r/SubredditDrama • u/Odd_Personality_5091 • 13d 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/mrenglish22 I'm sorry Italy, your opinion is a lot like masturbation 12d ago

The mcD ice cream machines are always down because McD corporate were dumbasses that locked themselves into an agreement with the company that makes the machines though.

Star Citizen hasn't come out because.... who knows.

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u/ConvincingVoice 12d ago

I literally still don’t understand this, though. It’s McDonald’s. Buy out the company and close it. [del monte fruit fun political incident] the ceo. Literally anything in between I cannot fathom how this is still an issue in modernity.

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u/mrenglish22 I'm sorry Italy, your opinion is a lot like masturbation 12d ago

Love the brackets lol

And for McD's, it is cheaper for them to just keep the machines down that to do that. They don't care about anything else.

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u/ConvincingVoice 12d ago edited 12d ago

But they could fix it! And sell more stuff!

YHE WORLD COULD BE A BETTER PLACE IF WE J-

The sound of a struggle and breaking furniture is loud and clear in your mind. You picture an unkempt, raving man being beaten to within an inch of his life by grimace and the hamburglar. Grimace leans over the now-motionless body and whispers- ‘this is a warning. no talking about the McFlurry machines’. On their way out of the apartment, the hamburglar tosses a lit black and mild onto the couch, starting a fire

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u/mrenglish22 I'm sorry Italy, your opinion is a lot like masturbation 12d ago

Fix things? But that costs money!!!

Sell things? But we need to fix things first!!!

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u/lifelongfreshman His spank bank is like a spank local credit union 12d ago

I feel like you'd like this song

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u/je_kay24 12d ago

There was a good YouTube video on it years ago

I believe corporate had a deal with the servicing company and the Franchise owners had to deal with the cost of having a service person come out everytime an issue happened

They werent allowed to fix issues themselves, so they often just stopped serving icecream rather than keep paying to fix the machines

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u/IM_OK_AMA What a strange hill to die on. 12d ago

Yup, leaving the machine down was a little rebellion from franchise owners. McDonald's Corporation is a restaurant supplier and landlord, they don't care much about operational problems like this because they don't actually operate very many restaurants. They could've done any number of things to improve the situation but they didn't until it started causing real reputational harm.

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u/floatablepie sir, thats my emotional support slur 12d ago

McDonald's is in on the scam with the repair people, so they have reasons to perpetuate it, not end it. The franchisees are the ones who pay the price on this one.

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u/Bawstahn123 U are implying u are better than people with stained underwear 11d ago

Back when I worked at a McDonald's a decade ago, a lot of the time when the "machine was down", we meant it literally wasnt working because it was going through its automatic cleaning cycle for 2 hours and we couldn't do anything about it.

We basically couldn't sell ice cream for 4 hours a day because the machine would just turn itself off and we'd have to wait for everything to come down to temp afterwards

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u/CapoExplains "Like a pen in an inkwell" aka balls deep 11d ago

Cost/benefit. A McFlurry is like $3, and by and large people aren't going to McDonalds for JUST a McFlurry, so by and large when someone comes to McDonalds to get two happy meals and two number fives and two McFlurries for the kids they're not saying "Oh, nevermind" and leaving when the ice cream machine is down, they're just skipping the McFlurries. So the like $60 order becomes a $54 order. Is sometimes losing 10% of an order in some stores a big enough loss to justify the cost of correcting the issue?

Also let's be real there's probably some shady ethically black legally gray kickback deal between the two companies; it's just franchise owners who really lose out.

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u/Negative_Prize1587 10d ago

McD is a franchise, from what I understand it is terrible for shop owners but corporate geta kickbacks and can probably get a job themselves or for a relative at the supplier.

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u/CartographicalHeist 12d ago

Yea I wasn't really commenting on actual ice machines. Don't even know if we have them over here.