

It didn’t and has been pushed back ever since. As previously mentioned, Star Citizen was originally supposed to come out as a complete game in 2014.

The studio puts out regular videos detailing updates to the game’s universe, but the question ultimately facing Star Citizen is: can it pull off its grand vision as a cohesive whole, or is it simply too bloated to complete? Why is Star Citizen controversial?ĭelays and questions about profit, essentially. It pulls from a number of different genres, from flight combat simulators to first-person shooters. Set up by veteran developer Chris Roberts, who created the classic Wing Commander series in the 1990s, Star Citizen sets out to be the be-all end-all of space games. Those frustrations are tempted by the sheer ambition of what Star Citizen is attempting to do.
