I tried 'Star Citizen' to see if it's worth the $500m they've raised... 

Played Star Citizen for around a year now. One of the best interactions I had was at a space station leaving my ship and taking the elevator. During my trip to the lobby, I was bored and pressed every button in the elevator. When I left the elevator, I passed another player heading to the elevators. Next line in chat was "Who pressed all the buttons in the elevator?" Some of the best laughs I've had in the game.

Just pausing here at 10:34 to express something. I’ve been playing for a little over a year now, and I’d just like to say that when I was new, on my third day of playing I got stranded on a planet. I asked for help in the chat, and within ten minutes someone was there to pick me up and fly me to the nearest station. He ended up showing me the ropes, and not long after that I joined an organization that I still game with. In short, this game has the most welcoming community I’ve ever experienced in gaming. Almost all of my interactions have been positive.

If star citizen really turns out to be what they want it to be, it will be one of the greatest games of all time. It’s still very far off but I pledged 2 years ago and it has changed massive amounts since then. It’s hard not to get excited when you think “what if they get it to work perfectly”

I think you really did hit the nail on the head with the "best played with friends" part because walking in by yourself you don't know what to do or where to go. Good honest review of it tbh.

The fact that you can walk around in these ships with 20 or so people all the while having a massive fight or entering atmosphere, whilst talking about that one guy you dont like in a pool inside this ship, is just freaking amazing technically and immersion wise.

Thank you for being so honest with our game here Luke, it's very much appreciated. Though, to be more honest here, as a developer with 10 years behind me, 500 million is a lot of money.. true.. but that's 500 million over the course of 10 years that is paying for a team of 800+ people working across multiple studios. There's so much more here than people are willing to listen to and I really appreciate someone being honest.

In honesty, one thing a lot of us fans love is the detail and architecture of the ships. Just walking through some of the luxury ships - especially the 890J - is something to be in awe of for a video game. Even better when you can get a bunch of people doing RP. I mean, it's the same reason people buy skins and cosmetics on literally every popular game that has them: we want to look cool and appreciate the detail.

The immersion is its greatest selling point. It was already present in Wing Commander Privateer and Chris just had a much bigger vision. To me I would have been happy with a current gen version of the world of Wing Commander which may have been faster and cheaper to complete, but oh my do I still applaud the project and I keep being amazed by how good it looks and the inclusions of explorable planets the way they did is amazing as well. It's just such a shame many space sims totally forgot about immersion and focused on arcade like action which in my opinion is the biggest reason for the decline of the genre. There were some that came close but didn't have the world building to complete the package. I'm not a person that spends money in game and I'm fine earning in game credit to buy stuff, it's part of the game. That said I do hope it will get some sort of a release date as losing your progress with updates will surely not something I want to spend a lot of time on.

Note: Wipes are done on a "as need" bases for game development, and not as regular balancing. CIG's goal is to have as few wipes as necessary.

Personally my first time playing star citizen i jumped out of my ship while in quantum travel, within 10 minutes someone had already picked me up and was letting me do missions with them as a gunner to make some money. he ended up showing me the ropes and we still talk to this day!

Veteran SC players love nothing more than teaching a new player and seeing those first reactions. As a side note, the base framework for the game has been nailed in enough that they are working on tutorials for new players again. Previously tutorials were removed because every patch they became irrelevant.

I've been a player for 4 years now and I'm extremely happy with the money and time I've spent on this game. It's come along so far from when I 1st started playing!

I feel like the more expensive the ship that you are flying, the higher your resting heart rate should be.

"No loading screen" is an old trend, you might lost tracking it, but multiplayer sci-fi games like No Man's Sky, Empyrion - Galactic Survival, Osiris - New Dawn as far as I know, works without loading screens since years now, and in case of the last two, development started by a few people, if not by just one.

Video games for me r always an escape from reality. And this game captures that idea better than pretty much every other game I’ve ever played. Sure it’s not as polished as tripple a games that are actually out , but it has the most potential of any video game ever created. I’ve literally played the game for a week and am already in love

When I play Star Citizen, to me it's more of an experience rather than a game, the immersion is insane, so are the bugs.

Fun fact: You can request take off soon after you call your ship into the hangar. That way, you can just hop into your ship and do the whole start up thing all the while the bay doors are open.

