Question a) have you ever played SC, preferably in a group with friends, and recently?
Question b) what do you know / did you experience personally that makes you think that it is a disaster?

Just asking, since I am playing it regularly and having fun together with friends doing missions as a crew, and it just... works.

For a long time they were quite lenient with refunds.
But at all times, it was said that what you did was pledge your money towards furthering the development. The goalposts moved on account of the wishes of the loud majority fueling this development.
But your dream of piracy might come true after all. Interdiction…

So, you didn’t play the game yourself, you took some random youtubers video and used that for clickbait.
Is that the new kind of journalism we have to get accustomed to now?

Look, I get it that SC is an easy target for mockery. And - in many cases - rightfully so.

But I see very few articles that show the stuff that they…

no, on the contrary. But do not only report them here, report them on the issue council as well.
It is an alpha, yes. But it can only get better if the devs get organized feedback.
They have a system in place for that, but complaining on facebook, forums or in reviews doesn’t help, they need feedback and technical…

Age of Conan was roasted for this at launch. When they showed the game on the Games Convention floor, people loved it. But it was quickly roasted because everything after the initial area where you spent your first levels felt rushed and incomplete, basically like they blazed past everything after the tutorial…

That especially is a good point. Technically it would’ve made more sense if they, p.ex. told you that the condition has accelerated right at the beginning of the final act.

The problem with Johnny is, that to everybody who played the pen&paper rpg, he is a major character already, some kind of mystical celebrity, and…

That is 6 months for a bread&butter-car like a Golf.
There were times when you had to wait more than two years for your Mercedes to show up. Ford was iirc the first manufacturer to really tackle those times with the just-in-time manufacturing at Saarlouis, having the parts for the configuration the user wanted arrive…

No, I was mainly impressed how they pulled off the look&feel of the city. It is one of the few videogame cities that comes close to what one could call “real life size” - not quite there yet, but close. Still no real open world, i.e. not possible to enter any building at any time, but a lot to explore and find if you…

It is a common myth that Windows 10 does not need to defrag a harddrive. It is correct that it does this by itself when the system is idle (that’s why you can see HDD activity when nothing else is running), but that doesn’t mean that it is not necessary like on a SSD.

The thing about the database rebuild on PS4 was new…

Thanks, good to know. Or rather bad, since it still crashing seems quite meh :(
Was hoping that there would at least be an explanation for the behaviour seen in the videos of crashes.

To everybody who had problems with this game on a PS4 or OG Xbox: I really wonder if it would run better on a clean system. Nothing installed, freshly formatted drive.
From what I’ve seen from videos the game mainly crashed when trying to load files and not getting them fast enough. So if you have an HDD where you…

out of curiosity, what narrative issues do you mean? I thought the basic plotline was well executed, and the variety the missions offer (also not having to strictly do every single one, changing the ending of the game in the process) was nice.
For my taste, there could’ve been more different things happening based on…

Out of curiosity, what system did you buy it for? If PS4, or OG XBone, then I can somewhat see your point. But on most other platforms it ran well to really good. I have a 5 year old CPU, and 4 year old graphics card, and it is running perfectly in 1920x1080 on my PC with all details maxed (ofcourse without…

I’ve seen several streamers today quit their stream because they couldn’t stand the obnoxious amount of pop-ups the game apparently bombards you with. All while keeping important info in the background, and not so visible.

Their “protection” is only word of mouth, can be unlocked with very simple methods.
This is bull, they sold their cards by the container to the highest bidder and didn’t care what they were going to be used for. Did not care back then, and they don’t care now. Pure marketing blah-blah.

Seems like taste is different, to me a lot of them (not all) looked superb. Though that could be different depending on colour choice of the model, sometimes one version looked really nice, and the other one more like stuff you’d wear indoors or at a gym.

I like muted, not-so-flashy design overall though. That’s why I…

Sorry, but I think you are really, really wrong here. The Adidas Porsche collaborations resulted in some fabulous looking and very comfortable shoes. Sadly, they were all a limited run, so I had to buy whatever pair I could find - the Porsche Design S2 were among the best shoes I’ve worn in the last 20 years, and so…

oh, now you are going down to personal insult territory. I actually like the way the 996 looks very much, especially on the inside, because it is not so extremely angular like newer 911 and not so horrendously outdated and impractical like the older ones.
It is actually a very nice and refined driving machine. And as…

The one exception being the Volvo 850. But that thing was tested... differently.

No, not British, German. Young people that are inexperienced drivers pay extraordinarily more for car insurance here, it goes down fast, but the starting payments are killing you.
A good used car that will serve you for a few years and survive the next TÜV will cost at least 2000€ from the start, it will be an older…