The production cost of Star Citizen has now surpassed that of multiple triple-A titles combined, including the likes of GTA 5, RDR2, and Cyberpunk 2077.
  • Jawsome@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    For the sake of starting some discussion around here, I’m a week 1 kickstarter backer who is still in love with this project AMA.

    • yads@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I tried the game about 3 years back and it was a glitch filled mess. How are you finding it now?

      • entropicshart@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        As a very early backer (2015), I still come back to the game once a year hoping that it is finally in a playable state, only to leave disappointed.

        My current rig of an i7/3080ti/32gbRAM/NVMe had issues with walking around the station with a decent frame rate; after spending 20 minutes of trying to get my ship out of storage (not going to list the countless bugs there), I finally took off and was excited to leave orbit and fly around space…

        Unfortunately my ship had another idea; it clipped me out of the captains seat and into high orbit; my ship kept flying its trajectory, while I slowly tumbled back into the planets gravity.

        I hope that by 2035 we might see a stable beta release.

  • ydieb@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I love a good indie game crowdfunder, but at this point Star Citizen is effectively a triple-A game. In turn, this raises the bar for what we expect it to look like and deliver

    Interesting, in that I feel that indie games are in general better products than “triple-A” games, sometimes this is still valid if you include early access indie games…

  • inexplicablehaddock@lemmy.loungerat.ioEnglish
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    1 year ago

    And I bet most of it has gone towards getting Chris Roberts a comfy nest egg for when he eventually decides he’s got enough cash, cans the game, and runs away to some country without an extradition treaty to the US.