To me star citizen looks like what I wanted when I started playing elite dangerous. In 20 years when this game is released fully its going to be incredible

Honestly, Star Citizen is like 3 years late of when it should've been this playable, but CIG are clearly delivering a very real product to it's backers, and it has a lot of potential to become an incredible game. I'm still too turned off by the game's performance to actually play it, but if they can continue to improve performance, or I upgrade my rig, I'd be interested in jumping into the game.

You can land on the city planet; (Arccorp) you just have to land on specific buildings that have a landing pad. Those landing pads are all around at the different landing zones. However, the only place that currently has any content is Area 18.

Instead of using mobiglass to open hangar doors, you can more easily hit the comms button in the ships cockpit right on the MFD screen. Look at 12:02, the first ship screen on the far left, top of the screen says "Port Tressler", click the button that looks like a wifi icon.

People always doubt the game, but I've been able to play to the extent of what was available since about 2016. There's nothing to doubt about if you can experience it.

It's just jaw-dropping, in my opinion. I don't have a rig powerfull enough to run it, but when i do this game will be the first on my list.

Star Citizen, outside of being a 'game', at least in this iteration.. is a perfect setting for a space role playing adventure.

Last time I tried the free flight thing they did a year ago, the one thing that made me love this is how welcoming the community was. I litteraly spent half a day with a few guys who basically told me how to do everything and it was the must fun I've had in this kind of game.

I don't know what will happen with 3.18, but I haven't had my balance wiped since last year. :) You can land appropriately sized ships on buildings with landing pads in cities. The game uses Cry Engine with a lot of very custom plugins and stuff, and starting with 3.18, a custom rendering engine that will be fully implemented slowly. Great stuff! Why would a solo player buy a ship meant for corporations and governments that can't even be flown solo? The big ships also require full crews to be manned properly, it just doesn't make any sense and the price reflects this. These ships aren't marketed for solo players and aren't expected to be owned or manned by individuals. I know that looking at it as a game it hurts, but SC isn't a game, it's a life simulator. As a real universe it makes sense both financially and just isn't practical. As for buying ships with real money, they're donation packages that get you ships. It's the same as Patreon. I think CIG said just as much somewhere a few years ago but I don't remember now. That's how I see it anyway. C.I.G calls them 'pledges' and I don't think of them any other way. I decided to donate to development and got an Avenger Titan. I was happy and preferred my starting ship, but I can always buy or rent one of those if I want to in Lorville. I've never understood the attraction of constantly throwing money at the game for a ship you'll either never fly or will spend most of its time in your inventory, but it's having it in your inventory that counts, right? In my three odd years of playing SC the same amount of money as people spent for a copy of Fallout: 76 has gone on my account. The amount of issues people have with the game that aren't actually issues and are intentional design is frankly insane.

It'd be really cool if a massive ship like that can be used as some sort of base for a group. Its big enough for it.

I just backed it finally about 6 months ago.. I already feel like I've had my moneys worth out of it. I think it's an incredible piece of work. I multiplayer it with a couple of friends and god knows we hit bugs almost every time we play, but it's still incredible and great fun.

The best thing about Star Citizen is you download it, play it, if you don't like where things are you just uninstall it, and reinstall it in six months, and every time it's a new game. Keep doing this until it becomes the game you want to play, then don't stop playing. I love this game. Been playing since 2017. Many people buy all the ships, but I got a couple ships based on the gameplay loops I want to do when they come into the game (hacking/datarunning) and I don't need to spend any more.

This is a kind of game that can forever be in development phase but at a point in dev it'll gain a boost in players and more from there

It definitely appeals to a very particular group of players. It's not loaded with nonstop action, there isn't a real "end game", it can be very tedious, and you could spend a long time just trying to get from one end of a space station to the other, but it is incredibly immersive, beautiful, and fun once you get the ball rolling.

I think another thing to mention is that ALL of the current gameplay in the game itself is only in a singular system. out of an entire universe. Star citizen is super close to opening the second system, Pyra. Once they do this and alongside server meshing (basically just being able to transition servers seamlessly) they can then effectively infinitely expand the game and open more content much faster than the original system. Arccorp for example is a procedurally generated city planet, with a single place on it's surface to explore that was hand made.

