Dad Lando was an outstandingly kind fellow nerd, I am grateful I got to talk with him a number of times, he was so involved within the Star Citizen community and when i talked with him he was always excited about Star Citizen and willing to drive all over for Bar Citizens. And we had some wild shenanigans about cosplay helmets and made some discords servers together with the community. God bless the King Fish, baron Lando 🍻 you will be missed my good sir and citizen of the stars 🫡 see you in the great beyond
Here's some strange irony. I had watched half of this episode and then needed to get dinner and take the dog for a walk. During that walk, my brother called me to let me know that my dad passed away. I've been expecting it some day soon but tonight was the night. I came back, sat down, and tried to distract myself by watching the rest of the episode. Jared, I feel your loss. Truly. And I'm grateful that you shared your story at the end. This is a game we all feel passionately about but we're all human beings with all the trials and tribulations of life being thrown at us. May your father and mine rest in peace.
Fortunately still have my father and am wise enough to spend time with him when I can. I’m so sorry for your loss, I’m dreading the day myself. Take care of yourself mate.
Really enjoy this candid and transparent approach to the many elephants crowding the room. There should be a ton of appreciation for all the hard work that goes into this massive undertaking.
lol, started watching this straight after watching a FSD video and this was one of the comments near the top. Had to double check that I was watching the right channel 🙂
This episode single-handedly did more to inspire confidence in this project's direction for me than any Citcon panel; Thank you all. And I am so sorry for your loss.
One thing this developers are is black and white no sugar coding anything! and as a gamer I appreciate that so much this guys really care for their game and player base. ❤I hope they continue and never deviate from this path.
My father also passed away in November at the age of 77 and playing Star Citizen with him was the most enjoyable thing I did in the verse. Between losing him and the state of the game I had lost all hope in the project. As a Wing Commander (with every ship still in my Hangar) and an Imperator subscriber for a number of years, it says a lot about the current state of the game that I was about to walk away. This ISC is exactly what I needed to watch. I finally feel heard. The glimmer of hope has returned. My condolences on your loss, I'm dealing with it as well. Thank you for sharing that part as well.
I would love to play with you i lost my brother to covid he was 33 we always played red dead 2 together but since hes gone every location reminds me of something i did with him. So i absolutely get where your are if ever wanna join up im Achilles2344
I did and was a sub for years too. I quit subbing two years ago and maybe played a handful of times since. I went into 4.01 for 45 mins and that was enough.
3 hours? 3 F-ING HOURS?!!!! this feeds my gaming podcast hunger, let's gooooo! Jared, to your father and every other Star Citizen who has passed, may they all rest in power O7
Star Citizen. A game for people, willing to live in a simulated world together, and enjoy each other's presence. A community of fans and hopefuls. This game is the tree planted that you may never sit under the shade of, but it is a legacy for everyone who comes after. Jared shared his heart to us, and I am so happy to shed tears for him, his dad, and the citizens who honor his legacy. May God bless the SC community.
Glad to hear the shift in the initiative. The focus on bugs will be a huge benefit. With a solid foundation, all the new features will integrate more effortlessly
I am so sorry for your loss. Our loss. Getting an invite to join one of his events was always an honor, some of my favorite ingame memories are from aboard his Hammerhead taking on hostiles. King-Fish was a first class Star Citizen in every way.
I could probably be wrong, but it looks like an AI generated and voiced version of Jared. ... maybe... More than likely completely wrong in that assumption...
Thank you Jared, thank you Benoît. I'm French, I'm 61 years old, I've been a backer for a few years and I spend my several hours a day on SC (sometimes, I even play 😊). I've just finished watching this interview and I have to say that this humility touched me because I consider myself to be one of the enthusiasts and that at times it's difficult to maintain this passion because we have so many problems to deal with. Although it's clear that not everything will be solved with a wave of a magic wand, the message delivered is reassuring and leads me to believe that the game will really become one from this year onwards (coming out of alpha). Thank you Jared for sharing this moment of your intimacy, which reminds me a little of my own situation. For me, this game is a window of freedom that also makes me forget my health worries when the stars are aligned. For all this, thank you to all the SC teams who work to give us happiness.
Didn’t think I’d watch three hours of SCL on something as “mundane” as performance and stability fixes. What a great conversation, and what a phenomenal decision to make, shifting gears away from feature-focus to playability focus. Also, sorry for your loss, Jared-that was a great tribute to your dad for this community.
When you get a dev to fix the elevators, bring them on the show for recognition and they will be hailed for their success and efforts by millions! Fixing it may be unsexy but it so badly needed the community will be raving about it.
I'm pretty sure the elevator is a tough cookie for any game to deal with. Something about the engine or code that needs to be 'tricked' for it to 'work'
This was the most important piece of content in CIG history. It shows that you not only listened but are not afraid to admit mistakes and tackle them head on. A huge thank you from me to the team that produced this show and to Jared and Benoit for sitting down and diving into these certainly uncomfortable but necessary questions. And I am sorry for your loss Jared, I still remember being worried about your dad passing out during the cosplay contest a few years back, he will be missed by many I am sure I have been on the SC train since 2013 and I don´t plan on leaving anytime soon. Let´s make 2025 a year to remember!
My heart goes out to you Jared. My dad too is a big time Star Citizen nut and is in poor health. I hope he can get to experience 1.0. I'm sure your dad is proud of you man. Thank you for being our window into the games behind the scenes development. The service you provide to this community is invaluable, if not often under appreciated.
It is an incredibly wise and forward-thinking decision to focus on making Star Citizen playable rather than constantly adding new features. After all, what good are the most impressive additions if players can’t truly enjoy them? Star Citizen is by far the most impressive and unique game of its kind. Its depth and level of detail are unmatched - and when it comes to the graphics, there’s really no need to even mention them: they are simply breathtaking. That’s why I’m truly grateful that you’re now prioritizing bug fixing. The community will thank you for it - because when players no longer have to struggle with constant issues, they can finally experience the game as it was meant to be. And this won’t just make existing players happier, but also attract many new players. The current state of patch 4.0.1 is simply not playable, so this decision is absolutely the right one. Congratulations on taking this step! It will propel Star Citizen forward in a meaningful way.
