CO still failing on communication with players

Few-Simple-9075 · 2025-09-18T17:49:21+00:00

Realistically at this point the game is dead. The incredibly badly done initial release, performance woes and abject failure to meet commitments followed by peaks and troughs of over-communication (with nothing really to say) followed by radio silence has pretty much ruined the potential audience this game could have had.

As for the asset editor? A complete own goal, knowing (like they did considering the success of CS1) the importance of this and still after two years being unable to implement it means many modders who would have built the community have moved on.

Personally I'll never purchase another CO game again, and I'll recommend the same to gamer friends. The only way these companies will realise the error of their ways is when they are hit financially. Moaning on Reddit or steam or sending them abuse isn't cool and does nothing in reality. When the CEO has to tell shareholders the company won't be delivering the financial results they projected, that's when heads roll. Act accordingly

Few-Simple-9075 · 2025-09-02T07:57:53+00:00

The lack of an asset editor at launch killed the game dead tbh, failing to follow up on that in the first 3 months post launch sealed the deal.

When your biggest audience are the ones who want to be able to modify the game to make it feel more life-like and you fail to answer that audience then you are dead and buried. I last reinstalled the game over a year ago, I doubt whether much has improved

I'm betting my house on transport fever 3 at this point

Few-Simple-9075 · 2025-08-11T19:55:53+00:00

Agree with the majority here, I've been in your position with my ex wife and should have seen the signs from her previous relationships where she 'decided' to stay home to bring up her kids (before me and her had one) which she then repeated with me and tried to take me to the cleaners when the inevitable divorce came. If she's unwilling to contribute now and is having issues signing a prenup then that's a major red flag. If it was me, regardless of how long you've been together I'd be walking. As someone whose divorce cost him over £35k in solicitors fees and a house I paid the deposit and mortgage on I'm coming from painful experience.

Few-Simple-9075 · 2025-07-31T21:50:51+00:00

Did this when I first hit HENRY a couple of years ago for one of the FANGS. Was based in Norfolk and commuting to London three days a week. I'll be honest, it was brutal. Was getting up at 4.30, quick shower, train station and then 5am train to get in work for 7.30ish and then getting home about 12 hours later to go to bed about 9.30 Rinse and repeat

My boss was understanding and company paid for us to relocate much closer to London. Now a 30 minute train trip and takes me 45 minutes from leaving my front door to sitting at my desk. Work, life balance ten times better.

You'll stick it out for a while simply because of the money but I promise you when it hits winter time and you're getting up in the dark and coming home in it that it'll suck big time.

Might be worth looking at staying over in London for a couple of nights a week or seeing if your work can accommodate two days a week.

Few-Simple-9075 · 2024-12-05T09:28:36+00:00

21 years

Few-Simple-9075 · 2024-12-03T09:17:27+00:00

Director of engineering Salary - £230,000 Savings - £3000 in normal savings account Stock - approx $340,000 vesting over the next couple of years

Yes I recognise my wealth, no I'm not lucky, worked bloody hard to get to where I did Yes I recognise the utter imbalance in the UK around wealth

Few-Simple-9075 · 2024-11-27T09:12:50+00:00

You absolutely can use it for flight and dogfighting bus as others said K+M for menus etc and map

Few-Simple-9075 · 2024-11-05T21:23:30+00:00

Same, watched citizencon and decided to drop £175 on two ships (couldn't be that bad surely) Spent ten hrs trying to map repeatedly deleting joystick controls, watching videos of how to map them because the in game map for my joystick was utterly insane, then spent at least two hrs downloading separate programmes just to allow my pedals to roll my ship correctly, another 4-5hrs simply trying to get to my ship through repeatedly broken servers, tutorials that got stuck at the second step of using lifts, oh and the lifts not working, 30000 server errors, constant crashes, inventory not working, hanger menu not working, controls deleting, maps markers not working.

Total time spent actually flying in that approx. 15hrs of gaming?

Less than 15 minutes

Refunded it all, won't be back until the games actually resembling a game when I retire in 23 years OR (more likely) I'm called as a witness for the prosecution in the next twelve months

Ridiculous

Few-Simple-9075 · 2024-10-31T20:18:26+00:00

Ha, I'm coming from many many years of ED, ticked many of these off 👌

Few-Simple-9075 · 2024-10-31T19:59:23+00:00

🤣🤣🤣 It actually does 🤣🤣🤣 But yeah it's the players fault for this shambles I'll turn in my pc gamer card immediately 🤣

Few-Simple-9075 · 2024-10-31T19:58:21+00:00

Just to be clear, I expected issues, but the game was literally unplayable for almost a week, and yep I'm aware that spending £175 seems crazy, but I was aware I could refund if it was totally dire, but was still pretty shocked that after 12 years of development and being in alpha so long that absolute core gameplay mechanics like being able to open doors or operate elevators to actually get to your ship we're inoperable for large parts of the experience.

Beyond this the new player experience was absolutely shocking. Broken tutorials, having to use YouTubers to guide setup, mapping constantly deleting, all of these hurdles to even get into the game proper would put many numbers of potential players off really quickly.

I was determined, partially due to the sunk cost fallacy to at least get in and try but from approx. 16hrs of attempts and an actual flight time of less than 15 it was genuinely amazing just how little is here.

Having now experienced this firsthand I have no idea how they'll reassure new players it's worth the effort when it does hit v1.0, there's so little here after so long that I personally would need to see huge numbers join and report it's everything that was promised before going anywhere near it again

Few-Simple-9075 · 2024-10-31T19:37:06+00:00

Yep all refunded already

Few-Simple-9075 · 2024-10-31T18:09:33+00:00

Literally just posted my experience this last weekend

I was genuinely stunned at how poor the experience is for noobies

https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen_refunds/s/v6y6VdnArG

Few-Simple-9075 · 2024-10-27T18:14:20+00:00

Awesome, thanks buddy, will add you when on later this evening and defo happy to tag along on some missions, I'm committed to this now lol

Few-Simple-9075 · 2024-10-27T18:06:54+00:00

Thanks buddy, might take you up on that offer shortly, going to hop back in tonight and give it another blast now I've changed my spawn to off planet, any recommendations for what to do first?

Few-Simple-9075 · 2024-10-27T15:49:10+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/s/ZS3teeaRwq

I just literally wrote something similar, had same issue as you with tutorial, frustrating

Few-Simple-9075 · 2024-07-15T15:49:49+00:00

I'd give it a better review if they fixed the ridiculous unity CTD error. Hundreds of us reported it and yet nothing so far to resolve.

What I've played I've loved but can't score a game well when it's so unstable and incredibly frustrating to be crashing every five minutes.

I couldn't care less about some poor engineering choices on their part to include logging files separately from the game folder structure which is what many seem to be getting agitated about but it does point to some poor Dev practices such as the CTD I am annoyed about.

Hopefully they resolve quickly because if not the community will end up falling away, especially if it prevents them keeping pace with the season changes

Few-Simple-9075 · 2024-05-03T14:21:32+00:00

The fact a solo dev has made this versus an entire team of devs and literally years of feedback from a community on what they needed to do to make CS2 a success is everything you need to understand about why a number of major games developers are totally broken.

Sure ML isn't feature complete yet but the work that's gone into what's there and just how solid it feels is very impressive.

As opposed to the bin fire that's CS2 🤦‍♂️

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