People need to understand that the singleplayer campaign will be "done" next year, not the persistent universe. The persistent universe Like an mmo will never be "done" because it will have updates and additions for the years to come.

What he says is still true we should let them finish the game its funny cause I don't remember people rushing other devs to finish a game. We all know the reason why this game is getting so much hate and that's because he said he don't want it on consoles.

Squadron 42 is going to be released in Q1 of 2016. Earlier this year they had planned on Q4 2015 but they had issues with the transitioning between a ships local physics environment (walking around inside) and getting into a turret that's in the larger space physics environment. They also wanted to make sure that players inside a ships physics environment are suseptable to weapons fired from enemy ships even thought they're located in two different yet integrated physics environments. It's never been done before, like many things in Star Citizen. I'm still amazed they were able to pull off walking around inside a multi-crew ship while the ship itself is in the middle of a space battle.

Squadron 42 had the last of the Motion-Capture and studio recording finished in may-june and has been in QA since July. Most issues that could be seen in the CitizenCon last weekend were largely streaming glitches since it was happening in the UK as well as poor stream quality.

Here is a MUCH better example that was shown this past weekend. Another multi-Crew gameplay demo that was played live at CitizenCon.

https://youtu.be/6ccKp1n13j...

Yeah, sorry, but if a game like this was too ambitious for regular methods of funding, Roberts somehow lacked the cred to get done what many publishers today wont commit a quarter the effort to, then exploiting what amounts to cult mentality, turning many gamers into battered wives, and still not delivering - THEN YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE DONE IT!

Given how long since the last Wing Commander, the man should have returned with a clone of that as just a plain MMO, and built up from there from the hopefully resultant profits. Not try to do it all from the beginning.

I mean...you do know what most publishers wouldn't make a high end elite PC exclusive right?

It has nothing to do with helping gamers, it has everything to do with helping theselves. I personally would never fund such a title if I was a publisher due to such little returns on a PC exclusive on a very small install base of elite PCs.

But that has nothing to do with design, they are not backing it because they can't make it on 5 platforms, strip features to make it extremely simplistic and make it in a 3 year window.

CIG doesn't want that. The want a PC exclusive, realistic, complex...high specs.

Does that sound like EA or Ubisofts wet dream? lol

From what I've seen and played myself, its 100% delivering all on fronts they promised its backers.

The FPS works, the flying works, the ships, mother ships etc all work the way they promised. They still need a few more things done but the concept of what they are pushing...lots of it has been already played and it works, putting them together shouldn't be a big issue compared to its massive assets.

You mean people who don't like being jerked around, intentionally or otherwise?

I give Roberts passion for his work, even given that he worked on the Wing Commander movie whose effects where under par of many FMV he did, but he still needed to be aware of him limitations. Especially because of the example.

More than $90 million at least.

@neixus

MGS5 was $80 million and id say it was probably more expensive than your average AAA game

Actual costs are somewhat silly to try to pin down because it isn't like it is a film that is shot on location and all the costs are accounted for in one production.

Games entail all sorts of things but the coders are usually salaried employees much in the way those working on a movie are, however, they may work on this and then be on to another project making the actual numbers a bit harder to pin down.

For instance, the narrative director is going to be part and parcel of the game throughout production. His writing team, though engaged initially won't need to work on the project through the alpha and beta stages unless there are a few needed tweeks for the storyline.

They will have moved on to the studios other work.

But it’s not funded by players for over 13 years. And it will release before Star Citizen

what difference does it make, it's being funded while you are pissed off, money is money. Why do you have emotion?

Did you know you are so stupid? Like it's almost funny

Hahaha no