Tried it on a free weekend just last year and it was awful. UI was awful. Performance was bad. Ran into various bugs. Clipping through floors. Every single thing, and I mean everything, is tedious to the point of comedy. No guidance whatsoever for how to do anything. Had to endlessly hop between the game and a browser to figure out how to do anything at all.

For the number of years (decades?) it's been in development, the thing was a joke.

The scope was impressive and everything looked really pretty. But I couldn't find a way to actually enjoy any of it.

Frankly I'm not too revolted by the ever-shifting deadlines, if people are paying for it and enjoying what they have it's all good by me.

What boggles my mind is how bland you can make a universe with such funding. I watch the trailers, and it's a long string of cringeworthy tired militaristic tropes, alien bad guys that look so generic it's not even funny.... a dystopian world ran by companies, but not in a self-aware/anticapitalist way...

Is it just me or does she look like Gillian Anderson?

It's been in the closing stages for a decade.

I don't want to rub it in the faces of the folk who spent so much money on space nfts but I'm having a fuckton of fun in No mans sky. Just overthrew (okay saved from sentinels then got elected but overthrew is more fun) my first settlement! Upgrading my office and the community toilets whenever I find them, my settlement has poisoned air and water

That would mean they’re nearly ready to begin pre-alpha for the single player mode? Can’t be launching without SQ42 ship sales eh?

And I can't even remember for sure but I would have to say it's close to 10 years ago now that I had a friend and him and I used to play Eve online we started out with dust 514. He was incredibly into Star citizen put a lot of money towards the game over the years. I heard at one point in time he actually won the lottery and spent a lot of money on the game. He ended up committing suicide. It's heartwarming to know that even 10 years past that point this game is still not anywhere near finished.

Okay, Grift Citizen.

Sure it is.

I remember this was supposed to release in 2015

I mean.. this shit was funny YEARS ago.. I can't believe they're still able to milk it

Edit: if someone did eventually make a star citizen game one day I would love to play it

I still chuckle when I think about my buddy getting himself the new GTX 970 so his rig would be ready for the upcoming release of Star Citizen.

This fucking game is approaching TWO decades of development... I do gotta hand it to the devs, they know how to keep suckers.. I mean, players on the hook for a long time and keep the fomo alive with their outrageous pledge pricing model. They must've been excellent dairy farmers in past lives..

The actual statement has too many qualifiers:

"As we get imminently closer to launch—and I say that in game development language—it's very hard to keep it under wraps"

"As we get" is not "we are". He is saying that in some indeterminate future where they are getting closer to launch, they will say more.

By not having more to say, the implication is that they are not close. They also soft-cancelled the 2026 release estimate, and did not put forward a new one. If they were anywhere near getting it done, they'd be talking which quarter of 2027 by now.

So... they did more mocap / voice recording / whatever this is called... Hamill and Oldman gave their initial performance to be digitized, in October of 2015.

I think that if you go with all the celeb mocap sessions, they added more celebs and had finished 'shooting' by around 2018.

So... this is like... a movie that's been in production hell for a decade. Thats... another way you can try to look at this. You'll be watching performances initially made over a decade ago.

... assuming... this... comes out ... this year.

Oh did you hear closing stages of development... No no no, you misunderstand, I was talking about the closing stages of the 'pre-alpha test build' development, we still need more ~~money~~ support to finish the project.

They probably need another billion dollars.

Many years ago, I was this close to buying this game because they were saying that the single player campaign was almost ready. I am glad I didn't. Now, I wouldn't give a single cent to this guy.

The 42 in Squadron 42 stands for the year 2042. Compared to Star Citizen, it's truly imminent to release.