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Gabe Newell on why game delays are okay: 'Late is just for a little while. Suck is forever.' (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Counterpoint: Star Citizen.

I'm not being snarky there. If there are no deadlines and unlimited feature creep, you get Star Citizen. Or rather, you never get Star Citizen except as a janky hyper-monetized pre-alpha.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Yes, landing is difficult.

There is delaying to release a higher quality product and delaying while having features creep... Not the same thing.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Nah star citizen was a scam first, game second. If it ever produces a game it will have been purely incidental to continuing to run the scam and milk those whales

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I kind of believe Chris Roberts himself is just an overambitious perfectionist. He pulled the same kind of bullshit with Freelancer, which only released because Microsoft put its foot down.

I can also believe that a lot of the top people around him are grifters feeding his ambition and perfectionism to keep the gravy train running.

Either way, they got my Kickstarter money so the only entertainment I'll ever get from that game is opining about it like I know anything.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

That's my take too, though "overambitious perfectionist" still sounds too flattering for what a bumbling narcissist he is.

He even put himself directly into the fiction's lore as my-hero but bigger.

https://starcitizen.tools/Chris_Roberts_(lore)