Thank you for your uniqueness, pioneering, and technological efforts to really build the 'verse for us all. Our condolences on the death of your father, and our wishes for a fruitful life through you. 07
I am a senior mobile dev, not for games but other stuff. I have backed SC on kickstarter more than a decade ago. I have opened the game a couple of times over the years, and got frustrated each time because of gamebreaking bugs and crashes. I can only estimate the level of complexity the game systems of SC have, and the devs that made them real have my full and honest respect, even with these bugs. But for the game to be interesting it needs to be stable. Seeing this shift to work a full year on fixes after the realization of incredible tech like persistence and server meshing is actually the first time I am excited to start the game again, maybe in 6 months from now. People don't understand how "developement" works. This talk is incredibly valuable and gives a real and honest insight into that. I understand the scepticism, I have it too, but the problems CIG is trying to solve are no simple feat that just takes X amount of time. Its the same reason why its impossible to predict when a new innovation will be made. So I understand that this endevour may take an insane amount of time, but to get the company working the game still has to be playable and fun during all of this time. I really hope this shift to fixing bugs will bring exactly that.
I've been supporting them switching to this best practice approach for years now after being a part of other space sim communities. Think Elite: Dangerous, X:Rebirth (and X3 generation of games), think even mech warrior online if you will. Currently, this talk is the best we could have ever got, let see if they walk the walk this time.
I don't think they ever really anticipated the PU to be what it is currently, the plan was simply to have an eternal pre-alpha test environment for early backers to experience some of the game features as a reward for backing it, but it's progressed into a fully fledged game with some people having the same level of expectations from it as a fully released game, and I think it took a long while for CIG management to really appreciate that. The excuse of 'well it IS only an Alpha' is still valid, but it's taken on a level of expectation that demands a certain level of quality from the amount of money people have invested into it. It many ways it became a victim of its own popularity, with many more 'casual' gamers getting in on the action and expecting so much more out of it than what was initially envisioned. Hopefully these plans go some way to address it.
Backers are right to be angry but they blame the wrong things. The problem is not really the "slow" progress or the monetization, but rather the ginormous scope of SC (not to mention - SQ42!), and the sheer amount of the scope that falls in "uncharted" territory. (oh, and that graphics was prioritized over gameplay prototyping so that there's now a huge legacy tech debt)
Ooof. I have been out of the loop with SC for a year or so and did NOT expect to see this. For the past couple months I had been overseas re-establishing my citizenship in the country where I was born. I ended up having to rush back home just as my process was concluding because my dad was in the hospital. I got home, spent the next day with him in the hospital where we high fived it over the new dual citizenship and we discussed our plans for this year. He passed unexpectedly that night. I am also now going through his place and dealing with all the belongings and doing that thing you have to do when you lose your last parent. Jared, my heart goes out to you, truly. I know I am incredibly thankful, and extremely fortunate to be surrounded by a wonderful circle of friends who have made all the difference these last two weeks. I think its such a rare gift that you have those who love and support you IRL, and then this wonderful community. But then to see that your dad was almost a bridge to both of these worlds? Amazing :) This part of life is something we all dread- if we're being real- for the majority of our adult lives, and then it comes. What a gift to be in a place in your life to receive it in this manner. I wish you all the peace that you can have while you cross into this next chapter in your life.
o7 Jared, what a strong episode and I teared up a little. I guess we are all in an age where our parents become more vulnerable. Let's get your dad's name into the game!
I am very sorry for your loss Jared; thank you for sharing your story with us. Best informative show ever made for SC. Thank you guys for the honesty and the so needed changes.
This is exactly what the game needs. I've been playing the game since it came out, and it never quite had enough content for me. As of right now, it finally definitely satisfies my content needs. Focusing more on QOL is 100% the right move the game is ready. People will start coming in soooooo quickly to play this extraordinary space sim.
This, this is why I backed the project. Aiming for the stars, and having the confidence to step up and discuss game development as if we were in the office, not customers. Amazing work chaps!
A stable universe will of course attract more new players than before and money will come in too. but this happens if the commitment is realized. let's see how they handle this great responsibility.
Sorry for your loss Jared❤O7. And thank you for asking difficult questions to the devs, your questions shows that you think like a gamer, as one of us, and bridges the gap between devs and supporters IMHO
I am quite excited for a content and stability focused year. If it means new missions, places to explore, and items to find, using existing system, then I am all for it.
Benoit Beausejour really knows how to speak to the player-base. In my opinion, from a random internet guy, CIG is making the right move with this. Fix what is already implemented with the game. Star Citizen needed stability a long time ago. Not just 4.0_Preview. Jared, you have 1000s of us thinking about you and your late father. Sorry for your loss. See you in the verse o7
That was a very informative stream earlier. Thanks a lot for preparing and taking your time answering the most pressuring problems currently experienced by us Citizens. o7
My heart goes out to you Jared. My dad passed away just over a year ago, so I know how it feels. Stay strong Jared, and thank you for everything you do for the SC community ♥
Just hearing the bugs acknowledged and talked about was very cathartic. Thank you so much! Would love to see devs streaming every once in a while complaining about the same bugs we see.
We respected when you asked on Twitter to not talk about it and glad you are coming to peace with things Jared as its never easy. All the best and great episode rolling out the new format. Getting the basics improved is a noble goal and I look forward to testing (breaking) their implementation by Dev Teams.
This is one of the best episodes ever. Thank you both, and your dad for believing in this game and not giving up! I believe in you and your teams and know you can do it! Shrug off all the negative and know how amazing it is that there are people so dedicated to making a such a difficult game. Jared, also thank you for being open about your dad. Disco Lando and Dad Lando for ever!
Thank you Jared and Benoit for this amazing episode. I've watched this straight through and it is so nice to hear the struggles the team work through and never give up on us even with how hectic our complaining can be. We just love the game as much as you do and want it to succeed as badly as you guys do. Keep it up, lets get there together! Thank you for Star Citizen ♥ Jared, I am sorry for your loss. My deepest condolences :(! Remember he is always with you and he will be in your heart, and the spirit of everyone in Star Citizen. He was a Star Citizen, he is still a Legendary Citizen, maybe lets make a memorial for him! Such a man! Reminds me of my grandfather who sadly passed before he could play.
