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New Inside Star Citizen Looks at Weapon Attachment UI
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New Inside Star Citizen Looks at Weapon Attachment UI
The latest Inside Star Citizen look at weapon attachment UI and New Babbage.
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You haters are slacking. Say it ain't so....
Come to think of it I don't follow this game all that well but is any feature delayed for post launch?
mmorpg junkie since 1999
I guess most people supporting this game DO NOT understand what gaming is.I'll give a hint,it is NOT suppose to be an online store for RMT.
Is this studio a business,most certainly,a scummy one imo but still a business.Are they a game developer,yes they are,not a very good,does game development warrant free handouts from consumers,NOT a chance in HELL.
I guess by PURE definition,a consumer is one who purchases goods and services for personal use,so this meets the definition.So then since we need to dig even deeper for those without common sense,i will..lol.
Does what this game offer carry the same value as the cost?Well obviously that is always going to be opinionated,everything in life has different value depending who you ask.
Soooooo last line of defense.To the COMMON person with common sense does this game offer the value to cost ratio that is FAIR?NOT a chance in hell.Even if it did,i wouldn't support such a deceptive scummy developer like this.He has NEVER lived up to his early sales pitch for this game,sure he has tons of excuses now but still he is a BS'r.
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.
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How is it a scam if they have a working game?
I don't personally play it but find it interesting and have watched streams of it and it looks interestin . Graphically it looks great and runs great from what streams I've watched. So tell me what makes this game a "scam"?
Oh, and here comes the weekly marketing video. Buy more Ships! We have years to go before we sleep.....
If you are holding out for the perfect game, the only game you play will be the waiting one.
Oh, and here comes the weekly marketing video.
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These videos are paid for by us voluntary subscribers, as a way to keep all of us backers up to date with the development of Star Citizen.
No development money is used for that.
What you call a marketing video is a service paid by the voluntary-subscriber-backers for the backers, with the help of the CIG team.
But you knew that already anyway, which did not keep you from posting.
Have fun
hater stop to throw lies and obfuscation. 45$ is what is needed as single pledge to get in, not an extra $.
Ships and others stuff are available with in game Credits. Star Citizen patch 3.9 in few weeks and S42 beta by end of the year.
+1.2 million individual backer did joined already and are enjoying now. Try harder
... and now guns attachment are feature creep. a feature available in most competent FPS games but for SC it becomes a feature creep. Ships have weapon attachment feature since years and was aprt of the initial plan.
Also... "spend ton of times". Do you realize it takes few seconds to add a suppressor or scope and that you can still pick a totally different weapon beased on mission. Do you plan to shoot ships with an handgun ?
Poorly managed sure... They did transform a none existing company back in Nov. 2012 in a company valued by Independent Auditors to +460M$ back in 2018... twice the amount of pledges at this time? Developing not one but two ambitious triple_A's.
Publishers with their Billions of $ EVERY single year can't even manage to have what backers enjoy in SC Alpha.
CIG is providing weekly information about various aspect of the game development call it marketing at your leisure... That and several free weeks per year. CIG is the single company in the gaming industry that transparent... approved by +10.000's new backers at every new patch.
If only we gamer community, could had more incompetent like CR....
Imagine you're a company that's been working on a hype new sports car for the better part of a decade. People have been pre-ordering it like crazy. There are already thousands of this new car pre-sold with nothing more to go on than a silhouette scribbled on a napkin in a greasy diner.
...and they released a picture of a goddamn lug nut and said "Hey look at our progress."
Only thing I think is kinda shady is the incredible cost of ships for real cash. I understand they use this method to raise revenue on occasion, but sheesh. Some of the ships cost hundreds or even over a thousand dollars. I think this is what most of the gaming community looks at as a scam. It certainly raises red flags.
I'm happy to say I only spent my initial $45 pledge. I've managed to rent other ships fairly easily within game to experience some of the mid-tier content/ships. As I'm only a casual player with no Org to rely on, I don't really earn enough to experience upper tier ships before the next wipe comes along. Eventually CIG is supposed to implement persistence to the Alpha. We'll see how it goes.
For anyone hesitant to try this game because of the rumors that you have to spend hundreds of dollars to experience content, I can tell you it isn't true. If you work at it, grind away, you too can obtain better ships and equipment.
Cheers!
(My son speaking to his Japanese Grandmother) " Sorry Obaba, I don't speak Japanese, I only speak human."
If you read the website carefully, you find out that if you provide money, you aren't buying the game. You are making a "donation"; there is no guarantee of a game ever appearing.
As the years have gone by, they've collected huge amounts of money, but they haven't produced any product that you can buy. It's like paying money for a car, and you get to testdrive some cars, and at the end, you have no guarantee you will ever get a real car.
Is it a scam? Not in the sense that they are taking your money and not making a game. If you go into it knowing you are donating money for a future possibility, it isn't a scam. Just remember there is no game and you cannot buy it.
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2024: 47 years on the Net.
Their marketing is stellar! Their management....less so.
If you are holding out for the perfect game, the only game you play will be the waiting one.
If the rest of the game industry had the 'Chris Roberts effect', they'd all be 5 years late, would've turned into different projects and would could hundreds of millions of dollars more than planned.
But hey, the Lugnuts are wonderful!
But, kvetching aside, the $35 to $50 dollar buy-in gamble is a decent deal. Star Citizen will come out. Just not anytime soon. And when Squadron 42 doesn't hit beta as claimed, I am sure there will be a ton of excuses. There always are.
If you are holding out for the perfect game, the only game you play will be the waiting one.
they have never promised a realease date. they have stated release targets but ALWAYS with the caveat that things are subject to change. It seems everyone complaining about this always seems to forget that part though..curious.
Wait, people have given $250 million for the development of this game with no guarantee of the end result, and the skeptics are the morons? Hahahahahahaha!
Ever consider that the smart ones might be those holding on to their money until they see a final, stable, fun product released? After all, what's there to lose in waiting? Those buying things now will have no advantage over those who wait, right?
Your comment is as valid than scam or jpeg. Backers do have 3.8.2 in hands and 3.9 in a couple week.
Turn words as much as you want. There is a game in development, you can test/play for free several weeks per year and enjoy with up to 50 others players per server for now until the number do increase with server meshing implementation.
You don't buy... you pledge. Difference? none except for those who make a slight effort to understand crowdfunding model: pledge to get a project delivered. Vaidated by ten thousands project delivered since crowdfunding exist.