Chris Roberts Space Garage Simulator: Star Citizen

[azalea]

Today is a special day. It's the one I look forward to every month. Squadron 42 Email Update day!!
Let's take a look:

- This month, the story team filed 1000 pages' worth of side-quests, and then decided to delete it.
- The Enemy AI department were so successful, that their creations rebelled and murdered them all.
- We are hiring! Please apply for the following positions: 1. Anti-Technology specialists. Amish background and own weapons a plus. 2. Enemy AI coding specialists. 3. Physics coding specialists.
- The Physics department invented a new mode of chronological travel. Subsequently, they have vanished, leaving behind a sole copy of the 2024 Sports Almanac.

[Lurk]

I understand gamers are pissed. From what I've seen it's a decent alternative for Elite, where I've sunk hundreds of hours. A 50€ starter pack will provide enough gaming time to make the cost worth for me, at least according to my price/entertainment ratio.
Don't really care too much about what's behind it, and it will keep me busy while waiting for Starfield.

[nutcrackr]

Not sure why people would take the plunge now, when the game isn't nearly finished 11 years into development thanks to a micro-managing leader who keeps getting his devs to rebuild things from the ground up and a scope that keeps creeping up.

Your money would be better spent if you simply converted your entire life savings into coins and went by boat to the spot just above the Mariana trench and dumped it all overboard.

[Lurk]

I recon last pages in this thread show little enthusiasm for this game, and probably understandably so, but I'm about to take the plunge regardless.
If anyone here still playing wants to share their referral code or whatever that thing that brings riches to everyone is called, well, here I am

[Dungeoncrawler]

One half of a billion dollars. At this rate the billionaires of the world are going to have to make room for Chris in their club.

Star Citizen breaks another crowdfunding record by raising over $500 million in total.

https://gameworldobserver.com/2022/0...funding-record

[andino]

I guess some people never heard of not paying for a finished product.

It's the never-ending kick-starter. Every time that a goalpost comes up the guy just moves them.

At this point, it's like watching a professional Con artist perform.

[acroig]

Mismanagement are you kidding me? As I've said before this man is brilliant. I mean if you think about it, his model for this game has been mandated by all his backers. He keeps delaying, they keep throwing money at him. I'd milk this scheme for another 10 years

What an awesome con!

I'm so glad I never gave him any $.

[Silent-Runner]

still mind boggling that this is somehow legal. (and idiots still throwing money at him)

[Sundance Kid V2]

There is certainly a reasonable argument for your posited scenario. I’m starting to believe that it might be an accurate description of what is going on.

it is a spot on description...

[Android1]

Mismanagement are you kidding me? As I've said before this man is brilliant. I mean if you think about it, his model for this game has been mandated by all his backers. He keeps delaying, they keep throwing money at him. I'd milk this scheme for another 10 years

There is certainly a reasonable argument for your posited scenario. I’m starting to believe that it might be an accurate description of what is going on.

[Dungeoncrawler]

I really hope that this is all a result of epic mismanagement and not an outright scam.

Mismanagement are you kidding me? As I've said before this man is brilliant. I mean if you think about it, his model for this game has been mandated by all his backers. He keeps delaying, they keep throwing money at him. I'd milk this scheme for another 10 years

[Android1]

I really hope that this is all a result of epic mismanagement and not an outright scam.

[Sundance Kid V2]

Also, this thread is now 10 years old. Still no sign of Squadron 42 lol

Will the game be released by 2032?

Find out in Chris Roberts' 2039 Memoirs titled "FAR OUT: HOW I MADE A FORTUNE BY NOT FINISHING"

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10 years... crazy! Chris is making big $$$ by doing prototyping. And it looks like people are throwing tons of money at him ...

[nutcrackr]

Also, this thread is now 10 years old. Still no sign of Squadron 42 lol

Will the game be released by 2032?

Find out in Chris Roberts' 2039 Memoirs titled "FAR OUT: HOW I MADE A FORTUNE BY NOT FINISHING"

[Sundance Kid V2]

Lol.. if true, then gaming companies have been doing it wrong. This game will never come out... and it's printing money.