My GF's grandfather, who was 88 when I met him, gave his great grand daughters game consoles so they could practice to play with him for when we went over to see him. I miss him. He was a hoot! Somehow, fate saw fit to take him from us less than a month before hitting 100.
This makes me very happy. This is the stuff ive been saying for years. "New" doesn't always mean better. Can't wait for the day when I call an elevator its actually there and works.
Guys im only half way through, but the fact you are in tune with the state of the community and leaning in to directly address these concerns ...i applaud you well done
This gave me extreme confidence in the future of SC. God bless you Jared and I’m very sorry for your loss. Your father must have been very proud to have a son such as yourself ❤
I'm so sorry to hear about your loss, Jared. May your dad have a peaceful journey among the stars. o7 Thanks for the lots of information about this year's development plan. Focusing on stability, performance and bugs this year is a good decision.
Amazing and you have np idea how much we appreciate the transparent nature of this conversation and how it will drive me to keep buying ships knowing what amazing team is behind it. Thanks cig. This gives us hope.
Sorry for your loss Jarred. Sometimes I feel like I am in the same boat as your dad. I am a retired Army guy as well, 100% VA disabled and some underlying medical issues. I dedicated myself to playing Star Citizen after retirement. Spend more than I told myself I was allowed to spend on this project and fear that one day I too will pass away before this project is even a fraction of what was promised to us when the crowd funding started. I been following this project for over a decade. 5 Digit dollars later and I, like your dad (RIP), am still waiting. God Bless and thanx for sharing an important personal part of your life there at the end. Thanx for being a devil's advocate on our behalf and ask questions with a taste of cynicism that some of the players are starting to feel. Cheers and here is to many more productive years of Star Citizen...
Phenomenal. The amount of transparency here is both fascinating and very encouraging. Thank you and everyone at CIG for making this such a great user experience, and thank you for looking into the change in priorities. My condolences for your father. We appreciate you.
As a player, my main desire is that the game is fun and playable. Make the core game-play enjoyable and accessible. Keep up the good work, I still have hope that success isn't that far ahead =)
As of my writing this, I’m about halfway through and this is absolutely the BEST show on the development that they have ever done. Jared represents the voice of the customer to pure perfection. This was no holds barred, unadulterated and 100% real talk about the current state of the project, the past and future. Benoit answers questions clearly, concisely, in plain language and honestly. My sympathies go out to jared for his loss.
You two really have the biggest balls i have ever seen in my life. Sitting there, live, 3 hours, asking REAL questions and thousands on thousands of people watching. appart of this beeing very informative and also completly rational is the bravest thing i have ever seen do a company and i never had more respect for something HR/marketing. thank you :)
The developers that fix the elevators and transit will be my heros! FYI, I haven't had a ship remain in my hanger in this patch. I also now have three sizes of hangers. This happened when returning to NB with a smaller ship.
This was such an incredible talk thank you so much! Very honest and very thorough you definitely earned another two years of my support with this video alone. I am so sorry you lost your father Jared he sounded like a wonderful person. Grief is very personal, thank you for sharing and as someone who lost their father quite young you have my empathy.
We love you Jared! You’re dad did right by you and we can see it every video, but more importantly you did right by your dad. You may think you were not there when you needed to be, but your dad got to see your videos and participate in the project you were helping to bring to the masses. You were there in his heart the whole time and never left. God bless you and the Lando family, and god bless the citizens of this glorious star filled adventure.
First of all Im happy to see you again and I very sorry for your loss Jared. I would like to suggest to have a memorial for all those citizens that are passed away before the 1.0 release. Something like the unknown citizen memorial.
You and your team are great. This was a fantastic video. The best is your honesty and open communication. I hope 2025 will be a big year of SC. 2024 was great. Many important and great new Features. 2025 now Performance and stability + some new Features is a smart decision. ❤🎉
As many people said, I am terribly sorry for your loss Jared. My thoughts go out to you, and I know you have great friends to support you through this.
My heart goes out to you Jared. Sorry for your loss. ❤ On the main topic of the show... Thanks for sharing, there's a LOT of work to do guys. 😮 You'll get there. The community has run with this for over a decade now, you had a solid base of support. Fix what we have and make it work, then add the extras on top of that.
Thank you for your daily work, thank you for continuing to do this no matter what. It's routine, it's burnout, it's staying up late at night in the office. It's all thankless work, sometimes even unnoticeable for most, but you don't give up and thank you for that!
Amazing insight here. Can't think of any other game studio being this open and transparent. New features or content are worthless if you can't use them. So sorry for your loss Jared, made me tear up. Still don't understand why instant hangars were done this way. An 'instance' is technically away from the public server or away from everyone else, hench the name 'an instance'. Some games puts you in the sky (since we use that we can't do that here) or, inside the planet somewhere, invisible to everyone else. Other games load it into a local instance, which opens the door for cheating but once loading back into the public, the server checks and validates the changes that were made "off-line". I can't for the life of me understand why it was done this way, with stacking. So different and SO much more complex from any other game. This method is like eating soup with a fork. And that's coming from an internal alpha tester for all the big boys (EA, Ubi, Bioware, ect), for the past 2 decades.
Great episode guys, truly love how transparent you were with us on the efforts for improving the gameplay and stability. Jared, truly sorry for your loss brother. I hope you and your family are able to be together through the grieving.
Losing a parent is unbelievably tough... you get through it, learn to live with it. But you never truly get over it. That may seem like a downer, but it's really is a good thing because it means they had such a positive and lasting impact in your life that it hurts when they are gone. Transparency like this is why I enjoy watching this project so much. Let's knock out those bugs!
Thank you CIG for doing shows like these! It's incredibly useful to get a peek behind the production curtain. There are so many concepts that I have learned about simply from watching these shows. Truly no other business would or could! Thanks to all the devs for sharing!
Jared, I'm sincerely sorry for your loss... It's incredible how much SC can mean to some of our lives, thank you for sharing your & Dad Lando's story and you should be proud of your contributions to his and all fellow Star Citizen's lives!
Jared, I'm sorry to hear about your dad. I lost my dad on 12/23, it was unexpected and it's been pretty tough to wrap my head around. I dont know what to say, but I feel it too.
