Over $600 Million Later, Star Citizen Is Now at the Alpha 3.20 Stage::Star Citizen’s long-running development has inched forward yet again, this time to Alpha 3.20 stage.
Sunk cost falacy: The game! 😂
Absolutely rediculous that it’s been allowed to go on for so long. Biggest scam in gaming history.
Why is that in a tech community?
Hold on, I’m not familiar with Star citizen, but do you have to spend real money to get ships in this game?
The MISC Hull C added with the Alpha 3.20 update costs an eye-watering $500
$25,000. That’s how much a single ship can cost.
https://rarest.org/entertainment/expensive-star-citizen-ships
This game developer is such trash.
AFAIK all ships can/will be purchasable with in game currency, but they’re available to backers for IRL monies during development. Been a while since I played but that’s how I remember it!
This is correct. Everything is buyable with in game money. You can also rent ships in game, so if you want to get into something like, say, mining, you can rent a mining ship and then use it to earn enough to buy one.
And in game it does not take long to get enough money to buy any ship.
So shipbackers really are backing the program, and not buying access to ships as an exclusive thing. Buying in-game ships is a fun game loop
3.20 has been a great launch
Should see 4.0 soon bringing some of the last big architecture needed for the full universe
This game is taking so long because they are leading the way in this field of technology. What they are building has substantial technological hurdles - not just basic game design
Playing starfield vindicated the development of Star Citizen. I eventually stopped playing sf after 30 hours to go back to sc because I feel more enjoyment in the immersion given to me.
“Immersion” when every NPC stands around doing nothing in a t-pose and some of them sit half in the ground.
Not really sure where you got immersion from. The entire city is also just a prop on planets you can’t really interact with (except the space port part).
I’ve felt more immersed in Cyberpunk.
To be fair, starfield NPCs see through walls, and stare into your soul at all times.
Lets not pretend the bar is high in either game when it comes to NPCs.
That does still sound a whole lot better than t-posing, tbh.
They also t-pose, just not often. And sometimes they vibrate, before hovering into the air? Idk the NPCs in Starfield are weird as fuck sometimes. It just felt like a hilarious thing for them to choose when the meandering NPCs aren’t really the focus of either game, but less so SC.
Okay…so…when can we try it out?
You can also pay for it and get a refund, which is what I did. It isn’t anywhere close to being finished.
I’m just super curious at to what $600m would get me. Maybe suckering people into paying for it out of curiousity was their genius business plan along though.
That’s the cost of about three typical AAA games. Genshin Impact’s costs up to around its second year of development is also about that much.