One thing I'd like to add about the super expensive, massive ships like the Carrack and 890 Jump (the super yacht featured): these are intended to be *end-game* ships. Essentially, the aim is that these ships will require multiple crew members to run effectively, so you'll need either hired NPCs or additional players, and that they'll be used for specific jobs that you enjoy doing in-game. For example, the 890J is supposed to be for either shuttling VIP guests across space, or running a kind of cruise ship--it's not really intended to be run and used by a solo-player. That's also why these big ships have engineering areas--the goal is to have roles like engineers on your crew who work in those areas to keep the ship maintained and functional. Lastly, the bigger the ship, the more expensive to run with fuel, insurance, crew, and maintenance. Basically, RSI is trying to make it so that players don't buy these ships as a flex, but rather as an investment into a play-style. I expect that as we get closer to the 1.0 launch, these massive ships will be owned/run by guilds that operate it together, and it won't be unrealistic to log on to be an engineer on an 890J, and that alone I think is soooo cool.

Hey little nautical tidbit, if you're spending 30mill on a boat/ship, you're not the captain, you're the owner, and the captain works for you. So that's the owner's suite at the stern with the pretty view and the comfy bed. The Captain is part of the crew you hire to get you from A to B.

Often, when people love or hate a game, the truth isn't black or white, but some shade of grey. Star Citizen is actually both. They are all right, the haters and the fanbois. It's like a perfect mix, like a gelato with broken glass in it.

What the game really needs is for the ingame voice comms to work properly, that way even if you are playing alone you can join or ask in chat to be part of a crew or a crew to join you to have fun, and not to hassle too much with new discord channels or just be relying on text chat.

bro raise two fingers if you're not being held captive

I don't know how exactly to explain this, but when I play Star Citizen I don't approach it as a game, it's like I'm playing it but it's not exactly a game, for me it's just a chill experience, I don't have any friends in-game so I'm a solo dude, when I play I'm having fun not in a playing a game kinda fun, but sort of like reading a book or watching a movie kinda fun... It's a slow game, I love it.

just got the game the other day, despite its bugs I'm having alot of fun flying and exploring

Pausing at 10:50, I have only this to say: do people not like figuring things out themselves? I don't actively play Star Citizen because my computer can't run it, but I've done simulators before. Part of the fun for me in a technical game like this is the trial and error of figuring out how to do stuff. A lack of a tutorial or other hand-holding mechanics is cool sometimes. It's not the same genre, but I think back to Morrowind where there's no quest markers. They tell you "go to this place", and you have to talk to NPCs to get general directions and explore form there. Going into a game like Star Citizen, I'm not going to expect the game to be sreamlined for casual play. I'm gonna expect to have to learn a complicated control scheme, and the best way to do that is by doing it for yourself. That, and the keybinding menu is genuinely one of the best I've seen in any game in Star Citizen, very helpful or figuring out what buttons do what. So am I bothered by the lack of tutorial? No. I wouldn't mind if one was in the game, but I don't think it's a huge issue. It's a genre that requires a lot of patience to get into, so if someone is completely turned off by that they probably wouldn't want to play the rest of the game anyways. I am definitely hard coping, no don't say that.

Backer since 2016. I can confirm that the direction the game has taken in the last 2 years really hypes me. They are doing really well late and IAE HYPE

Last time i was playing with my friends we took Crusader suits and walked around with the space whale plushie recruting people to the order of the plushy. We called it the order of the plushy and i think we handed out like 100 plushies to people (after interacting with them)

It's a common mistake to say they "needed" 500 million to do it. They have received 500 million to WORK WITH. That amount is purely a result of people's belief in the project and willingness to pay, knowing it's going to be a long time before we see anything like a 1.0. Further, having that much money to work with doesn't magically make things go faster. There's an upper limit to how far you can break up workload and thus how many people you can throw at a problem. One advantage here is the breadth of systems does lend it to more and larger teams, since there are so many thing to work on. There's still that limit to how many people you can throw at a problem before diminishing returns or even negative returns ("too many chefs in the kitchen").

1:12 "I decided if I was going to have an opinion on this game" Nobody should be forming an opinion on this game. It is not released, it's not even feature complete, let alone content complete. The language we use around games does not even apply here. There's no game to form an opinion of. What you should be asking yourself is "Do I find entertainment value in what's been developed so far, and do I find that to be worth the drawbacks of alpha testing". The general consensus among those that play and enjoy it is that you should not play it, unless you really know you want to

Although its an unfinished money pit, the amount of enjoyment I got out of the standard $45 entry level was pretty damn high

Good on you for actually trying the game out before judging

It's just a little bit too much. This is why I appreciate Starfield. It's dumbed down so that I can enjoy my experience and not worry about all these little details.

