Star Citizen Could Make a BILLION Dollars...
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- Опубліковано 27 тра 2024
- Star Citizen just cruised past $700,000,000 in total funding and is well on it's way to a BILLION dollars raised... but how is it getting there and what will be the consequences of the game finally "releasing?"
#starcitizen - Ігри
I didnt contribute a single cent over the week!! Im proud!
Me too. Shits dumb. What has it been since it was first on Kickstart?10 years plus? Lmao
There's still 26 hours to change that ~_^
@Truewastelander and it's the only game of its scope with no competition. Doesn't sound dumb
meanwhile me who dropped 500€ worth of money and reached concierge. 😁
Tbh, mostly got items that have resale value on the grey market.
what about last week?
I like how you are never afraid with bringing up the core design problems with this game. It's going to be an absolute miracle if CIG can somehow manage to balance this all out with 1.0.
If I had a dollar for every time Levelcap said he was "excited for the future of Star Citizen", I could buy one of their ships.
idk how we can be even close to 1.0 release when we havent even touched beta
1.0 release in Q4 2045.
Surely this will go over well for the "scam citizen" folks.
Whenever they want more money they push out an update and high five each other.
Raising money doesn't mean something isn't a scam. Not sure you know how scams work...their entire purpose IS to get money.
haha. yes. because $700 million isn't enough to make a game.
@@noway9880gta 6 is already at 2 billion....
This game will never be fully released, theres no money in it for them
Meanwhile gacha games like Genshin impact reaching 1 billion in just six months (and that's without PC/Console revenue, only mobile). The key is obfuscating the money needed to get something with random chance mechanics and incredibly predatory business practices, if SC implemented a gacha system the funding would go through the roof, though they would have to add waifu skins for the ships or something. (PS: I'm just joking)
omg ship gacha with the people supporting this game it would prob crack 10bil rn xD
The audience in SC tend to make larger purchases at once. I feel like it’s because in general we’re older and our demographic is significantly different
Thank you for that hypothetical nightmare.... holy moly
Dont give them ideas
No thank you. We don't want Gatcha systems in star citizen.Go play lost ark or genshin
Im ready to play once they stop wiping money in game.
Just imagine guys! In just 10 short years we will have 1.0!!! This is amazing news!!!!
I'm already speccing out a new PC build; looking to get the RTX 11090Ti with the Intel i9-25900k. Price is a little steep at $25k adjusted for inflation but I think it'll be worth it.
GTA 6 is at 2 billion budget and development started in 2014. It doesn't have the same scope and an existing well established studio to develop it - yet their current budget is 3x that of SC.
People refuse to look at actual comparison which there really isn't but if you look at runner ups that started with already established dev studios you have Duke Nukem forever was 10 years and was just a solo shoot em up, RD2 was 9 years and 300mil ish with only solo until the remaster with coop, GTA5 now with gta6 over 10 in development already, skull and bones is like 11ish years and launched as a flop, SS kill the justice league was 10yr development and was a flop, the list goes on and on of well established AAA studios taking 10 plus years on their major releases with funding from all their proceeding games and publishers as financial support yet look where modern gaming is at. This is an attempt to make a game with big publisher funding but without a publisher fucking it up and those guys are really threatened by that fact cause existing or new upcoming dev studios will try to cut them out as well if this works.
Honestly will suck if SC flops but from the gameplay hours I got out it I wouldn't be upset, gotyoneys worth out of it.
@@ShadowByNine Word.
@@TheHollowGrind wait a year from 10 years it will be 1k!!
I remember back when people were excited about being able to fly seamlessly from space to planets and back without a loading screen. Today, nobody really even thinks about it.
They're going to stumble and continue to stumble, but a lot of the tech that's on the horizon I definitely see being possible.
Saw that thumbnail and thought you meant they were charging $700 million for the Ironclad which wouldn't surprise me.
iron clad assault is $535. Dont think you have to spend that much, the base game has everything and is only $45. Currently during the sale its $40
I absolutely love Star Citizen. No other game gives me the same feels. It has so far to go though.
