Star Citizen Scuttles Roadmap, Will Only Show Content For Next Patch

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Star Citizen first began development sometime in 2011 and since then it's crowdfunded over $400 million, making it one of the most expensive and time-consuming games ever developed. Although we should perhaps add the caveat that development on Star Citizen isn't done and so far shows absolutely no signs of being even close.

Which is why some Star Citizen backers have become upset with the game's glacial progress. To appease angry backers, Cloud Imperium Games implemented a revamped roadmap back in 2020 to show what the development team was working on and what it planned to accomplish in the coming months and even years. The idea was to put everything out on the table to be as transparent as possible about Star Citizen's development. However, Cloud Imperium now believes that its initial implementation of this revamped roadmap might have been a mistake.

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The roadmap as it stands consists of two parts: Progress Tracker, which shows what's been done and where developers are currently working, and Release View, which shows what CIG tentatively planned to deliver in the future. The keyword there is “tentative,” as CIG notes in its annual Roadmap Roundup.

Today's update spends quite a few paragraphs describing the flaws of Release View and how it gave Star Citizen players a false view of the game's future development. Many believed that the targets set in Release View were promises rather than aspirational goals.

"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