If this wasn't coming from a nearly half billion dollar squandering piece of vaporware that's enriching a family of grifters, I could see this as a brilliant teaser for a space sci fi Lovecraftian horror game.
If this wasn't coming from a nearly half billion dollar squandering piece of vaporware that's enriching a family of grifters, I could see this as a brilliant teaser for a space sci fi Lovecraftian horror game.
I think they are, unfortunately.
A lot of the ongoing revenue, unless it's some kind of money laundering thing, seems to be sunk cost fallacy and fanboys (let's face it, it's like 99% aging men you see in the CitizenCon pics) further "pledging" to stick it to the critics and doubters.
Wait, wait. CitizenCon? There's a fucking convention devoted to ONE GAME? That doesn't even exist yet?
Yes.
When covid became a thing, though, they had a convenient reason to do even less for the rubes.
They used to do wild stuff like have their big spenders come to a steak dinner for thousands a pop. Photos of the event are hard to find now (I saw them on SomethingAwful's dedicated thread at the time), but it was the dumpiest, malest, oldest, whitest bunch you can imagine. Those people looked like they haven't played a video game since Freelancer, and judging by what they want, that's probably true.