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How I Feel About Star Citizen At This Point
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Deadlines never mattered to many of the backers. Better to have a great game than to launch an incomplete, badly tested game before an arbitrary deadline dictated by the timing of the next quarterly ROI report for the investors. "It's done when it's done" is a sentiment shared by many backers I know.
Have fun
That said, you argued a half year ago that you believed release dates for both SQ42 and SC to be in 2018.
I find that a bit dubious of you to champion both stances, as that just helps sucker more people, who might NOT share the first sentiment, to buy into SC now based on the second sentiment.
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For a game with over 100 stretch goals already, adding more shit like that is ludicrous. That's not a small system to add. In fact, it's given pretty much every MMORPG that's ever implemented it fits. Yet, it was added here outta the blue and immediately served up for cash to backers through land deeds.
just empty world and empty promises.
lol.
90 days top ELE crew getting more and more desperate that they've gone full highschooler lvl's of trolling lol
So sad...and the beauty of it is that it's only gona get better
While they laugh at the whiteknights defending $27,000 ship packs, missed dates, missed features, bailing staff and a shitty basic game that's sucking down money like nothing else...
Oh the irony
Well it would be pretty damn stupid if it didn't get better.
Meanwhile, SC continues to get better and more complete with every update it has been getting this year, with a major important one coming right next now that 3.2 is released. For the minority here who actually cares about the actual game.
Better times for the SC fans this year, the SC haters will have to contend with beaten dead horses, memes and bug compilation videos, it's the circle of SC forum-drama-llama will never end.
By playing of course I mean playing the game, not playing keep up with the wallet warriors.
"The simple is the seal of the true and beauty is the splendor of truth" -Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Authored 139 missions in Vendetta Online and 6 tracks in Distance
What's the point in playing a game where other people can play +10 hours a day while you can just play 5h a day and won't be able to "keep up" with them?
What's the point in playing a game where you are playing solo while others are playing in large guilds and you won't ever be able to "keep up" with them?
Because SC is not a sandboxy space sim MMO, it is a race to end-game instead.
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Playing in a sandbox against someone who has spent $27,000 on a Legatus fleet is still playing against someone who has spent $27,000 for an advantage. It also goes without saying that the sandbox nature of Star Citizen remains to be seen in detail, if it even ever emerges at all.
"The simple is the seal of the true and beauty is the splendor of truth" -Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Authored 139 missions in Vendetta Online and 6 tracks in Distance
I self identify as a monkey.
All too often gamers blast through content in their desire to reach endgame and end up regretting it. All too often gamers take advantage of get rich quick schemes and end up resenting it because they lose that sense of progression and challenge aka pride and accomplishment
Bad enough if it is done by in-game means, imagine doing it with $5k, $10k, $27k on the table.
You may have joined prior to the SC Kickstarter, but you've been hyper-focused on one thing ever since the project started, man: promoting a game project you backed, and condescension whenever and wherever you see skepticism about said project.
This is completely different from a game with horizontal progression where player skill matters, and you can't buy power with real-life currency.
Discussing where Star Citizen falls along this spectrum is still (hilariously) theory crafting, because we won't really know until they release the game. However, CIG launching campaigns such as a $27k "Legatus" kit have caused some such as YongYea to conclude "stay as far away as humanly possible". I can't help but wonder if he's right, recalling the parable of boiling frogs.
"The simple is the seal of the true and beauty is the splendor of truth" -Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Authored 139 missions in Vendetta Online and 6 tracks in Distance
You gave the example of someone paying to promote a pawn to queen, I'll counter that example: Simply by playing more time than you, could have done 3 or 4 turns before you came back to the game again, simply playing for longer than you game me the advantage over you without the having to pay, the end result is the same for you. For several different reasons there is no real balance on this type of open world pvp because people will always be at different stages of progression; to me I'm more the strategy type on a game like this and I don't worry about blaming X or Y either that player(s) earned that ship or bought that ship(s), I worry to strategize and adapt to the situations I end up on.
And exactly why I think guild-play will be a core pillar of SC and will add a lot of more variables to this, I don't think this will be any solo-type of game when its main competitive aspect is to be minded.