No game gives me the same levels of frustration and grief which is why I deleted it
@@itcanbesoo🤡
700m on an unfinished game
@@khrisbird3146 and?
@@itcanbesoo I closed the door on your way out buddy! No one will miss ya :D
Considering we have not hit alpha 4.0 yet alone beta x.x - The actual final 1.0 release wont be for at least a few years...
I have been hearing that exact line from a friend of mine that plays this for about 5 years.
Can't wait for the Coffeezilla video(s) on Star Citizen.
I bought a ship a while ago but I found it immersion breaking how all the NPCs stood on chairs and my ship kept flying about and crushing me in the hangar. I’m coming around to my yearly attempt to connect with it.
With how awesome flying around and just being in or near some of these ships are you really do have to take a step back and ask questions like this. What are we going to do in the persistent universe that keeps me wanting to log in? It needs so much work and I hardly ever hear anyone talk about this, so its nice to get videos like this that pose this question.
Besides not having as much time to play a big MMO all the time anymore, one of the reasons I am more looking forward to Squadron 42 than progress on StarCitizen at the moment is also exactly this: Squadron 42 doesn't have the problem of ship-sales and how they will handle them when 1.0 comes around + all the cost that they still need to cover after launch like Servers and continued development.
Honestly, I have no idea and don't want to be in CIGs position when it comes to funding SC after 1.0. How do you do that as SC will be one of the most expensive Live-Service games in support-cost. Parts of that funding can come from other projects like the two successors to Squadron 42 and maybe part could in the future come from them licensing tech to other developers (if that is even possible and ignoring the fact that this will also cost them a lot of money).
But aside from that. I don't think simply the 1-time buy and cosmetics (which are seen as acceptable at this point) are enough.
I do think when it comes to cosmetics they have quite a bit they can use though with Vehicle-Skins, Player-Armor Skins, Weapon Skins and the real money-maker: Cosmetics for your HAB or Base but even that I think might very well not be enough, certainly not enough if they want to keep developing with the amount of devs and at the momentum they have right now.
ye they are kinda on a tight schedule, there might come a time in 3-5years where the game will actually drop support from people all around. And what then? How long can they operate at a loss? The extreme exposure it got rn from Summ1t and other big streamer for a bit is huge for SC. Just unlucky that anybody who tried free fly this week realised it's a buggy unplayable mess most likely. If they would have had at least the basics set it could've brought them ten thousands of new players who might've stuck around.
Yet it seems that the funding is actually speeding up currently so maybe for the next 5 years they will still see a surge and don't have to worry, just the question is how many ships do they really want to keep adding. What about powercreeps etc
revenue from SQ42 will start funding SC, also if SC is in a more polished there are still lots of people that could buy in. CIG also has the option of designing other games using their engine. They have lots of options.
@@phxbadash
1. Revenue of SQ42: Generally yes, but you should also keep in mind that they need some of that for the second SinglePlayer. But generally I do agree which is also a reason I believe getting SQ42 out should be their focus at this point in time
2. SC Sales would be good of course but more people buying it also means for CIG more cost (servers for one, but also to keep all these people you need more support and more content creation/devs)
3. Designing other games (like the other two games to finish of SQ42s Trilogy) would of course be an option BUT that will also cost a lot of money. There is a reason that a studio often closes after a AAA-Game flops: You need all your Money to make the game.
If they sold squadron 42 to 3 million people at 45 bucks thats 135 million. The other two in the trilogy will make that add up to 405 million.
Once done with sq42 they could create narratives around other factions... tying subjective experience to lore building in game.
The game being in an incomplete state has 10s of millions of players in a state of wait. Alot of players will only come for the single player/coop game that is Sq 42. Many will crave more afterwards and transition to the PU.
