Star Citizen celebrates 5th birthday

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Star Citizen turned 5 years old on October 10th and this year's birthday event, Citizencon, is on Friday 27th. The focus for the event will be planetary exploration, so expect lots of atmospheric vistas and sunsets.

With alpha 3.0 in the hands of the Evocati (around 800 selected, first round, testers from the community) and only a few major bugs left to iron out, it's only a short time away from the rest of the 1.89 million backers hands.

Unfortunately it's not going to be about Squadron 42, they'll be focusing on that in the December live stream.

Obligatory trailer (watch in 4k if you can)

Doesn't something have to be released before we "celebrate" it's birthday of sorts.

Also I love the whole Citizencon thing it seems such an appropriate name :)

Came at me bro :P

3.0 before the end of the year would be sweet.

More like Scam Citizen...

I thought it was still born.

Happy 5 years in dev hell.

DNF was in dev hell for how long? and you never would hear jack shit about its progress.

All that surrounds this game is very similar to a cult.

Given the scope of the game, of course it'd takes a long time to make. It's not a scam, it's just Human abilities how far we can really go. They're obviously trying to develop the best PC game since Crysis.

@davillain-: "Human abilities" That's the funniest shit i've read all, and i've read some funny shit today :)

@i_p_daily: Masterpiece needs time, just like DayZ :P

Hey I got 2 tickets to go to Citizencon, do you want to go with me?

There's only one problem, I paid for them on the Kickstarter page, and they won't be printed until 2022, because you know human abilities, and if I pay, sorry I mean contribute more money then I will get spaceships printed on them, but i'm not sure I should go for it because it may add time to the tickets getting completed, what do you think I should do dav?

@i_p_daily: Stick to the plan and wait for SC to be release. Welcome to the world of PC exclusive games where it takes times and patience my young padawan :)

Soon we will celebrate 10th and then 20th birthday before game even release.

Squadron 42 is never releasing.

What a train wreck clusterfuck of mismanagement this project is. You'd think with that type of financing they could've afforded to hire someone with some degree of managerial experience and project management, but no, control freak Chris Roberts. I'll be very surprised if this sees the light of day anywhere near what has been promised.

Awesome trailer. If it plays even haĺf as good as it looks, we have a serious GOAT contender.

This is what destiny and andromeda should have been this dev is a legend

Well we know $153 million can't even get you a release date, well one they can stick to lol, so enjoy the wait old man :)

I thought we waited for a game to release to start counting birthdays. When did that change?

We're celebrating game development time now?

yeah. a game that will never going to release. even half life 3 has more chance to get announcement than star citizen will ever release.

People still think this isn't getting released?

I usally get into the 1st wave of the PTU players so I should finally get to try it right after evocati, I dont care how long its taking only that its worth the wait, nobodys gonna care about development time if it manages half of what its trying to achieve.

Im excited and cautious in equal measure, I will let you know what its like :p

That's exactly what I was thinking.

One game causes so much salt and jealousy. It's quite sad really, that there are so many so called "gamers" wanting it to fail.

I'm usually in the first wave of open release as well, benefits of getting in early :)

@MirkoS77: It will be released eventually, but not by Roberts. Roberts will run out of money and some publisher like EA or Ubisoft will swoop in and buy the pieces and quickly throw some trash together to capitalize on the market.

Despite not being out yet, Star Citizen looks amazing! And yes, this is how all devs should work. No rush in favour of a better game.

Thank you. This is how all game developers should be doing, do not rush, take all the time you need making a better game.

This was never going to be a traditional game "release" from the start.

Nice tech demo

By the way what is this game is about ?

The Only thing I Have Ever Read About is game is why this game Will be the Biggest game/the most Disappointing game.

Not sure what DNF is.

Duke Nukem Forever

lol, i completely forgot about that game. And that game was special cause it got the Gearbox stigma.

That's pretty likely since Evocati has it now. It's in the hands of players, just not all the players. I'm not in the first wave but I expect I'll get it in the next 2-4 weeks or so. Even if for some reason it doesn't get official release by the end of the year, it likely would be all over the PTU by then.

-Byshop

Not sure why this is thread worthy? in any way shape or form.

Only moons , no planets, SQ42 will probably have a 5 minute gameplay sequence with 15 minutes of mindless walking/cutscenes at the holiday show (unless they are lying again).

Over a year since 3.0 was announced, over a year its taken them to make:

3 moons.

a bunch of pastable landing zones.

2 quest givers.. that were shown over a year ago.....

What else?

I should start a business with all the salt Star Citizen threads/comment sections produce.

@MBirdy88: There is so much more than what we can in 3.0 but you know that.

You also know the time is spent on getting all the various systems to work with each other (especially subsumption) not create the content, which is the easy part. What none of us really know is how far on the content creators are with their work on producing planets, landing zones, mission givers, fixed missions etc. They don't stop producing stuff because game play mechanics aren't working properly. We'll see what comes in from the incremental patches on the way to 4.0, I can see the next major problem being the system to system travel.

3.0 is also introducing a functioning economy along with everything else. I think I remember, not having an economy in the game was a major gripe of yours.

I'm not in PTU @Byshop

It will be either:

A. The GnR Chinese Democracy of video games

B. The Crazy Horse Monument of video games

C. DNF all over again

D. Spore all over again.

It's amazing how people follow the devs and their schedule and quote what they're doing in defence of 'where the f*** is the game?' etc.

I absolutely can not imagine ANY situation where I would become a dev team groupie that pays them money up front to make their game and then makes endless excuses for them when they don't make it. How the f*** does that happen????

Star Citizen, the most utterly bizarre situation in all of gaming history. Prepare yourselves for 'change of direction' claims when it gets closer to what passes for a release. It will be a f***ing shell of what people were expecting.

You're right. I just believe in all the hype of AAA studios and then shell out $60 for more of the same dogshit.

Only 5 years?

Games like GTA take that long to be made and nobody shit posts about that.

nice I plan to upgrade my ship once 3.0 is out and if they keep their word about vr this will be my most played game ever cause it has everything you could ever want..

would you like some Kool Aid?

@GarGx1: Isn't this more like Star Citizen celebrates it's 5th year in utero? :P

If we are gonna make Rock N roll as a Metaphor for a game make it good rock N roll.

Only 5yrs and no release date, and name 1 GTA game that was announced publically and released more than 5yrs later.

@davillain- said:

@PAL360 said:

Despite not being out yet, Star Citizen looks amazing! And yes, this is how all devs should work. No rush in favour of a better game.

Thank you. This is how all game developers should be doing, do not rush, take all the time you need making a better game.

So how do you know it will be a better game? more development time doesn't guarantee a better game. The most progress they have made over 5yrs is to their bank balance lol

What did Foxhound_Fox tell you? This was never intended to be like a console game traditional release. Never from the start. Again, this is a PC exclusive vs a console game development. Big difference.