The perpetual development cycle of Star Citizen somehow keeps finding ways to get sillier, courtesy of the leadership at Cloud Imperium Games.
An anonymous Star Citizen developer has leaked an internal memo that details a grueling 18-day crunch to avoid a potential PR disaster at Citizencon 2024.
CitizenCon 2024 is a fan event by Cloud Imperium Games and was created to celebrate Star Citizen. The first convention happened in 2013 when the game entered early access. Back then, developers promised Star Citizen would come out in 2014.
Ten years later, the game is still in early access, albeit in better shape, but the scope of improvements hardly matches the time and money invested (north of $700 million thus far).
The hellish October crunch aims to push out patch 3.24.2 and assemble a playable demo of the Squadron 42 campaign, a star-studded disaster that has been in development since 2012.
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The specifics of the CitizenCon crunch seem inspired by the worst of AAA studio practices, a testament to their commitment to making Cloud Imperium match big names like EA at every step.
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