rollermint, on 24 December 2016 - 09:41 AM, said:
I'm not even an SC backer and I can see that the game has shown a lot of progress. Moreso than any other games. The new stuff the've shown the past year and this year are pretty damn impressive. I almost feel like throwing money at them but I just want to wait a bit more..plus I've a boatload of games to play.
It has an extremely open development policy that even non-backers like me can have a pretty damn good picture at what they are doing if I put a bit of effort looking for it. Most of the salts here are purely based on misconceptions and outright ignorance. No game in existence has a more open development than SC, believe me.'
Some of the comments here literally read like many have a personal beef with SC somewhat yet they are no way involve with the game whatsoever so it seems really bizarre.
This. The ignorant comparisons to No Man's Sky always make me laugh, as that game very intentionally did the opposite, hiding all development and showing off faked builds that didn't exist. I haven't given any money to Star Citizen yet, but I skim over the emails they send out on development, and progress has been more than reasonable from what I've seen. They release functional demos and in depth development reports constantly. I've noticed that there seems to be three main groups following the game:
The majority, who spent very little or no money on the game, who are just waiting to see a released product and aren't paying it that much mind otherwise.
The fanatical hypesters, who have injected all of their hopes and dreams for video games onto this one project, and have thrown hundreds or even thousands of dollars at the game under the assumption that it will make their dreams come true.
And the edgy cynical hipsters, who make any jump in logic necessary in order to be the cool kid who tells you how bad a thing is that he doesn't like, even though he knows nothing about it.
It's the third group that's really gotten annoying lately, I guess because many of them were themselves a part of the hype train, bought into it heavily, and their deluded, ignorant expectations didn't pay out.