Despite all the problems SC has I think it offers a very unique experience and I'm encouraged by what you and Benoit shared with us today. I was also very moved by the story you shared about your Father, Jared. I'm sorry for your loss. It's great he found joy playing the game and interacting with the SC community. Blessings upon you and your family. o7
Hi Jared and CIG :) Good times and hard times come and go. Keep up the good work. Thoughts and prayers for your loss Jared. P.s. I want my Perseus, lol
I really do appreciate you coming on to talk to us about the reason these problems are happening. And I agree, think focusing on stability should be #1 this year.
Thank you for that long and comprehensive overview, I don't think you could have sensibly started along this road until server meshing was implemented, but it is now timely and necessary to make the game less frustrating. I am truly sorry for your loss, it comes to all of us of course but it is still very hard to deal with the absence.
This discussion was top-notch. A pleasure to listen. Here's to 2025 being the year of stability in the 'Verse. It's still my contention that if they can get the performance and stability solid with just what they offer now in Star Citizen, that there will be no other out there that can offer the fidelity and emergent gameplay that SC does. Nothing else will even come close.
I really needed to see this interview. I have no experience in the industry, none with coding or computer engineering either, but im young enough to not be completely naive to the complexity of these things. After playing for a while i was getting burnt out and discouraged by the bugs in the game, but watching this has helped me to better understand the cause of the bugs, the process of how they are fixed and the hope for the future, as well as how my participation and reporting can actually help. As making issue report after issue report to the council was starting to feel like using a spoon to bail out a sinking ship. I love this game, I love when it works, I love that it challenges itself and tries to deliver absurd features that other game studios wouldnt even attempt. I believe CIG can get it done, I believe the verse will be stable in due time, I believe that it will be a highly successful and enjoyable game. I cant wait to jump back in now and go hunt down some bugs. to quote Johnny Rico: "Someone asked me once if I knew the difference between a civilian and a citizen. I know now. A citizen has the courage to make the safety of the human race their personal responsibility. Dizzy was my friend. She was a soldier. But most important, she was a citizen of the Federation."
Jared, Beniot, & CIG, glad to have you back and hear from ya. As always, I appreciate insight and rationale. Please keep up the great work and know we rooting for you.
Thank you for the Live. Thank you Jared for sharing. I'm sorry for your dad, but proud of this community and the bonds we made or making. Take care guys o7
Every time I hear how you guys treat employees, actually caring and treating them like living people, caring about their feelings, trying to avoid things like burnout or trying to keep them engaged, I'm amazed. I've never experienced that at a job before. Heck, I've never _heard_ of another employer actually doing that, they only say they do because they're supposed to say that. The experience I've had, by myself and witnessing it happen to others, at every job I've held (and it's a lot, my flavor of neurospiciness means I tend to not last that long at any one employer) is use them until you break them, then discard and replace them.
Fantastic episode. Benoit lands right at the top of my shortlist of officers/directors/devs I am enthralled to hear from. I hope he me may honor us with his presence each quarter, for updates, but only if possible. I know we would appreciate it. If this isn't feasible, it would understandable, as he's a busy man and there is much to do. Jared, I'm certain that without your hard work and dedication as the face of this project, this whole thing wouldn't have had a chance of success. We are all very sorry for your loss. I having aging senior parents myself and appreciate each day I have with them. May your father rest in peace.
Condolences to you, Jared. Lost my dad dec 6 so I understand slightly what you're going through. Rough times, although great he was also an active part of something you work on - and we all love (and hate sometimes). Take care!
I’m a quarter of the way in and I’m just so impressed with it all. Thank you for providing us the open window into the process and maintenance y’all provide for the game
It took me a few days but I finally finished the video. This is what star citizen is about. Transparency. Development. Community . Love it thank you for the effort dispite personal loss. Good for you and thanks again.
I am sorry for your loss jared i just know your father would be proud of the work you will continue to do and more that you will achieve
Dad Lando was an outstandingly kind fellow nerd, I am grateful I got to talk with him a number of times, he was so involved within the Star Citizen community and when i talked with him he was always excited about Star Citizen and willing to drive all over for Bar Citizens. And we had some wild shenanigans about cosplay helmets and made some discords servers together with the community. God bless the King Fish, baron Lando 🍻 you will be missed my good sir and citizen of the stars 🫡 see you in the great beyond
I think Jared would like his personal life private.
@@DABOYDJEM1 watch the video to the end.
I'm so sorry for your loss Jared, be strong and keep up the good work... Also thank you Ben for explaining in great detail.
Sorry for your lost, and thank you for sharing
Here's some strange irony. I had watched half of this episode and then needed to get dinner and take the dog for a walk. During that walk, my brother called me to let me know that my dad passed away. I've been expecting it some day soon but tonight was the night. I came back, sat down, and tried to distract myself by watching the rest of the episode. Jared, I feel your loss. Truly. And I'm grateful that you shared your story at the end. This is a game we all feel passionately about but we're all human beings with all the trials and tribulations of life being thrown at us. May your father and mine rest in peace.
I'm so sorry for your loss. Words cannot describe. My dads old and I lost my mum.when I was 21. No one will understand. G9d.bless
Sorry for your loss
Sorry man. May he rest in peace.
may he rest in peace brother
Fortunately still have my father and am wise enough to spend time with him when I can. I’m so sorry for your loss, I’m dreading the day myself. Take care of yourself mate.
Really enjoy this candid and transparent approach to the many elephants crowding the room. There should be a ton of appreciation for all the hard work that goes into this massive undertaking.
lol, started watching this straight after watching a FSD video and this was one of the comments near the top. Had to double check that I was watching the right channel 🙂
@ LOL that’s awesome. Some shared interest 😏
Its just the same elephant that's glitching so seriously its teleporting around the room. That's just Betsy. She's nice.
@ these occurrences will forever now be called Betsy 🤣
i should have guessed you'd be the kinda nerd that would also follow star citizen development haha
This episode single-handedly did more to inspire confidence in this project's direction for me than any Citcon panel; Thank you all. And I am so sorry for your loss.
One thing this developers are is black and white no sugar coding anything! and as a gamer I appreciate that so much this guys really care for their game and player base. ❤I hope they continue and never deviate from this path.
@@spacetime4158 The phrase is normally "no sugar coating" but saying "no sugar coding" is a funny twist!
@ I’m happy you picked that up brother 😂. I thought it was going to go over everyone’s head.
