Out of Pod Experience

Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to SC vs EVE thread number.... ah... actually, I don't know, I lost count. Can anyone catch me up?

You know why it's unbelievable? It's because it doesn't really exist. It's not in-game; it's hardly even in-engine; it's cheated to hell and back; and it's not even that impressive since games have been doing that for years (and on a much larger scale). All they have is a neat rendering pipeline that they've fed some fairly simple shaders to make it look good. If they ever manage to squeeze a game out, it'll be just in time for that rendering pipeline to be old and obsolete too. In fact, if you look closely, you see the cracks in the thin coat of paint they've slapped on to try to cover up the cheating.

It's a PR stunt put together by a man who thinks he's inventing things that have been around for two decades, often citing ideas as “groundbreaking” when they were tried and tested ten years ago and immediately discarded for being thoroughly bad ideas and fundamentally flawed on a conceptual level — a man that has historically proven he knows next to nothing about game development who constantly refers to his game as a movie because that's what he really want's to do (but who unfortunately has also historically proven to be even worse at that than at game development).


Close. If you buy Star Citizen, there is no such thing. Largely because the game doesn't exist yet — it's a tech demo that somehow is also an alpha version while at the same time delivering “a substantial part of the gameplay” (or something to that effect, don't remember the exact quote) while also not having any actual gameplay or game dynamics finalised or scoped out. In other words, the developers themselves don't know what stage of the development process they're in. At most, they seem to finally have understood that in order to release anything at all that they can claim is a finished product, they have to start cutting key features and somehow convince the backers that the stuff they were promised will come… somehow, some time in the future, maybe.

You've been scammed.

I would say “ask for a refund”, but the last official word is that they can't give any any more because they've spent all the money, so you're just SOL. Try a chargeback with your bank if you can.

I don't think Star Citizen is a scam. If the Single Player campaign "Squadron 42" is good, i will play it if my hardware can take it. Loved the old Wing Commander games from Mr. Roberts. Time for a new good Space Opera.

The PvP (instances, *yuk*) and the whole online Part on the other side doesn't really interrest me. Seems to be pretty limited and can't be compared to the Eve Universe.

Both games have their own strenghts and completly different gameplay. SC is more in competition with Elite: Dangerous than with Eve. I'm sure we will see an impact on Subscriptions when it get's released, but most of them will be back 2 months later.

I didn't back the game btw.

It's unfortunate the game development of SC is in such disarray. When first announced, it sounded like a badass concept that everyone with a kid inside that liked space would enjoy. Instead... it's a project that people throw money at with little tangilble results. It seems like for that past year or two development of SC has been spinning it's tires in the mud.

I don't wish anything bad for the production, but it does seem like the company is lost. And if you're gonna argue that just Google some articles questioning the state of the game.

Pfft, please. Real space gamers only play Jupiter Lander.

Call me when Star Citizen runs on Linux.
I might play it for a day or two.

Hoping SC turns out good. No need to have to pick between it and EVE. It's not like having to choose between honey mustard or barbecue sauce with your McNuggets. You can have both SC and EVE.

*makes popcorn*

Hey, who remembers Daikatana?

*cloaks and warps out*

The only common thing that EVE and SC have in common is space - ours is not a cockpit-based FPS (First Person Simulator). I'd rather say that it's in competition with Elite Dangerous (a rather stale game, but fun to dip in from time to time).\

CCP promised us planet landings once, but failed to deliver.
I'd happily continue playing EVE, but stay the hell away from SC. It's a publicity stunt that is a garbled mess of a simulator, shooter etc. A scam, if you will.