Windows Star Citizen

Not really. But then it would depend on your perspective. I could try and explain what I mean, but I can see from your posts that you have your own perspective and it is rather rigid. So I won't bother. I mean no offense by the way. I am just not interested in a debate. Take my opinion for what you will.

 

I remember saying about 3 years back this game is along way off with 2020 been a more realistic deadline for launch and been shot down by multiple people.

I do not personally think we will ever see his true vision launched. If I had spent $1000s on this now I might be a bit worried.

As it is I have spent probably less than £30

 

I concur that a proper remaster of Freelancer (don't mess with any of the gameplay mechanics, just a visual/UI/sound overhaul) would make Chris Roberts sweat even more than the growing discontent of early backers.

It would also absorb a considerable amount of my time.

 

Genuinely looking forward to this, when it finally makes release.

 

Snake Oil

 

Call from agent: ... "They'll give me how much to do a few days voice work and motion capture?! Of course it's a yes."

 

Snake oil is far easier to source and cheaper to produce

 

My main takeaway from the trailer was "I hope those literally pew-pew laser foley are just placeholders".

 

Well exactly, it looks incredible. Yet the idea of playing with Gillian Anderson has been a dream of my teenage self since staying up past bed time to sneakily watch X-Files.

You may have noticed how I have railed against this project many times, while remaining open to the possibility of playing it were it to be released. There are allegedly 500+ people being employed by CIG to do something, but the scope and ambition of what Roberts et al have clumsily set out to achieve appears too unfeasible. To raise the bar the way he did with Wing Commander 1 is no longer the domain of developers that number in the single digits, you need a small army, abundant resources and unreasonable amounts of time in the context of how he got funded and the deadlines that were promised.

 

From what I can tell what they are doing is scripting and building the CitizenCon demo every twelve months and putting the build they made to do it out for others to play. Which is nice of them and all, but it's an awfuly slow way to make a videogame.

 

Indeed.

I can see it carrying on like this while people are still pledging millions of dollars per month and the now blanket denial of refunds.

 

I can see some court cases on the horizon in the future, possibly class action as opposed to individual cases which are easily batted away.

 

And court cases for "I gave them money to develop a game with no contractual obligations, and they are developing a game, but I want them to do it faster" can and should be laughed out of court.

 

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/07/court-denies-star-citizen-backers-4500-refund-lawsuit/

 

$4.5K.
For what will one day be available for $60
Insanity.

 

I guess if you've got the money and it's for your dream game, knock yourself out.

Though of the one little gameplay video I saw, it looks like a photorealistic No Man's Sky. At $200m, unless it's a life simulator with full planets with full cities so it's like ****ing Cyberpunk when you land, it's going to disappoint.

 

To be fair, SC does look quite pretty from what I've seen, but it also looks utterly sterile. We'll have to see what sort of game actually ends up underpinning the pretty jpegs.

 

It will really depend what they end up doing with it and no one can really answer that at this point.

If the project is completed i would estimate another 5 years based on progress they have made.

 

That is the plan, from what I've heard.