{"data":{"id":13408,"title":"Giving Thanks","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/comm-link\/transmission\/13408-Giving-Thanks","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-links\/13408","api_public_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/comm-links\/13408","channel":"Undefined","category":"Undefined","series":"None","images":[{"id":1097,"name":"PlatinumBay_LandingZone_final.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/media\/l2sln2wtujly6r\/source\/PlatinumBay_LandingZone_final.jpg","alt":"","size":16168820,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2013-11-28T19:10:29+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/1097","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/1097\/similar"},{"id":1098,"name":"SC_MALE_EXPLORER_FRONT_WIP_V1_131030_RM.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/media\/8eih8s2407getr\/source\/SC_MALE_EXPLORER_FRONT_WIP_V1_131030_RM.jpg","alt":"Male Explorer WIP - Front","size":789162,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2013-11-28T19:08:24+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/1098","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/1098\/similar"},{"id":1099,"name":"SC_MALE_EXPLORER_BACK_CU_WIP_V1_131030_RM.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/media\/cr2hjfj1fh4hjr\/source\/SC_MALE_EXPLORER_BACK_CU_WIP_V1_131030_RM.jpg","alt":"Male Explorer WIP - Back","size":706267,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2013-11-28T19:08:49+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/1099","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/1099\/similar"},{"id":1100,"name":"SC_FEMALE_EXPLORER_FRONT_WIP_V3_131019_RM.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/media\/qtvdrlqysdi7hr\/source\/SC_FEMALE_EXPLORER_FRONT_WIP_V3_131019_RM.jpg","alt":"Female Explorer WIP - Front","size":681704,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2013-11-28T19:09:09+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/1100","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/1100\/similar"}],"images_count":5,"translations":{"en_EN":"Today is Thanksgiving Day in the USA. Traditionally, it\u2019s a day where family comes together and gives thanks for what they have. While Star Citizen doesn\u2019t belong to any particular country, I do feel like the Star Citizen community is an extended family and I thought today would be a perfect day for me to express the thanks of myself and everyone at Cloud Imperium Games to every one of you for believing in us.\n\nOver this past year, I\u2019ve constantly been amazed at the enthusiasm and support we received. The monetary side, while headline grabbing, is only one component. I\u2019m amazed at the participation of a growing community; the ideas, the debates, the fan fiction and art, the gifts for the team, the growing number of groups and alliances, the friends made and the sheer investment every one of you have in the universe of Star Citizen. The energy and excitement of the community has been the biggest surprise and the most rewarding part of building a game this way. After experiencing this, I don\u2019t know how I could ever go back to the old way of making games.\n\nAs the community has grown and as our total funds raised for development has escalated beyond all expectation, we\u2019ve become higher profile in the general gaming press.\n\nSome of the increased visibility is good. People are waking up to the fact that Space Sims and PCs are not a dead genre or platform, people are seeing the benefits of involving your community early and sharing your work and gamers are realizing the power they have to choose what they want to play rather than accept predictable sequels offered by big publishers wanting to play it safe.\n\nBut this extra visibility has also brought the inevitable doubters or people that just hate to see something out of the ordinary succeed. \u201cIt\u2019s a scam!\u201d \u201cIt can\u2019t live up the hype!\u201d \u201cI\u2019ll laugh when it fails and everyone is disappointed!\u201d\n\nWith the headlines will come inevitable haters. They can\u2019t comprehend why a game like Star Citizen could capture the imagination, why so many people would enthusiastically support something long before it\u2019s a sure thing. Sometimes I wonder this myself.\n\nBut when I think about it, one answer comes to me.\n\nWe\u2019re all following a dream with Star Citizen.\n\nThat\u2019s because Star Citizen isn\u2019t a game in a normal sense of the word. It\u2019s not a finite experience that you will play for a week and put down. Star Citizen is the promise of endless adventure in the openness of space. We all don\u2019t have the same exact dream. Some of us want to explore uncharted stars, some of us want to build a trading empire, some of us want to make our name as a fearless bounty hunter or mercenary or some want to pray on easy targets as a notorious pirate. The spaceship sitting in our hangars represents that promise of adventure, the ability to blast off into space to make our fortune and a name for ourselves. We all in some way are following our childhood dreams when we looked up to the stars and wondered what it would be like traveling among them.