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Well, I mean, I would have launched it first (as an AAA game), but I'm no game developer. 🤷 And neither are they, from the looks of it. Good at perpetually raking in money for himself and his family, though!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Every person I know who's spent money on star citizen seems happy with their RoI

Every person you know personally? Most comment sections I've seen discussing Star Citizen seems to have at least one or two people who are unhappy with their roi. Personally, I don't feel like I've been able to get my full money's worth yet. I think I will some day, I know it's more than a tech demo, but the gameplay isn't quite there yet and the game is still really buggy and unoptimized.

If they can release Squadron 42 this year or next, I think that'd really start to turn things around for them more than anything else

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Let's be honest the people who would defend their ROI have lost interest in defending it to the unwilling. Star Citizen has become a cat call to all the haters whenever it's posted in general gaming (namely r/games and c/games now) communities. The only way the narrative changes is by showing not telling, and that only happens with further polishing like this article is covering, and in future release.

There is a reason they've successfully increased pledge numbers year over year, you just don't hear from people outside that community due to this stigma that's not worth bothering to explain.