[YT] Star Citizen Full CitizenCon 2018 Presentation (4K)

I do not think a game can go in development for this long.

I agree CR needs a bit of reigning in, but there most definitely will be first person shooter mechanics. They didn't develop Star Marine to be just a Crysis tdm demo. The multiplayer will probably be a separate mode, S42 looked like just a campaign 'mode'.

Honestly this and bunch of recent things keeps coming back to chicken egg mentality. A lotta people want to see both chicken and egg working, but it doesn't matter because they couldn't afford either therefore they're bad products.

The people who pledged in the initial campaign weren't idiots. I don't think it's fair to blame them. They knew it was at least a couple years off at that point and were pledging accordingly.

The idiots were the people who continued to buy more and more imaginary content from them years later, well after they had blown past even the most conservative estimates for release dates from the initial campaign. This is what has enabled the feature/content bloat. They should have locked down the features and content soon after the initial campaign, but instead turned it into a scheme to turn the development of the game into a revenue stream by monetizing theoretical content in a game which doesn't exist yet. They wildly succeeded at this, effectively generating enough revenue from ship sales to fund the studio indefinitely even if there is never a proper release. The only thing that can stop this cycle is if enough people stop buying their new crap and demand a non-alpha/beta release or their money back.

A lot of people think he never intended to produce a game. I think what happened is that he is a one trick pony. He keeps remaking Wing Commander/Privateer over and over. So, he decided to do it again in Cry-Engine, did a bunch of modeling, created a scene he knew would get the imagination of all the people that had been starved of space sims, and then hit the crowd-funding scene hoping just hoping to get the funding to finally create the hybrid Wing Commander/Privateer that he always wanted to make, and bonus it could be an MMO. And then it became the most successful crowd funding campaign of all time by far.

If you've ever heard of Strike Commander, you know this is no a good thing. Chris Roberts needs someone keeping him on track and reigning him in. Instead he had no supervision and immediately began adding features for which the money to develop was simply not even close to being there. Then he spent lord only knows how much on Hollyweird A-list actors for a video game instead of reasonably priced voice actors that were probably going to be better anyway because this is their medium as just one of the highlights of the way the man goes through cash.

I think there is a decent chance that Squadron 42 will actually be delivered playable. It will not have any open ended features and it's doubtful that the gameplay is even the slightest bit different from Wing Commander or Star Lancer. So no first person shooting. Maybe a multi-player dogfight mode, but probably not enough money to do a co-op mode. And that loan taken out is going to have to be repayed somehow, so it's doubtful the game sales will fund enough to get the MMO portion working.

Never pre-order anything EVER.



If you want to support things on kick starter, donate and expect NOTHING in return.

People that gave money for Star Citizen expecting a playable game are getting exactly what they deserve IMO.