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I pledged to the original Kickstarter and by now I consider my $20 a solid investment since it allows me to dunk on obnoxious SC fans by calling them “band wagoners” and “fair weather pilots”.
I will respect them being honest by putting the CON in capital letters.
When the Kickstarter was launched, I thought about pledging because I like space. Even if I would’ve only given whatever the minimum amount was to play the game, so glad I didn’t give these guys a cent. Instead I pledged to Elite Dangerous’ Kickstarter, and while that and its subsequent development had issues, at least it was a game that was playable and I had some fun with it.
Elite Dangerous was definitely lib-brained, though: just look at the in-game descriptions of the communist faction.
E:D was an incredibly competent space sim plagued by terrible leadership
I had so much fun taking my phantom out into the deepest edges of the Milky Way, but frontier essentially abandoned the game in favor of some crappy FPS that no one wanted
That’s what I meant by subsequent development, did they think the terrible FPS addon would bring in Cawadoody players or something
It’s baffling. A prime example of how to completely alienate your entire player base
One of the possible descriptions when a stations is controlled by the communist faction is something like ”Communism is a movement that wants to make everyone equal, although some are clearly more equal than others”.
They’re also one of the ”bad guy” factions along with anarchists and space pirates
the before and after stuff kills me, yeah it’s because the game took 10 fucking years to make so rendering and modelling technology evolved in that time, lmao
Are they still using that? I remember even 10 years it was doubtful CryEngine could handle what they were trying to do.
Star citizen was the game that convinced me to stop buying pre-orders. Bought the game 10 years ago and have buggy tech demo to show for it.
you would think roberts would be good at arcadey space fighter spin off game given that’s what made him famous
That whole game Kickstarter hype of the early 2010s was largely driven by ”look at all these industry legends and imagine what they could do if you funded them and they had free rein to do what they want!”.
Thing is, Star Citizen is the perfect example of what a guy who’s not so great at project planning does with no oversight. I don’t want to present Microsoft or corporate managers in general as the good guys or anything, but Freelancer actually got released because they didn’t have infinite tolerance for his BS.
