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echodot, do games w Star Citizen Just Had its Biggest Crowdfunding Day Ever With $3.5 Million in 24 Hours

It’s depressing to know that it’s actually apparently more profitable to never really release a game than to release one and it be moderately popular

yesdogishere, do games w Star Citizen Just Had its Biggest Crowdfunding Day Ever With $3.5 Million in 24 Hours

it's a huge success story for Star Citizen. I htink they are delighting the dreams of people who want to travel and work in space, but know they can never afford to really do so. Bethesda's Starfield is a sort of attempt to do Star Citizen, but it's just not as gritty and realistic as Star Citizen.

Skua,

With the amount some folk have spent on Star Citizen I think they actually could afford to explore space in real life

Justas,
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I think India landed a probe on the Moon for less money than what was spent on SC.

Skua,

Holy shit, they did. Less than half of the money, even

Lucidlethargy,

Starfield is single player, so it’s not really in the same category. Star Citizen was meant to connect people, which is why the lack of launch sucks so hard. Nobody can ever convince me it’s playable without a permanent, persistent universe for this reason.

Meowoem,

It’s a really interesting one, it’s done much better than most people expected and seems to have a very strong community. It could evolve into something really interesting in the long-term, like it’s entirely possible that twenty years from now it’ll still be going strong with a healthy user base, it might even have the scope to really embed itself and still be popular in fifty years.

I never expected it to get to where it is and I never expected it to get to any of it’s previous milestones, now I’m starting to really wonder how far it could go

victron, do games w Star Citizen Just Had its Biggest Crowdfunding Day Ever With $3.5 Million in 24 Hours
@victron@programming.dev avatar

JFC, I guess there’s a lot of suckers in the world

Kolanaki,
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One was born every minute back in PT Barnum’s day; seems more like every millisecond these days.

CluckN,

You don’t understand they released a cinematic trailer of slow moving scenery only shots that makes it game of the year.

jdf038,

orchestral music intensifies 🎶 🎵 👌 😌 ❤️ ♥️

Send_me_nude_girls, do games w Star Citizen Just Had its Biggest Crowdfunding Day Ever With $3.5 Million in 24 Hours
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Wtf

seaQueue,
@seaQueue@lemmy.world avatar

Chris Roberts hookers and blow fund isn’t going to fund itself y’know

Phegan, do games w Star Citizen Just Had its Biggest Crowdfunding Day Ever With $3.5 Million in 24 Hours

Scam Citizen still hustlin

TheKracken, do games w Star Citizen Just Had its Biggest Crowdfunding Day Ever With $3.5 Million in 24 Hours

I finally tried this game and holy shit is it terrible. The UI is janky and unintuitive. The movement is slow and stiff or sonic on crack and nothing in-between. The frame rate is terrible even on a decent machine with appropriate settings. Just overall a bad experience. I don’t care if it’s still “In development” get your fundamentals right before you go adding more shit.

pancakes,
@pancakes@sh.itjust.works avatar

People think you can slap on an “in development” sticker to anything and absolve it of all criticism.

yiliu,

I mean, there’s not a lot of incentive for them to change the way they operate…

Lucidlethargy,

This is exactly why “new” phones suck so hard these days. Why do good things when doing nothing is so profitable?

TIMMAY, (edited ) do games w Star Citizen Just Had its Biggest Crowdfunding Day Ever With $3.5 Million in 24 Hours

I dont have the energy to care about this game, just like I dont have the energy to care about George RR Martin or Patrick Rothfuss never finishing their products either.

PDFuego,
@PDFuego@lemmy.world avatar

Same. Until these things are physically in my hand I’ve got plenty of other stuff to get on with, what’s the point of wasting years chasing them. It’s the same with any marketing really, give me a title, pitch & release date, I’ll see you then.

deus,

Writers, no matter how good, are just regular people. I have much higher expectations and not as much patience towards a game studio with infinite money and no released games whatsoever in over a decade.

TIMMAY,

Yeah, that’s a good point, and I didnt mean to directly disparage them, only to say that at the decade point or so I just dont have the capacity to keep anticipating something entertaining. That was also my biggest reason for just not giving a shit about the avatar movie sequel. Kid me would have been all in, now I just dont care enough to spend the time money and effort on it

Lucidlethargy,

God damn fucking Patrick Rothfuss… What a beautiful story to likely never have an ending. Don’t read into it, anyone… Not unless he releases that last book.

Defaced, do games w Star Citizen Just Had its Biggest Crowdfunding Day Ever With $3.5 Million in 24 Hours

I literally can’t play this game, my PC has 16GB of RAM and it runs out of free memory after like 10 minutes and crashes to desktop. When your “fix” is to just buy more RAM or increase your page file size, then your game is a fucking scam. I understand new games require more powerful hardware, but this is Amazon lumberyard ffs.

wombatula,

new games

It’s a decade old lol.

c0mbatbag3l,
@c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world avatar

It’s not even that new anymore. A 1080ti was tip of the spear graphics technology when this game first became “playable.”

LordKitsuna,

It’s actually not lumber yard anymore, it started from that but they’ve Rewritten most of it. And they literally show you the code and such during their like 2+hr devs videos. It’s never going to release but the technology is actually genuinely impressive.