A really cool show of scale is landing at Benny Hendge. It is on a small asteroid around Yella. And as you fly down it looks like a super small asteroid in the field but it gets bigger and bigger and then when you find it you realize how small something looked coming up to it really is not how small something actually is.

You'd be surprised how helpful people are even if you aren't a content creator.

I bought star citizen now 6 months ago. Did not stopped playing since then and TOMORROW will be my first IAE. CANT WAIT

The cool thing is you can call comms from the ship interface without using F1, feels more immersive that way

The game has so much potential but after playing for a few hours you’re either enjoying yourself or annoyed when you realise you’ve done 3 hours of nothing due to bugs. There’s no in between unfortunately, the bugs and lack of growth is really disappointing because I absolutely love the concept and imagining the game finished it will be my favourite game

Another thing you could do if you don't have the money and don't want to grind, is work as crew on a big ship that someone else has bought.

I am just a "somebody", not a streamer or something, and Star Citizen community is the most enthusiastic and supportive community I ever met

I resisted playing this game for years. My friend finally kind of forced me to play when he bought me a starter ship. It only took me a few hours of playing to realize I fucked up. I should have got on board sooner.

I was able to play this beautiful game for 6 months until my pc became outdated. I was a delivery driver :/ I miss those days... **still struggling to update pc**

So stoked that SC is finally starting to turn the corner and receive the recognition that it deserves as we edge closer to release. Popular opinion has regarded this game as the “laughing stock of the gaming industry” for far too long. People have always been quick to criticise this game (and/or accuse Chris Roberts of being a con artist), but considering this game is the first of its kind, it simply isn’t fair or appropriate to compare it to any other game that has ever been made. Give it a few more years, and people will finally realise why this game has taken so long to build. It will be truly groundbreaking, and in many ways it already is.

I'm so glad that this whole space funeral took place. I mostly play by myself or with a one friend, so experience of being able to participate in a community event with like a dozen people was very unique. It really changes your perspecitve on the game, when you see that players can make something so uniqe, dynamic, memorable and fun when they are given the tools and a world to do so. There aren't many games that allow for such experience.

They will never release Star Citizen as a finished product, for the simple reason that over the long length of time in "development" it has actually become a business industry that supports thousands (yes thousands) of employees. If you read Chris Roberts' latest letter from the chairman you will understand the vision and that there is really no end point. Having said that, as a player/Sponsor (I paid to join so you become a sponsor lol) the most frustrating part of the experience is the continual resets back to your starter ship(s). E.g. three times I have spent hundreds of hours grinding to build a fleet just the way I want it, then poof back to square one. So can I be bothered going through that a 4th time.. probably not. Many of my friends I played with originally have all left for the same reasons, It just becomes tedious. Not to mention the ever present 30k's (game crashs) and bugs that constantly haunt the game play and drive you to drink. This is the reason they have free flight sessions as they need to rotate and recruit new player/sponsors = $$ to keep the industry alive (800,000 new player/sponsors joined in 2022 according to Roberts - that's 36M USD if they all forked out the $45 dollar fee to buy a starter ship.) Yes it is an amazing game in the short term, but also highly frustrating one in the long term with no end product in sight ever.

I'm an original Freelancer backer and I called this game a scam a few years ago b/c I was mad that it wasn't done by now and they keep selling expensive ship packages etc. Well I was wrong. I now play the game daily and its amazing even in its alpha state. I fly a Freelancer Max and cargo haul and its great fun. I do wish the scope was a bit smaller so they could focus on finishing the game instead of this perpetual alpha state but this is a once in a generation type of game. When it's done its going to be something REALLY special.

I love the level of detail on the planets & atmosphere from space, the take off & landing mechanics. Entering a planets atmosphere & exiting it. Really wish Starfield did this, I feel like it adds so much to the immersion.

20:30 No Man's Sky, ever heard of it? basically the same thing but you dont have to spend years grinding money for a ship just for your credits to be reset, and theres actually more things you can do. I mean they do kinda cheat with the interstellar travel, its mostly a glorified loading screen but it flows really well and at least feels like your not in a loading screen. If your pc is good enough its seamless and just looks like your ship is blazing through thousands of stars in a rapidly changing cloud of colored dust streaming with light.