Promises only bind those who believe them 🤷♂️
This "this episode has restored my faith" line is posted every year on a select episode of an SC show, and then we still end up where we end up.
My father also passed away in November at the age of 77 and playing Star Citizen with him was the most enjoyable thing I did in the verse. Between losing him and the state of the game I had lost all hope in the project. As a Wing Commander (with every ship still in my Hangar) and an Imperator subscriber for a number of years, it says a lot about the current state of the game that I was about to walk away.
This ISC is exactly what I needed to watch. I finally feel heard. The glimmer of hope has returned.
My condolences on your loss, I'm dealing with it as well. Thank you for sharing that part as well.
Reminded me of the times my dad would ask me to play it, miss him.
Glad to see this messaging revived your hope dude. It's gonna be a bumpy ride but I still believe
I would love to play with you i lost my brother to covid he was 33 we always played red dead 2 together but since hes gone every location reminds me of something i did with him. So i absolutely get where your are if ever wanna join up im Achilles2344
I did and was a sub for years too. I quit subbing two years ago and maybe played a handful of times since. I went into 4.01 for 45 mins and that was enough.
3 hours? 3 F-ING HOURS?!!!! this feeds my gaming podcast hunger, let's gooooo!
Jared, to your father and every other Star Citizen who has passed, may they all rest in power O7
I had the opportunity to meet your dad at CitizenCon 2953 (2023). A gem of a human being. Truly sorry for your loss Jared.
Isnt that 2953?
@hephaestion12 oh you're probably right!
Star Citizen. A game for people, willing to live in a simulated world together, and enjoy each other's presence. A community of fans and hopefuls. This game is the tree planted that you may never sit under the shade of, but it is a legacy for everyone who comes after. Jared shared his heart to us, and I am so happy to shed tears for him, his dad, and the citizens who honor his legacy. May God bless the SC community.
Glad to hear the shift in the initiative. The focus on bugs will be a huge benefit. With a solid foundation, all the new features will integrate more effortlessly
774 million dollars later
I am so sorry for your loss. Our loss. Getting an invite to join one of his events was always an honor, some of my favorite ingame memories are from aboard his Hammerhead taking on hostiles. King-Fish was a first class Star Citizen in every way.
"our loss" LMAO
@@ItsDankBroadcaster Always gotta be one of those guys...
@@ItsDankBroadcaster Since OP enjoyed playing with Jared´s father, using "our loss" is the right term.
@@ItsDankBroadcaster ur such an idiot, shame on you boy.
@@ItsDankBroadcaster Scumbag
Who's this young fella?
I dunno but I hope CIG keeps him. He seems pretty good at this job.
benoit, hes a real one
Yeah this dude is the real deal!!
I could probably be wrong, but it looks like an AI generated and voiced version of Jared. ... maybe... More than likely completely wrong in that assumption...
The fall guy
Thank you Jared, thank you Benoît.
I'm French, I'm 61 years old, I've been a backer for a few years and I spend my several hours a day on SC (sometimes, I even play 😊). I've just finished watching this interview and I have to say that this humility touched me because I consider myself to be one of the enthusiasts and that at times it's difficult to maintain this passion because we have so many problems to deal with. Although it's clear that not everything will be solved with a wave of a magic wand, the message delivered is reassuring and leads me to believe that the game will really become one from this year onwards (coming out of alpha). Thank you Jared for sharing this moment of your intimacy, which reminds me a little of my own situation. For me, this game is a window of freedom that also makes me forget my health worries when the stars are aligned.
For all this, thank you to all the SC teams who work to give us happiness.
Didn’t think I’d watch three hours of SCL on something as “mundane” as performance and stability fixes. What a great conversation, and what a phenomenal decision to make, shifting gears away from feature-focus to playability focus.
Also, sorry for your loss, Jared-that was a great tribute to your dad for this community.
When you get a dev to fix the elevators, bring them on the show for recognition and they will be hailed for their success and efforts by millions! Fixing it may be unsexy but it so badly needed the community will be raving about it.
I'm pretty sure the elevator is a tough cookie for any game to deal with. Something about the engine or code that needs to be 'tricked' for it to 'work'
So sorry to hear about your dad, Jared. He seemed like a great dude. Sending love. 💛
This was the most important piece of content in CIG history. It shows that you not only listened but are not afraid to admit mistakes and tackle them head on.
A huge thank you from me to the team that produced this show and to Jared and Benoit for sitting down and diving into these certainly uncomfortable but necessary questions.
And I am sorry for your loss Jared, I still remember being worried about your dad passing out during the cosplay contest a few years back, he will be missed by many I am sure
I have been on the SC train since 2013 and I don´t plan on leaving anytime soon. Let´s make 2025 a year to remember!
Thank you very much for the episode Jared and Ben and so sorry for your loss !
My heart goes out to you Jared. My dad too is a big time Star Citizen nut and is in poor health. I hope he can get to experience 1.0. I'm sure your dad is proud of you man. Thank you for being our window into the games behind the scenes development. The service you provide to this community is invaluable, if not often under appreciated.
Everyone is gonna be gone by the time this game releases.
It is an incredibly wise and forward-thinking decision to focus on making Star Citizen playable rather than constantly adding new features. After all, what good are the most impressive additions if players can’t truly enjoy them?
Star Citizen is by far the most impressive and unique game of its kind. Its depth and level of detail are unmatched - and when it comes to the graphics, there’s really no need to even mention them: they are simply breathtaking.
That’s why I’m truly grateful that you’re now prioritizing bug fixing. The community will thank you for it - because when players no longer have to struggle with constant issues, they can finally experience the game as it was meant to be. And this won’t just make existing players happier, but also attract many new players.
The current state of patch 4.0.1 is simply not playable, so this decision is absolutely the right one. Congratulations on taking this step! It will propel Star Citizen forward in a meaningful way.
Thank you for your uniqueness, pioneering, and technological efforts to really build the 'verse for us all.
Our condolences on the death of your father, and our wishes for a fruitful life through you.
