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Over $600 Million Later, Star Citizen Is Now at the Alpha 3.20 Stage (www.ign.com)
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Over $600 Million Later, Star Citizen Is Now at the Alpha 3.20 Stage::Star Citizen’s long-running development has inched forward yet again, this time to Alpha 3.20 stage.

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[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 33 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Okay....so............when can we try it out?

[–] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 59 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You can play it now. They even offer a free weekend every now and then. I tried it a few years back but never got very far into it..

Who knows, the game might release by 2030 at this rate.

[–] smegger@aussie.zone 28 points 2 years ago

They had a free week recently. But it ended up taking almost the entire week to actually successfully install and launch it. So I played it for maybe 5min

[–] Coffeemonkepants@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You can also pay for it and get a refund, which is what I did. It isn't anywhere close to being finished.

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm just super curious at to what $600m would get me. Maybe suckering people into paying for it out of curiousity was their genius business plan along though.

[–] cyd@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's the cost of about three typical AAA games. Genshin Impact's costs up to around its second year of development is also about that much.

[–] Ashyr@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The average cost of a AAA game is $80m.

"AAA games are the big-budget games that large studios and publishers typically make. The average AAA game takes about four years to develop, with an average cost of about $80 million and higher. But this amount can vary significantly depending on the type of game and its level of complexity."

-https://rocketbrush.com/blog/how-much-does-it-cost-to-develop-a-game

[–] Supervisor194@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

AAA games also tend to do esoteric things like "release" and "become profitable" and "spawn sequels."

[–] Ace0fBlades@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Whenever you want...provided you spent like 50 dollars on a starter ship in 2014

[–] Eggroley@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's $45 right now..

[–] SupraMario@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

They have sales, I grabbed it a few years ago for like $20. Yeah it's got bugs but I've got a good bit of time playing it. It's got plenty to do, people in here didn't really play it and are on the hate train. Don't be a whale and you'll get your money out of it.