One of the best times I've ever had is when we had a multiplayer ship meetup on Daymar, then one person came in an 890J and everyone was in absolute awe. Then some bozo blew it up killing 23 people and incapacitating 12, not to mention the 56 injured, then we all scrambles the fighters we had left (Scorpius, Hortnets, Arrows, Talons, etc.) as well as a few sub-capital ships (Carracks, Hammerheads and A2/M2's) and fought them off and their numerous forces, it lasted 2 hours 13 minutes due to people dying then re-spawning and joining back in, we eventually won the war and took control of the server, was an event even star wars couldn't compete with, if persistence tech existed at that time there would be a couple hundred ship remnants left, 10's of millions in cargo not to mention salvage. Star Citizen truly is a game that cannot be rivaled by the likes of Star-field.

Saying you're skeptical of something. And then saying what I "mean" does not change the definition of skeptical.

A brief note to what was said around 20:00 , elite dangerous and no man’s sky both have game engines that let you fly between planet-sized planets with no loading screens. Star citizen just has much more detail and “realism” in, like, every regard. All three are very fun, however, SC just isn’t the only game of its kind.

I've heard of Star Citizen for so many years, but never cared enough to check it out. I'm seriously impressed after watching this video. Even in this unfinished 'early access' state, it looks seriously cool. In fact, when you showed the $45 price tag to buy it, I scoffed like "Pffft, I'm not paying $45 for an unfinished early access game." But after watching the rest of the video, I'm seriously considering buying it.

Npcs doing T posing in star citizen is not really a bug related to the game, but rather a bug related to desync and server lagging.

I love the "I tried..." and suddenly there's a lot of ships in your hangar. Star Citizen is unlike any other game out there, or will be. No one would ever make a game like this. So, they did. Other games have come, blossomed, faded and died while this continues to grow. It's less a game and more a Space Life Simulator. Down to the granular details of having to manage food. Pausing to stop for a bite to eat becomes emergent gameplay. They're building an amazing game that wont be ready for a long time. While they're doing that, they are letting us play around with what they've got so far, and they listen to the backers. I don't think you'll find any dev group as open. Especially when they change their mind. I love hearing the details of the battle the developers make against obstacles. I love hearing about the new tools they're developing. I like hearing how the sausage is made; warts and all. I want developers I can cheer for. I feel like I can with these. Enough so, I don't mind throwing money at them to help support them. I've bought into the dream. So many times we've been told how a game is amazing, groundbreaking. We've seen so many scams. It becomes almost impossible to believe someone is _actually_ doing something like this. Truely, you have to see for yourself. The community is awesome. Folks will often throw you money when a bug eats your life savings, or when you dream and drool for a new Prospector to start your mining career. EVERYONE loves loaning out their ships, showing off their beloved babies. There's always someone willing to show you around, offer a hand at something, or, sadly, have disparaging things to say about one's mother. Still, these are folks who also believe in the dream. And, they welcome anyone willing to give their beloved world a try. Me included. I called this game a scam for so long. I actually tried it. "And to think... I hesitated..." -- Pinhead, Hellraiser.

20:00 @Luke... One of the most amazing things to me is that while you can travel from one planet to another seamlessly without load screens... AT THE SAME TIME you can be jogging around your ship while it barrel rolls towards it's destination, as you pass by a port hole you can see space tumbling outside...

“This game doesn’t run too well I’m only getting 60fps at 4k” ….. ohh, you poor poor man..

ive always loved star citizen, my computer cant run it anymore, but im gonna upgrade just so i can play this game. i know most people hate that its not a finished product, but from having played so many early access games, i honestly enjoy being along for the journey as the game gets developed.

What blew my mind is when I heard one of the developers say that in the future you will be able to go to a planet, place an object (like a gun) on the ground, log off for months, then log back in, fly to that spot and still have that object you placed be there. The ambition of this game captures what we all dreamed about doing as little kids.

Important PSA: there's actually a really important point in the terms and conditions, that is repeated every time you try to buy / pledge money on the RSI website: ships, gameplay loops, balance and every other aspect of the game is IN DEVELOPMENT. To you, this means that there is a high probability that your assets will not be exactly as they are at the time of purchase. Every time a ship is changed, there are people horrified at the change in game balance whether the changed ship / item was something they own or something that changes the value of other things they own. So please, feel free to join us as backers if you want, but beware that there is no guarantee that the game will develop in a specific direction (or gets finished at all, though this is looking extremely likely and soon within reach atm). I love the game, love the community, love following the development. That last part is still a big part of the experience.

when i played Star Citizen all the other players called me a noob and a femboy and kept kicking me in the balls. i mean how did they know i had a humiliation fetish. this community is the best i’ve ever found. i really feel like i can be myself and not be judged when playing Star Citizen!

