Star Citizen is a Ponzi Scheme for autistic people. Also, 'never attribute to malice which is adequately explained by stupidity'. Roberts is a dumb fucking cunt who needed to be constantly reigned in by publishers to get shit done. There's a huge history of this occurring. He's obviously got an inflated sense of ego and really, really wanted to combine movies and games and never gave up that FMV dream, instead going to motion capture instead where he could hire all these prestigious actors who would later go on to kill their agents by drowning them in a toilet.
He's also a cheap motherfucker and didn't want to use any other engine because they were expensive and 'didn't have enough visual fidelity'. He also apparently bought into the 'But can it run Crysis?' meme a decade too late, like the fucktard he is. Cryengine was never, ever designed for a project like this and it shows. Oh God, does it show.
The Star Citizen community is the most mentally ill gaming community on the internet, not even joking. They play this game in their heads, donate thousands upon thousands of dollars while seeing no result. They laugh and shit on other space games because they live in this fantasy world where they're already playing this game. They shit on other games while beaming, 'Star Citizen will do that, but better!' Meanwhile, Elite is slowly but surely building up into an actual game, with Roberts frantically copying every single thing that they do, adopting it for Star Citizen.
There was this period of about a year where Elite was just trolling the fuck out of Roberts by announcing all new features with a timeline, which of course Robert's cribbed and pumped up much more than Elite. Roberts is insanely jealous about Elite Dangerous, which will pretty much do everything Star Citizen planned. If something is in Elite, it has to be in Star Citizen. They do plan on having FPS stuff, but not until way later. Living planets and the like. All in due time. The problem between Elite and Star Citizen is that Elite actually exists as a game, meaning you can play it and criticize it. Star Citizen, for all intents and purposes, is currently a tech demo for a badly modded engine, so not even really existing, so they can pretend its whatever they want.
These are people too autistic to daydream, to write, to play any other game and look over its imperfections. Many have donated their disability/Social Security benefits constantly to it. This community is very mentally damaged. Maybe it wasn't like that at the beginning, but that's really all that's left. You have these people trying to drag friends and family into it as well.
Star Citizen is 100% going to collapse. It is nowhere near finished, it constantly relies on new money, and its scope is expanding by the day. The engine is stretched to its limits and CryEngine was always notorious for bad optimization, its going to be even worse. You had people 'drowning' in their ships, because in CryEngine, below a certain Z value is basically water, since this wasn't really designed for expansive environments like space.
I'm curious when it collapses, the extent of the psychological breakdowns this community will have. They have invested years and thousands of dollars and hours of their time for a complete failure.
