So what is your experience of the offline/online Star Citizen community?asked by Dutch Bar Citizen
TL;DRThe developer says the community is amazing, unusually friendly, helpful and passionate, and is grateful for it, including from meeting members in person at events.
Pretty good. Pretty … I'm still amazed. I have not played a game of this size, with this many people - an online game obviously - with people that are so nice. It's rare. Generally people either hate each other or everyone's a noob or everyone's "Oh, you're a new guy. You don't know anything." So it has been an amazing thing just … people constantly try to help each other. They try to "Oh, you want to do that? Can I join? Can I try to do this with you?" Everyone wants to experience some new things. It's a very interesting type of people that game attracts. And we're ever grateful because usually having a bad community for a game spells doom for that game. And we're just amazed.
And on the side of that is meeting people in person for the Bar Citizen stuff and all the GamesCom, CitizenCon we did. It is … that is just amazing. It's the … you guys are … I haven't seen any other game that attracts so much passion from the community. It's people just go like … it's not a step further it's ten steps further!
It's just like … you guys sometimes are - especially when it comes to the bigger organisations - you're probably better organised than we are. There's people who have business cards that look better than any business card I've ever seen. They come with suits with like ... stuff with the organisation logos and stuff like this. It's really funny when we go for GamesCom stuff like this. We're just the guys usually "Oh, we're just in a black t-shirt" and stuff like this. All the other guys who come from the organisation come with organisation logos and all of them dress the same. Super organised. And they know everything. It's really nice to be part of something like this. It's a really rare thing in the games industry to have this community behind a game. That's amazing.
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Have fun guys. It's amazing that you guys are doing this Bar Citizen thing. It's just humbling for us how much you guys come together and how much effort and soul you put in this thing. And just have fun. We're looking forward to seeing this happen again next year and hopefully we come visiting. And drink a lot of beer. Drink at least one for me! Bye bye.