That Gamasutra blog post claims that to succeed, CIG will need to raise at least "around $55 million more to finish the job". They've raised more than that since the post. If your source is correct, then CIG is well on track to successfully finishing the game.
I agree. Reading the original post made me feel like I just glimpsed into the shithole abyss called the internet, and this was the most succinct definition of everything I hate about it.
Do YOU masturbate furiously to be mildly amused? I don't.
I paid 30 dollars for this, I really really want it to fail. Hmm wait, what?
Lol, you check posting histories of people on the Codex? Wow, oh you.
So like, Reddit circlejerk at every sub is a thing, what's your point.
Believing that it is going to fail is one thing. Knowing that failed, and knowing that everyone else knows that it failed, is another. Imagine the amount of backlash from the whales once they realise they have been duped. That the base game is just a tech demo with awful frame rates. You can expect law suits left and right.
The comparison with GTAV assumes CIG is just as competent and efficient as Rockstar Games. They are not. They don’t have the same talented personnel, the same direction, etc. How much Christ Roberts spent on Hollywood actors alone? Does this game have any resemblance of a fun moment to moment gameplay? Even basic commands feel artificial and cumbersome. It was intended as a hollow walking simulator with expensive graphics. There is no core design. Roberts alienated the most talented and experienced developers because they wouldn’t accept any abuse and now he has second rate developers to finish one million features he can’t deliver. He needs monetary fracking to pay the bills, but this leads to more mess they can’t fix. They are just incompetent.
I’m sure the fact that this was the most successful crowdfunded project in the history of mankind has something to do with it. They have the money to make a AAA game without the pressure of the publishers and they will still fail. The evil publishers don’t look so terrible anymore, huh?
Oh yeah,it will be glorious thing to watch! The butthurt will be massive,the 10 year scam.
amusement
Yeah well, it's a dumb comparison because we have no reason to assume the budgets of SC and GTAV are comparable in any way. But since you posted it and then stated that it had been proven right by the test of time, I thought you at least agreed with the analysis.
And your next line will be: "I bet you're all Derek Smart alts!" right?
You don't seem to get it. Creating a game of the scope and complexity (assets, systems, graphical fidelity, AI, missions, interactivity, voices dialogue etc) of GTA V requires a budged as big as GTA V, if not bigger. Star Citizen promises far more assets, systems, missions, interactivity, voiced dialogue (in the case of SQ42-voiced by far more celebrities than GTA V), systems, AI and interactivity. What Star Citizen promises is impossible to complete on a budget as big as GTA V, or even twice or three times as big.
The difference between GTAV and SC is that GTAV was made by a team of professionals that are used to work together for more than a decade, while SC is being made by a team composed by contractors that have to endure Chris Roberts mismanagement and whims. Rockstar games have a system in place and unlike Chris Roberts they know the difference between designing actual gameplay and trailers to impress credulous people. CIG has three studios and more than 475 employees on payroll. That costs a fortune. They made how many expensive trailers now? That also costs a fortune. They also spent and intend to continuing to spend a fortune with Hollywood actors. Gary Oldman is not cheap.
Wing Commander has a 1-hour-long intro in which nothing happens? Hm, okay then.
So how many replicated examples of this are in the alpha right now? How many planets? How many cities on each planet? How much gameplay revolves around these assets? Like, is there as much gameplay there as there is, say, in GTA V "I'll just go on foot and do random shit in the city instead of following missions"? If not, then would you say that maybe this is another difference?
What will you do with a billion quadrillion procgenned streets? Did you like No Man's Sky? Well, this is gonna be No Man's Sky with cities that got touched up by artists. Wow!
Exactly, they asked for 4 million. They have enough to make what, 50 games, right?
They WILL have 100 systems by 2142. Honest.
It's not like No Man's Sky. The points of interest are handcrafted areas with named NPCs, lore, factions etc... The procgen stuff is used to fill in the background.
It's promised to be like that. Please feel that distinction. Yes. The devs said it will be this way. Right now, there's nothing, nothing to say whether it's true or not. For all we know, they might have miracle tech that creates amazing planets full of life, or it may be that they had all their 400 man crew manually build everything you see in the latest demo. The scale and replicability simply aren't there to talk of it as if it's already done.
No, that's the way it is right now with hubs like Lorville and Levski and Grimhex. That was the plan and that is how they've been building content out. The baseless speculation is that they'll switch to a totally different mode of content creation more like NMS.
Too bad, because if they don't switch to a different mode of content creation, they won't have the money to finish the game. You can either rely on procedural generation or on handcrafted content (even with procedural elements). The latter is far more expensive. Hence, the GTA V comparison. The content in Star Citizen so far seems to require far too much work and does not rely on procedural generation as much as would be needed to achieve the promised scope with the present resources.
Taking Hurston as the example, the entire planet is procedural except for the one handcrafted landing zone, and the smaller outposts around the surface that use all common assets. Nothing about that requires a herculean effort; it's just a town hub with shops and a couple NPCs like any other game, plus a procedural planet which games like E:D have millions.
Then why do we have only one Hurston, instead of a hundred or even a thousand? It is not like Hurston does not have procedural elements, but they seem to underplay how much had to be done by hand.
