Star Citizen-udvikler dropper detaljerigt Road Map efter vrede fra fans ovenpå forsinkelser

Star Citizen har efterhånden været under udvikling meget, meget længe, og i løbet af den tid har projektet gradvist ekspanderet, og diverse features har taget længere tid at udvikle og tilføje til spillets igangværende alpha end forventet.

Det har betydet at selvom at de over 52 udviklingshold bag har udleveret masser af detaljer om disse features, og hvornår de planlægger at udgive dem, så har der været et utal af forsinkelser, og det har løbende skabt røre blandt fans.

Så nu har Cloud Imperium Games valgt at skalere lidt ned, og droppe det detaljerige Road Map. I stedet vil fremtiden byde på mere simple opdateringer og forklaringer, og det er angiveligt for at beskytte udviklerne bag, der skal kommunikere med skuffede fans. I et blogindlæg skriver de:

"It has become abundantly clear to us that despite our best efforts to communicate the fluidity of development, and how features marked as Tentative should sincerely not be relied upon, the general focus of many of our most passionate players has continued to lead them to interpret anything on the Release View as a promise. We want to acknowledge that not all of you saw it that way - many took our new focus and our words to heart and understood exactly what we tried to convey. But there still remains a very loud contingent of Roadmap watchers who see projections as promises. And their continued noise every time we shift deliverables has become a distraction both internally at CIG and within our community, as well as to prospective Star Citizen fans watching from the sidelines at our Open Development communications."

Fremadrettet vil Cloud Imperium ikke sætte planlagte udgivelsesvinduer på nye features, men kommunikere mere lukket.