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[–] half_built_pyramids 22 points 11 months ago (3 children)

First off, I would never spend that much on a game. Got a $70 starter pack. Nothing more than you would spend on a normal game. Can't blame cig for playing the monetization game. Either there's regulations that stops this shit or capitalism goes brr. That's the world we've built.

As for the game itself; when Star Citizen works there's nothing like it. A huge space battle followed by a tense zero g boarding action. Taking the cargo and salvage afterwards. Hell, just flying across a solar system and landing on a planet and getting out and walking around -- all without a load screen -- is something to be experienced.

To anyone reading this. If you're the type of person that has the resources and you buy games at ~50-70 price point, do it. Even with all the alpha bullshit. Even with all the easy echo chamber shit posts. There's some magic happening with SC.

Plenty of streamers if you're on the fence. Berks is good if you just want to catch a stream.

[–] CptOblivius 30 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You can blame CIG for the monetization game, you can blame anyone doing it. Especially when the goal post gets moved over and over and over. When the goal post was placed specifically to increase monetization. I'm glad people like them game at it's current state, but it's hard to argue that there arnt some ethical monetization issues at hand.

[–] xkforce 24 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Star citizen has raked in almost a billion dollars. It is on par with all the revenue WOW has ever raked in in all of its expansions combined. Its a whale harvester with a game slapped on top. Youre free to think its fun, it should be given how much money had been dumped into it but everyone else is also free to think its more or less a ripoff/scam.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago

At its peak, WoW had 12 million people paying $15 a month. That's over a Billion in 6 months.

[–] RunawayFixer 11 points 11 months ago

Is that wow as in world of warcraft that you are talking about? Years ago, wow had already raked in billions upon billions, it's bound to be far over 10 billion now. Star citizen won't even come close to that.

[–] SergeantScar 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I'm a cheap starter too. Really enjoy the game for sure! It completely ruined Starfield for me... I was out of Starfield the first time I "flew" the spaceship... Loading screens... All of it... Star Citizen killed any joy in that game for me. Haha.

[–] half_built_pyramids 10 points 11 months ago

Yes. Starfield is single player even.

There's lots of talk about SC taking a billion and having nothing to show for it.

No one else is putting a mining rover into one ship, then flying that combo onto a bigger ship, and then flying that shipducken around.

They're doing things no one else is doing. Things no one else has done. This isn't just another unreal engine. Or creation kit, or whatever Bethesda is calling their zombie.

Starfield doesn't even have real planets. It's just 1k squares surrounded by loading screens.

Anyway, I'm ranting now. SC is notorious for its funding and long development. It's easy internet points to shit on it. Like the video game shorthand for the Nickelback conversation cul-de-sac.

It deserves its detractors. It also delivers a hell of an experience for $45 and deserves its recognition. The nuance of that second point is lost in the crowd usually.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] KaiReeve 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Elite dangerous is tragic. If they had half the budget Star Citizen has it could be an amazing game, but instead they're forced to practically abandon development for years at a time in order to focus on games that bring in a profit.

Still, if you have a VR headset, a HOTAS, and enough patience to learn how to fly, it's an unmatched experience.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

don't forget VoiceAttack. Speaking to your spaceship and having it answer back (for me, in the voice of William Shatner)

"raise landing gear, all power to engines, on my mark engage jump drive.... mark."

[–] SergeantScar 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Give it a shot. It’s less polished in some aspects to SC, but there are so many different systems that they have still barely been explored, even after all these years. The flight is pretty damn good too.