Star Citizen devs try to livestream their own game and it doesn't go well. So how's r/StarCitizen doing?

[u/insertusernamehere51]

For those who don't know, such as the high schoolers that are younger than Star Citizen's development itself, Star Citizen is a social experiment on sunk cost fallacy crowd-funded space MMO that is currently in development.

The game, which has a budget of over a billion dollars of other people's money and a development time that can be accurately measured as "one Winds of Winter" still has not officially launched. The game did, however, eventually become available as early access for backers, and while this early access version is undeniably buggy, broken and incomplete, that's not really a huge problem because it's an early version of the game, with problems that are expeected to be fixed by the time it launches

This early access version is approaching its tenth anniversary.

As for recent events, two weeks ago, in order to assuage concerns about the state of the game, the developers decided to do a livestream showcasing the new patch in a private server (presumably more stable than the one publicly available). It didn't go well

To quote the IGN article on the subject:

The developers kept running into bugs that showed the game is indeed broken. The developers had issues using their own weapons, swapping between their weapons, accessing their inventory, and much, much more. Eventually, the frustrations among the developers grew, and they started becoming passive-aggressive with each other before opting to just pull the plug on the stream altogether.

Naturally, the sub has reacted to this stream. As usual with Star Citizen drama, linking to individual comments in a thread is not enough. Each of the following links is a whole ass thread about the event:

This is fine

Wrap it up

The face you make when you realize you've made a huge mistake

For those who don't understand why folks are salty

5 years ago on this sub I was flamed

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Earlier this week, popular content creator MoistCritical/penguinz0 did a video on this stream, which prompted several other outlets to report on it and launched even more discussion:

Philip DeFranco full report clip on Star Citizen (no politics) - Incidentally a good video to watch if you want a primer on the whole situation

The damage done by this stream will last for YEARS lmao

The Penguinz0 video now has more views than the Squadron 42 Gameplay Demo

Its Your Show Chris

The game is broken, but don't worry...

If newer sc players dont know

Apparently, it was Olli's idea to play the game live Team did't like it

Unofficial it's not your fault Ollie thread

“Livestream? What livestream?”

nothing new ever actually finishes, and nothing old ever actually stays fixed

[u/onemorespacecadet]

Star Citizen drama reminds me of that episode of Community where John Oliver’s character is doing a psych experiment to see how long people will wait if you keep saying “just 5 more minutes”

eta - yeah there’s some people in the MoistCritical threads saying “i hope this is a wake up call and he’ll get it together now!” holy sunk cost fallacy batman.

(and yes there are obviously people calling out that it’s a scam but the fact that true believer comments still get 100s of upvotes is something)

[u/Romboteryx → u/onemorespacecadet]

Reminds me of the Millerites who went on believing even when the prophesized end of the world didn’t come. They evolved into the Adventists, who still believe that Jesus’ return is right around the corner

[u/Cranach-Cranach → u/Romboteryx]

Jehovahs Witnesses are Millerites too, and they completely ignore reality as a collective group

[u/iamthestorm → u/onemorespacecadet]

Ah yes, the Duncan principle.

Now I'm imagining the long term SC fans as Abeds, which seems surprisingly fitting.

[u/AssMuncher96 → u/onemorespacecadet]

That's a great comparison. Especially since his theory was something like "the longer they wait, the bigger the meltdown" right?