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Originally Posted by Pagy
data i seriously and without overt malice would like to inquire...what ever happened to star citizen? i seriously have no clue what happened there
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The opposite of what happened with Elite Dangerous.
Braben mapped out a 10-year plan to release a basic-but-playable game mode built on a massive sandbox universe with a codebase that would allow them to add major gameplay mechanics as they went, provided the game (and its modest cosmetic store) was even moderately successful.
Roberts saw dollar signs and from basically Day One decided he wanted everything and the kitchen sink at launch, and he was going to try and develop two competing games at the same time -- one in near secrecy -- while selling empty promises to the fans to keep the lights on, and delivering scraps and missed deadlines with little or no communication.
You couldn't find two more perfect examples in all of gaming history. They both announced in the same year with similar goals and Frontier has beaten CIG to the punch at every single turn. Star Citizen is the poster child for how not to build a crowdfunded game.
In short, Chris Roberts is a **** project manager.
That said, it is still going somehow and just released another quarterly public build alongside a major "we're sorry, here's the info we've been keeping from you" video series update. It's a "playable" alpha with a small number of barebones gameplay loops and pretty graphics.