Alot of people forget that in sq42 you fight the vanduul. By releasing that campaign you are effectively adding them to the game which would breathe way more then just new life into the pu.
There are multiple reasons why sq42 is more important then anything else from the developers view, the most important one being the whale have been milked.
It’s not that hard: just chuck $20,000,000 into the stock market and run the servers from profits. They have enough that it should literally be self perpetuating. Set up a trust to run it. Afterall, all this money was donated to run the game subscription free, and there should be enough cash to make the servers run for a long time. I would also cut the studio staff right back so that the game is basically just automated. And allow private servers or offline play.
We already now that CIG have 3 squadron games, Star Engine to license out as well as all their other tech… plus mocap studios etc.
Once you drop all the excess staff and close a few studios, CIG has many passive income streams.
Genshin Impact brought in $943.8 million globally in 2023 so only reason why I'm willing to wait and just enjoy my time with it as they figure it out.
$200M and 10 years for Skull and Bones. $700M for Star Citizen, Squadron 42, next-gen server tech (server meshing, persistent entity streaming, etc) and 130 something flyable ships with interiors right now. I dont get the hate.
Gameplay. Gameplay. Gameplay.
Being fun or engaging to play is a must. Fancy digital ships in a polished tech demo won't cut it
Sadly CIG also burned through this cash with little to show for in SC, a single system (ok second nearly ready), no economy, planets with nearly no content, some Tier 0 or 1 gameplay, and a lot of ships with different features all in need of finalization, a huge amount of bugs. So if it's for SC alone the amount of money used for development is questionable, so it's for SQ42 to surprise me and tell me where all the money has gone.
I'm surprised you haven't even gotten hate for saying this or any white knights telling you wrong. Seriously thought did they spend 500 mil on marketing? the tech they have isn't new and everything that this game can do other games can do better. The flight model is "tier zero" in year 12!! THEIR WORDS NOT EVEN MINE
@@guynamedmaggi5520As a software engineer, server meshing is a massive fucking deal.
@@guynamedmaggi5520The way they do server meshing is going to be the best so far. But we have to agree that the flight model is still not right after so many years of reworking, they only have started working on stalling mechanics, in a game involving atmospheric flight on top of space flight… And yet the combat (it’s all about combat in this game let’s face it, other specialties suck) is not even great because you need so many variants of ships to do a single different thing. A real life aircraft can do anti ship, air to air, air to ground, recon, SEAD, being a multirole aircraft basically. In this game, none of the light, medium and heavy combat ships can do that. You either torpedo/missile spam (not even that works) or dogfight. That’s where imo CIG failed to take inspiration from real life, implement it into a sci-fi universe, and embracing the « simulator » aspect of it without being DCS of course.
A game can be simple and arcade while developed for years by a single dev (former KSP modder) like VTOL VR and nail that aspect perfectly. CIG: lots of devs, massive funds and technical means, can’t do anything right except graphics and visual level of detail so dear to Chris Roberts.
« Okay, people don’t like this model, let’s try something else. » and « Okay, people don’t like that either, throw this thing called master modes in and see what happens » behavior should not exist. It’s a clear sign that the devs don’t have a proper gameplay/game design vision that they hardly believe in and will do everything to make it work. They just scrap stuff and start over, try random things and ideas hoping to do something good, but it’s 99% never a good result.
I put $25 this year. You’re welcome CIG.
every little bit helps. I hope youre enjoying your time in your new vehicle. My guess is the pulse? or did you ccu?
@@BearanormalPodcastlol it was just a ccu. Been a citizen for eight years no, I think I have like eight ships.
@@DionSamuel nice dude, hope you enjoy it! I only got 3, my mole, c8r, and zues mk2 (cargo) (currently a c1 loaner)
@@BearanormalPodcastOh it’s just a C1 upgrade.
@@DionSamuel well, ya, but the C1 is also so far the best bang for its buck in the game. Its the best of the small/medium cargo ships, very fast good shields and actually has decent offense/defense capabilities.
