Chris Roberts hasn’t really responded to all of the internet angst surrounding sci-fi virtual world Star Citizen. He’s kinda been busy with, you know, making the game. With his latest letter from the chairman, though, he has some pretty strong words for armchair experts and the feature creep police.
“There are people out there who are going to tell you that this is all a bad thing,” Roberts writes. “That it’s feature creep and we should make a smaller, less impressive game for the sake of having it out more quickly or in order to meet artificial deadlines. Now I’ll answer those claims in one word: Bullshit!”
He goes on to say that Star Citizen matters precisely because of its size and its expanded scope, which he notes was done at the behest of backers who willingly funded all the additional stretch goals. “Is Star Citizen today a bigger goal than I imagined in 2012? Absolutely,” he says. “Is that a bad thing? Absolutely not: it’s the whole damn point.”