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"Its depth and level of detail are unmatched" not even close to reality, sry ^^
I am a senior mobile dev, not for games but other stuff. I have backed SC on kickstarter more than a decade ago. I have opened the game a couple of times over the years, and got frustrated each time because of gamebreaking bugs and crashes. I can only estimate the level of complexity the game systems of SC have, and the devs that made them real have my full and honest respect, even with these bugs. But for the game to be interesting it needs to be stable. Seeing this shift to work a full year on fixes after the realization of incredible tech like persistence and server meshing is actually the first time I am excited to start the game again, maybe in 6 months from now. People don't understand how "developement" works. This talk is incredibly valuable and gives a real and honest insight into that. I understand the scepticism, I have it too, but the problems CIG is trying to solve are no simple feat that just takes X amount of time. Its the same reason why its impossible to predict when a new innovation will be made. So I understand that this endevour may take an insane amount of time, but to get the company working the game still has to be playable and fun during all of this time. I really hope this shift to fixing bugs will bring exactly that.
I've been supporting them switching to this best practice approach for years now after being a part of other space sim communities.
Think Elite: Dangerous, X:Rebirth (and X3 generation of games), think even mech warrior online if you will.
Currently, this talk is the best we could have ever got, let see if they walk the walk this time.
I don't think they ever really anticipated the PU to be what it is currently, the plan was simply to have an eternal pre-alpha test environment for early backers to experience some of the game features as a reward for backing it, but it's progressed into a fully fledged game with some people having the same level of expectations from it as a fully released game, and I think it took a long while for CIG management to really appreciate that. The excuse of 'well it IS only an Alpha' is still valid, but it's taken on a level of expectation that demands a certain level of quality from the amount of money people have invested into it. It many ways it became a victim of its own popularity, with many more 'casual' gamers getting in on the action and expecting so much more out of it than what was initially envisioned. Hopefully these plans go some way to address it.
AMEN to that ! Senior Embedded and now full stack dev here !
Well, go ahead buddy, try to "play" it! Well see if people not "understanding development" is the problem here...
Backers are right to be angry but they blame the wrong things. The problem is not really the "slow" progress or the monetization, but rather the ginormous scope of SC (not to mention - SQ42!), and the sheer amount of the scope that falls in "uncharted" territory.
(oh, and that graphics was prioritized over gameplay prototyping so that there's now a huge legacy tech debt)
Ooof. I have been out of the loop with SC for a year or so and did NOT expect to see this. For the past couple months I had been overseas re-establishing my citizenship in the country where I was born. I ended up having to rush back home just as my process was concluding because my dad was in the hospital. I got home, spent the next day with him in the hospital where we high fived it over the new dual citizenship and we discussed our plans for this year. He passed unexpectedly that night. I am also now going through his place and dealing with all the belongings and doing that thing you have to do when you lose your last parent.
Jared, my heart goes out to you, truly. I know I am incredibly thankful, and extremely fortunate to be surrounded by a wonderful circle of friends who have made all the difference these last two weeks. I think its such a rare gift that you have those who love and support you IRL, and then this wonderful community. But then to see that your dad was almost a bridge to both of these worlds? Amazing :)
This part of life is something we all dread- if we're being real- for the majority of our adult lives, and then it comes. What a gift to be in a place in your life to receive it in this manner. I wish you all the peace that you can have while you cross into this next chapter in your life.
o7 Jared, what a strong episode and I teared up a little. I guess we are all in an age where our parents become more vulnerable. Let's get your dad's name into the game!
Dang man. Get me in my feels right at the end. I'm glad he had so many great people around him.
I am very sorry for your loss Jared; thank you for sharing your story with us. Best informative show ever made for SC. Thank you guys for the honesty and the so needed changes.
Jared is such a gem 💎 Such a likeable dude... I obviously only know him from videos, but he seems very thoughtful and empathetic.
This is exactly what the game needs. I've been playing the game since it came out, and it never quite had enough content for me. As of right now, it finally definitely satisfies my content needs. Focusing more on QOL is 100% the right move the game is ready. People will start coming in soooooo quickly to play this extraordinary space sim.
This, this is why I backed the project. Aiming for the stars, and having the confidence to step up and discuss game development as if we were in the office, not customers. Amazing work chaps!
A stable universe will of course attract more new players than before and money will come in too. but this happens if the commitment is realized. let's see how they handle this great responsibility.
“That’s a bold strategy cotton let’s see if it pays off for them”😂
It's going to take a whole lot longer or will have to be shrunk in scope to finish in a timely manner
o7, the beacon is lit.
thank you for taking all this time. To the people behind the scenes, to Benoit, and to Jared.
Love the opening speech, that’s literally what every SC player wants right now!
Sorry for your loss Jared❤O7. And thank you for asking difficult questions to the devs, your questions shows that you think like a gamer, as one of us, and bridges the gap between devs and supporters IMHO
I am quite excited for a content and stability focused year. If it means new missions, places to explore, and items to find, using existing system, then I am all for it.
Benoit Beausejour really knows how to speak to the player-base. In my opinion, from a random internet guy, CIG is making the right move with this. Fix what is already implemented with the game. Star Citizen needed stability a long time ago. Not just 4.0_Preview.
Jared, you have 1000s of us thinking about you and your late father. Sorry for your loss. See you in the verse o7
I agree I think the game is in safe hands with Benoit on the team he has his head screwed on right!
This is great news guys. I hope by next year this will be one of my goto games. Big love and support.
Good presentation. Jared, you're a rock star and condolences.
Super happy with this change. I've been wanting this for years! You got this CIG! What an amazing sentiment about your father Jared!!
That was a very informative stream earlier. Thanks a lot for preparing and taking your time answering the most pressuring problems currently experienced by us Citizens. o7
thank you all 4 for doing this, and taking the overtime to finish, shows how much you care about all this.
My heart goes out to you Jared. My dad passed away just over a year ago, so I know how it feels. Stay strong Jared, and thank you for everything you do for the SC community ♥
Just hearing the bugs acknowledged and talked about was very cathartic. Thank you so much!
Would love to see devs streaming every once in a while complaining about the same bugs we see.
We respected when you asked on Twitter to not talk about it and glad you are coming to peace with things Jared as its never easy. All the best and great episode rolling out the new format. Getting the basics improved is a noble goal and I look forward to testing (breaking) their implementation by Dev Teams.
My heartfelt sympathies for you and your family. I'm sorry for your loss. I'm still having faith in SC and will keep doing so. Thank you for sharing.
