Chris Roberts Space Garage Simulator: Star Citizen

[andino]

If he goes any slower our grandchildren will be playing this game in their holodecks

PlayStation-6 should have holo-tech..

[Dungeoncrawler]

WOW! Talk about some of the backers being pricks. And the devs seem just as bad. I ask one if they supported chat attacks on people that ask unpopular questions and the reply was they appreciated the passion. This game and its devs can suck my ****! Their twitch updates are reminiscent of a ****ing Tea Party Convention

[Mangler]

Do not anger the Cult of Space Garage Simulator.

[Cyko]

WOW! Talk about most of the backers being pricks. And the devs are just as bad. I ask one if they supported chat attacks on people that ask unpopular questions and the reply was they appreciated the passion. This game and its devs can suck my ****! Their twitch updates are reminiscent of a ****ing Tea Party Convention

Do not anger the Cult of Space Garage Simulator.

Pretty much how I feel. They're so invested in the game that I'm afraid it'll be mass suicides if the thing turns out to suck balls

[Napoleonic]

at worst this will be just 21th century edition of wing commander and the nostalgia factor alone is good enough for me.

[vertual]

at worst this will be just 21th century edition of wing commander and the nostalgia factor alone is good enough for me.

That's all I've really wanted. A new Wing Commander with a branching storyline and cutting-edge graphics.

I was never a huge fan of the "Universe Simulator" stuff, but if they can deliver that it will be a bonus for me added onto the single player Squadron 42 experience. If not, no worries....all I own is an original Origin 300i and a green Star Citizen ID card

[DaJMasta]

Pretty much how I feel. They're so invested in the game that I'm afraid it'll be mass suicides if the thing turns out to suck balls

It boggles my mind how much people can get invested in things. Sure I kickstarted, but at like the basic level. Some people kickstarted with $1000+ right off the bat... then proceeded to buy additional ships as they were unveiled.

It's not like this thing is limited to kickstarter, alpha games, or anything... it's just as bad on f2p and stuff. I can sort of understand buying a few things and spending a couple hundred if you're hyped and have money to throw away... but goddamn people seem to have 50x the money than they do sense in a lot of cases.



I'd also say that what comes out of some backers doesn't speak for most of them... I'd say the vast (numeric) majority of backers don't even really use their forums, follow their updates closely, or participate in livestreams. I think being so invested in it does bring out a sort of cult mentality though - it just has to be good or you've thrown your money away and look foolish (even though no one may really look at you that way). Also twitch chat probably rates between reddit and 4chan in the quality of discourse that goes on there.

[FMT]

There forums take arse licking and ball gargling to a new level. Its sickening, what they write on there.

[aviphysics]

It boggles my mind how much people can get invested in things. Sure I kickstarted, but at like the basic level. Some people kickstarted with $1000+ right off the bat... then proceeded to buy additional ships as they were unveiled.

I don't personally know anyone that has spent thousands, but I do have a good friend that spent close to $1000. He is a single guy with a decent paying job and has been working loads of over time. He just has way more money coming in then he knows what to do with. If I were him I wouldn't burn my money that way, but I bet a lot of the more fanatical donors are like him.

[badboy]

for some $1000 is like $40 for us normal income people

If I would be rich I would also spend thousend of dollors on this

[Dungeoncrawler]

Imo everything hinges on the release of the DFM. If it fails, the project as a whole will probably do the same going forward. Reading the reddit forums though, there are lots of people who could care less if its ever released. I think they just like belonging to something bigger than themselves and don't give a crap about the game becoming a reality.

[Cyko]

There forums take arse licking and ball gargling to a new level. Its sickening, what they write on there.

You better not say anything bad about the game over their either. They'll come up with whatever excuses necessary to excuse the failings of their great leader, up to and including "He doesn't have to make the game at all! You should be happy you're getting anything!"

[Dungeoncrawler]

I seriously thought a dev was going to ban me. Guess if you're going to get the banhammer, having a dev administer it is the way to go

[Cyko]

HUGE UPDATE RELEASED TODAY!!!

