It’s Only 11 Years After All, 23 Years Is The Best Star Craft Ghost Can Hope For
Roberts Space Industries may be moving on from simply harvesting money from hopeful backers and might be releasing an actual game next year. At CitizenCon, because of course the unreleased game has a convention, Chris Roberts showed off a roughly hour-long prologue of Squadron 42. It certainly had some issues, but that is pretty much guaranteed if you try to show off an unreleased product live. There were the expected amount of cinematics, to wit approaching half of the reveal of Squadron 42. Assuming sometime in 2026 we do see Squadron 42 for sale, you can expect a 30- to 40-hour storyline. If you are hoping a date for the full flavour MMORPG Star Citizen, you will have to wait an indefinite time.
If you are curious why taking shots at RSI isn’t an example of schadenfreude; caveat emptor is your answer. The Kickstarter backer statements did state there was no release date for either Squadron 42 nor Star Citizen. The intention was to focus on creating an amazing game, not meeting deadlines. That, plus the fact Chris Robert’s development history includes Wing Commander and more, drew a lot of backers. Those original backers put in a combined total of $2,134,374 into the project, which expanded to $67 million when he first started collecting money on his own RSI site. Since then he has accumulated $731 million and has yet to release a working demo, let alone an actual product. This is by no means a failed product for RSI.
