give it more than an hour. i made up the community toilets part. and thus far i’ve only been playing on single player because my multiplayer online experiences over the last few decades have been well… to sum them up in a word “yeesh” and that’s just my half of it.

The game doesn’t even really start until you reach the anomaly, that’s where the real research tree is. Or maybe there’s a deeper tree I haven’t found. I hadn’t found the anomaly by an hour into the game, I think I was still repairing my first ship.

I’m currently flying around in a solar sailer because those are cool, a mid sized cargo vessel/corvette I designed myself, and this big ass-frigate I guess it’s more of a carrier or fridge! That’s the word the game uses. It’s scratching the subnautica itch (or rather I used subnautica to scratch the itch while I waited to buy this. They’re both great games) and the old 90s xwing/tie fighter and privateer itch. What I wouldn’t give for a modern privateer OH WAIT

Edit that fridge should be freighter but fuck it that ship is a fridge

Whenever I was reading threads on Reddit (usually when there was yet another free weekend that was supposed to lure outsiders like myself to blow their cash on SC), there were those fanboys who would write stuff like “No no, they’re right on track and the game is already more than we were hoping for. You haters just don’t get it”.

I always used to wonder whether they actually believed that, when the game was at least five years overdue already and Chris Roberts just kept milking those poor suckers.

Having played both, Elite: Dangerous is a very different game.

Is it good! Yes.

Is it fun? Absolutely.

Does it have more merit than Star Citizen in many ways, while not being a predatory hellhole? Hell yeah.

But it falls short in a few things where Star Citizen delivers - most notably, immersion. That’s their strong suit. In Star Citizen, you can actually freely walk aboard your damn ship, you can visit glorious stations and entire cities, leaving your starship far behind. The world is more alive, cities are filled with NPCs, ads and neon screens are blasting around, you can ride a subway or hop into a bar with friends! And then you walk your friends aboard your ship, and you have a cozy night at the kitchen - talking, sharing life stories, and having fun. The game feels very…real in this respect, and the social life you get there is a major part of the experience.

Perhaps, this is exactly how it extorted so much money from the gamers: making them feel at home, build social ties to the game, and then making them feel they can’t progress and do more and be a worthy part of this society without putting in hundreds and thousands of dollars. Gotta admit - they almost had me, too, to spend $400 on a cargo vessel, and that was almost my monthly income at the time. Common sense took over, though, as I saw people throwing their life savings into the game.

Elite is no where near 10% of what start citizen has promised to eventually produce. Elite is a better game, yes, but to say it’s “90% of Star Citizen” is downright delusional.

CIG shares stats from which you can derives their average concurrency; it’s about 5,000 average for 2025. So somewhere ranked #150-200 in the Steam concurrency rankings (which often exclude MMOs and/or 1st party launchers).

I got so hyped for the seriously any day now you dudes 1985 release

They still have some time to make it before the late last moments of the quarter for a year of some number.

“Soft cancel” as in stopped talking about it long ago and dodging questions about it.