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HuddaBudda, do gaming w $600 Million And A Decade Later, Where Is Star Citizen?
@HuddaBudda@kbin.social avatar

I've resigned to put Star Citizen in the same basket as Half Life 3, and a Knights of the Old Republic remake.

Love the concept and commitment to the ideas, but I don't actually expect to be able to play it.

ryannathans,

You can play the alpha if you please

YuzuDrink,
@YuzuDrink@beehaw.org avatar

For some definitions of “play”, absolutely!

Telorand,
  • First time I played it, I got stuck in the starting room bed.
  • Second time, I fell through the bed.
  • Third time, I fell through my ship.
  • Fourth time, I fell through the space station.

Yep, this is definitely a game you “play” and not a walking case study of the sunk cost fallacy. /s

ursakhiin,

I’m guessing you haven’t played it in a few years.

Nefyedardu,

A popular streamer Lirik revisited the game 4 months ago and it was completely chocked-to-the-brim with bugs. Like literally every few minutes there was a bug, including several immediately when he began the game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOsYh34Ng4E

LunarLoony,
@LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

First time I played, somebody immediately stole my ship before I’d worked out how to fly the darn thing.

CrabAndBroom,

I backed it on Kickstarter back in the day, so I think I’m only in for like $40 or something like that. I played around with the Alpha for a bit, but yeah now it just kind of sits there in the backlog.

If they ever release Squadron 42 I’ll play it, and if not… well I’m sure I’ve wasted $40 on dumber stuff.

HidingCat, do gaming w $600 Million And A Decade Later, Where Is Star Citizen?

Saw this article posted earlier by someone, and I'm going to say the same thing: Sus source, article reads like an AI generated one.

Skyline969,
@Skyline969@lemmy.ca avatar

I mean it’s Exputer, do they even have human writers?

HidingCat,

I have no idea, I'm not familiar with this site at all. Another candidate for a ban?

Skyline969,
@Skyline969@lemmy.ca avatar

Not in a position to say. But I can say that, anecdotally, they’re always high on searches and contribute very little.

chloyster,

I don’t want to get too ban happy on any site we think may be primarily AI generated. GamesCensor was pretty easy for me to tell, especially with the misquotes. Idk if there are any reliable tools out there for detecting stuff like this, but I’m keeping my eyes peeled.

MagicShel,

There are no tools for reliably detecting the presence or absence of AI writing. But also, I’m just fine with banning sites because they are terrible. There is no requirement to promote garbage sites (and increasing their revenue and SEO by affording them an air of legitimacy) just because they haven’t been caught doing anything particularly egregious. At best, give them a six month timeout or something in case they eventually get their shit together.

Respectfully, this handling of garbage websites like they are actually journalistic endeavors is what confuses certain folks about what news can be trusted and what can’t. Now those folks can’t tell the difference between antivax, flat earth, and respected quality news. I mean I’m not holding you personally responsible or anything of course, but I’m just saying this presumption that low quality content has some kind of right to be shared and promoted needs to be looked at just as carefully as a decision to ban any particular site.

HidingCat,

That's a great take.

Also, most of the comments seem to be commentating on the headlines. If they bothered to click through and read, I think they'd feel more disgusted with the article than Star Citizen itself. xD

transistor, do gaming w $600 Million And A Decade Later, Where Is Star Citizen?
@transistor@lemdro.id avatar

I hear about this game from time to time and then it goes back into obscurity.

bunnyfc, do gaming w $600 Million And A Decade Later, Where Is Star Citizen?
@bunnyfc@kbin.social avatar

You back 16 alphas and what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
Starfield won't call me cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store

xengi, do gaming w $600 Million And A Decade Later, Where Is Star Citizen?
@xengi@feddit.de avatar

To me the whole purpose of that game is too get your money. There is either no intention to every finishing that game or the founder is so into good own bubble that he doesn’t realize that this week never be finished.

Lt_Cdr_Data,

Dev is actually going pretty well. What they have achieved is pretty amazing.

But they are going to say the game is in ‘alpha’ as long as they can, because it means they can keep collecting “pledges” instead of “paid content”.

I bet that has some tax purposes.

Fifthdread, do gaming w $600 Million And A Decade Later, Where Is Star Citizen?
@Fifthdread@lemmy.server.fifthdread.com avatar

Star Citizen is flawed in major ways, but it's still my favorite game even unfinished. It does things no other game does. It's a broken, incomplete experience, but it is still my favorite thing regardless.

It's easy to hate on it from the outside. I was an early backer and I echoed the sentiment many of these articles have. Last December I hopped into the Alpha with a friend and after playing it every week for the past 9 months I have to say that while I acknowledge the slow and flawed development, they made something I think is awesome today. It's maybe never coming out, but there's a sandbox today that's been worth exploring.

Telorand,

And I think this is what divides the folks who enjoy Early Access games and those who do not.

I do think it’s lovely the kinds of people who acknowledge the warts and yet are still inspired to play.

bitsplease,

Yeah no one can argue that it isn’t a giant mismanaged, drastically overdue mess, but it’s literally the only game of its kind right now, I haven’t played in a little while now, but earlier on I put easily hundreds of hours into it

That being said, God I wish they’d get their shit together and get the damn thing finished… At least just SQ42…

MJBrune,

How much have you spent on it to get the experience you have out of it?

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@kbin.social avatar

The cheapest buy-in some years ago was like $35, and everything above that is like bigger ships and insurance on those ships if they get destroyed, IIRC.

MJBrune,

Yeah but who’s to say the 35 dollar price point is fun. I want to know the price point the original commenter bought in at in order to recommend the game. It might not be a fun game at 35 but it’s fun at 635.

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@kbin.social avatar

I've played the $35 buy in, and it has a fun dogfight mode, a fun FPS mode, and a buggy open world sandbox mode. It's more of a space game than Sea of Thieves is a pirate game, and lots of people loved that one even though you can see all it has to offer in an hour and a half.

MJBrune,

So how much have you spent on the game?

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@kbin.social avatar

I suppose it was ambiguous from the way I phrased it, but just that $35, back in like 2014. The equivalent these days when it's not on sale appears to be $45. Probably the last time I checked in on it was 2019-ish, but I ought to get access if Squadron 42 ever happens. At this rate, assuming it does happen some day, some of the actors they performance captured will be dead by then; plenty of them were getting on in years back when they first announced the cast. It's definitely not the worst $35 I ever spent though.

Fifthdread,
@Fifthdread@lemmy.server.fifthdread.com avatar

I'd say the lowest price point is still fun. I have lots of friends in my org who haven't spent over 35 dollars. You can earn money and buy ships in game, or rent them. There are plenty of zero to hero videos on YouTube where people start with nothing. I've spent money on the game, true, but I'm often flying the cheap ships because they're more fun to fly than the expensive ones. A cutlass black can be bought in game for very little, and it's my favorite ship to daily.

Sidyctism, do gaming w $600 Million And A Decade Later, Where Is Star Citizen?

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