Star citizen is the only game I feel safe introducing to friends cause the moment I bring them in server and share I have brought new players people immediately stop what they are doing and will come help teach them the basics of the game I have not once had a bad experience with this. Edit: very friendly community often times you’ll see people asking in game if anyone is new and wants to learn the game and to make Money.

I do think that in both your streams and this vid you have missed the absolute beauty of this game which is the multiplayer gameplay and pvp interactions. Rocking to a fight or mission in a fully crewed hammerhead or retaliator is dope!

The entire part where you were talking while being lost in area 18 was both hilarious and nostalgic to me. Very relatable. Now I need to see you getting lost in Lorville's metrolines.

When Star citizen was first released people were paying thousands of dollars just to sit in a cockpit of a ship you couldn't fly in a hangar and it wasn't just for a few weeks or months it was well over a year, I think people now a days forget those facts

So... You can hang out on a fake luxury cruise ship pretending to be friends with some rich guy, who casually paid thousands of real money to be hosting random virtual people on a fake ship while sitting on his real luxury yacht. I thought the point of fantasy was to escape pretentious corporate reality - not exchange it for an even worse version.

Keep in mind that because Stephens was given credits by random people in game, his experience would be better than someone who has a starter ship (he makes the same point in the video). That said, it's pretty easy to rent some ships once you know how to go about it, and you can still experience all of these ships during free fly events or just hopping onto other people's ships. Not to mention if you play PTU builds (which are before the live release), players often have access to the new ships in that patch.

There is a hotkey to request takeoff and landing, also a hotkey for autoland (when you are pretty close to ground). You can go into settings to look at keybindings, which are pretty extensive since it is meant to be realistic and in depth. Tutorials definitely help though.

"I cant think of any game that's done what star citizen is trying to do" Elite Dangerous: "What am I a joke to you?"

you were so lucky to have a stream with people to help you! i streamed my first time playing and ofc no one was watching and had to figure all of this out my self took me nearly 1 hour to figure out how to even get my ship 1 more hour to figure out how to get out of the hanger im still new only played like a month but man so jelly that you learned so fast and after one month of grinding mostly on stream im almost ready to buy my first ship cant wait! do wish people would want to watch tho but seems not to be the case xD

This is the first time in months that I’ve sat through a full video that’s almost an hour long, and enjoyed every moment of it.

I have been a backer for almost 10 years and am also part of the Evocati testing group. I have spent a lot of money backing their and my dream game. What people also have to remember that they are also building 2 games with the 500 million they have made so far. Squadron 42 is a single player campaign that is getting close to being finished. It has some top actors playing roles in the game and will be a top A rated title with beautiful graphics and immersion. The other is the multi player universe. There are still some core technology that is needed for them to complete the game that they have promised and one of the few last hurdles is coming in 3.18 at the end of the year that is already in testing. After that the next milestone is server meshing. This is going to allow hundreds or more players together in one location. This will allow the use of capital ships that will require 20-50 people to operate. No game does this in the fidelity that Star Citizen achieves. There is some feature creep that has kept the game in production for this long but I am okay with it. Originally we were never going to be able to fully fly to a planet and land like we do now. It has opened up fully explorable planets and moons which they are adding more content to with each patch. Looking forward to 4.0 and the first jump to a new system which should be coming next year with server meshing. Keep up the good work CIG!

"there is no game that allow you to travel with this scope without loading screen THERE IS NoT" No men sky: am i a joke to you ?

That store is hilarious. "Add Squadron 42? What's included: "

I drunkenly asked in chat for money and someone gave me 50 mil. The community is super chill.... until you clap them with a corsair

I've supported SC since 2012. It deserves the skepticism. A good portion of any of the success it has had is due to the skepticism and feedback they've gotten from the player base throughout development. But I do think it's earned its place and has a very promising future.

Seems like so much went into this and still you end up saying you don't think it will ever be finished. But you are correct - they will never stop developing. The plan was never to release the game and stop adding features. The plan is to release and then keep up the development.

There are people who have spent hundreds of dollars on this game and will literally be dead before this game gets out of alpha.

