How Star Citizen Is Destroying Gaming

Wargfoot

They've been sucking up, and wasting all teh funds for games! (1)(2)(3)



NOTES:
1: Hey Babs, how ya been?
2: It is the Tuesday Troll.  I'm bored, please provide your best troll.
3: Don't worry about me, once the mods read this, I can create a new account later.  The first person to take this thread seriously, looses!

Wargfoot

I bought 3 of the "Founder's Packs" for the new Fntastic game.

olepi

Star Citizen is providing a very valuable public service by sucking up the spare cash from unsuspecting customers that would otherwise be wasted on more frivolous items. It is providing a much needed orderly process to keep this loose cash from inundating the rest of the gaming world.

Theocritus

Alot of people (gamers included) believe that the more expensive something is, the better it is.....From what I have seen that is not the case here....The videos I have seen of the game are not impressive at all....I'd just as soon play No Man's Sky.

Wargfoot

Theocritus said:

Alot of people (gamers included) believe that the more expensive something is, the better it is.....From what I have seen that is not the case here....The videos I have seen of the game are not impressive at all....I'd just as soon play No Man's Sky.

I saw a report on a high-end luxury purse that costs $2800 at the store.
It costs $57 to manufacture.

Slapshot1188

Wargfoot said:

I bought 3 of the "Founder's Packs" for the new Fntastic game.

The one that comes with a framed copy of this concept art?
That's WAY better than spaceship jpegs

Wargfoot

Slapshot1188 said:

Wargfoot said:

I bought 3 of the "Founder's Packs" for the new Fntastic game.

The one that comes with a framed copy of this concept art?
That's WAY better than spaceship jpegs

Is that a floor plan, or the schematics for a failboat?

Tiller

Wargfoot said:

They've been sucking up, and wasting all teh funds for games! (1)(2)(3)



NOTES:
1: Hey Babs, how ya been?
2: It is the Tuesday Troll.  I'm bored, please provide your best troll.
3: Don't worry about me, once the mods read this, I can create a new account later.  The first person to take this thread seriously, looses!

Random thought....I think Babs might be Chris Roberts on a burner account due to how upset got when I said Chris looks like Beans from Even Stevens.

Elidien_ga

I just hope that drawing comes framed, signed and numbered in limited quantity with the super-mega-ultra-ultimate-awesome edition for a low cost of $1,999.99. If so I am gonna get me TWO!

Slapshot1188

Wargfoot said:

Slapshot1188 said:

Wargfoot said:

I bought 3 of the "Founder's Packs" for the new Fntastic game.

The one that comes with a framed copy of this concept art?
That's WAY better than spaceship jpegs

Is that a floor plan, or the schematics for a failboat?

You tell me.  It most closely resembles a "map" I doodled during Mrs. Johnson's 4th grade math class.

Theocritus

Wargfoot said:

Theocritus said:

Alot of people (gamers included) believe that the more expensive something is, the better it is.....From what I have seen that is not the case here....The videos I have seen of the game are not impressive at all....I'd just as soon play No Man's Sky.

I saw a report on a high-end luxury purse that costs $2800 at the store.
It costs $57 to manufacture.

Yeah but nowadays if you market it heavily and have a famous celebrity with their name behind it, then that is what makes the money.

Theocritus

Wargfoot said:

Slapshot1188 said:

Wargfoot said:

I bought 3 of the "Founder's Packs" for the new Fntastic game.

The one that comes with a framed copy of this concept art?
That's WAY better than spaceship jpegs

Is that a floor plan, or the schematics for a failboat?

I dont know but it is going to cost more now.....

Arglebargle

Hey, lots of developers got work for years.  Folks got to start out in the biz and see first hand what one end of the bell curve looks like.

Robokapp

will it release before we colonize Mars?

Babuinix

"Humph.......restless peasants"

Arglebargle

Babuinix said:

"Humph.......restless peasants"

'Humph.....the little people.'

I do like the character creator though.

Scot

Robokapp said:

will it release before we colonize Mars?

Yes but maybe not before we have a permanent base on the Moon, its only rocket science guys so CIG is struggling to keep up with the pace of development.

Dibdabs

I got a free starter ship when I bought a video card around 10 or 11 years ago, and I have zero hopes of this game EVER launching.  It's just a clever cash grab.

Slapshot1188

Scot said:

Robokapp said:

will it release before we colonize Mars?

Yes but maybe not before we have a permanent base on the Moon, its only rocket science guys so CIG is struggling to keep up with the pace of development.

Well... SpaceX was founded 10 years before CIG.  And it's not like nobody made a rocket before.  So I think we need to give Roberts at least another decade because this is truly cutting edge stuff.

