they are still working on the game and its slowly getting to what they promised, not to mention star citizen isnt the main game they’re working on

It should be with all the money people put into it 😂 At this point they could just be updating it to avoid a lawsuit. Or they actually want it to be finished and will but with the prices they charge the game isn't worth it. Especially for a forever beta

they prices they charge dont have to be paid, you can pay £45 and play the game without having to spend anything more than that, and the game has been getting quite close to the “finished” state that they want for 1.0 release

Yes but to be actually viable they constantly push more and more expensive bundles and ships you can technically play for cheap but to fully enjoy and experience the game you'll be spending more than that.

eh i feel like that’s more of a personal preference, some people enjoy the grind but fair

In some ways yea but I've also seen friends put so much money into it that I'm gonna be real upset if it doesn't make its promises considering it's budget. And I don't even play it

there was an episode of divorce court where a dude got ditched for spending the entire downpayment for a new house they were saving up for on star citizen instead

I'd love to be like haha that'll never happen with any games I play 😎 (except I'm also an MTG player 😭)

hey, at least it's easier to re-sell MTG cards than ships on star citizen, which is what the guy claimed to be doing

Do you know what a normal budget for a AAA title is? CP2077 spent $174M in dev, $142M in marketing, and another $85M on DLC. Star Citizen has raised *over $800 million dollars* This should be _THE BEST GAME_ until GTA VI. Instead it's vaporshit.

^ it's not doing anything truly innovative enough to be worth that budget imo HOWEVER I don't hate on people for believing in it, I'm a fallout 76 player but the habits shown by the devs are worrying.

they are developeing fully dynamic server meshing with seamless server transition without loading screens which hasnt rly been done before for a large scale mmo. server meshing has been done before but not to this extent and uts already in the game but not fully

i mean rockstar spent ~400 million on rdr2 with ~8 years development. CIG has like 1/3 dev team of rockstar (they are actively hiring) and star citizen isnt their main focus, so to me its no surprise its not finished yet

That's still half the price, and it should be their main focus considering it's their main source of income that's the real problem I see personally

Also star citizens been in production since 2010/2011 that's a lot longer than rdr2 and while yea they're trying something new shifting the focus means like another decade or so until it gets close to release.

while i do see your point, their main focus has always been Squadron 42, most of their resources are allocated to that game and star citizen has been mostly a bit of a background project, with more devs being freed up recently you can see a lot more progress on SC lately

You know what, that makes a lot more sense, while I still don't like it that did help inform future opinions so ty for the information!

yeah this is a thing thats very overlooked whenever talking about star citizen, money raised etc, most people dont even realise that they we working on 2 games at the same time not even talking about other things they are doing