They've added a towel to all who backed before the 42 million dollar goal. Strip down gentlemen, it's time to soap up and get those towels cracking!

[kboye]

This has gone out of control. It might even rival Second Life. I for one just lost interest in the games themselves. Though reading is fun as hell

[FMT]

HUGE UPDATE RELEASED TODAY!!!

They've added a towel to all who backed before the 42 million dollar goal. Strip down gentlemen, it's time to soap up and get those towels cracking!

Now to the forums to see the feedback of the news.

[Napoleonic]

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/transmission/13863-Arena-Commander-Weekly-Report-May-5-9

[KevinJAnderson]

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/c...Report-May-5-9

I understand the Official Forums are going to be filled with positive posts and feedback, but My God, those replies are incredible. They actually make for pretty amusing reading!
It's hard to believe they're all real responses, but from what I've heard about the community, I bet they are!
I hope the game turns out great, but I wont be joining that cult..

[Cyko]

Just read the comments on that update and your gif is scarily appropriate

[DaJMasta]

It's scary that your "citizen number" is your ranking for getting access to content... I get it, but that doesn't exactly sit well



Also on an unrelated note, who's backed the project but just deletes every update email they send? There are a lot of them, there's a lot of info in them I don't care about, and they offer like single sentence blurbs as to what each section actually comprises. I long for the days when you sent actual content in emails, not just links to all over the internets.

[Cyko]

It's scary that your "citizen number" is your ranking for getting access to content... I get it, but that doesn't exactly sit well



Also on an unrelated note, who's backed the project but just deletes every update email they send? There are a lot of them, there's a lot of info in them I don't care about, and they offer like single sentence blurbs as to what each section actually comprises. I long for the days when you sent actual content in emails, not just links to all over the internets.

I'm #280890.... Is that good or bad, lol.

Yeah, the one line emails are lame. It's just an excuse to get you to visit the site more.

[DaJMasta]

Looks like a big number, so I'd say in airline equivalents, somewhere between economy and stowage

[Dungeoncrawler]

I refuse to be even remotely associated with this project now. The devs are narcissistic, and many of the backers make fanboys look like altar boys.

[Napoleonic]

I refuse to be even remotely associated with this project now. The devs are narcissistic, and many of the backers make fanboys look like altar boys.

can you gift your ship/package/pledge to me?

[Dungeoncrawler]

can you gift your ship/package/pledge to me?

CR doesn't have one cent of my money. I'd donate to Goat Simulator before I gave his stupid *** any money.

[Cyko]

I refuse to be even remotely associated with this project now. The devs are narcissistic, and many of the backers make fanboys look like altar boys.

Me too. I used to be one of the "OMG its so cool" crowd but now I say I haven't pledged at all because I don't want to be associated with that crowd.

[yoz]

I watched one presentation of this and im not buying a game made by such a group of overweight neckbeards.

[Nunz]

I watched one presentation of this and im not buying a game made by such a group of overweight neckbeards.

Yoz.. sometimes I hate reading your posts.

But this?

Gold.

[Sundance Kid V2]

you guys got me intrigued (sp?) with these comments. Going to visit their fansite

[Cyko]

you guys got me intrigued (sp?) with these comments. Going to visit their fansite

You should register and ask what's with all the delays. That'll get you an interesting thread going

[Redeemed]

I've pledged $30. Considering that I'm guaranteed a copy of the full game whenever it comes out, plus the benefits of being an early backer- I'm satisfied. I avoid those forums, and pretty much skim the e-mails they send unless I see something of interest. If I do, I investigate further.

I've yet to see anything that'll incline me to pledge any more, and they wont get an additional cent from me until I'm impressed with the progress they've made.

$30, I think, is a fair price if the game even meets half the expectations. It's half of what most big-name AAA games go for. With the potential of far more hours of enjoyment.

The internets is serious business, I know (), but I'm not going to allow the forum posts of overzealous fans ruin a potentially awesome game for me.

