Fans have been getting more and more upset over features getting delayed.
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With over a decade of development and over $434,000,000 in funding, Star Citizen still isn't a finished product. Its single player component, Squadron 42? Nowhere to be found. The fans? Starting to get a little irate.

Now, Star Citizen developer Cloud Imperium Games (CIG) have now decided to make their future roadmap for the game super vague. This is because the fans were starting to become more and more upset and frustrated by the constant delays for most everything that was announced on the roadmap.

The roadmap noted that only the plans for the next update in line were mostly solid, and that plans beyond that were more up in the air. Some of those further out plans were liable to slip to even later dates. When that happened, people tend to notice, especially when it keeps happening over an entire decade of development. Remember that the initially planned release date for this game was November... of 2014.

It seems like CIG developers are getting tired of their angry fans calling them out on these constant delays. As such, the studio is now calling out their fans.

Well, that's certainly one way to go about this.

"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."
Let's be real for a moment here: Game development isn't easy. Anybody in the industry can and will tell you that. However, there is also something to be said for a game that has been in development for a decade, has been delayed countless times, has almost half a billion dollars in funding, has had feature creep like no other game before it, and still isn't even close to being done. The fact that people are starting to get a bit more vocal about their disappointment with this whole thing after all this time seems pretty damn understandable.

CIG has amassed this massive amount of funding by always promising on what's to come, and when those promises are broken, people get mad. It's going to happen.

It's also a bit of a slap in the face that CIG says that people are pushing away other "prospective Star Citizen fans" by being vocal about the slow state of development and delays. Warning others away from spending potentially hundreds or even thousands of dollars on an unfinished product is a good thing. Don't let them try to convince you otherwise.

As of right now, CIG hopes to silence the dissenters by limiting the future roadmap timeline to stop at the next quarter. They are only revealing plans for the features that will most likely actually make it on time.