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Star Citizen Expose Paints a Fairly Bleak Picture: 'There's No Actual Focus on Getting the Game Done' (wccftech.com)
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[–] Dhs92@programming.dev 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Just some context: from 2017 until last year they had the majority of the development staff working on SQ42, which they declared feature complete last year and now we have a planned release of 2026. Most of the development staff has been moved back to Star Citizen which is finally seeing a lot of tech come online that was promised years ago. Definitely has a ton of scope creep, and it'll probably never have an official release, but it's definitely a cool tech demo that you can play.

[–] Fades@lemmy.world -1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

12+ years

hundreds of milllions of dollars invested

65+ million dollars in stretch goal funding

All that and you get:

a cool tech demo that you can play (when it’s not broken or wiped)

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