They definitely wanted to get past Alina’s story ASAP, which is understandable, honestly.

You’re not getting it at all.

Fair enough, but even then I’m not seeing the woke - I don’t mean that as a challenge or attack, just like, usually the sort of people you’re imitating have some specific elements they’re super-aggro about even if they’re somewhat nonsensical.

They definitely should have. Ironically with the same approximate business model - i.e. selling ships/cosmetics - they’d probably have made vastly more money, at this point, if they just focused on releasing a basically playable game, and then continually adding to it.

It’s not an accident that there’s no-one saying “finish it”. If Chris Roberts wanted it finished, it’d be finished. The dude has had over half a billion dollars.

There’s a fascinating crossover between Soviet-style useless building and US capitalist pork barrel stuff. So it’s not as strange as you might think. Both systems can and do enter a similar failure mode.

It’s not a “victim” of anything.

Scope creep is usually accidental.

He’s probably confusing it with Elite: Dangerous, which had a Kickstarter that marketed it hard as a single-player game with an entirely optional online mode, then once the KS succeeded, Frontier made it clear they were actually going to make an MMO which had a vestigial “don’t see other players” mode but 100% played…

And he’s a grifter - he’s become extremely rich, lives in a massive mansion (possibly multiple ones) with expensive sports cars and so on, too. At this point, Star Citizen has cost more than twice as much to develop as any other videogame in history (when we note marketing is not part of the equation).

Callisto’s does, yes. Most budgets we see do not.

Absolute bollocks. Callisto was also severely mismanaged, and even things like GTAV only cost $150m to develop.

Yeah the guy claiming it’s not a grift is a moron, frankly.

“You can SEE where all the money went.”

“Everyone seems to think that the Gideon plotline is leading up to Palpatine’s return in TRoS, but what if it’s a red herring?”

“Yeah, and you see that with the upper-class types at the opera house whose lives haven’t changed much regardless of who’s in charge.”

Disenchantment is still getting episodes - they’re working on the 5th part right now.

Yeah and I bet you in like 5-10 years there will be plenty of people muttering about how unfair it was the show never got a second season.

I loved this show but that is pretty accurate.

That’s one read, re: the mind flayer, but it’s also possible the inverse is true.