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  • UlyssesT [he/him]
    hexagon
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    10 months ago

    How many people do you think would still get a brain chip from him?

    At least as many that are still putting money into Star Citizen.

    • ColorcodedResistor@lemm.ee
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      10 months ago

      Star Citizen will have its own chapter in the annals of awful history, right before GTA Online and After Rust and 7dayz. I shall title my book 'Forever alphas a How to make money hand over fist by promising endlessly and delivering little to nothing'

    • Envis10n@lemm.ee
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      10 months ago

      Hey now, I enjoy Star Citizen when it's not completely bugging out or disconnecting me.

      Should you pour money into the project though? Probably not.

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
        hexagon
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        10 months ago

        Totally, go for that.

        Don't give Chris Roberts any more money than you already have, that's my take.

        • Envis10n@lemm.ee
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          10 months ago

          The game is like 90% setup and staging with bugs stopping you, and 10% fun and engaging gameplay. That 10% has so much promise, I just wish they would cut the bullshit and make a fucking game already.

          • UlyssesT [he/him]
            hexagon
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            10 months ago

            The space fascism with corporate characteristics backdrop and Chris Roberts putting himself in the lore as the setting's Elon Musk was pretty awful though.

            https://starcitizen.tools/Chris_Roberts_(lore)

            • Envis10n@lemm.ee
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              10 months ago

              Oh for sure. I'm not a fan of Roberts, and in-game I play as a character that does everything possible to fight the corporate interests.

              • UlyssesT [he/him]
                hexagon
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                10 months ago

                Yet you automatically wear a mobiGlas(tm)(r) like everyone else even while ostensibly being an outlaw, wearing a corporate tracking device. Curious! very-intelligent

                  • UlyssesT [he/him]
                    hexagon
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                    10 months ago

                    That's actually a damning thing about it: the company that makes the eternal (pre, because it's not feature complete) alpha wants it to seem deep and complex as a setting but it's a lot of aging 90s mall aesthetics and Silicon Valley techbro motifs.

                    • Envis10n@lemm.ee
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                      10 months ago

                      No, my roleplay is not that deep.

                      I hate Star Citizen as a project, and I would never defend Roberts / Cloud Imperium.

                      What I do love is the complexity of certain game features, and exploring the system with my friends. I backed the project 10 years ago because it came with a copy of Squadron 42, with their Persistent Universe stuff being just a bonus. Admittedly I didn't do much research into the project, and it wasn't very expensive for a gamble to me at the time. I'm unhappy with the results 10 years later, but I get a small amount of joy out of playing it every so often.

                      • UlyssesT [he/him]
                        hexagon
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                        10 months ago

                        You do you, then.

                        complexity of certain game features

                        I hope you don't mean The River(tm) or the privatized prison gameplay (with janky scripted and fixed-in-place escape route that never changes) for people that dare to pvp.