If one , at this point in time, still believes that CIG somehow someday will deliver anything, he's an utter moron. There is no way Chris can keep this afloat with an skeleton crew without the backer community knowing about. So he will stretch on until the next big thing comes along. Either just not having money to pay salaries and rent, or something big that pulls antoher Crytek over him. It won't be long now. It has to be over soon.
So, now it has come to this:
Quote: I've already accepted this game will probably never launch, and if it does launch it will not be a viable game and business beyond the funding raised in advance. If the outcome is any better I'll be pleasantly surprised.
Worst case scenario, money is being outright embezzled which is the reason for minimal deliverables. More likely what I think is happening, leaders in the company are taking a healthy salary, and accepting mismanaged engineering because they know the party is completely over if they launch the turd that's being built. So they will continue "development" in perpetuity until new funding stops coming in.
Reply: Yikes. I’ve heard a ton of speculation on this topic over the years and they all seemed like pure speculation and just general waiting in line grade bitching. However yours actually rings a little true. I internally debated the embezzlement scenario but couldn’t really imagine the reason for it. Fuck man, if have to put this thing on a shelf with all my other destroyed past institutions and outed sex offenders I will be sad as hell. I have always tried to have realistic expectations alongside my fanboyism for Wing Commander, but here in mid 2018 I am really starting to become leery of their practice to sell items in what is going to probably be the biggest vaporware legend of our time.
A lot of people are waking up. Too late for them for a refund, but the numbers of hardcore believers are dwindling down
Yep.
I played a lof of MMORPGs over the years and so many AAA titles came and went with nothing like the sustained success of the big boys.
Those games were flawed but they were eminently playable and there was content. They substantially worked.
However so many of them died a death very quickly.
There is no hope in hell that SC could survive with anything less than those games had and it is miles away from where they were.
People complaining they cant get refunds now decided to ignore all the advice and the noises in their own head.
As the game was changed from what they were told they were getting they could have attempted to refund and would have received a refund by now.
I personally wanted an MMO type game with a persistent universe and plenty of people to interact with in it.
That is still on offer now but people who backed the original kickstarter and dont want what is offer now have had a very long time to realise CIG stopped saying they were developing that.
the guy says he works in software .. others are not so lucky to have that experience with which to judge whats been going on .. so he should have come to his senses sooner. There is also no reasonable way (is there ) that he could have spent what he says he spent if he didnt want what was in all those stretch goals ?