[acroig]

Star Citizen - Any Day Now™

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9x7QppQabk&t=9s

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[kboye]

Just noticed.

[Seyiji]

Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance (the PS2 game from 2001) was ahead of its time in the boob physics department.

Hey bartender :3

[Greasy]

I like to think of that $50 I spent on something I'll never get as an NFT.

[Munkus]

well some of Dead or Alive series (fighting games) had breast physics, I'm assuming Tomb Raider 2013> has it silently powered by PhysX (would be stupid not to right?), so that would have to be some seriously next gen stuff. Perhaps fluid simulation, implants, top restraints .... zero G. heh.. uh Guess that would be a first.

Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance (the PS2 game from 2001) was ahead of its time in the boob physics department.

[kboye]

well some of Dead or Alive series (fighting games) had breast physics, I'm assuming Tomb Raider 2013> has it silently powered by PhysX (would be stupid not to right?), so that would have to be some seriously next gen stuff. Perhaps fluid simulation, implants, top restraints .... zero G. heh.. uh Guess that would be a first.

[acroig]

fixed that for ya

Good fix!

[Silent-Runner]

Sit down, get a sh*load of drinks, get comfy, die from old age

fixed that for ya

[acroig]

My yearly check-in here.

Is SQ42 finally done now?

Sit down, get a drink, get comfy.

[Riptide]

My yearly check-in here.

Is SQ42 finally done now?

[acroig]

Those are moobs, not boobs.

[Munkus]

Now that isn't a bad use of time and resources.

So say we all!

[acroig]

Next up: breast physics

Now that isn't a bad use of time and resources.

So say we all!

[Greasy]

Next up: breast physics

Now that isn't a bad use of time and resources.

[Munkus]

Next up: breast physics

[azalea]

I had the temerity to say Star Citizen wasn't really a game yet on the comments for Jackfrags' latest YouTube video, and got put in my rightful place. Not by apologists or croberts sycophants obviously.

Seriously, I get wanting something to succeed (hell, I do too) but rabid fanaticism is scary

[koralis]

How much you want to bet that his end game is to sell tech to Meta and others. That the game was never the point, just a good pretext to get funding without any stock changing hands.

[Sundance Kid V2]

LOL bed sheet deformation. That's classic croberts. He's making a life sim, I tell ya. Dude is making bank by making a game that will never be finished.

Maybe he is making the next Sims game..

[nutcrackr]

LOL bed sheet deformation. That's classic croberts. He's making a life sim, I tell ya. Dude is making bank by making a game that will never be finished.

[Sundance Kid V2]

I laughed. Now that is taking the piss for the people who put money down on that game.

[BikeRacks]

I actually thought it was April 1st for a split second when I read it.

[Greasy]

Watch the game look amazing, but have almost no story content, and just a few short missions in a 3 hour campaign...

[acroig]

FFS! How stupid.

[BikeRacks]

Just got a SQ42 update email, with this at the top of the list

Specifically for Squadron 42 (Sq42), AI Content revamped the ‘sleep and bed relaxation’ activity started last year

“We knew early on that, to hit the fidelity we expect for Sq42, we would need to do some R&D on bedsheet deformation. This work is currently underway and, if successful, will allow the AI to deform their sheets when entering, exiting, or sleeping inside them. This is a challenging assignment and expands the complexity of the feature. For example, what happens to the sheets if the AI needs to exit the bed in an emergency?” AI Content

Bed Sheet Deformation......good to see they are staying focused on the important stuff.

[koralis]

that would take a massive effort for the individuals, and so far nobody bothered that much to band together and do that.. also most people who feel scammed usually didn't invest that much so they usually let it slide... while those who are invested that much usually already deep in the delusion so they don't even feel wronged.

it's all really down to the US legal system, from what I read throughout the years, the legal dispute that some people did literally shot down by trivialities like : "oh you sued the wrong company" or that "well you accepted the EULA" etc

Personal/class action lawsuits take effort. Getting a note to the right people who can be outraged on your behalf lets those in power take it from there. Just need to make sure it's a good note with facts, figures, and what's going wrong.

The government isn't bound by an EULA. They can invalidate it for others too, or demand reparations for injured parties.