\n\nThis dream drives everyone at CIG and I\u2019m pretty sure it\u2019s why so many of you have embraced Star Citizen with such enthusiasm.\n\nWe are not building Star Citizen to turn a quick profit, or satisfy shareholders at some big Publisher, we\u2019re building Star Citizen because we want to make this dream a reality. One that you are helping become a reality with your incredible support. People may say how can you do all this? How can you build such a wildly ambitious game?\n\nWe\u2019re in this for the long run. Because of your incredible support, we are already the biggest budgeted Space Sim in history, giving us the freedom to hire the best of the best and to take the time to do things right. However I\u2019m not foolish enough to think everything will always go perfectly on Star Citizen. We will occasionally stumble. Not everything will go according to plan. And we definitely won\u2019t be able to build a game that matches everyone\u2019s personal vision of the game. That\u2019s impossible with so many people!\n\nBut I\u2019m confident that with this team and the support of everyone in the growing Star Citizen community we will deliver a game that will make the majority of you happy and create a universe that all of us will spend many years to come creating our own stories. A universe that will never be static, but always improving and expanding. I am more committed to this than ever and the team and I won\u2019t be satisfied with anything less.\n\nSo today, the team and I give thanks to all of you for being such an amazing community and giving us your trust. We won\u2019t let you down!\n\n\u2014 Chris Roberts","de_DE":"Heute ist Thanksgiving Day in den USA. Traditionell ist es ein Tag, an dem die Familie zusammenkommt und sich f\u00fcr das bedankt, was sie hat. Obwohl Star Citizen keinem bestimmten Land angeh\u00f6rt, habe ich das Gef\u00fchl, dass die Star Citizen-Gemeinschaft eine Gro\u00dffamilie ist, und ich dachte, heute w\u00e4re ein perfekter Tag f\u00fcr mich, um jedem von euch bei den Cloud Imperium Games den Dank von mir und allen anderen f\u00fcr den Glauben an uns auszusprechen.\n\nIm vergangenen Jahr war ich immer wieder erstaunt \u00fcber die Begeisterung und Unterst\u00fctzung, die wir erhalten haben. Die monet\u00e4re Seite, w\u00e4hrend die Schlagzeilen greifen, ist nur eine Komponente. Ich bin erstaunt \u00fcber die Teilnahme einer wachsenden Gemeinschaft; die Ideen, die Debatten, die Fan-Fiction und -Kunst, die Geschenke f\u00fcr das Team, die wachsende Anzahl von Gruppen und Allianzen, die gewonnenen Freunde und die schiere Investition, die jeder von euch in das Universum von Star Citizen hat. Die Energie und Begeisterung der Community war die gr\u00f6\u00dfte \u00dcberraschung und der lohnendste Teil des Aufbaus eines Spiels auf diese Weise. Nachdem ich das erlebt habe, wei\u00df ich nicht, wie ich jemals wieder zu der alten Art und Weise zur\u00fcckkehren k\u00f6nnte, Spiele zu entwickeln.\n\nDa die Community gewachsen ist und unsere gesamten f\u00fcr die Entwicklung gesammelten Mittel \u00fcber alle Erwartungen hinaus gestiegen sind, sind wir in der allgemeinen Spielepresse bekannter geworden.\n\nEin Teil der erh\u00f6hten Sichtbarkeit ist gut. Die Menschen wachen auf \u00fcber die Tatsache, dass Space Sims und PCs kein totes Genre oder eine tote Plattform sind, die Menschen sehen die Vorteile der fr\u00fchzeitigen Einbeziehung Ihrer Community und der gemeinsamen Nutzung Ihrer Arbeit und die Spieler erkennen die Macht, die sie haben, zu w\u00e4hlen, was sie spielen wollen, anstatt vorhersehbare Fortsetzungen zu akzeptieren, die von gro\u00dfen Verlegern angeboten werden, die es sicher gehen wollen.\n\nAber diese zus\u00e4tzliche Sichtbarkeit hat auch die unvermeidlichen Zweifler oder Menschen, die es einfach hassen, etwas Au\u00dfergew\u00f6hnliches zu sehen, zum Erfolg gef\u00fchrt. \"Es ist ein Betrug!\" \"Es kann den Hype nicht aushalten!\" \"Ich werde lachen, wenn es scheitert und alle entt\u00e4uscht sind!\"\n\nMit den Schlagzeilen werden unvermeidliche Hasser kommen. Sie k\u00f6nnen nicht verstehen, warum ein Spiel wie Star Citizen die Fantasie anregen k\u00f6nnte, warum so viele Menschen etwas mit Begeisterung unterst\u00fctzen w\u00fcrden, lange bevor es eine sichere Sache ist. Manchmal frage ich mich das selbst.\n\nAber wenn ich dar\u00fcber nachdenke, kommt eine Antwort auf mich zu.\n\nWir alle folgen einem Traum mit Star Citizen.