Why does the logo on his back not also have a supernatural badonkadonk?
Massive branding fuckup. It's like they don't know to sell the viewer on the primary feature, like they don't know what they've got or don't want to sell us on what they've got.
I personally thought they were generally surrounding the singularity. But that might be because I'm a little bit interested in AI, while this journalist is more interested in sphincters.
I already know much of the Plague Father, voice of the worms, he who cut off a whale's head with a chainsaw, strapped it to roof of his car, and drove it down the highway with rank whale fluid spilling into the car. His family sat with plastic bags over their heads. The Plague Father, who comes from a long dynasty of STDs and all other TDs, where they share their prostitutes and lobotomize their sisters.
It's often middle aged men with lots of money planning to run fleets of tens or hundreds of future players that will never arrive in the number they plan for. The few who do drop by won't accept their terms, so the middle aged man with lots of money will have to either play alone or play nice to get enough people to fully crew his second most expensive capital ship. He won't be able to crew his most expensive one because he can't convince the crew to fill the roles of 3 necessary "engineers" who run around the ship during combat staying on top of changing blown fuses and maybe a shield generator if it blows.
Sometimes it's not middle aged men, sometimes they don't have lots of money, there are definitely a lot of backers who are financially exploited and respond to a lot of the bullshit SC's marketing regularly does.
I've played SC a lot. It's got some cool shit but it's absolutely unstable and fundamentally broken in a hundred ways, and the design is kinda stupid and incredibly naive in terms of attracting and retaining players.
I liked piracy and PvP dogfighting. I also liked having a medium large gunship with a little Fury in it. (TIE fighter) I used to stuff the gunship full of drugs (cargorunning but supposedly cool) and jump in the Fury I'd hidden (powered off) if a ship arrived, and chase them off or kill them. I got really used to that little shit, it was incredibly satisfying to barely keep my shields up while G forces were almost blacking my guy out, and whittling down larger ships. I fucking miss that patch. 3.21 was kinda sweet, despite it's Star Citizen-ness. Tbh in some circumstances it plays a bit like an even slower Tarkov.
Don't play Star Citizen, unless some time down the line there's a Free Fly where you see reports of good stability. I think that's very unlikely, but I'd like to see it.
I'm personally $90 in. For a long time I stuck to the $45 starter. You shouldn't buy either of them.
Maybe wait and see if the single player spinoff "Squadron 42" comes out and is well reviewed.
Stop blaming ignorant consumers for the actions of irresponsible suppliers.