Wargfoot

Slapshot1188 said:

Scot said:

Robokapp said:

will it release before we colonize Mars?

Yes but maybe not before we have a permanent base on the Moon, its only rocket science guys so CIG is struggling to keep up with the pace of development.

Well... SpaceX was founded 10 years before CIG.  And it's not like nobody made a rocket before.  So I think we need to give Roberts at least another decade because this is truly cutting edge stuff.

My daughter spent a couple of years launching rockets for the US Military.
She's worked closely with Space X.

She is nothing but impressed with those guys.
When Elon went to build satellites, he went and hired something other than satellite designers - and instead of round many of them are square - launching 50-60 at a time.

Scot

Wargfoot said:

Slapshot1188 said:

Scot said:

Robokapp said:

will it release before we colonize Mars?

Yes but maybe not before we have a permanent base on the Moon, its only rocket science guys so CIG is struggling to keep up with the pace of development.

Well... SpaceX was founded 10 years before CIG.  And it's not like nobody made a rocket before.  So I think we need to give Roberts at least another decade because this is truly cutting edge stuff.

My daughter spent a couple of years launching rockets for the US Military.
She's worked closely with Space X.

She is nothing but impressed with those guys.
When Elon went to build satellites, he went and hired something other than satellite designers - and instead of round many of them are square - launching 50-60 at a time.

Years and years back (1950) Heinlein wrote "The Man Who Sold the Moon” predicting how entrepreneurs would take us too the stars, as well as governments. Governments are still plugging away but I think Heinlein will be borne out because governments are focusing on research and "firsts", while entrepreneurs will fly you the moon.

noendtothetrauma

Tiller said:

Random thought....I think Babs might be Chris Roberts on a burner account due to how upset got when I said Chris looks like Beans from Even Stevens.

I always thought he had the charisma of a Big Toe, or a wide thumb

Arglebargle

Scot said:

Wargfoot said:

Slapshot1188 said:

Scot said:

Robokapp said:

will it release before we colonize Mars?

Yes but maybe not before we have a permanent base on the Moon, its only rocket science guys so CIG is struggling to keep up with the pace of development.

Well... SpaceX was founded 10 years before CIG.  And it's not like nobody made a rocket before.  So I think we need to give Roberts at least another decade because this is truly cutting edge stuff.

My daughter spent a couple of years launching rockets for the US Military.
She's worked closely with Space X.

She is nothing but impressed with those guys.
When Elon went to build satellites, he went and hired something other than satellite designers - and instead of round many of them are square - launching 50-60 at a time.

Years and years back (1950) Heinlein wrote "The Man Who Sold the Moon” predicting how entrepreneurs would take us too the stars, as well as governments. Governments are still plugging away but I think Heinlein will be borne out because governments are focusing on research and "firsts", while entrepreneurs will fly you the moon.

The entrepreneurs almost always do it on the backs of government research. Without that....nada.  The whole computer industry itself is based off military research into artillery and rocket ballistics. 

Entrepreneurs also take you to see The Titanic....

Angrakhan

Thing is that SC hasn't even earned that much money given the length of time it's been in development. Diablo 4 has supposedly already crossed the $1 Billion in revenue mark and took supposedly 7 years to develop. Assuming those numbers are close then Diablo 4 has earned money more than twice as fast as Star Citizen and is about to release it's first paid expansion which will just generate even more revenue. 

There's probably many other examples of games outpacing CS in earnings. Helldivers 2 and Space Marine 2 come to mind if you want to talk revenue per month velocity. Heck even Starfield with its solid Mixed review status on Steam still reportedly earned almost $700 million in 2023. They just released their first paid expansion as well. 

Anyway I know this thread was supposed to be a troll but I guess my point is there's apparently plenty of gamer dollars still available in the market. SC isn't even good at sucking it all up!

Babuinix

Dibdabs said:

I got a free starter ship when I bought a video card around 10 or 11 years ago, and I have zero hopes of this game EVER launching.  It's just a clever cash grab.

If you don't download it and double click the .exe icon it will never launch for you. Btw that AMD ship account is  worth +$500 dollars or maybe a thousand or some.  Might want to be clever about that cash grab.

Wargfoot

Babuinix said:

Dibdabs said:

I got a free starter ship when I bought a video card around 10 or 11 years ago, and I have zero hopes of this game EVER launching.  It's just a clever cash grab.

If you don't download it and double click the .exe icon it will never launch for you. Btw that AMD ship account is  worth +$500 dollars or maybe a thousand or some.  Might want to be clever about that cash grab.

Don't confuse hard to get with valuable.