IonTemptedStar Citizen Hits $900 Million in Crowdfunding After a Record-Breaking Year
Tattorack900 million USD and 13 years of development and they still don’t have the single player linear story game Squadron 42 released.
The visuals were absolutely crazy 10 years ago and are starting to look dated today. They’ve gone over and reinvented the wheel several times, including using a game engine that was never meant for online play.
The only thing that is keeping this level of incompetence afloat is the shit ton of money that people keep pouring into this. Previously Roberts had some executive that would kick him off a project if he got too… ambitious. But now he’s in full control of his project and… Well… For the first, and ONLY, time ever I take the side of the executives.
I always believed that they didn’t expect the game would go that big and now they don’t know what to do to cover their own asses.
QuetzalcutlassI wonder if it’d be out by now if they had picked a different engine. It can’t be easy finding devs experienced in fucking CryEngine, especially when you’re using a heavily-customized fork of an ancient version of the engine.
The choice of CryEngine was because of Crysis, a game that was infamous for PC killing visuals. Roberts doesn’t just want a gran open universe, but also something that looks like real life.
Which is why on two occasions new ships were put off from development in order to competent overhaul existing ships to look better, as better graphics became the norm.
I’m surprised development hasn’t completely paused once again to overhaul everything for raytracing.
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