[Cyko]

They're not ruining anything for us, we're just pretty much in awe of the ball gargling going on over there. CR could literally take a bloody sh*t in a box and send it to them and they'd still sacrifice their firstborn in his honor if he asked. It's amazingly sad.

[Dungeoncrawler]

They're not ruining anything for us, we're just pretty much in awe of the ball gargling going on over there. CR could literally take a bloody sh*t in a box and send it to them and they'd still sacrifice their firstborn in his honor if he asked. It's amazingly sad.

All joking aside, it really does seem to have taken a very creepy cult type turn. I guess I should be thankful no one threatened to kill me . However I don't consider a modest $30 pledge as anything bad

[andino]

That forum is creepy wierd....

Watch the game flop.

There will be a rash of guys with cut off balls in Adidas track suits offing themselves everywhere.....

[Dungeoncrawler]

That forum is creepy wierd....

Watch the game flop.

There will be a rash of guys with cut off balls in Adidas track suits offing themselves everywhere.....

[Napoleonic]

screw the haters!

29th may is the day!

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/transmission/13883-Arena-Commander-Weekly-Report-May-12-16

Let me begin with the information you most want to hear: we intend to launch Arena Commander in two weeks, on May 29th.The goal is that every backer will have access to the single player “Free Flight” and “Vanduul Swarm” games modes on this day, and the very first batch of multiplayer testers will get access to the game’s multiplayer game modes. We will scale up the multiplayer as quickly as possible starting on that date, increasing the number of players as it is stable and stopping to fix bugs where needed.
This date is based on our best possible projections using the latest information put together by Star Citizen’s production team as of this afternoon. This is a big part of what the often-unseen production side of game development does: schedule out every task they believe is required for a game to ship. Sometimes (in fact, more often than not) things go wrong and these forecasts change: bugs we don’t foresee appear, features we didn’t realize we needed become necessary and so on. This is why we haven’t had a solid release date yet; it’s not to better schedule marketing or because we want to keep you out of the cockpit… it’s because game development is a complex beast, and there are few games more complex than Star Citizen! At this point, we’re close enough that we feel fairly confident in this date… but the next two weeks will be a march!

x 1 billion!!!

[v3rninater]

That forum is creepy wierd....

Watch the game flop.

There will be a rash of guys with cut off balls in Adidas track suits offing themselves everywhere.....

If you play this game, then you will be prospectively inserting your own foot in your mouth.

Watch this game be really good...

[Destroy]

[andino]

If you play this game, then you will be prospectively inserting your own foot in your mouth.

Watch this game be really good...

It's a game. Not a lifestyle....

To basically circle jerk off to a game dev before there is even a game is more than a little weird to me.

[Dungeoncrawler]

screw the haters!

29th may is the day!

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/transmission/13883-Arena-Commander-Weekly-Report-May-12-16

Let me begin with the information you most want to hear: we intend to launch Arena Commander in two weeks, on May 29th.The goal is that every backer will have access to the single player “Free Flight” and “Vanduul Swarm” games modes on this day, and the very first batch of multiplayer testers will get access to the game’s multiplayer game modes. We will scale up the multiplayer as quickly as possible starting on that date, increasing the number of players as it is stable and stopping to fix bugs where needed.
This date is based on our best possible projections using the latest information put together by Star Citizen’s production team as of this afternoon. This is a big part of what the often-unseen production side of game development does: schedule out every task they believe is required for a game to ship. Sometimes (in fact, more often than not) things go wrong and these forecasts change: bugs we don’t foresee appear, features we didn’t realize we needed become necessary and so on. This is why we haven’t had a solid release date yet; it’s not to better schedule marketing or because we want to keep you out of the cockpit… it’s because game development is a complex beast, and there are few games more complex than Star Citizen! At this point, we’re close enough that we feel fairly confident in this date… but the next two weeks will be a march!

x 1 billion!!!

I wish the sane backers the best of luck. For the rest of the fanatics, go **** yourselves