Star Citizen’s Public Roadmap Will Be Limited To Immediate Patches From Here On Out
Development roadmaps in the MMO world are generally meant to give players a rough guide on what’s coming to a game over a certain period of time and can change at a drop of a hat. Unfortunately, some players regard them as promises which sets them up for disappointment if a feature or content gets pushed back for whatever reason. This is exactly what Cloud Imperium Games is hoping to avoid when they decided to change the way they handle Star Citizen’s public roadmap.
“[. . .] After living with this new Public Roadmap for the past 6 quarters, we’ve come to realize that this was a mistake,” explained the devs. “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,” they continued. “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.”
From here on out, the roadmap will only show deliverables that will be included in the next immediate patch. Unfortunately, the community didn’t take the announcement well and have been bombarding the devs with angry complaints on both the Star Citizen official forums and Reddit. Not that we can blame them, considering that the game’s already been in development for over a decade with no definite release date in sight.
The full announcement can be found on the Star Citizen official site.
