go to through a portal" just as a retention method of giving people a goal of getting crap from activities that they may or may not be running (incentives).

Of course with SC, I suppose the problem is that they'd love to make it so you can get a station, but you'd have to cobble up 375,000 dollars with your friends to buy it with real money.

# ¿ Mar 1, 2023 18:11

Cutedge: Mar 13, 2006; How can we lose so much more than we had before

She wasn't banned, she just stopped using the forums (or at least posting) after a bunch of people called her a nazi and said she should be killed. Or she's mad about being on such a ~~wOkE FoRuM~~ :iiam:

Bringing this conversation back up is a terrible, terrible idea however lol

Cutedge fucked around with this message at 00:02 on Mar 8, 2023

# ¿ Mar 7, 2023 23:45

Cutedge: Mar 13, 2006; How can we lose so much more than we had before

rude.

History Comes Inside! posted:

I�m surprised it even still exists given CIG haven�t done anything funny in years and it�s now 90% just reposting one specific idiot�s comments from Reddit and circlejerking over what a weirdo he is.

This, but replace the phrase "CIG" with "Something Awful"

# ¿ Mar 7, 2023 23:56

Cutedge: Mar 13, 2006; How can we lose so much more than we had before

Apparently a new Star Citizen patch is going live tomorrow and one of the known issues is that it breaks Trams. They're pushing it live anyway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzU3QWWHImI

:rubby:

# ¿ Mar 8, 2023 23:02

Cutedge: Mar 13, 2006; How can we lose so much more than we had before

Kavros posted:

3.18, set to drop before the holidays, coming on new years, slated for january 15th, expected to launch last weekend, is now being targeted for release on march 9th. is everyone prepared?

Look, this release has the implementation of Persistent Entity Streaming which is critical for Server Meshing so they can�t rush it ok?

Hey guys we updated and said early morning last night but we forgot it�sTGIF so we�re looking at next week. - (CIG in about 3 hours, probably)

# ¿ Mar 10, 2023 16:21

Cutedge: Mar 13, 2006; How can we lose so much more than we had before

Popete posted:

It was dealt with by mods in a timely manner and that really should be the end of it.

Star Citizen's kickstarter will be 10 years old in less than a month. In another 10 years Squadron 42 still won't have been released. And 10 years after that, people will still be randomly defending a terrible response to criticism about a bad comparison to another stupid game every third page

Nancy posted:

What the hell is this, when did Star Citizen decide to add Cronenberg mechanics

Also kind of questioning why human eyeballs growing on machinery doesn't run up against the super realism goal or whatever.

That Vending Machine from Atomic Heart had a bad day, apparently.

Cutedge fucked around with this message at 18:42 on Mar 10, 2023

# ¿ Mar 10, 2023 18:40

Cutedge: Mar 13, 2006; How can we lose so much more than we had before

Lexx the MMO

# ¿ Mar 10, 2023 18:43

Cutedge: Mar 13, 2006; How can we lose so much more than we had before

The problem with SWG wasn't that no one wanted to be a moisture farmer, it was that you should have had to check your moisture farming utilities for mold. Just collecting water every day is highly unrealistic
:goonsay:

# ¿ Mar 10, 2023 18:56

Cutedge: Mar 13, 2006; How can we lose so much more than we had before

Apparently this morning their devs �made some adjustments� and then they declared it fixed and hosed off for the weekend. Their player base is now split between �wtf where are devs� and �guys there is no way to find issues on a test server, this had to happen. Just plan to play in a week and buy another ship to support this indie developer.�

:perfect:

# ¿ Mar 11, 2023 22:52

Cutedge: Mar 13, 2006; How can we lose so much more than we had before

Their marketing and community team is still posting about 3.18 features on Twitter. The replies are� well it�s not going well lol

Edit: they finally acknowledged that they�re having a �super rough start� and are listing that there is a �major outage�

# ¿ Mar 12, 2023 18:51

Cutedge: Mar 13, 2006; How can we lose so much more than we had before

Their

post is https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/transmission/18397-Server-Meshing-And-Persistent-Streaming-Q-A

