Star Citizen
“drying funds”
Have we checked to make sure they don’t have a banana stand nearby? Specifically looked at the walls?
Star Citizen devs report drying funds, micromanagement, overspending, and episodic release for Squadron 42
Submitted 4 weeks ago by quinkin@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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SARGE@startrek.website 4 weeks ago
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
What could a Star Citizen cost? Eight hundred million dollars?
whereBeWaldo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
This game should be one of the most prominent examples of sunk cost fallacy
bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Marketing and sales strategies are excellent for this game. It unifies in game purchases focused on whales like with mobile games and selling early access to an alpha. There’s also an aspect of collectibles and exclusivity like with NFTs. It‘s also cult like in many aspects. An utopian perfectionist vision evangelized by a prophet.
absquatulate@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Jesus christ. People need to realize that this is a scam. No video game is worth thousands of your dollars, especially a decade old game still in alpha.
Evrala@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It isn’t a scam, just incredibly mismanaged. Chris Robert’s has a very hard time saying “this is good enough” and that makes the company bleed money as they repeatedly remake things. People then don’t tell Chris no. They weren’t making a good space Sim, they were making the best darn space Sim evah! Their wages aren’t great and now they are trying to push illegal levels of crunch time till they got caught.
They’ve completely redone the flight model several times to various levels of success. Time frames get so damm long that they have to go back and remake huge chunks of the game in order to keep things up to snuff graphically.
I get the feeling that they never felt the need to stress out about timelines as the funding kept rolling in, in fact the funding accelerated over time! The game has 183 different ships all designed down to the tiniest detail in the game right now. That’s a fuck ton of work hours, but ship sales gets the funding rolling so they have to keep cranking out new ships.
I do really like playing the game, but it is really a shitshow for management. There was one point where they had to throw away a massive amount of work because one studio was making things that didn’t fit the metrics for scale and animation of the rest of the game.
pyre@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
this is just a long winded way of saying it’s a scam. if you ask for money promising something and you have no plan of delivering, it’s a scam.
they have to keep developing and redeveloping because they have a bunch of idiots with more money than sense pumping money to them. if they actually finish the game and release it chances are revenue will come crashing down. selling a promise is much better than selling a finished product because people like to wishcast and throw money at their own hopes and imagination. anything missing they fill in the blanks. surely the game will deliver eventually.
It’s a scam.
ThermonuclearCactus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
We need to start using this game as a unit to measure mismanagement.
“In total, the project cost us approximately .51 Star Citizens.”
proton_lynx@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Concord cost approximately .29 Star Citizens.
Eric_Pollock@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
The episodic rollout of SQ42 is presumed to be a way to inject new cash into the studio alongside reported plans to release higher priced ships and the rumored third game.
What?.. Higher priced ships? You’ve got to be joking…
One of my favorite ships in the game, the Drake Corsair, is already $250. It’s a great all-rounder, but it’s not even a large ship comparitively! And they’re going to start charging more for the newer ships?!
They just released a new ship as well, the RSI Zeus MKII, which is yet another $175. And that doesn’t even mention some of the larger ships like the Anvil Carrack, sitting at an insane $600, and the Origin 890 Jump at $950…
And if that’s not bad enough, they’ve had concept ships for years available for purchase in the $1,500-$2,000 range. How can these ships get more expensive?
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
Your numbers have a zero too much.
AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 4 weeks ago
I think I’d like a game with those exact prices… In in-game currency
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
real dollars!??
Nexy@lemmy.sdf.org 4 weeks ago
The good old Scam Citizen!
Stanley_Pain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Any day now.
setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Mim@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
The amount of popcorn I ate because of this saga probably gained me a fair few pounds already.
finestnothing@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I got the game and some small ship bundle a year or two ago for like $20. It was a pretty fun game for the cost, but I honestly wouldn’t pay more than $30 for it. It’s buggy, runs like hot garbage even on my 3080 ti, and it’s very much a mile wide inch deep content wise from what I remember
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
They could’ve invested half of it in something else and never had to ask for another dime while keeping the game in perpetual development
mlg@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Sometimes I wish No Man’s Sky and Elite Dangerous would combine their talents into one game just to get Star Citizen to shut up permanently.
Each one could use features from the other. Add in a dynamic user controlled economy, and suddenly everything SC has been promising after wasting millions of dollars would be right there.
As much crap Frontier gets, they made a killer custom game engine which perfectly makes it hugely immersive from day one, which shouldn’t be surprising considering the original Elite was the first proper wireframe 3D graphics game.
Hello Games got a proper roasting for releasing a shell game, but they actually bounced back. Their planet generation and surface gameplay is unmatched, and their updates outshine Frontier’s.
ED started out as a crowdfund too, and No Man’s Sky as essentially a startup. Both of these game’s received their fair share of criticism, but ultimately they produced a solid 4/5 game. Meanwhile Scam Citizen has been bankrolling for 12 years now, yet they hardly seem to receive the same level of criticism as ED ans NMS got for comparatively much much smaller issues.
It is noted for being one of the highest-funded crowdfunding projects, having raised over US$700 million as of May 2024
wth
Blaster_M@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
So basically Elite and NMS had EVE’s player economy…
mlg@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Yes I want this so bad lol
orrk@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
but that’s not how it works is it, you can’t just super Sayan fusion two games now can you?
PS: about the criticism, this is literally the annual “SC bad” post from these publications, generally complete with random ass unnamed sources and others (when the guy lying to you based off conformable fake shit like a “work ID” as proof of employment is the better source, eg. Derek Smart)
stardust@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Same news all the time.
pyre@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
drying funds? how? they must have spent more money than the united states government did fucking up Iraq for fun.
Turbonics@lemmy.sdf.org 4 weeks ago
Maybe they can get Elon Musk to take over the company and maximize the grift with an immersive VR promise.
WrenFeathers@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It’s that that decade long grift disguised as a game?