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Cake day: November 18th, 2023

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  • I appreciate your interest in common ground, genuinely, and in a similar vein will ask that you take a closer look at your faith in the Star Citizen project as a whole. To be fair, I have dropped a few hundred hours into Elite Dangerous, and more than that in hardware to increase immersion (HOTAS, VR, etc.), so I feel you. They fucked me (and so many others) by stringing us all along with promises of shiny things and half-measures IRL.

    Star Citizen is even worse in that respect, and I urge you to challenge your comfy perspective with a devil’s advocate angle, if only for this thought experiment. How long has it taken to achieve the promised goals? (How have those changed to fit setbacks?) How much money has the corp seen from believers/fans, and what is the ratio of bulls-eyed goal to promise made? Lastly, what would it take for you to recognize you’re being played? The game of Star Citizen is, in actuality: how to grift an entire cultivated fanbase for as long as possible.