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And Star Citizen will prove to have been worth it along along Sounds like someone isn't happy with the 4.0 eternally incrementing "alpha" version release. :-D

And Star Citizen will prove to have been worth it along along Sounds like someone isn't happy with the 4.0 eternally incrementing "alpha" version release. :-D I keep checking in on SC every 6 months or so and still see the same old bugs. What a waste of potential. Fortunately, Elite Dangerous is enough of a space game to scratch my space game itch.

0x457 2y ago
To be fAir, SC is trying to do things that no one else done in a context of a single game. I applaud their dedication, but I won't be buying JPGs of a ship for 2k.
- alyandon 2y ago
  Yeah, they never should have expected to take an FPS game engine like CryEngine and expected to be able to modify it to work as the basis for a large scale space MMO game. Their backend is probably an async nightmare of replicated state that gets corrupted over time. Would explain why a lot of things seem to work more or less bug free after an update and then things fall to pieces and the same old bugs start showing up after a few weeks. And to be clear, I've spent money on SC and I've played enough hours goofing off with friends to have got my money's worth out of it. I'm just really bummed out about the whole thing.
  - 0x457 2y ago
    Gonna go meta here for a bit, but I believe we going to get a fully working stable SC before we get fusion. "we" as in humanity, you and I might not be around when it's finally done.
- tobias3 2y ago
  Give the same amount of money to a better team and you'd get a better (finished) game. So the allocation of capital is wrong in this case. People shouldn't pre-order stuff. The misallocation of capital also applies to GPT-4.5/OpenAI at this point.
  - alyandon 2y ago
    Yeah, I wonder what the Frontier devs could have done with $500M USD. More than $500M USD and 12+ years of development and the game is still in such a sorry state it barely qualifies as little more than a tech demo.
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0x457 2y ago

To be fAir, SC is trying to do things that no one else done in a context of a single game. I applaud their dedication, but I won't be buying JPGs of a ship for 2k.

alyandon 2y ago
Yeah, they never should have expected to take an FPS game engine like CryEngine and expected to be able to modify it to work as the basis for a large scale space MMO game. Their backend is probably an async nightmare of replicated state that gets corrupted over time. Would explain why a lot of things seem to work more or less bug free after an update and then things fall to pieces and the same old bugs start showing up after a few weeks. And to be clear, I've spent money on SC and I've played enough hours goofing off with friends to have got my money's worth out of it. I'm just really bummed out about the whole thing.
- 0x457 2y ago
  Gonna go meta here for a bit, but I believe we going to get a fully working stable SC before we get fusion. "we" as in humanity, you and I might not be around when it's finally done.
tobias3 2y ago
Give the same amount of money to a better team and you'd get a better (finished) game. So the allocation of capital is wrong in this case. People shouldn't pre-order stuff. The misallocation of capital also applies to GPT-4.5/OpenAI at this point.
- alyandon 2y ago
  Yeah, I wonder what the Frontier devs could have done with $500M USD. More than $500M USD and 12+ years of development and the game is still in such a sorry state it barely qualifies as little more than a tech demo.

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