I love how many people want big projects to fail, whether it is Star Citizen, Nintendo, Xbox One, Destiny 2, whatever... Instead of enjoying gaming like everyone else and wanting more options that they can play, their ego's have to be vindicated by wanting to be right on a video gaming forum. I mean, it sure would suck if this spells trouble for the whole game, but that's not because I invested lots of money in this game (I only spent the same as a normal triple AAA game), but because I would miss out on a potential good game. Yet we still need discuss why Elite is the 'better' game, not knowing that different games can exist in the same market space. Super Mario Odyssey won't suck because Spiderman won people's choice, and your Xbox games won't get worse if BotW gets a 98 Metacritic or if The Last of Us wins GOTY.
Nobody forces you to play or pay for Star Citizen. If you don't like it, don't pay. If you do pay, you should now the risks tied to it and if you were stupid enough to pledge the sum of a new car for one game and can't afford food and housing , maybe you need to sort out priorities. But crying on a video game forum how other people spent their money is pitying, nobody needs to hear how bad of a purchase the product was that they are actually enjoying.
It's over, period. CIG lost their last ace, and that's the end of their Star Citizen hopes and dreams.
It's not hyperbole, it's not fanboy drivel. It is LITERALLY it for SC. CIG has nothing left, nothing they can reveal at Gamescom would fix the hole now created. There is no reason left for any one, hardcore or casual, to substantively invest in SC. Except if they want to play Squadron 42. Which will also come to consoles at some point.
The age of CIG is done.
CIG just shot themselves in the foot.
I don't know how much the rest of you know about the financial sector (I'm an expert), but loans and debts are huge parts of it. It's not like it is in America where you can bankrupt succesfully by being an fraud. If you take out a mortgage in the UK, you bring shame to yourself, and the only way to get rid of that shame is repentance.
What this means is that Star Citizen backers, after hearing about this, are not going to want to purchase SQ42, nor will they purchase any more ships. This is HUGE. You can laugh all you want, but CIG has alienated an entire market with this move.
CIG, publicly apologize and pay off your loan or you can kiss your business goodbye.
No, now everything is up for sale - studios, code, art assets, music, distribution rights, engine. It implies they're getting more desperate or their financials are getting worse, as they had to give a lot less to Natwest for their line of credit two years ago.
Seems like it is only about SQ42 though, SC seems to be exempt from the deal, from the looks of it. I doubt the SQ42 as a whole is worth much, hence why they had to put the whole game up.