I finally figured out who LevelCap sounds like.
Norm Macdonald, if he had been a gamer.
yes.
I finally got to try it and it just didn’t have anything that grabbed me. I felt slow and guns felt weak. Maybe I was just low level and not understanding but I felt everything fun to do was locked behind paywalls. With life demanding more time I need games that let me pop in and pop out quick action. Guess despite being hyped for this game it just isn’t a game for me. Maybe it will become more user friendly once it goes free to play in another decade.
It’s slow to get started and really is best with flight sim equipment and having someone guide you through it because the game doesn’t do a great job of showing you how to do things. There is definitely an appeal to the enthusiast crowd much like MS Flight Simulator
@@jonathanpatterson2502 maybe I just need to invest in some new equipment. It probably didn’t help my computer was not having the best time playing this beast of a game.
I still think we are 4-5 years out from a proper 1.0 release
Server meshing is going to take multiple years to get right
If it already worked in testing, server meshing v1 might be essential for going forward & improving the game, which is supposedly going to happen this year.
@@Empty12345 Ive been hearing that for many, many years. But, I envy your optimism and I hope for your sake it comes true
dynamic meshing will not take that long after static meshing is running. the main difference between static and dynamic meshing is the logic that is needed for the server to decide when to spin up another DGS.
@@phxbadash I aint no expert but Ill take your word for it
@@JJS563 I mean you might be right that it's going to take multiple years to get it right, but I sure hope it's not the case XD
First real human
For real though
i wonder how long before the first player lawsuit over an insurance claim or ship price hits our legal system.
Serious question, star citizen was supposed to have 100+ star systems. I have not seen this plan having changed at all. If they have barely flushed out Stanton and pyro is next but its still bare bones, how long is it realistically going to take until we have those 100+ promised in the stretch goals systems
I coukdnt even put in my Ballista in this ship because the seat to launch the missles is bugged and wont let you sit..
About the monetization, how about ads and product placement? I wouldn't want it if it was randomly shoved into our face, but the verse is kinda a living breathing universe, with its own stories and whatnot. And we also get ads, just like IRL..for Mobiglass, for weapons, for food and drinks, for ships, etc. How about, after 1.0, CIG offers ads space on ingame billboard. Heck, their own branding devs can work it out and make the future version of Coke, McDonald, KFC.
If SC got big enough with decent traffic of players, I think it might be a reasonable way to monetize the game by offering ads space that is non-intrusive and seamless within the verse itself. We drink Crux, Fizz, eat Whammer, we even have brand clothing inside. It might be even more immersive this way. We drink Coke, Fanta, Pocari, eat at Wendy's, etc.
that would be the coolest founding model i have ever heard of
700m in funding but still cant fix the core issue of the game which is they server
That's what server meshing and 4.0 is for.
This patch has server recovery and replication layer and meshing are next, and that’s always been the plan to fix it, but it literally and truly is bleeding edge tech and I believe the future of MMO server tech.
clearly youve not played the server meshing tests, or the replication layer patches, lmao your info is outdated lol cry more.
@@BearanormalPodcasthow much did you spend?
@@NoTalker_ so far, about 300. Initially I bought the base game package of 45, played it for a bit, flew with friends who had bigger ships, found I really loved the concept, a few weeks later wanted to support more, put a hundo in to ccu a ship, loved that ship continued along that ccu chain now I have my Mole which I absolutely love. Its a great money maker in the game it has allowed me to buy almost every ship in the game with in game currency several times over. Well worth. That being said, 45 is pocket change for my yearly income. But its a great low price for the game as a whole. I know people that all they ever spent on the game was the initial 45$ and have used that ship to earn enough money to buy every ship in the game through multiple wipes even. Dont assume that just because there are packs that are 45,000$ that you HAVE to spend that much to enjoy it. That 45,000$ pack, there are less than 10 people that have it. But I detect the tone of misplaced righteous indignation in your line of questioning, which honestly, makes me laugh.
