So they have rounds of layoffs, staff feel less secure in their role, and they’re surprised that knowledgeable and easily employable experts are leaving for more stable roles?
Where exactly are these more stable roles
Asking for a friend
Not in game dev lmao :'-(
Yeah so surprised with that vaporware scam pinata…
To its credit, Star Citizen is neither vaporware nor a scam.
You can buy access to the game for just $45 USD, and the game is playable to you right now. It regularly receives updates, some minor and some major.
Vaporware is something that never gets released to the public. Like the Coleco Chameleon. Obviously, Star Citizen is playable right now by anyone that buys access to it.
A scam is when someone takes your money under fraudulent pretenses. Star Citizen takes your money for access to a space sim game, which is exactly what you get. Its not a scam, just terribly mismanaged with a very slow development pace.
Star Citizen is a piñata though. Both from games “journalism” (lol) and from Redditors, primarily.
I had a friend try to sales pitch me on pre-ordering it back in 2012. I said “I’ll just wait for it to release”. Still waiting.
Vaporware is something that never gets released to the public.
A scam is when someone takes your money under fraudulent pretenses.
What about this thread of ships that people paid for that still aren’t available in game?
Some of them have been waiting for TWELVE YEARS
That’s fucking vaporware, and a fucking scam.
Isn’t this a critical feature that they must finish to realize the game? Hopefully they still have the required expertise available to complete it.
Bro, just 9 more years of development, come on bro, it’s just 9 more years, we lost developers but I swear we’ll be done soon, it’s only 9 more years, bro.
(This comment is gonna age poorly when it’s nowhere close to releasing in 9 years and I should’ve picked a larger number)
Honestly I don’t think It will take that long. It seems like, based on previously released data and their more recent moves, that they are hemorrhaging a lot of money.
I do not think they have 9 years. They will go out of business long before then. Most likely they will have some kind of product as the “completed 1.0” within the next few years.
complete
That’s where you’re wrong
Completing the game isn’t the goal.
Game development as a service.
