UnknownTarget posted:

I'd like to offer another reason why Chris isn't finishing the game: fear. There's that thing where people will work on something forever or always say "oh I could do X if I put my mind to it, if I wanted to" but never actually follow through because they're afraid of failing and of being judged.

Maybe Chris wants to keep the money train going because he's just not confident in his vision? Deep down he probably wonders if he's not good enough, and that fear paralyzes him from releasing the game. Especially now so that he's hyped up S42 as a mega-hit genre-defining blockbuster.

RBA Starblade posted:

That Indian lander crashed btw

Othin posted:

One of the screenshots earlier in the thread had a ~*-Female-*~. Did they finally get around to figuring out how to animate ladies and get them in game?

Fidelitious posted:

No, no no.

I assure you that Chris Roberts has never engaged in even the slightest self examination of his strengths and weaknesses.

There are direct quotes from him (I believe in the infamous 'absolution' video) that if only all his employees were at his level of skill they could have completed features in the originally estimated timeframe. He made videogames decades ago, he made a movie, and by god that makes him a genius in his mind. Any faults in the game are the employees, the goons, and goddamn Derek Smart!

Saladin Rising posted:

Ah, apparently we have some new people in this thread, so I'd like to introduce you to Clifford aka miku aka SpearmintVR, a citizen who has spent a lot of money on Star Citizen, and is one of the few to show off the actual number. How much has he spent?

https://twitter.com/spearmintvr/status/1082723123823370240
Almost 58,000 dollars.

You know what else he could have done with all that money?
https://www.cruisecritic.com/articles.cfm?ID=514


He could have gone on a months-long cruise across the world and seen stuff that I would love to be able to experience and be jealous as gently caress about. There was another cruise that I can't find now that included dinner on a private game reserve in Africa that was also for less than he's spent on Star Citizen. Sometimes you need a sanity check to realize just how much loving money people have pissed away on a lovely pre-alpha Cryengine hack that pretends it's a space game.

Tippis posted:

And what a list of accomplishments that is… I mean, just look at the credits he's accumulated over a decade of making Chris-games:

• Wizadore (1985): Written by
  
• Strykers Run (1986): Game design & original ideas, Coding, Graphics
  
• Ultima V (1988): Design
  
• Times of Lore (1988): Project lead, Lead design, Writing/dialogue/story, Playtesting
  
• Wing Commander (1990): Design, Director, Graphics/3D Programming, Lead design, Programming, Producer, Software Engineer, Space System
  • Secret Missions I: Director, Producer, Programming
  • Secret Missions II: Producer, Programming
  
• Wing Commander II (1991): Producer
  • Special Operations I: Creative Director
  • Special Operations II: Creative Director
  
• Wing Commander: Privateer (1993): Executive Producer, Original Concept
  • Righteous Fire: None
  
• Strike Commander (1993): Cameras, Cockpit, Director, Graphics, Library Code, Mission Design, Original Outline, Producer, RealSpace System Programming
  • Tactical Operations: Producer
  
• Super Wing Commander (1994): None
  
• Wing Commander III (1994): Cast, Director, Executive Producer & Director for movies, Producer, Story
  
• Wing Commander: Armada (1994): Producer
  
• Wing Commander IV (1996): Executive Producer, Director
  
• Privateer 2 (1996): None
  
• Wing Commander: Prophecy (1997): Special thanks
  
• Starlancer (2000): Executive Producer
  
• Freelancer (2003): Original concept, Special thanks

Last time he managed to claim credit for any kind of actual code production was in 1993.

Savy Saracen salad posted:

The question is how can someone that insane have that much money to throw around on a toy?!?!?! I would love to know... drat If I had 50k to spare I would have dropped out of work and taken months to travel the world and stay in the most luxurious intercontinental hotels and enjoy the high life and amazing scenery and 5 star food etc.... !!!! I would have spoilt myself like a king with that money!

Tinfoil Papercut posted:

One of the best examples of how much a lie this game is - is the sandworm. How long ago was that shown?

deej posted:

Reminder that Chris Roberts, CEO of space game, believes you can swim about in space irl

Zaphod42 posted:

My guess is trust fund kid.

Agony Aunt posted:

You missed the most important backer.

LuiCypher posted:

On top of that, releasing it would offer concrete proof that all the negative things people said about him are absolutely 100% true.

People have said he's a bad manager: He can't fight scope creep, he can't decide on a solid vision and stick to it, he can't stop throwing the baby out with the bathwater because x isn't as perfect as he wants it to be.

People have said he's a terrible director: He can't write a script worth a poo poo, he can't keep things consistent within a given universe that he created, he can't develop meaningful characters, and there's nothing about his directorial style that is remarkable/interesting/good.

Star Citizen is incontrovertible proof that not only is all of the above true, but the reality is so, so, so much worse than anyone could have imagined.

I said come in! posted:

What is the backstory to this image?

Orcs and Ostriches posted:

Just your average citizen.

I said come in! posted:

What is the backstory to this image?

MedicineHut posted:

poo poo, posts are trippling every second.

fake e: Was than an Oxford comma or a poo poo comma?

quote:

I love the posters in this thread, Gillian Welch and The Cramps.

quote:

the posters in this thread called "Gillian Welch" and "The Cramps"?

Orcs and Ostriches posted:

Just your average citizen.

Taintrunner posted:

Hi new thread & posters! One of my favorite little bits of Star Citizen development bell is the use of backer money to pay streamers to pay this piece of poo poo and give them free ships to gently caress around in:

https://twitter.com/Rexzilla/status/1165374172828246016?s=20

Not! A! Scam!

Mirificus posted:

Sillybones posted:

I said come in! posted:

You get this pretty space yacht, and you have sit around in the pool in combat armor and a space helmet. Game needs some civilian clothing to wear for proper role playing.* This is something that GTA Online did extremely well.

*Buy now for a dozen pieces of clothing for $400. Clothing not available until retail version 3.0.

Agony Aunt posted:

I'd like a second opinion.

Agony Aunt posted:

You missed the most important backer.

Taintrunner posted:

https://twitter.com/Rexzilla/status/1147260841525428225?s=20

Y’know, if you weren’t one of the lucky ones to get a physical steel card to show off just how much money you dumped into Star Citizen.

I said come in! posted:

You get this pretty space yacht, and you have sit around in the pool in combat armor and a space helmet. Game needs some civilian clothing to wear for proper role playing.* This is something that GTA Online did extremely well.

*Buy now for a dozen pieces of clothing for $400. Clothing not available until retail version 3.0.

SPERMCUBE.ORG posted:

OK, you're ugly too!

Kyrosiris posted:

The funniest part to me is either the picture is too lovely to let my phone scan them or those QR codes don't go to anything.

Kyrosiris posted:

The funniest part to me is either the picture is too lovely to let my phone scan them or those QR codes don't go to anything.

Hav posted:

I loved that joke in ‘Carry on Doctor’, and I love it now.

Rotten Red Rod posted:

I thought there was civilian clothing...? I remember Robbaz doing a video where he was loving around with the facecam tracking and he went into a store where he could try on clothes. And weren't there a bunch of in-game graphic Ts as subscriber rewards?