Wait – you mean parks, buildings, businesses, and pet shops already exist out in the world???
Allegedly. But Star Citizen’s fidelity is such that what, really, is the real world?
I want to live in a world wholly powered by the dark charisma of Croberts! Where laws of physics are poorly coded and everyone can fall through a floor or leap over a building in a single bound!
It’s not jank folks. It’s a FEATURE.
This quote should appear on the DERPSPACE box!
More indications this thing is about to ‘release’:
“I get quite frustrated with people looking at it through the prism of yesterday’s game business – a game like Star Citizen doesn’t have a release date,” Roberts confirms. “What it does have is us saying ‘It’s going to be at least this, and we’re probably going to grow features beyond this’. And while we’re building it, you can play it.
“Normally, the reason why people hold onto a release date is because ‘That’s when I can play it’ but you can already play Star Citizen now,” he explains. “You can’t play the Star Citizen that it will be, but you can play everything we’ve got to a level we feel comfortable letting the external world play.”
Roberts has a significant development ‘farm’ of his own, with 457 people currently employed by his company Roberts Space Industries, which is around 100 more than last year, with around fifty open positions at present and another big ramp up for customer service to come soon.
And of course more breathless reporting on the face over IP malarkey.
http://www.mcvuk.com/articles/development/star-citizens-chris-roberts-talks-community-development-recruitment-and-rel
So you can play it now? What parts can you play? The single player game isn’t playable, right? What do they have? A skirmish mode?
Last I heard, it was something like this:
That and also “ASCII no questions, I tell you no lies”
dsmart
5563
LOL!! We have a new contender. They’re not even hiding this scam anymore.
The Verse Pack - $795
dsmart
5564
They seem to have a sizeable number of positions open, largely in the art, animation and engineering department.
dsmart
5566
Yeah. That’s because most of the core talent have since bailed, and still are (several ejected this past week). Leaving only inexperienced people. Nobody wants to jump on this train-wreck. For some, it’s just a paycheck. Though there are people there who want to be able to stick around long enough to ship something “playable”.
They’re still hiring for things like engineering and animation this many years later and they don’t have a goddamn game yet?
What the fuck have those 500 people in how many countries been doing?
dsmart
5568
Making pretty pictures, because that’s their primary income.
This thread should be renamed
Star Citizen - Chris Roberts, lots of spaceship porn, and only spaceship porn
Nihm
5570
What do people here think of the alpha - or pre-alpha or whatever it is - the currently playable stuff. Is it at all impressive?
RichVR
5572
Derek it’s not like you to hold back. What do you really think. :)
Janster
5573
Sigh the demo showed was very impressive.
ZeTh1
5574
dsmart
5575
Our Goon UK accountant has completed his 4-part analysis of the latest Star Citizen financials. It’s interesting.
