Star Citizen is likely in financial trouble
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Re: Star Citizen is likely in financial trouble
#2Well, I feel a little better about my small personal debt in comparison.
Re: Star Citizen is likely in financial trouble
#3Who could've guessed?
The game designer suddenly gets $150m and rather than iterating, he goes for the dream.
I looked him up and he apparently has produced AAA games before so what's the deal here? Shooting for the moon on the first go in any software development processes is a recipe for disaster.
Re: Star Citizen is likely in financial trouble
#4Not very surprised, the game has been a trainwreck in the making from the beginning. Total scope was just way too overambitious, and people weren't going to plow hundreds and thousands of dollars into spaceship jpegs forever.
Re: Star Citizen is likely in financial trouble
#5Who could've guessed? The game designer suddenly gets $150m and rather than iterating, he goes for the dream. I looked him up and he apparently has produced AAA games before so what's the deal here? Shooting for the moon on the first go in any software development processes is a recipe for disaster.
> I looked him up and he apparently has produced AAA games before so what's the deal here?
The deal is that he's one of those guys who makes you go, "Oh, that's why publishers exist."
Re: Star Citizen is likely in financial trouble
#6Seems like incredibly poor budgeting given that they had $150M and couldn't deliver even a limited version of the game.
Maybe I'm underestimating the costs somehow, but you could easily pay pretty high salaries for 100+ people's time over a few years of development with that kind of money. I wonder what they did with it?
Re: Star Citizen is likely in financial trouble
#7It's not nearly as bad as they make it seem. Loans/debt are a completely healthy source of financing.
Re: Star Citizen is likely in financial trouble
#8I know SC initial funding is unprecedented, but is taking out what amounts to a line of credit really that uncommon? It doesn't necessarily mean the initial 150M has dried up -> thus the sky just may not be falling?
Re: Star Citizen is likely in financial trouble
#9Seems like incredibly poor budgeting given that they had $150M and couldn't deliver even a limited version of the game. Maybe I'm underestimating the costs somehow, but you could easily pay pretty high salaries for 100+ people's time over a few years of development with that kind of money. I wonder what they did with it?
I'm guessing this will involve unaffordable office space.
Re: Star Citizen is likely in financial trouble
#10It's not nearly as bad as they make it seem. Loans/debt are a completely healthy source of financing.
Excepted it wasn't planned like that.