• kakes@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago

    …and?

    Not like people are paying for the release date. And they did release a product, just not under “version 1.0”.

    Seems like people are just mad that a game they don’t like made money.

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      6 months ago

      People are mad about empty promises and vaporware that seemingly only exists to make CR even fatter.

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        6 months ago

        I have friends that play this game basically all day every day. Doesn’t seem like vaporware to me.

        Empty promises maybe, but it would be disingenuous to deny it’s perfectly playable in its current state.

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          6 months ago

          And I have “played” it multiple times for a short while over the years myself. Anyone saying it is perfectly playable in its current state is a liar and part of the cult. It’s a glorified half broken tech demo.

          And yes, it is vaporware, because there’s so much feature creep that it will never see the light of day. They constantly completely re-write systems, often times systems that have been already re-written a couple of times. A lot of newer systems don’t fit in well with previous systems or other aspects that are now very much outdated, which means they have to redo them too (like various ships). It’s a constant redoing of things that have been done already. All while the major tech needed for what they claim to aim at is still not really there. And all of this comes on top of them adding completely new features instead of focusing on fixing & finishing what’s already there.

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      6 months ago

      Nobody’s mad that didn’t throw money in the pit. It’s just a funny story that never seems to end. Every year they don’t have a finished product, the joke gets funnier.

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          6 months ago

          “A lot” is an interesting descriptor, especially when comparing loud easily defined groups with quieter more subtle groups.

          Its the difference between those animals that puff themselves out to five times their normal size and those that prefer not to be seen at all. Are there a significant portion of the first as compared to the second, just because you see them more blatantly?

          • kakes@sh.itjust.works
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            6 months ago

            Yep, “I’ve seen a lot” does in fact refer to the portion I’ve seen, which is a lot.