Star Citizen, the ambitious space sim from Wing Commander creator Chris Roberts, is undoubtedly a behemoth in the world of crowdfunded games. Roberts began his funding campaign in October 2012, and on November, 12, 2012, two days before it was set to end, Star Citizen set the record for the most funded game of all time by drawing in over 4.2 million dollars.
Today Star Citizen creative director Chris Roberts shared a long post on the game’s official website, explaining Cloud Imperium Games’ plans for 2022 and beyond.
Today Cloud Imperium Games founder and Star Citizen creative director Chris Roberts took to the game’s official forums to address concerns about the development of the growing space simulator.
Not bashing CI games, a random thought:
Just release the Squadron 42 portion asap.
This'll keep people engaged and interested. While the persistent universe gets worked upon.
This might also help the devs address some bugs which might be common to both modes/game, early on. So that the same bug don't crop up in the Star Citizen game.
A watched pot never boils...
They cant just throw Squadron 42 out there, its supposed to be some grand AAA title itself.
Which is the problem.
They should be offering "B" grad games in order to support their AAA title.
Thing is:
1 - people, those who have and continue to pay into it, are engaged.
2 - Squadron 42 likely can't simply be "put out". Not if its suppose represent Star Citizen which itself is suppose to be a fully immersive open world first person "experience" where is more a linear set of missions.
They could/should probably do 42 traditionally, just the flight missions w/cutscenes, but then if such an idea had gotten into their heads they could have been pumping out series of titles based around the gameplay of the main game - S-42, something based around prison breaks boarding actions and mining - for financing rather than the ever more ponzi scheme the project seems to be turning into.
Chris Roberts and family have been living the high life getting pay millions for almost a decade without delivering a final product.
I'll bet they'll be siphoning millions more before finally delivering an Early Access for who knows how long or selling the company/IP outright while Chris and Fam enjoy them Golden Parachutes.
Not a scam they say.
👍👌So sad!!!👌👍
How much time they have already tormented this game and will not drive you crazy. I am not surprised that there are any problems.
I guess what I don't understand is with all that money why don't they hire more developers?
But generally speaking the development time isn't that unusual, RDR2 took 8 years
https://gamerant.com/red-de...
“Star Citizen” Director Chris Roberts knows about creating sci-fi open worlds. He sat down with us to discuss how he would fix BioWare’s “Anthem.”
BioWare and EA need to listen to this man. He turned NMS from a pile of steaming shit to one of the best open world exploration games our there.
Yes, I know he promised things he did not deliver, but in my eyes, he more than made up for it with all the amazing free patches for No Man's Sky.
Don't think patching up someone else's work fixes not releasing a product that he has poorly mismanaged
Whilst I hope I live long enough to play Star Citizen I have to say this headline made me laugh! It's like Peter Molyneux giving Sean Murray advice on how not to over-promise!
You are thinking of Sean Murray! Roberts is in the same boat as Bioware would be if EA wasn’t their parent company, on year 7 of a game that has absolutely no release date in site. I do believe that SC has direction, but it needs to finalize something at some point, and build upon it after it’s released.
Oh ouch, you are 100% correct. I'm dumb lol. Anyway, NMS is awesome and had a huge turnaround. They should consult those guys.
The part about no release date isn't entirely true
They have a roadmap for the online portion of the game that doesn't really give a solid time frame. That completely sucks.
The single player portion of the game, Squadron 42, has a set pathway from now to release. They plan on it being feature complete and in alpha testing in Q1 of next year. Then in Q2 it's supposed to be entering beta. That means sometime around a year to year and a half from now people should be able to get their hands on the single player of Start Citizen, which is being sold as it's in thing.
I guess we'll find out for sure in about a year. S42 is the part of the game that I'm cautiously interested in, so I hope it works out.
I think EA is wishing Roberts had stayed. He's made millions on a game which is never finished, and people keep giving him more money for new features before the others are finished. It sounds oddly familiar to Games as a service doesn't it?
It's rather ironic that the company he worked for that he helped make famous with Wing Commander is now the name of EA's online service.
Ignore, I'm dumb. Thought of NMS I stead of SC. Still some solid ideas to fix the giant pile of burning shit that is Anthem.
You're comment is wrong on many different levels
1. Chris Roberts had no hand in NMS. That's Sean Murray
2. NMS wasn't a pile of sh*t on release, it just didn't have all the features people expected.
3. Chris Roberts has milked the Star Citizen fans for more money since it's inception, and hasn't delivered a full game since he actually left EA.
4. Roberts has fine tuned the notion of making people pay continuously while delivering as little as possible.
5. Roberts has been all over the place with what he will deliver on Star Citizen, and as of yet, hasn't delivered what he originally promised with the initial backing campaign
6. Star Citizen is probably the best example of feature creep ever. So many distractions, the game is much more than it started off as, but still isn't what it was originally meant to be, so it doesn't even have that in common with NMS.
Replies(7)Greedy EA taking notes from Scam Citizen director? What could go wrong?
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We do follow it actually. About twice a year we have a laugh at it, as we have done for about 8 years now.
He hasn't released the entirety of the game he said he was going to make with the initial crowd funding. He's had feature creep more than any game in history.
I don't think he's scamming people though. I think he's working on the game, and delivering it in pieces. Which is fine if the backers are OK with it. But i can't imagine in this day and age that all the backers are that happy with the way he's been releasing content for this game. That just defies the nature of the internet.
What Roberts has done though, is pretty much about what you see with Anthem. Release a game which is unfinished....pretty much in alpha or beta stage, charged for it(before it started production in many cases), under-delivered, and promised more content in the future...sometimes at a cost upfront. However, he hasn't required everyone to pay for the new features, so what he's doing with Star Citizen really isn't unlike what is criticized with many games since last gen, where games get released, then milked with updated content releases over the years...sometimes at a cost. Roberts just does it more on the MT model, where people can back the project ahead of time.
What he's doing is just a GaaS game. It's nothing new, but the ambition behind his project has escalated so high, that he has a lot to deliver on.
That said, I do have more faith in him to deliver eventually, than I do in EA/Bioware doing so on Anthem.
They'd make it f2p then offer Javelins as cash shop options costing $100+ each
Why SC is a scam? Explain, please. I have never seen more transparent crowd funding campaign so it always surprises me when people say that but maybe I don't know the whole picture. Did something happened?
So excited for this game!
I hope it lives up to its ambitious goals