Everytime i see star citizen it frustrates me because the comments are 90% dumb. It has predatory monetization, it has been in development hell, it has been a great disappointment to many people.
Its not a scam. You can pay money and log into the game right now and play. Theyve done some technically very impressive stuff (that doesnt help the game at all, potentially hurts it, definitely contributes to the devlopment hell), and people do have fun. There is an actual game with mechanics. I would argue those mechanics arent fleshed out or fun enough and dont work well, but thats subjective.
I paid like $20 very early on knowing backing things is a risk. It didnt really pay off for what i wanted, but i still had some fun flying ships around, racing them and exploring. I dont recommend it, its ran terribly and performance is bad for obvious reasons, etc. but its still not a scam or equivalent to slop.
I wouldn’t call it a scam either. Just another shitty game farming whales. They actually refunded me so there’s that. I wasted an hour of my life on that thing.
It’s a shame because you can see the potential, there’s nothing else quite like it. You can wake up in your apartment, walk around the city/base you’re in, take a train to the spaceport, find your hangar, get in your ship, start your ship, take off and go somewhere. It has potential to be incredibly immersive but it’s beyond clear the devs don’t care about making it into a good game.
The controls are totally bizarre, unintuitive, and poorly designed. Everything you do is bugged in some way. The performance is ass. Terrible and confusing HUD design. The game is a complete chore to play. Got my refund and I’ll never even consider going back.
It’s no different than all those NFT based games from 6 years ago, only this is 10x bigger than any of them ever got. No actual game will ever be released, everyone who paid as much on a digital ship as an actual used car will ever get to properly fly it as they were promised.
I agree on both points but there’s a difference between Halo 4 being genuinely ass (shitty) and No Man’s Sky releasing on false promises and outright lies (false advertising).
One of these i consider a genuine scam (upon release, anyway).
Admittedly, I’m not the authority on SC; where would you place it on the scale? Because from what ive heard there were/are lots of empty promises.
Correct, it is a development nightmare yes, it is beyond ridiculously delayed, it is overhyped, it is overpriced, it is predatory, it is stupid in countless ways, but a scam is intentionally fraudulent and anyone making that claim of Star Citizen is being disingenuous. It is a game being actively developed by idiotic, toxic, malignant narcissists powered largely by self-absorbed vanity, but that’s not the same thing as a scam perpetrated by fraudsters. They’re both very, very bad, but they’re also very, very much not the same thing and we should stop confusing such basic concepts with each other.
Bernie Madoff and Sam Bankman-Fried didn’t start their companies with the intention to defraud their customers. But they quickly found themselves in too deep and the only thing they could do was ask for money to keep it afloat as long as they could. The only difference between those ventures and Star Citizen is that Star Citizen hasn’t collapsed under its own weight yet.
It’s less a game and more a sim. They’ll not fix broken box missions, but spend weeks on fart mechanics. Either they are incompetent or intentionally stalling. I personally believe the latter.
They don’t intend to leave alpha because they’re making money from ship sales. It’s pretty, but it’s not fun when you run, and boom, you dead. 45 mins to get back there.
Everytime i see star citizen it frustrates me because the comments are 90% dumb. It has predatory monetization, it has been in development hell, it has been a great disappointment to many people.
Its not a scam. You can pay money and log into the game right now and play. Theyve done some technically very impressive stuff (that doesnt help the game at all, potentially hurts it, definitely contributes to the devlopment hell), and people do have fun. There is an actual game with mechanics. I would argue those mechanics arent fleshed out or fun enough and dont work well, but thats subjective.
I paid like $20 very early on knowing backing things is a risk. It didnt really pay off for what i wanted, but i still had some fun flying ships around, racing them and exploring. I dont recommend it, its ran terribly and performance is bad for obvious reasons, etc. but its still not a scam or equivalent to slop.
I wouldn’t call it a scam either. Just another shitty game farming whales. They actually refunded me so there’s that. I wasted an hour of my life on that thing.
It’s a shame because you can see the potential, there’s nothing else quite like it. You can wake up in your apartment, walk around the city/base you’re in, take a train to the spaceport, find your hangar, get in your ship, start your ship, take off and go somewhere. It has potential to be incredibly immersive but it’s beyond clear the devs don’t care about making it into a good game.
The controls are totally bizarre, unintuitive, and poorly designed. Everything you do is bugged in some way. The performance is ass. Terrible and confusing HUD design. The game is a complete chore to play. Got my refund and I’ll never even consider going back.
Can you make yourself a ridiculously hot avatar? If not, I’m not interested.
It’s no different than all those NFT based games from 6 years ago, only this is 10x bigger than any of them ever got. No actual game will ever be released, everyone who paid as much on a digital ship as an actual used car will ever get to properly fly it as they were promised.
Just because you’re okay with it doesn’t make it not a scam.
False advertising is a scam.
SC is a scam.
A game being shitty isnt false advertising. This is such a loose way to define scams that it actually hurts calling real scams out
I agree on both points but there’s a difference between Halo 4 being genuinely ass (shitty) and No Man’s Sky releasing on false promises and outright lies (false advertising).
One of these i consider a genuine scam (upon release, anyway).
Admittedly, I’m not the authority on SC; where would you place it on the scale? Because from what ive heard there were/are lots of empty promises.
Milking your supporters for ten years is a scam, just not legally.
Correct, it is a development nightmare yes, it is beyond ridiculously delayed, it is overhyped, it is overpriced, it is predatory, it is stupid in countless ways, but a scam is intentionally fraudulent and anyone making that claim of Star Citizen is being disingenuous. It is a game being actively developed by idiotic, toxic, malignant narcissists powered largely by self-absorbed vanity, but that’s not the same thing as a scam perpetrated by fraudsters. They’re both very, very bad, but they’re also very, very much not the same thing and we should stop confusing such basic concepts with each other.
Bernie Madoff and Sam Bankman-Fried didn’t start their companies with the intention to defraud their customers. But they quickly found themselves in too deep and the only thing they could do was ask for money to keep it afloat as long as they could. The only difference between those ventures and Star Citizen is that Star Citizen hasn’t collapsed under its own weight yet.
It’s less a game and more a sim. They’ll not fix broken box missions, but spend weeks on fart mechanics. Either they are incompetent or intentionally stalling. I personally believe the latter.
They don’t intend to leave alpha because they’re making money from ship sales. It’s pretty, but it’s not fun when you run, and boom, you dead. 45 mins to get back there.
Even scams have valid products behind them.