Oh boy a Star Citizen thread.
I wish I could market my passion projects with 1% of their abilities
Not so fun fact about marketing, they recently fired the head of marketing because he was pushing too much for new fancy ships to sell. He was pushing the devs towards things that can sell.
Management said stop, go work elsewhere, now we polish stuff for a while to have a stable platform for the alpha players before adding new stuff.
So if you could market like him, maybe you’ll be jobless now 🤷🏻♂️
Aye but the ten year run of marketing the game during development was probably pretty nice.
They made some ground breaking tech. There’s simply nothing else like it. It’s not smoke and mirrors, people do have a game to play. Server meshing and fidelity is still unmatched, especially in space sim area.
The game is marketing itself for a long while now.
Server meshing being “unmatched” is mostly marketing BS.
You have examples of MMO games leveraging server meshing (with Pentium CPUs) from 20+ years ago.
I mean, that really depends on how you define server meshing.
Star Citizen is the only MMO I’ve seen where you can be standing in one server, look at players/objects in a different server (a few feet away) and actually shoot/interact with those objects without noticing any difference.
The only way you can even tell they’re in a different server is by keeping an eye on a server identifier using some console commands, and walking/flying over the boundary.
In every other MMO the servers are either completely separate, or there’s some sort of loading screen between areas.
So in the same week back in 2013 I did 2 things.
- Buy a Star Citizen package with the game and a ship with lifetime insurance
- Buy a 3 pack of hand built laser pointers from a local online store
Now the price wasn’t exactly the same, but close enough that I considered them equal. A week after buying the laser pointers I get an email saying that parts were on back order and there’d be a delay.
A week after that, their entire online store presence vanished, and they stopped responding to emails about my order.
To this day I’m still more salty about the laser pointers, since at least RSI keep sending me emails with updates.
It’s really crazy that people still have interest in this game.
Honestly they would solve the majority of pushback by just announcing the game as being released as live service instead of pretending it is still in early access as if there was a roadmap to a real release.
I think they’d receive more flak for regarding the game in it’s current state. As it is, they’re giving you exactly what they say they are: a still in development game. People who are still buying into the game do it knowing the game is still in development.
I’m an early backer of the game. I got suckered into a ship upgrade during a “sale” within a year of backing the game. I’m not upset about that. But I think people who got suckered into spending hundreds of dollars on ships early on have more legitimate complaints than folks buying in right now. Early on, it wasn’t known how it was going to go down. There was a lot of hype. But now, you know what you’re getting.
And yes, I fully understand that backing games is risky, and we shouldn’t pre-order games. I’ve changed a lot in my buying habits in 10 years.
I think the legacy of the game will entirely depend on how it turns out. If they end up releasing a game that people love, all will be forgiven.
Not saying people can’t like doing whatever they like doing. I guess maybe my wording should have been closer to that it’s crazy that people still believe this game is going to see a full release and/or giving money for it. It’s an insane amount of money that has been poured into this game at this point to still be saying there’s no full version available still.
Such an incredible scam. I have friends that spent thousands on this shit. They are like cult members.
If you spend thousands on an unreleased game, the only one scamming you is yourself.
There is some forum of mind washing going on with this game. They spent so much time watching videos and reading posts on this game it was crazy. I am telling you when you talk to these people they act like cult members. This piece of shit game kills you while riding in a elevator. A 800 million dollar game that you can’t ride in an elevator without sometime dying because of bugs in the game. Insanity.
People spend thousands on fully released games. Some people are highly susceptible to the kinds of tactics game companies use to sell things like ships in Star Citizen and microtransactions.
Came to this thread right after one about how MTX accounted for ~55% of gaming industry profits in 2024, which is only a 1.7% increase YoY. There’s a reason these ships are sold and hyped the way they are, and it’s specifically to snare people who have impulse control issues.
TL;DR - Stop victim blaming.
