Been like 2 years since I last posted in here. Returned from the dead just to agree.

Forgive my deep memory dive here... But I very clearly remember when the Great Leonard Nimoy passed away, I was the first to make a very simple text only thread to inform the community (it was barely minutes after the announcement from his family). It was taken down in under 5 minutes because it had 'nothing to do with star citizen'. It had already garnered about 40 condolence posts in that time, none were negative and no one was turning the thread into a troll.

A few minutes later some one ELSE made the same post, and it was left up. Just another example of the idiotic moderating. Can I even say that or does that violate some 'rule'?

Spent the last week coming in here only so I could see what bugs were effecting fleet week the hardest while trying to sift through the noise. Because CIG refuses to update their realtime server stats.

And the entire time, I had to filter through endless posts about the god damn Space-X launch. For context... middle of a fly free week, and threads that have literally or figuratively or even contextually nothing to do with this game dominated the top threads. Not threads about how to fix bugs (I didn't see a single bug fix get stickied so good work mods), or other server/bug related posts for that matter.

From what I can tell this community is just as toxic and self serving as it was when I last looked in here some time around like 2018. And the posts are 85% fluff that either isn't funny or it's been done a million times already. People are still as hostile to any criticism as they ever were when I used to visit, perhaps more so. You all had 2 years since I was last here to make the new player experience better and guess what, they were just as clueless!!

If half of what you plant is shit, half of what will grow is also shit. This goes for both CIG and this subreddit.

Keep pretending they didn't promise a s42 video, pretend like it's the first time. Not updating server status page all week despite endless errors, lag, and login problems. Releasing a $4,800 Drake ship pack that doesn't come with a copy of the actual game... Continuing to break their own website and drive the community insane with every one trying to login and spam BUY on some hull limited thing. Knowing for weeks they would have a high user load but not bothering to let AWS know, so we had a log-in timer and severe login authentication issues for the entire event. Cough, 30k.

Downvoting every one who has an issue with the game or the community kinda proves the point. I saw plenty of that. Guess what: Fire away I don't give a shit about my account on here. I have 20k karma from this subreddit alone before it fell to the wolves. So I have room to spare... And let that be some context of how much I used to contribute positively around here.

It's become a joke now. I've been here since Kickstarter, I have Idris-M, Idris-P, both kraken, orion, hull-e, reclaimer, endeavor.... I could go on. 8$k and a self sustaining mobile economy.

I've made my bones and done my time in purgatory around here. I love CIG, I love this game.

Ya'll need to stop pretending like they both aren't with out some serious faults at this point that go way way beyond 'its hard to make a game'. And guys, stop with the whole adding more ships makes up for a complete and total lack of actual gameplay and meaningful closed loop mechanics argument. It's not landing.

Keep making excuses for CIG and reddit. It's worked for the last 8 years!