It's more like a piece of art than a game, meant to be looked at but not played
I have played the game maybe 10-20h and the content variety is not great, there is however an insane attention to detail in terms of ship design which you can get lost in.
there is however an insane attention to detail in terms of ship design which you can get lost in
Those details do not change, however. The secret "smuggling" compartment on one of the ships, for example, is found in the exact same place with the exact same chess piece every time, rendering its novelty for "smuggling" actually worthless for actual gameplay if such gameplay ever happened.
For detailed ships all you need to do is hire a 3D artist, you don't need a game for that.
The rest is a mess. Free fly weekend? I load in and all the NPCs are T-Posing and standing around. Or sitting half in the ground. The surroundings are lifeless, there is absolutely nothing to interact with besides some doors/elevators. And don't even get me started on the bugs and performance (I have a 3080 and 5800X3D at 1440p, so it should run fine..).
So no matter how much content they might add in the future, it doesn't feel like they have the technical side down at all. And the technical part is the entire make or break it topic as they are trying to build something on a scale no one has done before (and a MMO on top..).
For years now my personal bet is that the game will never come out. And if it ever does it will get negative reviews for being an unplayable mess.
CitizenCON this year in a few weeks is going to be very, very interesting. It may go down like DashCon and have a "free 30 minutes in the ball pit" level of downfall.
Or the aging gamedads that sunk so much into the grift already will keep it afloat a little longer. We'll see.
There was an exclusive big-spenders-only fancy le steak meme dinner that the grifting corporation put on (as a means to offer then another exclusive internet spaceship sale for another internet spaceship that is still not playable now) and I was hard pressed to see anyone there that wasn't at least in their 40s, it was white as mayonnaise, entirely male unless I lost someone in the mayo, and there was even a cringelord wearing a top hat and monocle prop to match the cringe prop in the game that is given to big spenders.
I bring it up because the game dads in the ball pit will have to contend with that sad image to stand out.
I think you owe it to us to send us as many pictures as you can of this steak dinner
Edit: Here it is for those that want to see it. https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen_refunds/comments/cuz6u5/275_conciergeonly_dinner_party_with_the_exclusive/
You beat me to it; there were other pictures from different angles, including selfies from the gamedads, but I'm having a hard time finding them now; the bookmark is now a dead link.
Google should have bought it out, finished it, and made it Stadia exclusive... Ah well...
