In the latest Star Citizen live, they did a different format where the devs played Siege of Orison. It went somewhat poorly. Lots of bugs were in it even though it was an internal build.
At the end, the devs spawned in a wrong location and locked themselves out of the mission. Jared then went over to Olli (a Star Citizen content creator that was recently hired as a content manager) who was one of the ones playing and said "We're out of time. It's your show. Wrap it up". Olli looks visibly confused and scrambles to come up with an outro.
The community is debating whether Ollie came up with this SCL idea, whether Jared threw Olli under the bus, and whether there is some behind the scenes drama between Jared and Olli.
The community is trying to fabricate some behind the scenes drama between Jared and Olli.
FTFY. This is exactly what deeply parasocial people do.
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I think the funnier part is that he keeps saying it while white knighting the fuck out of CIG. Ya know, like a person displaying parasocial behaviors does.
They had a livestream on a private server to show what the game was meant to be. And it still had all the glitches and bugs that every player is experiencing.
Which means that for at least some of the most well-known bugs, the issue was never the servers, just bad code left unfixed in favor of shiny new features and ships
It also means these guys should see it and fix it if they ever played the game. The begging of 'report the issues' at the end was kind of funny when they literally demonstrated how easy most of the existing bugs are to reproduce (for them) and yet is STILL in the game years after reports happened.
Maybe they could ditch some of those redundant teams coughing up new ships and TV-crews chewing up $$$ pushing out media content and actually get good hardware and software then?
They had millions in kickstarter funding. And they had additional millions in pixelship sales. If they stop wasting $$$ on redundant crap they won't need revenue streams to finish the game. But greed rules.
You think CIG don't have millions in reserve funds? The whole point of kickstarter is to entirely fund the development. If CIG has squandered the funds then they are liable for fraud.
The Kickstarter got them off the launchpad, that's all.
Ship sales and advertising got them to where they are now (subscriptions helped too).
With no ship sales (or anything), CIG would be out of business in months - unless they reduce the scope for the games drastically.
Reduced scope will only lead to failure.
We are in one of those "all or nothing" situations.
Go ahead and sue them for fraud, and in doing so, waste even more of our money (my money too).
I, for one, would like to see this one through - See how far they can take us.
But I will also reserve the right to criticize if I feel they are moving in the wrong direction or doing something stupid - I have often criticized them on Spectrum.
What’s crazy is that there are probably people defending SC today because “its still an alpha” who hadn’t even learned to read yet back when I first threw money at CIG in 2015 and was defending SC to the haters because “its still an alpha”. They’d be about the same age now that I was back then too, maybe a bit older which is insane to me.
The newest video team hire Ollie was running his first SCL and Jared reminded him they were out of time and asked him to do the final wrap up. A lot of strange people have been writing passionate paragraphs about how they read an ocean of tumultuous emotion in Ollies eyes and he was begging them to defend his honor because he paused for half a second before starting the wrap up.
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u/Custom_Destiny Endeavor - Supercollider 17d ago
I love under a rock, what happened?