All you need to know it that it totally isn�t just dynamic instancing like wow introduced in their Wrath of the Lich King expansion in 2008 and totally not like Cross-Realm Zones like they introduced in their Mists of Pandaria expansion in 2012. I�m sure piss cat can tell you about how this is a new technology no one has ever even attempted before

# ¿ Mar 12, 2023 19:03

Cutedge: Mar 13, 2006; How can we lose so much more than we had before

Star Citizen: The game would be done if it wasn't for the alpha

edit: I'm still in awe at how broke brained you would have to be to think that having to have a playable alpha would slow development down so that a game that has taken 12 years is now going to take 30. I mean, you have to have the playable alpha internally to test the drat game? maybe what's delaying it so much is having your devs make coffee makers when the server's underlying technology for feasible performance apparently isn't even started? seriously Star Citizen's development is the ceo of a company that builds houses going to a house with a concrete slab and 3/4 of the basic framing up and saying "ok next start painting the interior walls"

Cutedge fucked around with this message at 17:58 on Mar 13, 2023

# ¿ Mar 13, 2023 17:48

Cutedge: Mar 13, 2006; How can we lose so much more than we had before

Randalor posted:

Though I will accept links to entertaining YouTube videos on the subject as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIn1_9YvGds

# ¿ Mar 13, 2023 18:07

Cutedge: Mar 13, 2006; How can we lose so much more than we had before

I would be more willing to throw money (away) at Derek Smart than Star Citizen at this point, ngl

# ¿ Mar 13, 2023 18:14

Cutedge: Mar 13, 2006; How can we lose so much more than we had before

But can Derek Smart direct a major motion picture better than Chris Roberts?

low bar

# ¿ Mar 13, 2023 18:44

Cutedge: Mar 13, 2006; How can we lose so much more than we had before

Derek Smart blog posted:

Despite the fact that ED was delivered late, mostly unfinished, very buggy (it still is), and for non-space sim fans is as boring as watching paint dry, they delivered as promised. In fact, they exceeded my expectations because I wasn�t expecting, nor wanting, more than that which they delivered. What most of us wanted was a bigger and better Elite, with modern day tech. And they delivered in spades.

Now, they�re rumored to be considering adding planetary access and such, though it�s anyone�s guess what form that will take. From where I�m sitting, and given my experience in chasing that particular whale, I�ll believe it when I see it.

As someone who has been playing a lot of E:D and the garbo space legs they added that honestly kind of destroyed the game's momentum and led to them putting the console versions into maintenance mode, all I can say is oof on his comment there lol

# ¿ Mar 13, 2023 19:01

Cutedge: Mar 13, 2006; How can we lose so much more than we had before

Sankis posted:

And this absolute motherfucker just used lightyear as a measurement of time.

Haven't you heard of Star Citizen? It's the game that completed development in less than 12 parsecs.

# ¿ Mar 14, 2023 04:22

Cutedge: Mar 13, 2006; How can we lose so much more than we had before

hello internet posted:

Why are people so shocked that an alpha doesn't work when they make a bunch of changes? I get that this game is a meme but shouldn't this be expected?

They are selling new 1600 dollar spaceship packages. You can buy them and get access to the game immediately. It is, for all intents and purposes, a live game. This entire "we'll sell you a product but it's a piece of poo poo so we'll call it an alpha so we're safe from criticism lol" is just nonsense. Game companies need to stop trying to have their cake and eat it too on this.

edit: You know what, here's a better argument. They are running ads and marketing to get people to buy into this alpha. I'm sorry, that's not an alpha. That's a live game.

# ¿ Mar 14, 2023 22:04

Cutedge: Mar 13, 2006; How can we lose so much more than we had before

I'm getting pretty old so I too have issues with leaking gas clouds

# ¿ Mar 16, 2023 20:51

Adbot: ADBOT LOVES YOU

# ¿ May 16, 2024 15:26

Cutedge: Mar 13, 2006; How can we lose so much more than we had before

Pretty clear that's not a native english speaker. Still funny though.

# ¿ Mar 16, 2023 21:50

The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Video Games > Star Citizen: $48,000 is only $334/month for 12 years

«‹›5 »