After 1.0 they'll announce Star Citizen 2 🤣
Devs said that SC will be the only one. It'll be supported for decades
If they pulla Destiny.. I will go rampage styles 😂 10 year game my a$$ Bungie 🤬
700 million brought in and the game is still 700 years away
400 dollars? chump change compared to the super VIP hidden shop after spending tens of thousands of dollars.
All that money and yet they are still dragging their feet… should stop funding until they fix it
"You can see the logic to the layout" No usually you can't because most things still haven't been standardized yet and they've had to do things like move the airlock to the side of the Retaliator. They're getting better but there's still a lot of odd placements or lack of multiple convenient entry points on larger ships. Probably mostly an issue with building from the outside in instead of inside out.
My eyes rolled pretty hard when he said that. Most of the ships have godawful layouts. The guys making these ships play by rule of cool, not ease of use, gameplay or practicality. The Ironclad is the first time I've looked at a ship and thought, 'hey, that actually makes some sense.'
The MSR is my go to example of a horrifically bad interior design. It should be the Millenium Falcon of SC, but instead its a useless dud. With a ladder to access the ship. A ladder.
CIG makes beautiful things... Good game play, not so much.
Squadren 42 is what most of the money was crowd funded for not SC.
Ok? 700 million is can make like 10 games
@@Chootem20 i mean GTA 6 costs 2 billion and thats just a single state not a whole star system so...
@@paulus_1233 it did not cost 2 billion to make 💀
@@Chootem20 it 100% has, google it. Easy. 2 BIL, prob MORE as it nears being totally complete.
@@paulus_1233Where did you even get the information from?
Damn you fleet week, I sadly caved and spent 40 bucks on a pack upgrade...
What is the name of the song playing in the background at the beginning of the video? :)
It's actually closer to $900 million if you include all the private money/deals they've made over the years. Probably just shy or maybe even just over a billion dollars.
And if they make good on Squadron 42 as promised & the PU as promised, it will be money well spent.
We've spent just as long and nearly as much money on complete SHIT games like Skull & Bones.
ye the real bad games are so bad they don't even get flag anymore a month after release, they cashin massively and just die out xD
No we haven't, the fuck are you talking about?
@@Bankai90 Star Citizen is barely a game yet
High Admiral $1,000
Grand Admiral $2,500
Space Marshal $5,000
Wing Commander $10,000
Praetorian $15,000
Legatus Navium $25,000
@@CHEESYhairyGASH I'm at Wing Commander... your point?
( from a big SC fan ) Other gaming companies seeing a company selling concept ships and game play that hardly works with 90% of things in game not working, must be losing their minds lol
I guess people really wanted those Nursas /s
I think ship pre-ordering (or concept ships if that’s what it’s referred as) will exist after 1.0. No way they’re dropping their biggest funding method, no matter what promises they make in the past.
1.0 in Q3 2045
We just need a combined arms gameplay on planet moons and space.
That’s already possible
Q4 2035
As a 4 figure backer with limited playing time available, one way I'd find value for my ships is with a 'fresh start server' cycle - like how Rust worlds reset each month - as an option, that way the mega-guilds don't become ridiculously entrenched (and dominant). I'd have my hard earned ships ready from the get-go, don't have to spend limited playing time to grind them.
I finally pulled the trigger and have been playing for 3 days straight lmao
I bought in entry level back in maybe 2016...I can't remember it's been so long. Crazy part is I haven't played it yet. 🤣 I watch gameplay videos regularly to track progress, but figure I'll wait until it's "done". Hope that day comes before the apocalypse. lol
$400 for one ship ..... thats silly
Have you seen how much costs the most expensive ship?
Just earn 'em in-game and don't rob yourself of the experience of progression with your wallet.
Then don't buy it. It's not even mandatory to spend that amount obviously. You're essentially supporting the game development with that money. Earn the ships ingame.
