Star Citizen Development Timeline - Compared to other Publishers and the Tech Industry

Forgrimm

Thought some of you might like this. https://massivelyop.com/2022/11/22/a-new-fan-made-timeline-shows-star-citizen-development-adjacent-to-the-tech-industry-from-software-and-cd-projekt-red/

https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen_refunds/comments/yzjw38/star_citizen_development_timeline_compared_to/

olepi

It's interesting to me to compare the AMD Ryzen chip family development. There have been 4 generations of Ryzen processors released, going from a 14nm process to 5nm.

So 4 generations of chip design, over 4 different process tech nodes, all done in LESS THAN HALF of the time SC has been in development.

Babuinix

g00n scum red bum Roberts fun 

Kyleran

Rover missions to Mars take less time, and that's including flight time there and developing helicopter tech to land payloads the size of a jeep safely despite the mostly negligible atmosphere.

Adamantine

They got too much money and thus wanted to create the perfect game. *shrug*

And that takes a lot of time.

Being a developer myself and knowing how cursed a job that is, I'm not surprised.

TheDalaiBomba

Adamantine said:

They got too much money and thus wanted to create the perfect game. *shrug*

And that takes a lot of time.

Being a developer myself and knowing how cursed a job that is, I'm not surprised.

There is no perfect game, and that's a piss poor excuse for stringing the development along while continuously pushing for more cash from gamers.

TheDalaiBomba

Star Citizen is beyond a meme at this point.


It will never live up to expectations.  It will be an example of every possible con of crowdfunding (from a gamer's perspective) in the book by the time it is over.

Adamantine

Why yes obviously there wont ever be such a thing as a perfect game. Or a perfect program, for that matter. You can always find something to make even better.

But give a fanboy of a game enough money and they dream big.

As I keep saying: you can check out the current development status on YouTube, people make videos about it. There is definitely a game that you can already play, and purely from graphics it looks great. It heavily lacks on directions though and it has a very steep learning curve. Its also not complete yet.

I honestly have no clue about what expectations people actually have about the game.

lahnmir

Adamantine said:

Why yes obviously there wont ever be such a thing as a perfect game. Or a perfect program, for that matter. You can always find something to make even better.

But give a fanboy of a game enough money and they dream big.

As I keep saying: you can check out the current development status on YouTube, people make videos about it. There is definitely a game that you can already play, and purely from graphics it looks great. It heavily lacks on directions though and it has a very steep learning curve. Its also not complete yet.

I honestly have no clue about what expectations people actually have about the game.

The expectations that Chris and his company have given them. Which is a fair bit more then what is being available right now, and an awful lot later.

/Cheers,
Lahnmir

Scot

Yeah, but were those other studios making games with big spaceships; well, were they?!

Scot

Kyleran said:

Rover missions to Mars take less time, and that's including flight time there and developing helicopter tech to land payloads the size of a jeep safely despite the mostly negligible atmosphere.

Well, we will see humans back on the Moon before SC launches, that's 2024 I think and no way will SC launch before then. In fact, assuming he intends to retire at 60 and wants to launch before he retires, the only thing we can be certain of is it will out be 2028.

Iselin

Why launch when people keep funding your dreams of perfection for both, core and trivial game elements and you get a good salary to do that for a decade?

Adamantine

Compared to Pantheon, which is a far smaller project in scope, Star Citizen is actually pretty quick !

Scot

Iselin said:

Why launch when people keep funding your dreams of perfection for both, core and trivial game elements and you get a good salary to do that for a decade?

I have to say, if you were to ask me what would be your dream company as CEO? I would have to say CIG hits the spot; I could tweak my project forever and the money just keeps rolling in. It's the stuff that dreams are made of.

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Mensur

This game will come out- eventually.

Eldrach

Adamantine said:

Compared to Pantheon, which is a far smaller project in scope, Star Citizen is actually pretty quick !

Pantheon has an excuse, their kickstarter failed - they had to secure alternate funding. Then the CEO of the company killed himself - and they still move on.

Star Citizen gained record sums far beyond their expectations..And they go at it for more..one more ship…500 USD! Spend more…mooooooore!

And they do have a game…a game so rough and buggy, so glitchy and featureless - that it barely qualifes as a tech demo.

100 star systems, sq49 - among the promises…yet they spend 99% of the cash on drawing, yes, drawing imaginary ships..and sell them for the average price of a Playstation 5 console….Even NFT’s are more «real» than that

Theocritus

Just like other companies used WoW's formula, I fear that the same may happen using SC...... They are setting a bad precedent......Bringing in tons of money while putting out very little in return is not good for consumers. For the amount of people they have working on this, it should be light years further ahead.

FrodoFragins

At this point it isn't even funny.  It's just pathetic that a BS artist like CR keeps getting funding.

DigDuggy

There is a point where calling it a 'timeline' becomes nonsensical.  The game which seemed arguably ahead in many ways at inception, is now arguably just in the mix.  They wasted one of the things that propelled them so far up in the first place.

eoloe

In this story, what is really questionable is the intent. Was SC ever meant to be launched or just to be funded?

Kyleran

eoloe said:

In this story, what is really questionable is the intent. Was SC ever meant to be launched or just to be funded?

Always an intent to launch something, just never really defined the MMP.

Xiaoki

The Simpsons did an entire episode on this, called "The Joy of Sect"

Vrika

Kyleran said:

Rover missions to Mars take less time, and that's including flight time there and developing helicopter tech to land payloads the size of a jeep safely despite the mostly negligible atmosphere.

NASA was created in 1958, and 11 years later they launched people to the moon.

Cloud Imperium Games was created in 2012 and they still haven't launched their space game.

Kyleran

Vrika said:

Kyleran said:

Rover missions to Mars take less time, and that's including flight time there and developing helicopter tech to land payloads the size of a jeep safely despite the mostly negligible atmosphere.

NASA was created in 1958, and 11 years later they launched people to the moon.

Cloud Imperium Games was created in 2012 and they still haven't launched their space game.

Video game development isn't rocket science you know....