Star Citizen: Squadron 42 Delayed “Indefinitely”

Posted by Rampant Coyote on October 11, 2016

So this happened… (it looks like they changed the title since yesterday, because “indefinitely” is such a crude term… “until some future undefined date” is exactly the same thing but sounds less like “never.”)

Forbes: Star Citizen’s ‘Squadron 42‘ Single Player Campaign Delayed Until Some Future Undefined Date

I wish I could say I’m surprised. I can only say I’m disappointed. Squadron 42 was the reason I backed the game. I’m not much of a multiplayer gamer anymore. The MMOs burned me out, maybe. Multiplayer is too demanding of my time, requiring I devote a chunk to it at one sitting. I don’t feel like doing that very often. (Not, a small period of time allocated to a game that somehow magically stretches to a 2-hour session… I don’t know how those happen, but I didn’t plan on it!)

I was really looking for a new Wing Commander. I don’t know why. I can’t say I was a big fan of Starlancer, and that looked to be a spiritual successor to the series. There have been several games (many indie) which have descended from that concept, and play pretty well. But still, I was pretty excited to see what the man himself, Chris Roberts, could do with a big budget big ideas.

As it turns out, it’s the Strike Commander saga all over again, but with no end in sight. Okay, yeah, a lot of you may not know about that one. It was at attempt to turn Wing Commander into a real-world flight sim after the release of Wing Commander 2. It was jokingly referred to as a “Perennial trade-show favorite,” long-delayed by the standards of the early 1990s. Not much by today’s standards, really. And yeah, I know… glass houses, throwing rocks… where the heck is Frayed Knights 2 already…

Ah, well. I got a Squadron 42 t-shirt out of it. And it wouldn’t be the first game that I was looking forward to which failed to materialize. Just the first one I ponied up full AAA price for. But hey – that’s the risk with crowdfunding, right? I knew the risk, I took the chance, and sometimes I find my faith is misplaced. Probably. At least in anything close to the promised time-frame, but I also expected that.

Hey, there’s still a chance that something will come of it. That, or lots of excuses as to why it was unimportant, why the multiplayer game is all I ever need (whatever state it is finally released in) and is essentially the same thing I thought I was getting in the single-player mode, and how everybody was really only interested in the online game anyway and nobody bought the game for the single-player Squadron 42 anyway.

/Sigh.

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