HAH!!! Thats on the low end my guy. theres a single ship that currently cost's $3000 USD.
@@lenowin Hahaha, that’s so dumb. A $400+ ship should be 20-40,000,000 UEC or something, which is basically impossible to earn in game without cheating. Isn’t your time more valuable than that? You want to grind for 100 hours?? You couldn’t earn it while they still wipe progress between patches.
The only way it would be possible is if they let you trade in and keep your equity… but the in game ship purchase model doesn’t work like that currently.
My wallet forgot about SC after it opened up to the gatac railen
I own a couple of lifetime insurance ships, but i wouldn't care if they did away with insurance all together, and just add timers and spam prevention.
I've gotten my money out of the MOLE, Sabre, and my Connie. I want them to focus on an environment that is rich, with player interaction. Like how the old discovery mod in Freelancer was.
1:23 "potential" functionality.....
BIG key word there....
Meh. I have a blast every single time I play...people need more friends or something. What's there is brilliantly fun.
As well as brilliantly buggy, but the game is fun if you have a thicker skin against that stuff.
@@ninthydra9980yep the game is fun if you're not weak
700 million and still not able to provide customer support, not even concierge. As a concierge backer you have to wait for weeks now to get your "expedited" support. I wonder how they want to manage when there is an actual release with 10 times more players than during alpha....
I started playing recently after a break and the "game" is in a worse state than a year ago. Given the amount of additions they need to in game system and the increasing number of problems this will cause this needs at least another 500 million to get it out of beta.
One of the biggest criticisms that has me doubt the game development is that I’m still fighting bugs more than NPCs years later. We can have a heck of a time grabbing armor and weapons for an epic journey only to be pulled out of QT and slammed into an invisible enemy. I don’t mind if the game makes it feel like the players fault but times like that it’s enough to just call it a night.
Also NPC Behavior. We were expecting passenger ship gameplay, to fill our ships with NPCs, but have yet to see them properly sit in a chair consistently
Huge difference between "Raised" and "Made" which you have used interchangeably in your video title and description
Regarding funding post launch, I think the only reasonable way is a monthly subscription. I really don't want ships, vehicles or gear to be sold for real money after release. I would even prefer no microtransactions at all, but that seems like a pipe dream.
Fuck no, I’d rather ships be sold money than a monthly subscription. You’ll end spending more on that overtime than just buying a ship and that would make me stop playing
Unless you mean like the monthly subscription we have now. But a subscription to play the game every month like no fuck off with that
The biggest challenges from here on out are as follows. Gib us the ships we pleged for several years ago obviously before 1.0 The Javelin the Merchantman and give us a meaningful gameplay experience with an economy that works and a skill based progression system. And this is not nearly even all that needs to be done. Sometimes I fear I will never see 1.0 😢
I think CIG should devote at least as much time and effort into gameplay loops as they do developing ships. That being said, I have 5 pledged ships, MSR, C1, Nomad, Cutter Rambler and Cutter Scout all with LTI and the new RSI "Nursa" ground vehicle. Made Concierge last December so I have done my part in funding this project. Now it's up to CIG to do theirs.
I love the Levski music theme
im happy for SC, i bought a c1 spirit warbond and a gladius warbond :D im happy
If they manage to Pull this out ill buy it.
Those millions made are inflated when someone melts a ship for 100 dollars and pays 20 more for the ship they calculate 120 its like counting old money as new money
I think with the addition of a working economic simulation and player organisations involving politics and competition over wealth, property and power, SC will become a true miracle of a game.
He said massive! Everyone drink! 🍺
Was going to buy reclaimer but decided to buy another alt account and orca on eve online 😂
Star citizen is a great space simulator that’s about it I go on it every now and again to fly around but not much else.
... and they're still a decade away from actually delivering an actual game.
A fool and his money are easily parted..........
I really don't mind waiting to respawn my ship or even paying a small (aUC) fee to expedite that respawn. LTI should be enough of an incentive on top of the ship itself for the whales who buy the big ships.
