What are referring to - Star Citizen?
They were collecting ideas before the kickstarter, but development began in earnest years after the kickstarter. They had a very small team at the beginning which was in no way capable of developing anything. The trailer was made for them by Crytek, not themselves. In fact, in the…

where though?
It is pretty well documented how they spend the money on the salaries of the devs, the rent for the offices, and they are actively developing it and have proof to show it as well.
Not everything that is developed is flashy and nice to look at. In fact, most of the dev stuff in the background is nothing Joe…

or at least damage it very hard.
Being an original backer, but not having sunk much more into it, I am still baffled and amazed at what they achieved and looking forward to more.

Seriously, I had more than my money’s worth of fun out of this title already, and it just keeps on giving. For my part, I am satisfied.

interesting, how did you come to this conclusion?
From being a semi-active player, I had the impression that especially if you started playing again in late 2020 (december) or 2021, progress was clearly visible in terms of performance, things to do (more mission types) ,persistence of mission progress, inventory and…

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.

Dwarf Fortress is going to cost money once it has, ya know... graphics.

...specifically compared to Dwarf Fortress, it’s very much massive - both in terms of actual game space involved, and in terms of game assets and data.

Some people definitely think Star Citizen can do no wrong, but just as many people (if not more) also think it can do no right.

I love it whenever a gaming website runs an “article” that reaches for the low hanging fruit of “video game still in development has bug, OMG LOL” and it prompts a bunch of imbeciles who have never even looked at the game in depth and don’t realize just how actually impressive it really is to join the bandwagon of…

...how about no? They’re happy with their progress, and so are their fans.

Would love to see those documents. Sadly, I suspect this is a real “My uncle works at Nintendo” kind of comment.

A specific elevator somewhere in the game has a problem, specifically set off by the player intentionally running against the door while the elevator is moving? That must mean all elevators, everywhere, are broken! Harr harr!

oh no the newest/biggest ship is buggy

I’ve played it a decent amount lately with one of my friends and have really enjoyed it. With this Invictus week, it’s been really cool to see the larger ships finally in the game. I mean, yeah, it’s a poorly optimized, buggy mess--but still one you can have a lot of fun with.

You never got your money back? I got a refund over half a decade ago.

Or, or, and here’s another distinct and even more likely possibility, you could just be overreacting to a social media joke that is not at all actually about literally shaming anyone for being “horny on main” and is in fact playing on and doing a more effective job of undermining the same cultural hangups that you are…

They’re not banning all adult items. They’re restricting the items they will allow for sale, and those that are adult items such as toys will go into adult-specific categories. The wording they use says this - “we want to make adult items available” - and they do. It’s not cooperate doublespeak unless you’re purposely…

I’ve said this elsewhere and I’ll say it again.

Epic wants to look like they’re the good guys, but in reality they’re just as scummy and money hungry as anyone else. They act like avoiding the fees of the app store is righteous, but it’s not like they’re going to charge less to the customers for their microtransactions. They just want to pocket a larger percentage.…

From today’s Apple vs Epic hearing: “If Apple told you the deal would only be with you and no other developers,” referencing a carve-out for lower App Store commission, “would you have accepted that deal?”