This is one of the best episodes ever. Thank you both, and your dad for believing in this game and not giving up! I believe in you and your teams and know you can do it! Shrug off all the negative and know how amazing it is that there are people so dedicated to making a such a difficult game. Jared, also thank you for being open about your dad. Disco Lando and Dad Lando for ever!
Thank you Jared and Benoit for this amazing episode. I've watched this straight through and it is so nice to hear the struggles the team work through and never give up on us even with how hectic our complaining can be. We just love the game as much as you do and want it to succeed as badly as you guys do. Keep it up, lets get there together! Thank you for Star Citizen ♥
Jared, I am sorry for your loss. My deepest condolences :(! Remember he is always with you and he will be in your heart, and the spirit of everyone in Star Citizen. He was a Star Citizen, he is still a Legendary Citizen, maybe lets make a memorial for him! Such a man! Reminds me of my grandfather who sadly passed before he could play.
My GF's grandfather, who was 88 when I met him, gave his great grand daughters game consoles so they could practice to play with him for when we went over to see him. I miss him. He was a hoot! Somehow, fate saw fit to take him from us less than a month before hitting 100.
@@Tanksworkshop That is terribly unlucky...! But be proud not many at all make it so far. I am sorry for your loss.
Jared, you are the face of this game, and everyone loves you, im so sorry for your loss, we are all here for you!!!
This makes me very happy. This is the stuff ive been saying for years. "New" doesn't always mean better. Can't wait for the day when I call an elevator its actually there and works.
Guys im only half way through, but the fact you are in tune with the state of the community and leaning in to directly address these concerns ...i applaud you well done
This gave me extreme confidence in the future of SC. God bless you Jared and I’m very sorry for your loss. Your father must have been very proud to have a son such as yourself ❤
I'm so sorry to hear about your loss, Jared. May your dad have a peaceful journey among the stars. o7
Thanks for the lots of information about this year's development plan. Focusing on stability, performance and bugs this year is a good decision.
Now that I've watched the entire video: This sounds promising! Thank you for your transparency and hard work!
Love you Jared.
Hope you heal quickly from this tremendously painful loss. Bro❤
Amazing and you have np idea how much we appreciate the transparent nature of this conversation and how it will drive me to keep buying ships knowing what amazing team is behind it. Thanks cig. This gives us hope.
Sorry for your loss Jarred.
Sometimes I feel like I am in the same boat as your dad. I am a retired Army guy as well, 100% VA disabled and some underlying medical issues. I dedicated myself to playing Star Citizen after retirement. Spend more than I told myself I was allowed to spend on this project and fear that one day I too will pass away before this project is even a fraction of what was promised to us when the crowd funding started. I been following this project for over a decade. 5 Digit dollars later and I, like your dad (RIP), am still waiting.
God Bless and thanx for sharing an important personal part of your life there at the end. Thanx for being a devil's advocate on our behalf and ask questions with a taste of cynicism that some of the players are starting to feel.
Cheers and here is to many more productive years of Star Citizen...
Phenomenal. The amount of transparency here is both fascinating and very encouraging. Thank you and everyone at CIG for making this such a great user experience, and thank you for looking into the change in priorities. My condolences for your father. We appreciate you.
As a player, my main desire is that the game is fun and playable.
Make the core game-play enjoyable and accessible.
Keep up the good work, I still have hope that success isn't that far ahead =)
Wow. Your dad literally was one of the heart and souls of this project. May God bless him, Jared. Thanks for sharing.
I love all the comments about it was working before now its broken. Good to see new players are still coming in good numbers.
Seems like you finally got the message. Thanks CIG. Keep up the great work.
As of my writing this, I’m about halfway through and this is absolutely the BEST show on the development that they have ever done.
Jared represents the voice of the customer to pure perfection. This was no holds barred, unadulterated and 100% real talk about the current state of the project, the past and future.
Benoit answers questions clearly, concisely, in plain language and honestly.
My sympathies go out to jared for his loss.
You two really have the biggest balls i have ever seen in my life. Sitting there, live, 3 hours, asking REAL questions and thousands on thousands of people watching.
appart of this beeing very informative and also completly rational is the bravest thing i have ever seen do a company and i never had more respect for something HR/marketing.
thank you :)
The developers that fix the elevators and transit will be my heros! FYI, I haven't had a ship remain in my hanger in this patch. I also now have three sizes of hangers. This happened when returning to NB with a smaller ship.
Same bro will be the goat
This was such an incredible talk thank you so much! Very honest and very thorough you definitely earned another two years of my support with this video alone.
I am so sorry you lost your father Jared he sounded like a wonderful person. Grief is very personal, thank you for sharing and as someone who lost their father quite young you have my empathy.
Jared, I'm so sorry for your loss. My heart goes out to you and your family.
We love you Jared! You’re dad did right by you and we can see it every video, but more importantly you did right by your dad. You may think you were not there when you needed to be, but your dad got to see your videos and participate in the project you were helping to bring to the masses. You were there in his heart the whole time and never left. God bless you and the Lando family, and god bless the citizens of this glorious star filled adventure.
First of all Im happy to see you again and I very sorry for your loss Jared. I would like to suggest to have a memorial for all those citizens that are passed away before the 1.0 release. Something like the unknown citizen memorial.
You and your team are great. This was a fantastic video. The best is your honesty and open communication. I hope 2025 will be a big year of SC. 2024 was great. Many important and great new Features. 2025 now Performance and stability + some new Features is a smart decision. ❤🎉
We need King-Fish to be memorialized in the SC PU... a mission giver, a plaque at his favorite starting location.. something
Great show, cheers Jared & Benoit, and the team behind the scenes!
Whoever did the chapters is the real hero
You guys are doing a great job. Thanks for everything you guys are doing
As many people said, I am terribly sorry for your loss Jared. My thoughts go out to you, and I know you have great friends to support you through this.
My heart goes out to you Jared. Sorry for your loss. ❤
On the main topic of the show... Thanks for sharing, there's a LOT of work to do guys. 😮 You'll get there. The community has run with this for over a decade now, you had a solid base of support. Fix what we have and make it work, then add the extras on top of that.
Thanks for your display of exceptionalism every time, Jared.
Thank you for your daily work, thank you for continuing to do this no matter what. It's routine, it's burnout, it's staying up late at night in the office. It's all thankless work, sometimes even unnoticeable for most, but you don't give up and thank you for that!
