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NOTE: Most of these morons attacking them, don’t even know who Matt Barton is btw. Let me quote someone who does:
Matt Barton has been doing “Matt Chat” for years. He’s probably the most widely respected video game historian in the world.
He’s written 4 (now 5 one is at the publisher) books on the subject. His viewers asked him to try the drink.
He usually reviews alcoholic beverages in his drinking horn. He has a PhD and he’s also a friend of mine.
The Japanese Drink Ramun or whatever the hell it was is a little joke, but not nearly as bad of a joke as Star Citizen is.
Matt and I had discussed previously (about January I believe) Rob Irving being interviewed and whether or not Irving was under an NDA.
Matt’s a little silly, but he isn’t an idiot. He’s interviewed most of the fathers and mothers of video gaming including Ralph Baer. He’s got more video game cred than anyone working on Star Citizen that’s for damn sure. I did give him a lot of hell about opening the bottle which was funny to watch.
It certainly would be interesting to see him interview Derek Smart.
That’s correct. Here’s the thing, most of the backers don’t even know the difference anymore. But more and more are waking up to the fact that they’re getting the short end of the stick as each week goes by.
Imagine putting money down for a chair with a marble top. Then the manufacturer gives you one with a glass top; and calls it delivered. Man, I’d be pissed. That’s the very premise behind the X’ian scout; and every single concept ship they have ended up building and which don’t fit the specs of the concept sold. Somehow, RSI/CIG think it’s all perfectly normal.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch…
How many times are we going to be told to “take a break”? until 2020?
Nobody who is currently on the “Negative Bandwagon” are suggesting a strict time line, but at this point in time there is a much bigger concern … not about time taken …. but about confidence/competency to deliver anything based on the pretty heavy amount of mistakes/delays/terrible predictions and blatant hyping features that they never intended to deliver around the time of them hyping said features.
This is more about a vote of no confidence than a need to “take a break” …. many people are pointing out a great deal of varied inconsistencies, the lack of ability to communicate design concepts, the withholding of “content” paid for over 3 years ago (IDRIS) …. the 6 months delays on pretty much every element….
If you made a tally of features/deadlines/estimates hyped, on wether thye hit or miss … they’d pretty much be all misses.
Why have we no working A.I yet?
Why despite Nyx being on its final “Lighting pass” have we not seen ANY GAMEPLAY FOOTAGE of it? why no A.I despite talking about it for 2 years solid? why cant they make a temporary hyper-drive location to nyx isntead of spout this “oh we need to build stanton first before nyx can be shown” … yea not what they were saying SIX MONTHS AGO.
Terra? oh that thing that was well underway …. only 2-3 art pictures in 18-24 months.
Where are those NPCs that were shown over a year ago? oh right … it was faked…. again.
EScape pods? nope sorry, that video rehashed 2 years running was faked… again.
2016? “we are now looking into small mining/scavenging ships to test other roles” … what, you mean it didn’t occur to you to START with these ships instead of selling a £600 mining ship that probably won’t be made until 2018?
Again, time isn’t an issue, confidence on delivery is FAR bigger now. “Taking a break” doesn’t fix anything.
In OCTOBER 2015 – “Shopping is around the corner, then nyx in november to test NPCs etc” …..
In MARCH 2016 – “Don’t expect shopping in 2.3, 2.4 or 2.5” (so basically WAIT ANOTHER 4 MONTHS). “Also, don’t expect Nyx until we build out stanton completely… for reasons….”
This is happening constantly….. hype, no delivery, hype, no delivery …. release something almost unworkable and fix it to a compentant state in 6 months … maybe show a video of another unfinished feature to WOW the audience then repeat…..
constant bait and switch.
Transparency? showing a “Art Sneak Peek” once a week. and telling us about all the unfinished work ( again, whats the point in having the heads of each department talk about what they are doing? they never seem to show anything … show us what you are doing… for gods sake.)
Starshitizens are already attacking Rob Irving, former Star Citizen lead designer, over this interview:
The highlights:
Then there’s this Shitizen…
In case you missed this, they are apparently doing a making of Star Citizen documentary. For an incomplete game.
This was a $14M stretch goal. So this takes precedence over actually finishing and delivering a complete game.
He is apparently the community lead. Prior to Star Citizen, he was just a huge Wing Commander nerd. No previous game dev experience.
In case you missed this. And the Reddit thread is a Gold mine of hilarity. Someone needs to remind Ben et al that the promised features list, which after 5yrs and $110M later they have yet to deliver even 10% of, is over here:
