You do realize that write/read speed has been a fundamental aspect of memories since forever, right?
Not only does it load older games significantly faster, I feel like the "next gen" titles I've played recently have been designed for SSDs and now those all load in under five seconds, ten max. I read it has something to do with duplicate assets being loaded into data files over and over and over so that way HDD platters can access them quicker or something. File sizes have gone down recently so I believe it.
All the ships that are in-game are purchasable in-game right now, with a few exceptions like some of the alien ships I think. But you would lose them on a database wipe. Wipes are not happening very frequently anymore though.
How have they raised more money during a pandemic?
idle hands with disposable incomeHow have they raised more money during a pandemic?
How have they raised more money during a pandemic?
inb4 first billion dollar game
Most people who can afford digital spaceships probably work from home any way.How have they raised more money during a pandemic?
No none of that makes any sense. They've raised 20 million more than last year during a year of a pandemic and there is still December to consider which is also a big month for donations. Something has gone horribly wrong here.How have they raised more money during a pandemic?
look at 2019. It has nothing to do with pandemic. At end of 2017 they released 3.0 with Persistant Universe patch and since then people can effectively play SC. Earn ingame money, buy ingame ships etc.
Imho this rise just shows that as SC is patched and gradually more and more system, gameplay loops, ships etc come online the more and more people get interested. Moreover game itself gets more and more polish as time goes. Less bugs, less crashes etc etc etc.
After years of nothing i think people start to see actual progress. Sure final SC 1.0 with all promised features might be 10 years from now on but people at least see pathway to 1.0. CIG might be over-promising Mars but people will probably fine with moon.
I agree. For myself, I never went for the kickstarter. The stuff they were showing off in the early years was obviously pre-production mockups and their promises were pie-in-the-sky. Maybe why I am less bitter on the project than some here. I finally bought in after seeing in 3.0 that they had actually put something like a foundation for a real game together. Of course then it was unplayable for the first year or so until they put in "Object Container Streaming" in the last quarter of 2018. So the project picking up more steam in 2019 and 2020 makes sense.How have they raised more money during a pandemic?
look at 2019. It has nothing to do with pandemic. At end of 2017 they released 3.0 with Persistant Universe patch and since then people can effectively play SC. Earn ingame money, buy ingame ships etc.
Imho this rise just shows that as SC is patched and gradually more and more system, gameplay loops, ships etc come online the more and more people get interested. Moreover game itself gets more and more polish as time goes. Less bugs, less crashes etc etc etc.
After years of nothing i think people start to see actual progress. Sure final SC 1.0 with all promised features might be 10 years from now on but people at least see pathway to 1.0. CIG might be over-promising Mars but people will probably fine with moon.
Game sales have generally been up because of the pandemic, if anything that is just helping the trend for SC that started in 2019 https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2020/05/12/video-game-industry-coronavirus/
But Star Citizen isn't a game.
