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People have complained for many, many years, but I do feel a slight shift in the wind with this last batch, and I hope CIG does too. I’ve long believed that Star Citizen will never be stable and never get a full release so long as the community continues to be satisfied by what they’re getting now.

As Bo Burnham said, “I’ll stop beating this dead horse as soon as it stops spitting out money.” This is CIG’s philosophy, and it’s a good one. People have wanted a stable game and a full release for well over a decade, but it will not happen so long as CIG keeps making sweet cash, and it would be ridiculous to assume otherwise.

I hope this instance is at least a harbinger of a day not too long from now when CIG will have to actually either fix the game and release or give it up. The years of this half baked mess have dragged on too long and they’ve made more than enough money off of it already.

EDIT: I can tell about 2% of you read the post before commenting given almost all the comments are either arguing against something I didn’t say or are saying “that’s not true, it’s actually…” before going on to repeating exactly what I said: they will not change course until they stop getting money.

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Just read this great article which does a deep dive on what Atrioc’s talked about a lot in the past, which is the sheer financial impossibility that is trying to make AI profitable. Thought this quote in particular was very apt.