he is a well known developer for the wing commander, freelancer, etc.... he has the skills to back up his talk credible.

This is unlike the other kickstarter dude who was home squatting illegally (though technically not) which earned kickstarter backers ire and doubt.

he is a well known developer for the wing commander, freelancer, etc.... he has the skills to back up his talk credible.

This is unlike the other kickstarter dude who was home squatting illegally (though technically not) which earned kickstarter backers ire and doubt.

I'm looking forward to the death of Kickstarter and all the "Early access/pay to play Alpha" bullshit that might happen when Chris Roberts inevitably fails to deliver his broken promises with all the funding he's received. But despite the fact Chris Roberts is going to make off with a few million bucks, I doubt that will "kill" early access/pre-order/Kickstarter markets. Which is going to be a shame.

Gamers like us are the shittiest consumers alive. One of the few good things youtube "personalities" like TotalBiscuit do is totally shit on things like pre-orders and early access purchases.

No, not all Early Access or Pay to play Apha are bad. There are a lot of games that are in development managed to be benefit a lot form these models such as: FTL, Divinity Original Sin, Project CARS, Elite, Dont Starve, Minecraft, Invisible Inc and so on. It is not a bad model if it is used properly as the fans can contribute a lot to the game with useful feedback and other development aid.

The problem lies on the developers and also the fans. The developers might not follow up the game's development for the fans while the fans might be overhyping it to the point they are not contributing to the development. Star Citizen is the extreme case of both.

Star Citizen's much anticipated Arena Commander v0.9 is live right now. Possibly. There's a little bit of confusion as a technical error caused by the update has accidentally blocked some users from accessing the game.

Developer Cloud Imperium's Ben Lesnick posted on the Star Citizen forums this morning to clarify the situation: "Hey guys! The phrase 'oops, we broke Arena Commander' is thrown around all too often these days..."

"If you check back to our nightly Arena Commander V0.9 status update post," he explained, "you may be able to figure out what happened. We had staged Release Candidate 2 on the server and then started to upload Release Candidate 4. Unfortunately, that triggered a script that pushed Release Candidate 2 public."

"The server started pushing the less desirable RC2 backup patch to Launchers. There was a brief window before we looped back the script when users might have been able to log in to RC2... but in those cases only the local Hangars will work properly since the server-side aspects of V.9 hadn't been deployed. Anyone who patched in that brief amount of time will be prompted to patch back to V.8 if they leave the game."

Oops indeed. The error may have resulted in a bunch of unnecessary patch downloading from Star Citizen fans, but Lesnick promises that the team is working hard to fix the error. He advises players to "check back tomorrow morning (US Pacific time) for the REAL patch!"

In the meantime it seems like at least some people managed to install the patch correctly. We'll keep an eye out for any updates from RSI.

lol. that issue occured yesterday in the afternoon. that's been fixed as of 12am this morning and we're playing now
otherwise how could I have taken these images?
http://imgur.com/a/vOwLL

Unfortunately, I don't have this game so I would have known that it was playable.

Either way, I won't know which images come from where.

Have to hand it to Chris Roberts.

He is really good at creating worlds.

Also really good at promising a lot of stuff and painfully slow in game development

cant wait to get this game...

anything to scratch the itch in the mean time?

cant wait to get this game...

anything to scratch the itch in the mean time?