Star Citizen - Chris Roberts, lots of spaceship porn, lots of promises

Yeah, I’m not buying it. RSI has not had a stage demo run that smoothly in 6 months, and sure as hell not at 4k.

The cynic in me says that’s a marketing plant. Particularly as the first time I saw it today was in a Kotaku article.

An hour of video, but nothing happens. There’s no game! I saw a few sub-Bethesda NPCs blundering about early on but that was it.

I did skip through, maybe I missed it.

Nope, grabs a ship, flies it to a planet, through canyons, walks around, flies to two other planets with asteroid fields. All interspersed with loving, rotating external shots of character and ship that scream ‘look how awesome this looks!’. Does not actually do anything at all - no missions, no NPC interaction, no combat, zip. And apparently 4k on a 980ti? Colour me skeptical.

Because the video was posted a day ago on Reddit, garnered attention and gaming sites noticed? I’m sure RSI doesn’t mind. It does look beautiful.

But I’m not sure the cynicism is warranted. Not that it’s unexpected in this dump of a thread. :)

Why haven’t the gaming sites picked up on any of the flaky crap that’s been leaked?

I honestly don’t know. There is scope for more what’s going on with SC articles. Ask them. Maybe Derek isn’t sending them enough links to his blog…

Another video where nothing happens. A timelapse of a sunrise (takes about 2’30" to go from darkest night to close to the sunrise).

I expect we’ll see a lot more media now that 3.0 invites have started going out to the wider community.

Offline. Zero gameplay. Basically an E3 type presentation of glitz. #notagame

Jeez, be realistic. They’ve only had six years and $200 million to work with. That’s pretty impressive for those tight constraints!

Be sure to read the comments.

I’m a late backer, starting just a few weeks ago. I am in middle school and have not spent my money until now because before now I didn’t have money. Sure, me and my group of friends won’t be spending 500$, but we will still have fun playing it as it comes out, and we might leave it for a while, and come back later. And who cares? If it makes you happy, do it, because time on this planet is pretty limited, and it can whiz by quick. Before you or me knows it, we will be working full time jobs and have almost no free time.

Wow.

I can relate to that poster.

Some of the things I miss the most about SWG are being able to:

  • walk around on my ship while it’s in flight (or at least in space)
  • craft things that people want (while doing the above)
  • sell those things to people, either in a permanent shop on a planet, or by landing and dropping the ramp for people to board & buy.

That last part (selling from the ship after landing) I could not do in SWG. The rest I could.

I don’t think there’s any game that would let me do that today. I’m not sure this one will be, either. I have a 4 year old account at RSI, and I have not given them a dime. Yet.

You could always return to SWG!

Say I was someone nefarious and I wanted to launder money. Could I say buy virtual spaceships in a ahem game with my dirty currency and then ask for a refund in clean cash from the developer a couple of months later?

Asking for a friend.

Yes. That’s basically what the Grey market is about. I wrote a whole blog about it actually.

Why bother though? If you want to launder money, buy bitcoin.

This gives a good overview of what 3.0 is like right now:

Sounds hilarious at times, tragic at others, but also far from ready for wide scale testing within the next month. I wouldn’t (didn’t) expect much before January.

It will be difficult to launder money once the washing machine is broke.

And that applies to both Star Citizen’s grey market and Bitcoin. ;)

Wow. That sounds like a pre-alpha. If I was a developer there I’d be leery of giving it to QA in that state, let alone users.

Makes me wonder if the Amazon Lumberyard team is thrashing as much as SC, many of these things sound like engine problems.