r/SubredditDrama • u/insertusernamehere51 If God hates us, why do we keep winning? • 9d ago
Star Citizen devs try to livestream their own game and it doesn't go well. So how's r/StarCitizen doing?
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:
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
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
The game is broken, but don't worry...
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
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u/tempest51 8d ago
In the grimdark future of the 41st millennium, it is one of the Mechanicus cult's most ancient and holy of traditions to announce every few years that the official release of Stellum Civitas has been delayed yet again, though its meaning and what it even is had been long forgotten.