I, as a very small streamer (back when I was streaming) started streaming SC with 0 followers. Within 3 days I had 200 followers all from the SC community. They came out in force to help me learn the game. If you're cool they will be there for you and really get you going.

Oh man, so much awesome stuff. glad you're enjoying your time in the verse o7 a few fun tips :) 1. You can now bind the ATC take off / land to a ho key. this is recent but a much welcome QOL 2. most ships will require multi crew in the future outside of the single person ships. Right now anyone can solo fly a ship but that won't be the case down the road. AI and NPC hires will be an option but not as good as another citizen at your side. 3. (Time Sensitive) As of this for the current IAE the Cutter is your best starting ship purchase as it gets LTI and is far more versatile than then Aurora. I expect even after the IAE sale with the price increase it will be a better pick as it has a large cargo area and living space. Love seeing people approach the verse with an open mind but also with logic. Yes it's a dream project of Chris Roberts but as the progress and numbers show A LOT of us share the same dream. See you in the Verse Citizen o7

One needs to realize the 600+ M$ Star Citizen has generated go towards the development of 2 games, the Persistent Universe, an open world MMO; and Squadron 42, a single player space adventure game. 600 M& over 12 years is 50M$ per year split into 2 different games. Cyberpunk 2077 took 7 years to make at 483M$, which is 69M$ per year on just 1 single player game that doesn't innovate in every tech aspect of the game. People are really exaggerating a lot. Star Citizen has a relatively small budget for its company size.

it's a lot easier to not have buyers remorse in this game if you paid into it early.. I spent $20 on the 300i back in 2013, which now costs $72.. inflation is a bitch even in star citizen apparently. It's the kind of game where I wish I could get my friends to play with me but, with how expensive the barrier to entry has become these days as compared to when I bought in, it's understandable that they are hesitant.

If you compare the 500 million they made over 10 years, to what other game companies make in just 1 year, you will see it is just a drop in the bucket. For instance, Blizzard alone makes over 1.53 BILLION a year. Now compare that to Star Citizen 500 million over 10 years.

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I started playing Star Citizen this past January and absolutely fell in love with it. It's one of the only games that have ever immersed me this much. It also has one of the single most generous and welcoming communities I have ever been a part of. I'm not even a famous streamer or youtuber, and I still had super generous people sending me large sums of credits so I could upgrade from my crappy starter ship. Random people will take time out of their day to come pick you up if you crash due to a bug, or rescue you if you get injured. Unfortunately I ran into some PC problems and am no longer able to play it, but one day I hope to be able to come back and dive right back in. Until then, I'm going to keep watching my fellow Star Citizens on RU-vid. o7, see ya'll in the sky.

The biggest issue I have with this game is the same as everyone else, they are 100% milking the community for everything they can, you cannot in good conscious say they are not, 500m+ is more than enough for this game, and the prices on shit in the store is insane. It has taken them a decade to get to where they are now and while it's impressive, the time it took is not. The game does have "loading screens" it's happening while you warp just like in ED and a bunch of other space games it's not all that unique, you can do similar stuff in ED and that game has been out for years (although it is not as good I will say, but it's out). My bigger issue though is that if this game comes out when a lot of people kind of expect, like 2026 or longer (defiantly longer knowing them) this game engine is just not going to cut it anymore imo, you can't expect an engine to last years and years and still be up to par when you release it, by the time this comes out there will be better engines, and I could see them using that as another excuse to push the game back a few more years to make some more money. Like I tell my friends, don't buy this, why should they be incentivized to actually release this game when they are making far more by just not, all they need to do is show progress, even small progress and people who have spent hundreds or thousands on it will go nuts for it (I spent like $120 but I don't expect to care about this game when it finally does come out tbh). In review, I love what little they have done with this game, but I fucking hate how greedy they are and how much time they take doing everything they promise. I have no doubt it WILL release and it will be fun, what I don't know is if it will be in the 2020's or 2030's...

I used to watch some streamers play this a few years back and it looked pretty bad. Mainly just how laggy the fights and events were but what I'm seeing here looks quite polished. Honestly some of those scenes of you walking around in the cities looks more like what Cyberpunk promised us as far as the feel of a lively city. I'm really impressed by the seamless transitions between taking off, flying, walking around in the ship, back to docking, then walking around a city. Really wish I had a decent pc now so I could experience it like this.