900 million USD and 13 years of development and they still don’t have the single player linear story game Squadron 42 released.

The visuals were absolutely crazy 10 years ago and are starting to look dated today. They’ve gone over and reinvented the wheel several times, including using a game engine that was never meant for online play.

The only thing that is keeping this level of incompetence afloat is the shit ton of money that people keep pouring into this. Previously Roberts had some executive that would kick him off a project if he got too… ambitious. But now he’s in full control of his project and… Well… For the first, and ONLY, time ever I take the side of the executives.

I always believed that they didn’t expect the game would go that big and now they don’t know what to do to cover their own asses.

The funniest thing is that 13 years and $900 M later, they still don’t have a working economy or even a basic balance concept. They have 200+ ships (many in JPEG form for over a decade) in their cash shop they’ve thought about beyond flashes sales videos and 3D assets.

Yeah this’ll probably end like the last game he made.

The money will dry up, a big company will buy him out, they’ll kick him to the curb if the buyout didn’t actually include that as part of the deal, and then they’ll give the devs like 6 months to wrap it up.

Freelancer was a freaking awesome game though.

…and still isn’t worth a cock in cold water.

I really want to play star citizen, it sounds cool, but I don’t want to play it until it’s done.

I know I will never play star citizen.

It’s really unoptimised. From what I could gather, it’s CPU bottlenecking massively.

I generally wonder, how the hell can you get almost a billion dollars and still not have a functioning product after 13 years?

When you’ve still in alpha 2(ish) decades and a cool BILLION dollars later, I feel like even Kojima is looking at you like ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ

Damn, a lot of hate for a game no one apparently plays

I don’t know if this is still a thing, but a while back it was actually better to run the game on high settings even if your PC normally doesn’t handle high settings well. I don’t remember exactly why that was the case, but it worked.

some other company will make and release a better game

“Record breaking” is not necessarily a good thing.

I remember watching the first trailer they released more than a decade ago and thinking wow, those are some nice graphics and I am a sucker for space stuff. But at the time, my 1080ti didn’t look powerful enough for such a game.

Then some 4 years ago or so, with a brand new 3080Ti there was a free weekend to try the game and, after cranking every setting to max, what I remember is, wow these graphics are outdated AF and it is a stutter fest. Uninstalled after a couple hours never to think about it again.

There is a functional product. I played it years ago.

But it ain’t finished yet, which is the insane bit given the breadth of funds and length of time.

The grift is the buisness now

I was more excited about Squadron 42. I backed it a decade ago. Been waiting. Download and installed it a few months ago. Couldn’t even get it to launch. Gave up. I have written it off as a lose and moved on.

idk some of the ships are literally just single concept art images and have been for years, kinda hard to imagine that can possibly be in good faith.

Good faith, no. There’s about as much good faith as a silicon valley tech bro looking for venture capitalists.

I don’t think Chris Roberts doesn’t believe in what he’s doing. I genuinely think he wants to make what he’s promising because he’s been trying to do that since the 90s. But he’s also milking the development time/funds as hard as he can.

I backed the Kickstarter back in 2012 or so. Maybe I’ll be able to play it when I retire