Roberts: We Won't Sell Star Citizen [Apr 01, 2014, 08:57 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
A new episode of
10 for the Chairman on the Roberts Space Industries website answers further
questions about development of Star Citizen, RSI's upcoming space combat remake.
Also, there's more to the
$41 Million funding announcement that we
noted last
night where Chris explains that they have no intention of selling out to a
bigger company and disappointing their backers like
some crowd-funded projects have:
Now to answer the myriad forum threads that popped up worrying about the possibility of Cloud Imperium being acquired by another, bigger company – don’t worry! We have no plans nor interest in following this path! We don’t need to go to anyone with deep pockets to make OUR dream a reality. To mass-produce hardware like the Rift, you need an outlay of hundreds of millions of dollars. Luckily our ships are digital so we have hardly any cost of goods, just the cost of developing the universe of Star Citizen and running servers that Star Citizen’s universe will be simulated on. Thanks to the generosity of the Star Citizen community we have these two things covered
And last but not least I’m having way to much fun building the universe of my dreams for everyone to adventure in! I’ve been down the big company acquisition route twice before and there’s a reason I am making Star Citizen totally independently!
{PH}88fingers wrote on Apr 1, 2014, 18:59:
If you guys hate games so much why keep coming to a gaming news site and posting hate over and over and over again
I'm pretty sure most of us don't hate games. This game is pretty polarizing and either people love the concept or hate it.
Here's my concerns for this game in particular (and I'm sure a lot of you won't agree)
1) Selling ships for cash i.e. pay to win
2) The concept of "insurance" in a game
3) Over promising, and likely underdelivering
4) Having both a single player and an MMO game
5) Constant emails to sell more virtual things and raise more real money. Doesn't give a good impression.
I definitely like the space sim genre of games. However, pay-to-win MMOs are not my style of game. I think we've been through the pay-to-win vs not pay-to-win argument enough (to me it's paying to win, to those dropping money for virtual ships it's not).
I'm fine with some of you dropping thousands of dollars on this - but I hope this is not the direction that gaming in general is taking.
I'm not a microtransaction gamer, having some sort of taxi style meter down the road that charges as I play (which is not in this game yet that I know of) takes the fun out of games.
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