That's the plan. They started with star citizen being the focus and then 2 years ago they pulled most of the staff to finish SQ42. Now that they're in the "polishing phase" for sq42 they have started pulling people back to work on star citizen. Next year is going to be big for star citizen, very very important core tech being implemented and a deluge of content should come with the reallocation of workers to star citizen.

Source: I'm literally obsessed with star citizen/sq42 and know too much about it, send help. (My wallet is ok lol)

[–] okmko@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

"(On SQ42) ...but our plan is to be feature and content complete by the end of 2019, with the first 6 months of 2020 for Alpha ... and then Beta." - Chris Roberts, 2018

Apparently the order of operations is reversed for Chris Roberts in that both "feature complete" and "content complete" come before both "alpha" and "beta".

There might even be a "delta" and "gamma" - you never know when it comes to this man and the absolute slipperiness he employs with the English language.

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

... That is how it works? You aren't in beta until you're feature and content complete, that's the final stage for any game. Alpha is mostly content complete, but pretty much always feature complete.

The people who bastardized the usage of those words are the steam early access devs that call a game with 1 feature completed and almost no content an EA beta.

[–] okmko@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Is it the early access games, or is it just Chris Roberts' history of being deceptive?

I mean, if SQ42 is truly close to being released, if it requires a last push, shouldn't all employees continue to work on the project? Usually the final stages of a project require more work, not less.

Why would you suddenly "prioritize porting features from SQ42 to SC" if releasing SQ42 is a goal?

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because those people aren't currently needed for the things that need to be done in sq42. They didn't move everyone, it seems like a lot of the people they've spoken about moving over are art related and some tech people that aren't needed for "polishing."

Star citizen hit a point where they knew that large complicated tech was going to take time to implement and they couldn't progress with content as the servers can't handle it until the aforementioned tech is in so I think they made a reasonable decision to pull as many people over to SQ42 while the networking people and the core tech people worked on star citizen. Within the next few months we're going to see if they can complete that core tech needed for the servers and that will allow for work to continue on as far as content/future systems.

All that said, Chris is absolutely horrendous at giving dates and I'm glad he stopped himself at citizencon this year. I would love to ask him what made him think 2020 was a reasonable estimate for anything lol

[–] okmko@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I see. Well, I guess I'll see you in 2 years then when they inevitably pull off another swap and move all resources from SC back onto SQ42, and use that as an excuse, yet again, for why significant progress isn't happening now, but soon in the near-future.

I'll even mark my calendar 😉

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