Basically a rehashing of the general history of the game for people who haven’t herd of this game before.
Oh boy, Freud must be slipping in his grave right now! :-)
That article seems incomplete without mention of Smart’s crusade.
I am unaware. Is Derek Smart on a tirade against Star Citizen?
JMR
3630
He and Roberts got into a keyboard warrior pissing match last year but lately they’ve both been quiet.
Fuck. This game STILL isn’t even close to being out?
KevinC
3632
The game is never going to make a fraction of the money it does right now as a finished retail product. Why rush?
Much easier to sell screenshots and pipedreams.
I’m not sure anything of any particular note has been shown in the last three months or so, has it? There may have been a new SQ42 teaser with Hamill footage, maybe? Can’t see it on the official channel - just the usual marketing propaganda shows.
3.0 maybe in June, according to the schedule report. Still nothing to actually show from SQ42 and we are nearing mid-year, so no chance that is coming 2017.
Timex
3634
Smart is still ranting about it. It’s just that after his 20th prediction of banruptcy, folks stopped listening.
Timex
3635
For those interested, this goes over the 3.0 features slated for June
I can’t wait for Alpha 4.5, and then Beta 1.3, and then pre-launch 2.4, all leading to 1.0 in 2027.
Hahahahahahahahahaahahha wow yeah okay.
It is on the official channel. It was shown at the end of an episode of Around the Verse, which is their weekly development update.
I think their days of record crowdfunding are numbered.
A July release for 3.0 is feasible, seeing as how it has been scaled down from what it was originally announced as.
KevinC
3640
I do agree with this. I think you can only milk that cow for so long. At a certain point, you need to put up or shut up.
If I’m running CIG, though, I wouldn’t have a huge impetus to shove a product out the door either. People are dropping thousands of dollars because of a dream. A concept of a game like no other. The reality is, when this game ships, it’s going to be like any other game release: It’s going to have bugs and problems, systems that sounded cool on paper won’t be nearly as fun in reality. The game will get boring to people. Even if it’s The Best Space Game Ever Made, it’s still going to suffer from those sorts of problems. And at that point, not as many people are going to drop $1,000 on a ship. Because now it’s a $1,000 ship in a flawed game, as opposed to the nirvana they have in their heads.
So even if you think Chris Roberts is the patron saint of space sims and only his sole interest is making the best space game ever, there’s still no reason to release this any time soon. You can raise more money and get more funding by dragging this out as long as possible.
Timex
3641
Honestly the stuff that’s coming in 3.0 looks pretty freaking badass.
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We’ll, yeah, that’s a tautology, but I’m unsure how close that date is. The last four or five months they’ve made a steady 1,5 million. Over 7 million in the October sale. It’s crazy, but I do not see any significant slowdown.
EDIT: From reddit
It seems to me they have a target average funding and go into sales periodically to hit it when slowdown happens.
Who on earth is still giving this money? Is it new customers? Existing customers? Has some Russian outfit figured out how to use this as a money laundering tool? WTF?
Seems to be a mix. They do get a steady inflow of new customers, but old customers keep giving too.
Link
But yeah, let’s look at the numbers before we jump to conclusions about sustainability of the bussiness model, as critical as can be with it…