Amazing insight here.
Can't think of any other game studio being this open and transparent.
New features or content are worthless if you can't use them.
So sorry for your loss Jared, made me tear up.
Still don't understand why instant hangars were done this way.
An 'instance' is technically away from the public server or away from everyone else, hench the name 'an instance'.
Some games puts you in the sky (since we use that we can't do that here) or, inside the planet somewhere, invisible to everyone else.
Other games load it into a local instance, which opens the door for cheating but once loading back into the public, the server checks and validates the changes that were made "off-line".
I can't for the life of me understand why it was done this way, with stacking. So different and SO much more complex from any other game.
This method is like eating soup with a fork.
And that's coming from an internal alpha tester for all the big boys (EA, Ubi, Bioware, ect), for the past 2 decades.
Great episode guys, truly love how transparent you were with us on the efforts for improving the gameplay and stability. Jared, truly sorry for your loss brother. I hope you and your family are able to be together through the grieving.
Losing a parent is unbelievably tough... you get through it, learn to live with it. But you never truly get over it. That may seem like a downer, but it's really is a good thing because it means they had such a positive and lasting impact in your life that it hurts when they are gone.
Transparency like this is why I enjoy watching this project so much. Let's knock out those bugs!
Thank you CIG for doing shows like these! It's incredibly useful to get a peek behind the production curtain. There are so many concepts that I have learned about simply from watching these shows. Truly no other business would or could! Thanks to all the devs for sharing!
Amazing episode, one of the best I've watched. o7
Jared, I'm sincerely sorry for your loss...
It's incredible how much SC can mean to some of our lives, thank you for sharing your & Dad Lando's story and you should be proud of your contributions to his and all fellow Star Citizen's lives!
Jared, I'm sorry to hear about your dad. I lost my dad on 12/23, it was unexpected and it's been pretty tough to wrap my head around. I dont know what to say, but I feel it too.
Despite all the problems SC has I think it offers a very unique experience and I'm encouraged by what you and Benoit shared with us today. I was also very moved by the story you shared about your Father, Jared. I'm sorry for your loss. It's great he found joy playing the game and interacting with the SC community. Blessings upon you and your family. o7
Hi Jared and CIG :) Good times and hard times come and go. Keep up the good work. Thoughts and prayers for your loss Jared.
P.s. I want my Perseus, lol
I really do appreciate you coming on to talk to us about the reason these problems are happening. And I agree, think focusing on stability should be #1 this year.
I wanna say thank you for the experience, the few for the felling of scanning the word right now is awesome.
JARED good job for the team...
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Thank you for that long and comprehensive overview, I don't think you could have sensibly started along this road until server meshing was implemented, but it is now timely and necessary to make the game less frustrating. I am truly sorry for your loss, it comes to all of us of course but it is still very hard to deal with the absence.
Jared! Thank you for having the same reactions and frustrations and curse words that we do! It's so reassuring to hear you react the same way we do.
I wish my CTO was like Benoit. He seems really on top of things and seems to know even the details.
This discussion was top-notch. A pleasure to listen. Here's to 2025 being the year of stability in the 'Verse. It's still my contention that if they can get the performance and stability solid with just what they offer now in Star Citizen, that there will be no other out there that can offer the fidelity and emergent gameplay that SC does. Nothing else will even come close.
I really needed to see this interview. I have no experience in the industry, none with coding or computer engineering either, but im young enough to not be completely naive to the complexity of these things. After playing for a while i was getting burnt out and discouraged by the bugs in the game, but watching this has helped me to better understand the cause of the bugs, the process of how they are fixed and the hope for the future, as well as how my participation and reporting can actually help. As making issue report after issue report to the council was starting to feel like using a spoon to bail out a sinking ship. I love this game, I love when it works, I love that it challenges itself and tries to deliver absurd features that other game studios wouldnt even attempt. I believe CIG can get it done, I believe the verse will be stable in due time, I believe that it will be a highly successful and enjoyable game. I cant wait to jump back in now and go hunt down some bugs.
to quote Johnny Rico: "Someone asked me once if I knew the difference between a civilian and a citizen. I know now. A citizen has the courage to make the safety of the human race their personal responsibility. Dizzy was my friend. She was a soldier. But most important, she was a citizen of the Federation."
Jared, Beniot, & CIG, glad to have you back and hear from ya. As always, I appreciate insight and rationale. Please keep up the great work and know we rooting for you.
Thank you for the Live.
Thank you Jared for sharing. I'm sorry for your dad, but proud of this community and the bonds we made or making.
Take care guys o7
Every time I hear how you guys treat employees, actually caring and treating them like living people, caring about their feelings, trying to avoid things like burnout or trying to keep them engaged, I'm amazed. I've never experienced that at a job before. Heck, I've never _heard_ of another employer actually doing that, they only say they do because they're supposed to say that.
The experience I've had, by myself and witnessing it happen to others, at every job I've held (and it's a lot, my flavor of neurospiciness means I tend to not last that long at any one employer) is use them until you break them, then discard and replace them.
Fantastic episode.
Benoit lands right at the top of my shortlist of officers/directors/devs I am enthralled to hear from.
I hope he me may honor us with his presence each quarter, for updates, but only if possible. I know we would appreciate it. If this isn't feasible, it would understandable, as he's a busy man and there is much to do.
Jared, I'm certain that without your hard work and dedication as the face of this project, this whole thing wouldn't have had a chance of success.
We are all very sorry for your loss. I having aging senior parents myself and appreciate each day I have with them. May your father rest in peace.
I really appreciate the candid conversations. Keep up the good work!
Condolences to you, Jared. Lost my dad dec 6 so I understand slightly what you're going through. Rough times, although great he was also an active part of something you work on - and we all love (and hate sometimes). Take care!
Jared is a Legend! Love you guys!
I’m a quarter of the way in and I’m just so impressed with it all. Thank you for providing us the open window into the process and maintenance y’all provide for the game
Shamelessly cried through that last segment. Rest in peace Dad Huckabee, your memory will never fade.
It took me a few days but I finally finished the video. This is what star citizen is about. Transparency. Development. Community . Love it thank you for the effort dispite personal loss. Good for you and thanks again.