700 million and 12 years but there still only a 50% chance you can buy food that works. I bought a multi tool on Everus Harbor, the space station above Hurston but there were no tractor beam attachments available there so I flew to CRU L1, found one but no food is available just drinks, there unless you go to the cargo supply shop they sell energy bars fortunately or I would have had to fly off looking for food so I wouldn't die. Took my Vulture, scavenged and loaded it to the brim with RMC that was 4 days ago and after trying over a dozen time at multiple locations to sell it it's still in my f@cking hull and yes I waited 10-20 minutes that didn't help a bit just wasted more of my time. Switched to mining with my Prospector, refined my first load yesterday tried to sell it this morning, no buyers again for ore now too. I tried a few other times then flew back to Everus Harbor with the load of refined ore in my Star Runner where my Vulture was to see if I could finally sell the RMC there... nope still stuck with it. Then I tried to sell the refined ore there... nope no buyers. Coming back after 3 years has been a complete and total disappointment you want to give CGI the benefit of the doubt but the fact they even added the "No Demand" and "No Market" tabs shows they are embarrassingly clueless and are trying to create some supply and demand system based on the backs of their customers hit and miss game play ilo of how things actually work. Give me one real life example were there was never a market for raw materials or constructions materials.. they don't exist. Local price fluctuations based on demand, of course, but when an entire star system supposedly gearing up for war doesn't want any of the game play materials you bought ships and they built a game mechanic for fails like this it's all on you CGI and it's a complete failure yet they strut around like they nailed it all the time.
In summary it looks like Chris Roberts has enacted Brexit in space so we can't sell sht now just like in the UK now. And now he's talking about getting closer to Death of a Spaceman.. are you fricken kidding? That's what the name of the game should be. Try playing it Chris and maybe you can get the food and commodity sales to work among many other things that should not exist after 12 years but do and are pissing off your backers first.
700 million, Make the game worth it!
I got banned from Refund citizen on reddit. I couldn't shut up. But how are they holding up?
It’s gonna look real bad (even more than it already does) if they become the 1 billion dollar game that technically doesn’t exist.
1.0 release set to exist in Q3 2045.
Funny. I haven't been able to play for months due to disconnects.
Here come the Kotaku articles!
Oh wait....
1.0 doesn't mean it will be feature complete. I hope folks aren't expecting every ship and every gameplay loop to be in or they are going to be extremely disappointed. Now what the minimum viable product looks like we won't know until they are done planning it out and showing us.
700 million and 12 years. 💀
I'm all for spending on ships, but they need a release date. I want to buy the drake ironclad but i'm not spending money unless it's released or releasing shortly and by estimation that one won't be available for 3 years at least... Space wales and traders are the one buying i suspect.
As for gameplay loop, well their entire vision of the universe and gameplay run on a tech that they haven't release yet. A bit like building a spaceship without a reactor.
1.0 release dropping in Q4 2045.
@@CHEESYhairyGASH probably and i hope so, but until then the "quest/event" if we can even call them that will be 1999 basic.
“Star citizen has yet to face its biggest challenge yet” the FTC and OIG.
Its not a Game for Average Gamer ! U need time / Passion and Love for a 2cd life thats in the Building. It has a soul what most games are missing nowadays.
Selling you a digital yacht to fund their yachts in real life. lol Keep donating nerds.
High Admiral $1,000
Grand Admiral $2,500
Space Marshal $5,000
Wing Commander $10,000
Praetorian $15,000
Legatus Navium $25,000
4:29 At this point, I wonder if the experience for this game will be even remotely worth it for a person that just buys the game and plays it with no additional ships. I guess time will tell.
Will it come to Steam?
Probably not :(
No, but that has some benefits... for example, if you try it and don't like it, their refund policy is way better than Steam's. You can play an unlimited amount of time for two weeks and still get a full no-questions-asked refund.