Sadly 16GB just isn’t much anymore. Windows alone will happily eat 4, steam sometimes 2 for no reason (usually not but can happen when it’s web process leaks) games like icarus claim minimum recommendation is 24.

Which is absolutely insane and developers need to get their shit together but it’s just the way things are going.

Kichae, do games w Star Citizen Just Had its Biggest Crowdfunding Day Ever With $3.5 Million in 24 Hours

I think I've reached the point where no one will be able to convince me that Star Citizen is not a money laundering front.

sebinspace,

I don’t know about a front, but when they have this kind of income, they have zero incentive to actually launch the damn thing, and every incentive to just keep dangling the carrot

dustyData,

In Spanish we say “música paga no suena”. Or “Paid music (service) won’t play”. As in, if you actually want the DJ, Mariachis, or band to stay the whole party, withhold payment until the end. If you pay upfront they will arrive late and leave early. They already have the money on the bag, and no legally binding responsibility to actually deliver any product. Even with this new round of crowdfunding, tomorrow they could just claim they already delivered what could be done with the money and disappear into a fiscal paradise. And not a single chump who backed up this decade long fraud would have any single recourse to fight back.

setsneedtofeed, do games w Star Citizen Just Had its Biggest Crowdfunding Day Ever With $3.5 Million in 24 Hours
@setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world avatar

I’m so happy that I’m on the sidelines of all this. I think watching is significantly more enjoyable than being part of it.

Justas,
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The older I get, the more things this is true for.

RGB3x3, do games w Star Citizen Just Had its Biggest Crowdfunding Day Ever With $3.5 Million in 24 Hours

Is that Mark Hamill?

Kemwer,

Yes. He’s joined by Gary Oldman, Gillian Anderson, Mark Strong, Andy Serkis, John Rhys-Davies, Ben Mendelssohn, Liam Cunningham, and many others in Squadron 42, the story-based spinoff to Star Citizen.

… that may one day actually get released…

orvorn,

Yes, he is a major character in the single player campaign along with Gary Oldman, Mark Strong, Gillian Anderson, and others who provided voice acting and facial performance capture.

N0body,

“Hi, I’m actor Mark Hammill. You might remember me from such unfinished games as Untitled Star Wars Game 3 and Untitled Star Wars Game 7.”

Sabre363, do games w Star Citizen Just Had its Biggest Crowdfunding Day Ever With $3.5 Million in 24 Hours

What are they gonna do with that money, buy some new office paintings?

Khalic, do games w Star Citizen Just Had its Biggest Crowdfunding Day Ever With $3.5 Million in 24 Hours

Omfg this timeline sucks soooo bad

DarkGamer, do games w Star Citizen Just Had its Biggest Crowdfunding Day Ever With $3.5 Million in 24 Hours
@DarkGamer@kbin.social avatar

Cause it's the game dev that never ends it just goes on and on my friends…

jedibob5, do games w Warframe Finally Getting Cross-Platform Save and Android Closed Beta Registration Available Now

Warframe on Android? That game already takes up a shitload of disk space on a PC, how would it fit on anyone’s phone?

mihnt,
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50GB? I mean, I have the space, but I can see how phones with 64GB would have trouble. Especially with Android’s ever expanding behavior.

Quetzalcutlass,

Most space used by games is taken up by textures and audio. Textures can be downscaled (halving texture resolution reduces the size by 75%) and audio can be resampled at a lower bitrate without the quality drop being too noticeable on tiny phone screens/speakers.

dawa,

Maps, warframes, weapons and skins will also likely be loaded as needed, so you’ll probably start with 20GB but bloat to 60 as you play

Another trick I noticed playing CoD mobile is that they don’t load every other player’s skin, only the latest. So if your install doesn’t have it, it only display’s the default skin for other players. Which also mean that the skin you paid 60$ for in the last Season Pass is only visible by a few players.

Zahille7,

Lol a $60 season pass for a shitty mobile game?

dawa,

Nope, it’s not even the season pass. I was giving such examples regarding the whales who want to look cool, but in reality others often only see the default skin if it’s from past season.

The 60$ skin is their pay to play roulette to get a 1% to get said skin with increasing price to get next “prize”

fushuan,

I honestly don’t care if others see my skin. I bought it for me. In fact I’m super against people using skins that are visually confusing in league and such, and although they will never implement it I wish for a skins off mods where I see the base model of enemies, always.

max20091,

Nope, the whole game with (almost) full content on PC is like 40GB so I would expect mobile could be somewhere 20GB or less.

The game mostly use procedural generation (aka tilesets) so it won’t expand its size as much as regular games.

d3Xt3r,

Really? Looking online, it seems to be taking ~30GB, which isn’t much relatively speaking (considering modern AAA games these days can be 100+GB).

Phones nowadays come with 128GB as base option, and typically even offer a 256GB model (eg the Pixel 8). So Warframe shouldn’t really be an issue for mobile gamers who typically buy beefier phones than the average.

jedibob5,

I thought it was like 60-80GB last I played, which was a couple of years ago.

d3Xt3r,

The replies here from a few months ago suggest 26-36 GB.

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