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What deadlines? Squadron 42 was supposed to release in 2016...
That ship has sailed.
Yeah was about to say something similar.
What's some special about this deadline?
This deadline was set once the money was coming in more slowly than it was going out.
There was a deadline? What did they set, a 20 year development cycle???
Must ship by: ~~2017~~ ~~2020~~ ~~2025~~ The heat death of the universe
prominently those in the QA department, as a part of its restructuring efforts.
That's certainly one way to make sure you hit a deadline.
They just find pesky bugs, that need to be fixed. No bugs, no need to fix stuff.
As of now, Star Citizen has raised $769,261,551. Three quarters of a billion dollars.
And now they say they need to fire the QA department to "laser focus" to meet the deadlines of the release. That's when you need QA the most. Otherwise that release is going to be a fucking mess.
I call bullshit. This is a money saving decision, which means they've blown through their $760 million dollar bank account. Insane.
the source is anonymous, I'd take this info with a heaping serving of NaCl
... with head honcho Christ Roberts ...
Interesting typo.
I'm surprised they set a deadline at all, considering how the game itself will never release
Oh it'll release, just not by Chris Roberts.
The last game he was in charge of was Freelancer, a highly ambitious game for the time and he never finished it. His company, Digital Anvil, started to have financial woes due to the long development of Freelancer and was acquired by Microsoft. He left the company and then a couple years later Freelancer was released!
It was very different from what it was supposed to be, but it was still an awesome game, imo.
I think the same thing will happen to Star Citizen. The money will dry up and they'll be forced to sell. The buyer will kick Chris out and then have the team make a finished product.
They have deadlines?
What deadline? Of their life? Cause deadlines are gone since it was supposed to release 10 Yeats ago
How is this still a thing lol
Is it playable yet?
Yes.
Buggy, incomplete, kind of a mess, but absolutely playable if you have a sufficient tolerance for jank.
While it's for sure a ways away from being the game that was promised, what's there is still one of the most unique and ambitious gaming experiences you can ever have.
For all intent and purposes. 4.0 has been by far the most stable release yet. And that is saying something since the player cap is 500 and now has a new star system.
The new Pyro soundtrack is amazing and if you haven't listen to Pedro's work I would recommend to do so.
There are some dumb bugs that qa and the ptu should have found and smashed but they (cig) dragged their feet with 3.24 and server meshing this year IMO.
To be fair the "most stable release yet" label is applied to almost every patch by star citizen fans.
Just take a look at any reddit thread (let alone the fan forum) and for every patch you having something along the lines of "perfectly stable" or "best AI I've ever encountered" or "a monumental achievement".
And yet you have threads like this one:
https://robertsspaceindustries.com/spectrum/community/SC/forum/3/thread/4-0-preview-unplayable
There is a reason to be skeptical of "most stable release yet" style proclamations.
What are the chances they never deliver what they promised?
Pretty good chances.
Yep, at this point, never actually releasing the game is part of the business model.
Its a buggy mess and they axe qa?
I guess when you have so many pay piggies you dont need to pay anypne
Since when does anything to do with star citizen involve a hard deadline. Roberts will never get finished. He lacks that basic ability.
I'm pretty happy with 4.0. They sucked all the features from it, and the missions are having problems. But the game fucking works, finally. Or at least it did during the first 24 hours of the patch. About fucking time.
That being said this whole shake up was clearly a cost saving strategy, since most of 2024 was not the best in term of making money, a LOT of people jumped shit this year, and I don't blame them. CIG messed up so much this year. They have alot of goodwill to re-earn from the community and 4.0 is a start but only that.
They're 3rd highest. Possibly could break to be 2nd highest year of funding. Wanted that the be clarified.
But I bet acquiring turbulent has put a slight bump in their expenses.
There’s a deadline?