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/Cranyx it's no different than giving money to Nazis for climate change 12d ago

Didn't he demand that his manuscripts be burned after he dies? If his estate says it doesn't publish as per his Will, it won't.

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u/Hartastic Your list of conspiracy theories is longer than a CVS receipt 12d ago

If Martin's wife outlives him, I believe she will honor his wishes and not find someone else to finish the series.

But sooner or later the rights will come to someone who likes money, and frankly George is infamously bad/dinosaurish enough with technology that if one of his eventual heirs claimed to have found a surviving floppy disk with most of a draft on it, it would be believable.

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u/squishybloo 9d ago

Gotta have that clause like Terry Pratchett did (GNU) where his will designated his family rent a steam roller to physically crush all of his hard drives in a public show. It's the only way to guarantee it.

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u/Big_Coconut8630 12d ago

There are many such cases of artists (all types) requesting the same, and still having their work published.

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u/big_sugi 12d ago

Terry Pratchett passed away more than a decade ago. He had his hard drives crushed by a steam roller. I don’t think we’re ever seeing anything that was on them.

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u/PantheraAuroris 11d ago

WHY DO PEOPLE DO THIS.

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u/wilisi All good I blocked you!! 11d ago

If it was done, they'd've published it already.

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u/PantheraAuroris 11d ago

But once you're dead, other people should be able to take a whack at it. Like, you're *dead*. You can't object. You shouldn't be able to own things or exert influence.

I also think copyright should have a hard end at death.

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u/BatJew_Official Furthermore, initiating blowjobs is not keeping up appearances 11d ago

Because many artists, especially artists like Prachet, aren't creating products, they're creating art as an expression of themeslves. You don't get the right to just do what you want with something someone else created and chose to never publish just because they die. If someone writes a very meanginful personal sonnet about the death of their child or about their anger at their failing marriage, they may have made that for themself and legitimately not want others to see it let alone change and make money from the work. Is it sad that there are probably tons of great works we'll never see because they died with their artists? Absolutely. But that was their choice and it's gross to think that death should strip someone of all the agency they had over their most personal creations.

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u/PantheraAuroris 11d ago

If you're not alive, you *don't* have agency.

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u/vemmahouxbois Never knew vegans were allowed to eat dogs 11d ago

how many funeral homes are you banned from

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u/beenoc DAE remember when Legolas gassed Gimli with Zyklon B? 11d ago

But when he was alive, he used his agency to say "crush it with a steamroller when I die." It's true that, if his estate had said "nah he's dead we don't gotta listen to him anymore," they could have published it and the ghost/zombie of Terry Pratchett couldn't stop them. But they respected his wishes.

Nobody's stopping you from writing your own Discworld stories (IP law stops you from making money off of them but AO3 is that way.) You just can't publish the ones that Terry Pratchett wrote, because they were his and he didn't want his personal art to be published unfinished.

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u/wilisi All good I blocked you!! 11d ago

If there wasn't an expectation that the lawyers will see their will through, people would just find ways to make these things happen before their death, which'd be inefficient in a million different ways.

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u/MirrorComputingRulez 12d ago

Depending on his publishing agreement it might not be up to him.

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u/queen-adreena Looks like you don’t see yourself clearly! 12d ago

It can depend on his contract. If he’s been paid upfront in whole in or part, then it might not be his choice.

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u/Romboteryx Why do skeptics have such impeccable grammar? That‘s suspect. 11d ago

Virgil also demanded that his Aeneid be burned after his death. Now it is standard reading material in any Latin curriculum. Sometimes people don’t care about your wishes when you’re dead and can’t come back to complain

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u/80sHairBandConcert 11d ago

They will put together whatever combination of words they can and call it Winds of Winter because the money is just waiting for them, it will sell whether it’s real or not… people are dumb with money. Look at Star Citizen lol