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Star Citizen is a space trading and combat simulation game that is still in development with tens of millions in crowdfunding raised so far.
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Pros
Cons
Con Toxic cult like community and ridiculous customer support
-Cons-
- Eve Meta-game Cyberbullies Frequent.
- Harassment/Trolling if your not part of a dominant group.
- Dev's are involved in toxic behavior (Greifing)
- Cult like fan-base. (Aggressive to anyone not praising the game)
- Disconnected/Malicious Admins in some cases.
- Slow progression and Erratic/ Dev team.
- Low investment backers ignored, while wealthy investors pandered to.
- No free speech on forums. "Avoid spectrum"
- Bad marketing team and Somewhat "Questionable activity"
- No female characters (Currently)
- No alien characters (Currently)
- No armor/ship Colour customization (Currently)
- No ship customization (Currently)
-Pros-
- Amazing graphics
- Armor customization possible, but limited (Currently)
- Great fluid combat and flying/combat (If you have the pc for it)
- Fluid control customization settings (If your pc can run it)
- Amazing potential.
Con Forever in development
Instead of getting all the core mechanics, and absolute basics actually working (which would then make a non-release harder to excuse), they keep adding “new tech” and increasing the scope. Some of that new tech is actually impressive while some isn't really new and is getting reinvented and explained in a very tech-heavy way that only sounds amazing making people get off their case.
A working “base” game could have been released years ago, with them adding to it and building on it.
There will always be new tech around the corner. This is why not having a clear end goal or end scope means we will end up having the same conversation/discussion in 10 years where there will be an even newer tech on the horizon that must be added before a release. It's never good enough and it's based on a budget that’s only limited if backers stop backing it by buying ships etc., it's a dream of the current CEO and no one is waking him up.
Update:
With all that being said you can honestly still very, very much enjoy it. Even with all the bugs, core mechanics weirdly not working, nonfunctional AI etc. etc.
Just do not buy into it too much with your trust/hope or your money. Only pledge the starter ship at around 40 $. Definitely worth it.
Con Couldn't play it if you wanted to
Can't really complete many missions to support your character in game because after 10 years plus development, their priority is adding more crap to the game vs stability. This thing crashes waaay to much to the desktop. Straight Ripoff! Premise is great but UNPLAYABLE!
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Out of Date Pros + Cons
Con Commercial launch is still a year away (2016)
The commercial launch of the persistent universe game will be sometime in 2016.