# Star Citizen is the Future of PC Gaming, and it \[was\] Free to Play this week (Edit: No Longer Free) **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** video-games-e-games\ **Created:** [October 13, 2015, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-citizen-is-the-future-of-pc-gaming-and-it-was-free-to-play-this-week-edit-no-longer-free/734528 "2015-10-13T06:29:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1104
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2025, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-citizen-is-the-future-of-pc-gaming-and-it-was-free-to-play-this-week-edit-no-longer-free/734528/1104 "2025-04-11T13:54:03Z")
For shits & giggles, read these old Star Citizen threads (they’re short) that showed up in the “related” tab. Full of innocence, hope and wild-eyed expectations. > [@Oh merciful gods! Wing Commander Designer Making new, high end PC exclusive Space Sim!!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-merciful-gods-wing-commander-designer-making-new-high-end-pc-exclusive-space-sim/637335): > > Chris Roberts, lead dev on the Wing Commander Series and involved in severla other Space flight sims is working on a PC exclusive Space Sim with modern PC hardware in mind: The plan is to have a persistent online world in a similar vein to Dark Souls, essentially existing around a sprawling single-player/Co-Op friendly campaign. I’m dusting off the old joystick as we speak. though it might eb a bit premature as it isn’t due until 2014 frowning Looking mighty sweet though! Name is: Star C… > [@Star Citizen. Anybody playing?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-citizen-anybody-playing/691942): > > It’s a crowd-funded game being created by Chris Roberts, the man who gave us Wing Commander and Freelancer. It will be a PC-based space sim, and eventually will have ship-to-ship combat, interstallar commerce, a FPS option, multiplayer, PVP, all that good stuff. Right now it seems to be a little lean, as they’re mostly in alpha and only opened the beta testing for the ship-to-ship combat a couple weeks ago. That link’s not working for me from work, probably because it’s a gaming site, so it … > [@The PC Space Combat Sim is back!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pc-space-combat-sim-is-back/639941): > > And it’s Chris Roberts of Wing Commander fame at the helm! --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-citizen-is-the-future-of-pc-gaming-and-it-was-free-to-play-this-week-edit-no-longer-free/734528)._