Celebrating the Star Citizen Community

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   my name is Chris Roberts and I would like to build a universe with you the before even the campaign before even Chris's GDC announcement uh he had had this idea of like wanting to create a place cuz he knew that there was going to be a long time in development from the crowdfunding to the actual place of the game and so you know foundationally very early on wanted a place for the backers and the fans of space sims to be able to get together and talk and share stories about games that they love and talk about stuff The Haven you know to find Kindred Spirits who share the same love star the community means I mean pretty much everything to me that was why I got involved in this project um and it's it's what energizes me uh everyone I work with I think everyone in the company I really always wanted to build a game that sort of put me in one

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   of these worlds and let me Adventure but I wanted it to be in a way that I sort of went around and and really felt like I was in the world and so up until then that was sort of the things that I sort of felt had been missing from a lot of games Chris had this really big vision for a big world and so while he was still creating that we were creating the community website and we were interacting with all of you guys and it just kept building and building the community that Star Citizen has developed over the past four years has devoted thousands of hours into making sure that Star Citizen becomes the best game it can possibly be really proves what we can achieve without a publisher you've got that brilliant like immediate communication like back and forth the backers and the subscribers are with us they're they not in studio with us but we really feel that they're with us and it's been fantastic you know it shapes shapes what we're doing every day um you

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   know people look at it take note of it and you know everybody's opinion matters we read the forums read the comments and those that feedback is also felt just from them playing that's giving us a tremendous amount of information you're sort of sharing stuff almost daily and getting feedback and you're riffing off what people are sort of responding to and I think there's an energy that comes with it you know they're waiting for cool stuff from you their hopes and dreams are with you and and uh you kind of want to not let them down we just want to make the best game we can we want to make something which has never been made before and we are not prepared to compromise now Vision this is the fourth citizen K uh since we launched uh in 2012 and it's quite a great opportunity to reflect for a second uh how far we have come we started out with a dozen people Chris sendy myself Ben

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   and a few other volunteers after adding uh Los Angeles and Austin really ramping it up in 13 we added Manchester in 14 we added Frankfurt in 15 and now we are at 360 developers and and support staff uh in all these locations um all thanks to the community having giving us this incredible opportunity I'm not aware of any other area whether it's in games or elsewhere where this has been done and where U an organization like this could be built strictly on the basis of this fan and community support and it's just absolutely great we do events with the community all the time backers are there they're they're hanging out with us they're telling us how excited they are about what they've just played how excited they are about the work we've just done how excited they are about work that they've seen partway in

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   development right um that's all stuff that that the team gets energized and pumped up about Gamescom this year on the on the show floor in the convention we had hundreds of thousands of people over the course of the week come and and see us and we were exposed to that and we had people lining up for 2 hours at times just to play uh play Arena commander see what was already playable in the game there's people all around the country and the world that I would not have had the luxury of meeting and befriending if it wasn't for Star Citizen as I followed the game um as I brought it into my streaming career um and got to meet the community all of it just came kept snowballing to me Star Citizen means freedom freedom from Publishers freedom in gameplay freedom for many to live in an online Universe

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   they have been wanting for decades T Squadron it's a fantastic community and that really is what it this is about we're just a small slice of the greater Star Citizen Community once they started being able to walk around I think they started to really recognize the possibilities of what what was happening Star Citizen is a chance to finally get to be an astronaut with without having to be good at math um I decided to try out um racing chip I think with the Mustang in gamma and I play one-handed so I have to use voice tag and it took me a while to get used to it but um eventually like by the fifth or sixth lap I was I was getting the hang of it and it was really enjoyable so I'm really happy that um th and allowed people like me to enjoy the again we got into a 20-minute dog fight until he was

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   too damaged and I ended up chasing this guy to about three different comrades where he went to port ozar and since he was a neutral zone the only way to get the kill I went blades out and went for the ram actually took off in a few different ships and flew to the backside of a moon and it was actually kind of cool seeing the dark side of the moon but also when we cruised around and we slowly saw the sun just coming across the Horizon and to me that that was kind of a really beautiful moment typically in development uh us devs were locked in room for building for years right without much visibility without much feedback on really what we're doing um with Star Citizen we're so open with the community and and and forward- facing they see what we do to get that feedback

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   from people to get the appreciation of the work and the effort that we're putting in that in return drives the team they show us the good and the bad in gaming development and we never really seen that before and they continue to push the boundaries on gaming the freedom with not having a publisher and setting goals and deadlines it means that we can concentrate on what we think means the most to the fans we're always striving to build new tools so that the community can communicate and share their feedback and ideas so that we can incorpor it into the game issue council is a tool that we created to allow our community to uh not just submit bugs but ultimately makes our citizen better with the scope and the size of this game uh we don't just value the bugs submitted from our backers we need them sometimes they even show up with the mark Bug

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   Smasher aent welcome to bug Smashers ready to smash a bug let's get started all of us who back this game know that cig and Chris are doing something special here because the community supports us we're able to make these excellent shows like around the verse welcome to episode 100 of around the verse just as a a little highlight for you guys we're going to take a brief look at the Bengal it's the first ship that Chris revealed for squadron 42 there La makers Etc just to show you not just how we're making this game but kind of dig a little bit more inside of what it takes one of our favorite fan video editors uh a gentleman named years 100 created the Imagine trailer he took all of our videos he cut them together in new and exciting ways it's one of my favorite ways that the community has influenced not just the development of

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    our game but the development of our game presentation welcome to the next great Starship the next great Starship uh was a show that uh we put together because they actually wanted to get involve and make a ship for Star citizens these great pieces that not only got integrated into our game but also into our team we have some of the guys from next great Starship are actually on our team today continuing to push the envelope on every spaceship you see that goes into Star Citizen Star Citizen is a dream that thousands and thousands of people across the world share the most immersive and diverse space game ever created a game that can change the way we think about gaming in general everyone has given their thoughts everyone is given their ideas and everyone is so friendly I would like to thank all of you guys everyone uh potential backers backers fans everyone

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    for the incredible amount of support cuz we couldn't have done it without you I want to thank the community you have you have made this job so rewarding you have made Star citizens so much better when Star Citizen launches properly like you know what someone consider a commercial release we're actually by the time we get there we we we know we're going to have millions of people there excited to play and be part of it and I think that's a massive benefit of being open and and uh you know doing what we do Star Citizen is and always will be more than a triaa game so much more please raise your hand if you have made at least one heartfelt connection with another human being while being part of this project in any shape or form please give up a smile for one

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    memory on Star citizen that has absolutely made your day I am a Star Citizen I am a Star Citizen I am a Star I'm a Star Citizen I'm a Star Citizen I'm a Star Citizen we are star citizens I am a Star Citizen and I'm proud to call myself a Star Citizen