'Star Citizen,' a Game That Raised $300M–But May Never Be Ready to Play

Re:'Star Citizen,' a Game That Raised $300M–But May Never Be... by acchow on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @06:46PM (#19802427)

I don't know anything about game development so maybe someone can explain something to me. If you develop using 2014 technologies and it is now 2019 and you want your game to still look fairly visually modern, how much do you need to rewrite?

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Re:'Star Citizen,' a Game That Raised $300M–But May Never Be... by smacktoward on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @06:59PM (#19802519)

GPU technology has come a long way over the last 5 years, but most AAA game studios want to cross-sell their titles to both the PC and console markets, so practically speaking they’re constrained to only providing as much graphical pizzazz as the current generation of consoles can support. So game graphics tend to take big leaps forward when a new generation of consoles comes out, and then stagnate for years while those consoles live out their life cycle.

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Re:'Star Citizen,' a Game That Raised $300M–But May Never Be... by chmod775 on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @06:51PM (#19802466)

Many <2015 titles still look modern or even better than popular recent games.

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Re:'Star Citizen,' a Game That Raised $300M–But May Never Be... by naikrovek on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @09:23PM (#19803632)

They aren't using 2014 technologies, and they've invented quite a few of their own technologies along the way. The game looks amazing.

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