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Star Citizen Alpha 3.14 Brings Cloud City Orison and Gas Giant Crusader | MMORPG.com
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Star Citizen Alpha 3.14 Brings Cloud City Orison and Gas Giant Crusader | MMORPG.com
Star Citizen's Alpha 3.14 is out now and adds the cloud city of Orison floating in the clouds of the new gas giant, Crusader.
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Basically clicking away text windows ruins every MMO, try to have fun instead of rushing things. Without story and lore all there is left is a bunch of mechanics.
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Can you imagine the drama and controversy if the fans tried to call it a full game?
Brenics ~ Just to point out I do believe Chris Roberts is going down as the man who cheated backers and took down crowdfunding for gaming.
Joe Blabbers will tell you it's a full game that just needs tweaking. If you disagree with him he'll call you a naysayer and add you to his Hit List https://sctrollsdump.wordpress.com/manze/
They literally have a wall of shame website.
As amusing as it is, "YoMomma" is on it as well. And my mother always said video games are a waste of time ... little did I know.
Curious about the cloud city though. For all my criticisms, their locations have always been top notch. I'll definitely have a look.
There are two reasons to call it alpha:
1) they can change anything at any time, with no consequences
2) since it isn't a released product, they are only taking "donations" or "pledges". There is no guarantee of a game, and you don't get your money back.
If they actually had a product that people actually purchased, they would have a lot more limitations.
This way, they can develop for an infinite amount of time, nobody can complain if they totally change everything, and you can't get your money back if they just close down and walk away.
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I still recall all the negative flack I caught in 2016 when I suggested SC would release in 2020. I was so overly optimistic.
My old prediction was they'd release with ~4 systems. 'Release' being attempted persistence in my view. However, CIG is already running SC in a Game-as-a-Service model, imo.
If you are holding out for the perfect game, the only game you play will be the waiting one.
And there won't be more - ever. Why change a running system? As long as people are spending money on this, there will be an Alpha 3.3, 3.4, 3.8, 4.5 and so on.
No. As an early backer, I do not pretend it is a finished game but an alpha game I am proud to support with full understanding of alpha meaning.
Thanks for sharing it even if I don't make any public mention of it.
That is mainly a repository of one single individual I won't name as he does not deserve much attention and a convenient way to highlight his followers, official or non official using the same low level rhetoric or obfuscation, lies, fake information baseless tactics.
There is also page about factual numbers. Hate or love it, both are fine
... until release because... this is what everyone call a game in development. Being both ambitious and starting from scratch make it special but not different of all others project done by companies: develop, release to make way more cash than during the alpha phase.
What are you talking about? Star Citizen was released in 2016.
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Alpha = wipe
Persistent universe (in alpha) is to compare to none persistent universe (also in alpha) with items starting to stay where they are supposed to stay. This not related with wipe or no wipe concept as SC is not advertised as a fully finished game.... yet
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All time classic MY NEW FAVORITE POST! (Keep laying those bricks)
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All time classic MY NEW FAVORITE POST! (Keep laying those bricks)
"I should point out that no other company has shipped out a beta on a disc before this." - Official Mortal Online Lead Community Moderator
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The many problems and flaws of an alpha (despite it being run as a GaaS) would not be nearly as acceptable in a released product. Plus we already know that they've lied on camera about SQ42 game production.
They are not about to mess with the golden goose.
If you are holding out for the perfect game, the only game you play will be the waiting one.
All RObert's and Co are doing is just delaying over and over for as long as the money keeps rolling in.The res of us said for YEARS this was going to not release for a VERY long time and we were right.
IMO this will NEVER release as finished UNTIL no more money is coming in then it is phase 2 of marketing a finished game.
It is also a fail from day 1 because it is a p2w game,this segregates the intelligent gamer from the dumbasses who will just throw money at the developer.The idea of a game design should be one that brings together ALL players at the EXACT same cost.
The idea of a game and world and character is to EARN your keep and not buy it from some magical cash shop in the sky.So this game fails on pretty much ALL accounts and can never be fixed moving forward,it can only get worse.
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