How can a player who only has 2 or 3 hours a week available to play even hope to get a level of enjoyment out of Star Citizen when the competition will be playing 10 to 20 hours a week.asked by Azeemaza
TL;DRChris Roberts says there's no single way to win, so a player with only 2-3 hours a week can still have fun doing different or fewer things than heavier players.
So that's one of those questions that thinks of Star Citizen as being one play path, one way to win. The way I'm designing the game, the way I'm thinking about the game, is it isn't like that. There are just different things you can do. So it really depends on what you want to do. What is your definition of win. If you think about the real world, lots of people have different definitions of what makes them a winner. Is it they made lots of money, is it they've helped lots of people, that they're an amazing athlete, a great teacher. There are all these different definitions and they can all be achieved at different level. Some people achieve things they're happy with or greatness by themselves, some people do it in a group, and I think that's the model of Star Citizen. We're allowing things that you can do, if you just want to play by yourself and not deal with other people, there will be a game experience that will be very much like the old Priavteer/Freelancer experience that will feel like that and you won't feel like you're pressured into being in a big group. If you just want to play with a small group of your friends and go off and do stuff together, you'll be able to do that too. Or it you want to play in a really big group or organization and take over a part of space or build up a big trading empire you'll be able to do that. So I think the goal for us is to have lots of different things to do and of course on some of these bigger things, there will always be roles for people. Like a mining operation. Well there's someone that wants to own and build a mining operation, but then there might be people just like "Hey I just want to be a miner and earn a buck, I'm there and I work for this corporation and do the mining." So I think that's a better way to think of it. It's not so much about 2-3 hours or 10-20 and you're competing against everyone else. It's sort of what you want to do in the game and I think you should be able to have fun with 2-3 hours, even if someone else is playing 10-20 hours. It's just you'll be doing different things, you won't be able to do as much stuff, but hey, that's the nature of things. But I definitely don't think you'll be not having fun only playing 2-3 hours, you'll just be doing potentially different stuff or less of it. Ok, hope that answers the question.