Yes of course there is more slop, but there are also SO FUCKING MANY indie and early access projects these days that are accomplishing a lot of what used to be out of reach for small indie devs.

Just because you don’t see it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. We are in a indie golden age and here you are calling it all slop lol

Personally I check steam’s popular new releases and upcoming releases lists to stay up to date

Yeah but the doesn’t make OP wrong, the devs said in 2016 that sq42 was essentially down and needed some final polish and now we learn it won’t be ready till 2026.

Safe bet squadron 42 will miss yet another promised date

Did those games you’re talking about take gamers money first, and then subsequently failed to release much of anything for the next thirteen years?

Kinda sorta not the same at all.

wasn’t perfect

The “feature complete” game tech demo crashed

https://m.youtube.com/live/m3eHBhHsrm4?si=W0VjpxSoLALspDzk&t=8h0m50s

Don’t forget the fucking thing crashed when they tried to demo it lmao

https://youtube.com/live/m3eHBhHsrm4?si=W0VjpxSoLALspDzk&t=8h0m50s

Yes, because the problem is the OS it runs on and not that the devs can do nothing but lie.

Squadron 42 was nearly complete and needed polish in 2023 and now we learn a year later it’s delayed till 2026.

Just like the game itself started production in 2011 and has since missed date after date after date and produced an expensive and constantly broken tech demo mess.

But yeah if only it were on Linux and has nothing to do with the misuse of funds and said broken promises

They said it was nearly complete in 2016, so that makes sense to be honest. I don’t know why everyone is bitching about this.

Surely nearly every other game in existence has also required ten years of polishing after development is finished!!

Broken promise after promise, missed release date after release date, broken feature after broken feature after every rework

it’s clearly a fucking 13-year-old scam, it’ll be goddamn voting age before it’s released.

Early access is one thing, production on this thing begin TWENTY GODDAMN ELEVEN.

thirteen years ago, that ain’t early access, that’s a fucking scam that ain’t ever delivering.

Who are you trying to sell this broken mess of lies to? This is the definition of sunk cost fallacy lol.

Yeah keep having fun without us in your thirteen year old tech demo!! We certainly won’t miss the broken mining ships, the random wipes, the endless bugs that toss you out of your ship into space for bumping into something. I’m sure they’ll get to all the stretch goals too, all 65million dollars “worth”! You really showed us

Automatically assume the worst? WE’VE HAD OVER A DECADE to get to this point.

LMAO you’re the MAGA-parallel here.

Is it really “love to hate” or is it just that after a decade of failed and ignored promises and dates year after year after year nobody has any real faith. 65 million dollars in stretch goals and it’s still a fucking broken mess, endless examples.

The squadron demo fucking crashed when it was shown at the con, yet its feature complete but also not releasing until 2026.

Have you even seen the insanity that is the stretch goals? https://robertsspaceindustries.com/funding-goals

It’s all but a grift, and here you are defending the grifters. Maybe in ANOTHER decade they’ll actually deliver what people were promised (and paid for!) years and years ago.

Looks like a fun game isn’t what is being discussed here.

What IS being discussed is if this so called “feature complete” game is ever gonna come out. If its feature complete how is it crashing in the first demo they show? 2026 is a long ways away for a feature complete game.

As a dev, I realize feature complete doesn’t mean done but it also doesn’t mean an extra two years lead time before release either.

Just like the rest of Star citizen, aspirational date after date with no serious commitment. What they do release is either a little or a lot broken. This shits been going on for over a decade, but yeah it’s totally different now (but like, not now, but in 2026!)

….but it lOoKs LiKe A fUn GaMe!!!

Hey look, it’s one of those gullible marks.

“Feature complete” but they can’t release it for another two years? Hmmm…… 🤔

As a dev myself this shit is hilarious

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)

hahahahahahahahahahaha

Look at the list of stretch goals, 65 million dollars worth. What have they delivered from that?

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/funding-goals

It’s a grift, they ain’t delivering all that lmao

Classic, the person who doesn’t know what they’re talking about is SO sure that they know the truth. So much so they’re out here correcting people and handing out false info.

so the engine they are building is actually pretty good

Keep living in a false reality pal. I’m sure you k or so much more than the engine dev who replied to you.

How much $$ have you wasted on star citizen lmao

My boss LOVES to throw that out all the time as a defense for when I inform him that he and mgmt are rushing something out the door that isn’t ready.

It definitely has wisdom but it’s not something to wave around all the time either.

Not that that’s the problem here, SC ain’t ever coming out and it’s not because of perfection. It’s because it’s a scam lol

Read this fucking gofundme trash: https://robertsspaceindustries.com/funding-goals

Jesus fucking Christ! What a goddamn scam.

If you donate 65 million dollars worth of stretch goals we’ll make the game! But only if we meet the stretch goals… otherwise go fuck yourself, give us more money!

That whole page you linked is fucking gross. What kind of morons have dumped 65 million dollars into an unproven fucking kickstarter

Seriously, I encourage people to read the text for some of these stretch goals of tens of millions of dollars, it’s a goddamn scam

For reaching 3.5 million in donations, this is the stretch goal reward:

• Cockpit decorations – Turn your stock cockpit into your home with personalized decorations; amaze your friends with bobbleheads, photographs, dinosaurs, fuzzy dice, nose art, posters and many more cool options!
• Ship boarding – learn more about how Star Citizen will allow players to conduct boarding operations.

It sounds like a fucking scam, 3.5 million to be able to place decorations in your ship???

For 19 million dollars:

• Know your foe with a Jane’s Fighting Ships style manual free in PDF form to all pledgers.
• Manage Space Stations – Players will compete to own and operate a limited number of space stations across the galaxy.
• RSI Museum will air monthly, with a new game featured each time!

Like really? You needed 19 million dollars to be able to provide a pdf ship manual to users? Good thing the PDF is free though!!! (Free, after paying 19 million usd of course)

Yeah because everyone knows once a company drops LTS the software becomes completely unusable!!!