Star Citizen’s Alpha update 3.18 leads to a very bad week

Star Citizen—a video game first announced when Gangnam style It was topping the charts—it is sometimes unfairly labeled as vapourware. It is usually called by people who have never played it; If they have, they know there’s a framework for the game out there, which is playable, but also isn’t even close to being what anyone would fairly describe as “finished”.

You have to know that because this story is about the game’s patchy player base, many of which have paid the price for it Star Citizen When LeBron James was still playing basketball in MiamI. Those players, who routinely log into the various parts of the unfinished game and fly/wander around a bit, found that with the release of Alpha 3.18 last week, they couldn’t get into the game.

Update – which introduced a bunch of things, so much so that they Made a trailer for it—First released last week, this trailer looked exciting enough that several people have tried logging into the game to try it out. a lot of people.

Developers found Roberts Space Industries quickly The game cannot support that many people trying to login at onceAnd so it all fell. “Due to the high volume of traffic related to the launch of Star Citizen Alpha 3.18.0, the RSI Launcher could become unresponsive,” they said on March 11, adding that “the team is already working to mitigate this issue as quickly as possible.”

Two days later, however, many players are still locked out. And those who could The game was found to be riddled with crippling bugs, prompting RSI to tweet “Sorry for the very rough start – our team is practically on deck working to get things running smoothly ASAP”.

The time the game was published Still Not back to normal The status page for Star Citizen appears that several elements of the game, including its persistent world, still had a “partial outage”.

Fans are understandably angry, citing things like the fact that this game has been in development ever since FIFA 13 It was on the shelves, but I think that takes the view of a glass half empty. To them, a broken game must seem like a disappointment. To others, a broken game shows that there is a game to be broken!