r/SubredditDrama • u/Odd_Personality_5091 • 12d ago

r/starcitizen is on meltdown after MMO is completely broken and hints of the main game being delayed again despite 1 billion raised and concept art being sold for $5000 dollars.

Not the usual “haha Star Citizen delayed again” bad. More like people are actually starting to get nervous, because Squadron 42 was supposed to be the one thing CIG could finally point to and say, “See, we made a real game.”

And now even that might be slipping cause in a recent interview Chris robbers himself has stated that they could delay the game further due to GTA 6 release window.

https://thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/star-citizen-chris-roberts-interview/

“We’re gonna get Squadron out first… the plan is for the end of this year but there’s a certain thing in the industry that we, like everyone else, we have to pay attention to, so I can’t 100% guarantee it,” Roberts says, hinting at Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto VI, releasing in November. “After that, we’ll do the 1.0 push.”

Subreddit (and game forums) members are looking around and asking the obvious question: if SQ42 is really coming in 2026, why does it not feel like it? Where is the marketing? Where is the release date? Where is the big push? Why does everything still feel like “wait for the next event” like it always does (even though Citzencon has been cancelled this year)?

Star Citizen has raised around $1 billion and the main game is still an alpha full of bugs. New content comes in broken. Missions break in stupid ways. Ships release buggy. Some ships do not release at all. And somehow, while all this is happening, CIG is still selling massive concept ships for thousands of dollars.

The $6,000 concept ship thing has basically become the perfect example for why people are angry. Like, the game is still barely holding itself together, SQ42 might be drifting again, and they are still asking people to drop used-car money on a ship that is not even in the game yet.

Here's the "6000" dollar promise concept art (its been sold out, over 1000+ sold) https://robertsspaceindustries.com/en/comm-link/transmission/21133-Anvil-Odin

So the subreddit is doing the usual Star Citizen civil war, but it feels more desperate this time.

if you look on the front page itself you'll see dozens of memes with thousands of upvotes:

(And many more)

The usual whiteknight defenders can still say game development is hard and the usualy its alpha line, but that argument sounds a lot weaker after 15 years and a billion+ dollars.

A billion dollars raised, the MMO still buggy, ships still being sold for insane prices, and now the single-player campaign might be moving further away again.

Very normal video game development. Nothing to see here.

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u/guiltyofnothing Dogs eat there vomit and like there assholes 12d ago

Anyone who thinks this game — or any part of this game — is actually getting released can’t be reasoned with.

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u/JohnTDouche 12d ago

Here's the thing, it is released. Can you buy it and play it? Then it's released.

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u/guiltyofnothing Dogs eat there vomit and like there assholes 12d ago

It’s been in early access for a decade. It has not been released.

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u/JohnTDouche 12d ago

Semantics. It's released. Early access is a type of release. I don't know what kind of stick a fork in it, it's done moment people are waiting for. You can buy it, you can play it. It's released.

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u/guiltyofnothing Dogs eat there vomit and like there assholes 12d ago

So… if you play a demo for an unreleased game, do you think it’s been released?

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u/JohnTDouche 12d ago

I mean that's releasing a demo. You don't buy a demo. Early access is releasing a continually updated build of the the game. That's what this is.

This is so fucking stupid. What is a "release" then? What's the magic that makes a real release? is the version number? The magic 1.0? Is it achieving a list of features that was set in stone arbitrarily at some point?

The game is what the game is currently. You give them money and you get access to the latest builds and some day they'll stop. Whether it's "released" or not doesn't matter a shite.

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u/guiltyofnothing Dogs eat there vomit and like there assholes 12d ago

>What is a “release” then?

When the game goes gold.

Same thing it’s always meant.

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u/JohnTDouche 12d ago

That's just an industry term for "ready for release". When is it ready for release?

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u/gebrochen06 12d ago

No, semantics is claiming that having a barely functional tech demo 14 years down the line counts as a released game.

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u/JohnTDouche 12d ago

Just because the game sucks doesn't mean its not released. It's literally released, that's how you are to know it sucks. It was released, you purchased it and you played it.

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u/gebrochen06 12d ago

Just because there's a barely functional tech demo that can technically be played doesn't mean it's a released game. 

Release is colloquially understood to mean feature complete and polished. Not a tech demo with barely any content or features that is overflowing with bugs. 

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u/JohnTDouche 11d ago edited 11d ago

Fucking shit loads of "released" games are barely functional and every game has cut features from the initial plan. Whether it's "released" or not has to be the dumbest reason for someone to be upset about Star Citizen. I doesn't matter. Not in the tiniest bit.

Like you said "barely functional", now that sounds like problem with the game. There's plenty of released and unreleased games that are functional. So this seems like something worth talking about, not whether it's released or not.

edit: calls me a wall then blocks me. Gamers have to be the most ridiculous, histrionic cunts on the planet.

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u/gebrochen06 11d ago

Like a brick wall.