Star Citizen—a online game first introduced when Gangnam Model was high of the charts—is typically unfairly labelled as vapourware. It’s normally known as that by individuals who have by no means truly performed it; if they’d, they’d know that there’s the framework of a recreation on the market, which will be performed, however which can be nowhere close to being what anybody might pretty describe as “completed”.
You must know that as a result of this story is concerning the unfinished recreation’s playerbase, lots of whom paid for Star Citizen when Lebron James was nonetheless taking part in basketball in Miami. These gamers, who routinely log into the unfinished recreation’s varied elements and fly/stroll round for a bit, discovered that with the discharge of Alpha 3.18 final week, they couldn’t get into the sport.
The replace—which launched a bunch of stuff, a lot that they made a trailer for it—first launched final week, and that trailer appeared thrilling sufficient that lots of people tried logging into the sport to attempt it out. Too many individuals.
Builders Roberts House Industries shortly discovered that the sport couldn’t assist that many individuals attempting to login without delay, and so the entire thing fell over. “As a result of excessive quantity of visitors associated to the launch of Star Citizen Alpha 3.18.0 the RSI Launcher can develop into non-responsive”, they stated on March 11, including that “The staff is already working to mitigate this downside as shortly as doable.
Two days later, nevertheless, many gamers have been nonetheless locked out. And people who might get in have been discovering the sport filled with crippling bugs, prompting RSI to tweet “We’re sorry for the tremendous tough begin – our staff is all fingers on deck working to get issues operating easily as shortly as doable”.
At time of posting the sport nonetheless isn’t again to regular; Star Citizen’s personal standing web page is displaying that a number of parts of the sport, together with its persistent universe, are nonetheless affected by a “partial outage”.
Followers are understandably pissed, citing stuff like the very fact this recreation has been in improvement since FIFA 13 was on cabinets, however I feel that’s taking a glass-half-empty view. To them, a damaged recreation should appear a disappointment. To everybody else, a damaged recreation reveals there’s a recreation to interrupt!
