EXCLUSIVE - Cloud Imperium Games Undergoes Major Shake-Up to Hit Deadlines
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Star Citizen and Squadron 42 developer Cloud Imperium Games has undergone a significant shake-up to its management team to hit its deadlines.
  • Bronzebeard@lemm.eeEnglish
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    6 months ago

    What deadlines? Squadron 42 was supposed to release in 2016…

    That ship has sailed.

  • Mandy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    6 months ago

    What deadline? Of their life? Cause deadlines are gone since it was supposed to release 10 Yeats ago

  • OutlierBlue@lemmy.caEnglish
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    6 months ago

    As of now, Star Citizen has raised $769,261,551. Three quarters of a billion dollars.

    And now they say they need to fire the QA department to “laser focus” to meet the deadlines of the release. That’s when you need QA the most. Otherwise that release is going to be a fucking mess.

    I call bullshit. This is a money saving decision, which means they’ve blown through their $760 million dollar bank account. Insane.

    • orrk@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      the source is anonymous, I’d take this info with a heaping serving of NaCl

  • Harvey656@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    I’m pretty happy with 4.0. They sucked all the features from it, and the missions are having problems. But the game fucking works, finally. Or at least it did during the first 24 hours of the patch. About fucking time.

    That being said this whole shake up was clearly a cost saving strategy, since most of 2024 was not the best in term of making money, a LOT of people jumped shit this year, and I don’t blame them. CIG messed up so much this year. They have alot of goodwill to re-earn from the community and 4.0 is a start but only that.

    • northendtrooper@lemmy.caEnglish
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      6 months ago

      They’re 3rd highest. Possibly could break to be 2nd highest year of funding. Wanted that the be clarified.

      But I bet acquiring turbulent has put a slight bump in their expenses.

    • northendtrooper@lemmy.caEnglish
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      6 months ago

      For all intent and purposes. 4.0 has been by far the most stable release yet. And that is saying something since the player cap is 500 and now has a new star system.

      The new Pyro soundtrack is amazing and if you haven’t listen to Pedro’s work I would recommend to do so.

      There are some dumb bugs that qa and the ptu should have found and smashed but they (cig) dragged their feet with 3.24 and server meshing this year IMO.

      • Agent Karyo@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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        6 months ago

        To be fair the “most stable release yet” label is applied to almost every patch by star citizen fans.

        Just take a look at any reddit thread (let alone the fan forum) and for every patch you having something along the lines of “perfectly stable” or “best AI I’ve ever encountered” or “a monumental achievement”.

        And yet you have threads like this one:

        https://robertsspaceindustries.com/spectrum/community/SC/forum/3/thread/4-0-preview-unplayable

        There is a reason to be skeptical of “most stable release yet” style proclamations.