Star Citizen by Chris Roberts (Freelancer, Wing Commander, Privateer, etc)

[rossmum]

Ugh. I honestly hate crowd funding.

I mean, yeah, people post up good ideas I like, so I foot part of the bill to make those happen - that's a sound enough concept. What's not so sound is that if it ends up not being what I hoped, I am stuck with it with no way to back out and no hope of making that money back. I have been burned several times now from preordering games and have more or less sworn off ever preordering anything ever again, regardless of how good it looks; this is about the fourth or fifth thing I've put money towards without it even being in development at time of payment.

Last time, I think.

[Cortexian]

There have already been a couple of things that seemed to be hyped up to be something they weren't. I wasn't satisfied, but when I searched around their forums I found I wasn't alone and that the devs had already clarified what was what. That at least made me happy, and the more clear answers from the team were satisfactory even if they weren't the ideal thing I was looking for.

[neuro]

there's actually a slim chance i might end up working on this.

Eternal Silence ring a bell anyone?

[Cortexian]

That would be awesome neuro!

FYI, they've added a referral system, see the news update here. Chris himself said that if you want, you will be able to retroactively designate someone who referred you in the "Your Account" page on their website.

[Cortexian]

Come on dudes! Lets tell everyone we know and push to $4 million for some professional modding tools! They het $3.5 Million last night, new star systems every $100,000 and we're going to get another flyable ship when the game launches at $3.7 Million!

[Warsaw]

I'm actually looking at that "outside-the-ship combat" bullet...hmmm...

[Cortexian]

Well they're already going to be adding the ability to board other ships. They have to be multi-crew ships, basically unless there's room to walk around in the ship you can't board it. However you need to shoot out the enemies weapons and thrusters, then use a potentially expensive tractor beam and docking collar. It's more of a reward for awesome shooting than a main feature. Boarding will be done in FPS mode with guns and the like, defenders can setup turrets and stuff while the attackers are cutting through the hatch.

There was also some mention of being able to exit your ship and do the whole EVA shooter thing. But I believe you're right, that's at the $4 million mark.

[Cortexian]

So both the things we wanted have been attained Warsaw, they're sitting at $5.1 Million right now and pledges are POURING in at the last minute. The previous highest crowdfunded game was $4.2 Million, so Star Citizen is now the highest crowdfunded game ever... Wow!

That lone makes me want to upgrade my pledge from $125 to $250 lol.

[Zeph]

there's actually a slim chance i might end up working on this.

Eternal Silence ring a bell anyone?

I wondered what this guy was going to do about jobs when this thing kicked off. I know he's got contacts to fill major roles, but I wondered if he was going to open up jobs if he hit hella stretch goals. Well, he did.

[Warsaw]

So both the things we wanted have been attained Warsaw, they're sitting at $5.1 Million right now and pledges are POURING in at the last minute. The previous highest crowdfunded game was $4.2 Million, so Star Citizen is now the highest crowdfunded game ever... Wow!

That lone makes me want to upgrade my pledge from $125 to $250 lol.

I only wish I could have pledged. :c

I hope somebody does a BSG-style mod for this game in the future. Doesn't have to be BSG, but the muffled-sound, bullets-in-space, and BSG flight physics make for a very visceral game. Diaspora has proven that much. I hope Chris Roberts and company don't do the whole "pew pew pew lasers" thing again.