The geme looks impressive for sure. But I'm worried about which aspect of the game will get more focus. I don't want the space fighting to be totally awesome but the first person shooting to be totally not awesome.
It certainly has ambition and scope and I really hope it succeeds. But $100 million is a s*** TON of money to be given by your fans. Let's hope it's put to good use and its backers get their money's worth in a timely fashion.
Also, is this a game where you can buy your success? I've heard that some players have spent literal thousands of dollars on powerful ships. How much does that affect progress in the game and your interactions with other players?
I've been looking forward to it but I'll wait until it's finished and build a new PC.
The funding model was "sorry but we completely lied to you about honouring refunds."It really isn't. There's over 300 devs working on this game and it's doing stuff no other game has come close to.
The funding model isn't for everyone but just take a look of what's being achieved here. No cheating, no load screens, absolutely phenomenal. There's no other game that I've seen that comes close to what's been done here.
Gamescom 2016 live event. Mind blowing.
https://www.youtube.com/shared?ci=aW2suDx-uc4
The funding model was "sorry but we completely lied to you about honouring refunds."
There were clearly defined terms on refunds back in 2013 regardless of whether or not you read. And this actually does affects those who originally pledged money to the game as well. The video reports all of this if you give it a quick watch.When I first backed in 2013, as far as I knew, there wouldn't be any refunds. I understood there was no guarantees with the game and it might not come and that it might not come out at all. I certainly don't think not allowing refunds when people donate money to the game development when staff have to be hired, development space rented, equipment bought on basis of pledged money makes it a scam.
If people don't want to back the game, that's fine, I certainly don't think people should be able to then decide months down the line when their money they pledged has been invested in the game development that they should be able to decide they want their money back.
They're not preordering a game, they're donating to the development. I certainly don't think CIG changing the terms for backers that come in later makes it a scam. Don't forget, when they change the terms of donation, it's only applicable to donations pledged after the terms were changed.
There were clearly defined terms on refunds back in 2013 regardless of whether or not you read. And this actually does affects those who originally pledged money to the game as well. The video reports all of this if you give it a quick watch.
Oh ok. I missed that. But yeah I know the preview builds are still awesome and all. I try to follow this game pretty closely just because. They do have a lot of the features all working. But from what I've seen, they still need to polish nearly all of the "inbetweens" if that makes sense.I have watched it and it doesn't affect those who originally pledged as it shows on the actual ToS shown on the video (the one with a black background and not the reddit document). It states in brackets at bottom of ToS
(Pledges made under previous Terms of Service continue to be governed by the corresponding clause of of the Terms of Services, or of the commercial terms, as applicable which were in effect at the time of making the pledge.)
Which makes the whole video clickbait, they haven't shafted anyone, just changed the terms of service for any pledges made after the change and certainly doesn't make it a scam.
Do me a favour though and if you get some time, give the video of last nights Gamescom presentation a watch, CIG really have more or less achieved technically at least what they promised and many said couldn't be done. The whole sequence is seamless, no load screens, all space, you can actually fly at cruise speed to these places if you had time. Honestly it's imo the best thing I've ever seen on a technical level at least in 30 years of gaming.
Oh ok. I missed that. But yeah I know the preview builds are still awesome and all. I try to follow this game pretty closely just because. They do have a lot of the features all working. But from what I've seen, they still need to polish nearly all of the "inbetweens" if that makes sense.
The developer has never made comments about it coming to consoles. Consoles may also be too weak to run it.For anyone that hasn't watched the Star Citizen 3.0 gameplay from Gamescom, give it a watch.
This game will definitely come to console at some point too.
https://www.youtube.com/shared?ci=GUJPYji1hbE
The developer has never made comments about it coming to consoles. Consoles may also be too weak to run it.