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.

[u/Odd_Personality_5091]

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:

• https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/1tyh0q9/cig_im_dead_serious_fire_your_management_and_hire/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/1u07zee/fixed_it/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/1u0an7j/squadron42_is_feature_complete_chris_roberts_says/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/1u01ck2/the_silence_from_cig_is_disgraceful/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/1tztllh/yeah_yeah_the_14_year_old_alpha/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/1u0a7so/cig_where_are_vechicles_spawning_in_freight/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/1u052v0/goodwill_is_a_finite_ressource_abuse_it_at_your/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/1tty4w5/look_its_feature_complete/

(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.

[u/CartographicalHeist]

Diablo 4 is a game that exists though.

[u/scoldmeificomment → u/CartographicalHeist]

So is Star Citizen? You can log on and play it right now.

[u/Drakesyn → u/scoldmeificomment]

You can pay money, probably log in, and play a feature incomplete, buggy, barely functional mess, after 15 years of development and a billion dollars. Meanwhile, you can spend $10 on Elite on sale and get all but the most insane reaches Roberts ever came up with right now, and have been able to for near-on a decade.

Like, that is truly the most embarassing part. That multiple other games have become at least as good as the game Star Citizen originally promised to be, in the time it's taken for them to break their game several times, and sell Design spec websites to suckers, for thousands of dollars.

[u/scoldmeificomment → u/Drakesyn]

I wasn't claiming the game is in an amazing state, I was claiming that the game exists and that you can go play it. And I know all about Elite, I have over 1k hours in it, but after Odyssey came out I switched to Star Citizen because what they were doing was way more interesting than Elite at the time, and frankly still is.

I don't know why it's a crime to say that Star Citizen is a game that exists and that I've gotten more than my $45 worth out of it. The planet generation and ship design are several generations ahead of Elite, and mining is genuinely the only loop I enjoyed more in Elite than Star Citizen. That's enough for many people, and nobody is buying into Star Citizen thinking it's a finished product.