Their Pay2Win model was balanced by the previous flight model that required a lot more skill than the Potatoe Mode we have now.
They have enough of my money.
All you need is a promise...
Isn’t 1.0 just start of Beta? Iirc games that come out of Alpha start at Beta v1.0
Can I have a full game please I promise I won't ask for a sequel.
Initial full game release in Q3 2045
I think SC biggest challenge is to keep the momentum they have created, we are still years away from a one point o. As far as funding goes if they make the game and it as good as I think it will be they will have tones of new players and lots of different revenue opportunities.
I'm ngl man. I'm not really depending on missions. The emergent game play is where it's at.
They will not stop to milk money out of these fools, and why would they. 1.0 release in 24 years, minimum.
Keep hating. Cig does scummy things sometimes and I'm not defending them but people said the same thing about full time persistence and server meshing.
@@Haidere510 3.23 with replication layer was great in the PTU and is great in the PU and is a later update with more refined tech than 3.18. 3.18 was a small hiccup. Sounds more like unfounded naysaying. Its almost like you dont want it to succeed so you can feel your negativity is validated lol
@Haidere510 But it recovered and works. Server meshing has been tested and Indeed works. Even jumping from Stanton to Pyro. However it will likely be a total absolute shit show when it drops just like 3.18. Which happens with ground breaking tech.
I put 1.0 release in 2045, but you're probably right with 2048 or later. Project will die by then. Project death in Q2 2039
Over 600$ of my money went into that pool of funds.😎
The audience for AC tends to skew older I imagine 25-45 and makes larger single purchases than a gatcha roll micro transaction such as Genshin
Make insurance cover losses in safe space.
HonestCon nailed it. If the company releases this game their entire business model needs to change. Whatever people want to do with their money is their business but it is an omen.
High Admiral $1,000
Grand Admiral $2,500
Space Marshal $5,000
Wing Commander $10,000
Praetorian $15,000
Legatus Navium $25,000
I hate seeing fluid gameplay on UA-cam cuz it just makes me wanna play then I play and get the exact opposite experience... Every time I decide to give it another shot and commit to a quest.. then I get to the quest marker just to realize they NEVER fucking work... This game is the most visually and technologically pleasing game to exist but the gameplay loop being completely unplayable really puts a fork in it..
They play on like 4070s and shit
@@guynamedmaggi5520 yeah I only have a 2080TI but my game actually runs pretty well for the most part.. until I get to a quest location. The quest objective/item or enemy is never there but everything else runs fine for me ironically.. if they could just make ALL the quests work and more accessible it would change everything.
@@guynamedmaggi5520 I play on a 1080ti just fine.SC is a cpu bound game nor GPU. I have friends with 1060's that play fine but have good CPU and 32gb memory.
@@GMHMoney Functioning quests coming in Q2 2032.
SC biggest challenge will be hackers
you make it sound like that's a good thing...
As bad as it sounds, continued funding for SC would best be done with a subscription based system. WoW has it, Dual Universe tried it, and frankly, it seems to me a lot of the industry is pushing towards it.
Even at the 1.0 launch, let's say it's the top selling game ever. You are still only required to buy a $45 starter package to begin. Sure, it will pull in millions to continue development in a hot flash, but then it will slowly begin to die as funding runs low without ship sales.
A subscription service will allow constant funding for years to develop. Im not saying i want it to be subsciption based, but for the sake of maintaining funding, it may be necessary. I imagine renting servers to run the game is expensive, and we dont even have server meshing or other space systems yet to jack up that cost.
All good and well, but you need something to subscribe to dying in elevators, isn't one
They need to move to the Tennogen model. Skins that are buyable, created by the community. They take 30% of the revenue and collect passive income.
Except we should be able to make our own paint schemes in an online builder. A paint shop is a popular request.
People actually hate paying for skins when it’s a basic gameplay feature of many games
These $400 ships need crews AI or actual humans controlling avatars