\n\nDas liegt daran, dass Star Citizen kein Spiel im eigentlichen Sinne des Wortes ist. Es ist keine endliche Erfahrung, dass du eine Woche lang spielen und dich hinlegen wirst. Star Citizen ist das Versprechen eines endlosen Abenteuers in der Offenheit des Raumes. Wir alle haben nicht genau den gleichen Traum. Einige von uns wollen unbekannte Sterne erforschen, andere wollen ein Handelsimperium aufbauen, wieder andere wollen sich einen Namen als furchtloser Kopfgeldj\u00e4ger oder S\u00f6ldner machen oder andere wollen f\u00fcr einfache Ziele als ber\u00fcchtigter Pirat beten. Das Raumschiff, das in unseren Hangars steht, steht f\u00fcr das Versprechen des Abenteuers, die F\u00e4higkeit, in den Weltraum zu starten, um unser Gl\u00fcck zu machen, und einen Namen f\u00fcr uns selbst. Wir alle folgen in irgendeiner Weise unseren Kindheitstr\u00e4umen, als wir zu den Sternen aufblickten und uns fragten, wie es w\u00e4re, zwischen ihnen zu reisen.\n\nDieser Traum treibt jeden bei CIG an, und ich bin mir ziemlich sicher, dass es der Grund ist, warum so viele von euch Star Citizen mit so viel Begeisterung angenommen haben.\n\nWir bauen Star Citizen nicht, um einen schnellen Gewinn zu erzielen oder Aktion\u00e4re bei einem gro\u00dfen Publisher zufrieden zu stellen, wir bauen Star Citizen, weil wir diesen Traum verwirklichen wollen. Eine, der du hilfst, mit deiner unglaublichen Unterst\u00fctzung Wirklichkeit zu werden. Die Leute m\u00f6gen sagen, wie kann man das alles machen? Wie kann man ein so wildes, ehrgeiziges Spiel bauen?\n\nWir sind auf lange Sicht dabei. Dank Ihrer unglaublichen Unterst\u00fctzung sind wir bereits die gr\u00f6\u00dfte Space Sim in der Geschichte und geben uns die Freiheit, die Besten der Besten einzustellen und uns die Zeit zu nehmen, die Dinge richtig zu machen. Aber ich bin nicht dumm genug zu denken, dass bei Star Citizen immer alles perfekt laufen wird. Wir werden gelegentlich stolpern. Nicht alles wird nach Plan laufen. Und wir werden definitiv nicht in der Lage sein, ein Spiel zu bauen, das der pers\u00f6nlichen Vorstellung von dem Spiel entspricht. Das ist bei so vielen Menschen unm\u00f6glich!\n\nAber ich bin zuversichtlich, dass wir mit diesem Team und der Unterst\u00fctzung aller in der wachsenden Star Citizen-Community ein Spiel liefern werden, das die Mehrheit von euch gl\u00fccklich macht und ein Universum schafft, das wir alle viele Jahre damit verbringen werden, unsere eigenen Geschichten zu schreiben. Ein Universum, das nie statisch sein wird, sondern sich immer verbessert und erweitert. Ich engagiere mich mehr denn je daf\u00fcr und f\u00fcr das Team und werde mich mit nichts anderem zufrieden geben.\n\nHeute danken das Team und ich euch allen, dass ihr eine so tolle Gemeinschaft seid und uns euer Vertrauen geschenkt habt. Wir werden dich nicht im Stich lassen!\n\n- Chris Roberts","zh_CN":"Today is Thanksgiving Day in the USA. Traditionally, it\u2019s a day where family comes together and gives thanks for what they have. While Star Citizen doesn\u2019t belong to any particular country, I do feel like the Star Citizen community is an extended family and I thought today would be a perfect day for me to express the thanks of myself and everyone at Cloud Imperium Games to every one of you for believing in us.\n\nOver this past year, I\u2019ve constantly been amazed at the enthusiasm and support we received. The monetary side, while headline grabbing, is only one component. I\u2019m amazed at the participation of a growing community; the ideas, the debates, the fan fiction and art, the gifts for the team, the growing number of groups and alliances, the friends made and the sheer investment every one of you have in the universe of Star Citizen. The energy and excitement of the community has been the biggest surprise and the most rewarding part of building a game this way. After experiencing this, I don\u2019t know how I could ever go back to the old way of making games.\n\nAs the community has grown and as our total funds raised for development has escalated beyond all expectation, we\u2019ve become higher profile in the general gaming press.\n\nSome of the increased visibility is good. People are waking up to the fact that Space Sims and PCs are not a dead genre or platform, people are seeing the benefits of involving your community early and sharing your work and gamers are realizing the power they have to choose what they want to play rather than accept predictable sequels offered by big publishers wanting to play it safe.\n\nBut this extra visibility has also brought the inevitable doubters or people that just hate to see something out of the ordinary succeed. \u201cIt\u2019s a scam!\u201d \u201cIt can\u2019t live up the hype!\u201d \u201cI\u2019ll laugh when it fails and everyone is disappointed!\u201d\n\nWith the headlines will come inevitable haters. They can\u2019t comprehend why a game like Star Citizen could capture the imagination, why so many people would enthusiastically support something long before it\u2019s a sure thing. Sometimes I wonder this myself.\n\nBut when I think about it, one answer comes to me.\n\nWe\u2019re all following a dream with Star Citizen.\n\nThat\u2019s because Star Citizen isn\u2019t a game in a normal sense of the word. It\u2019s not a finite experience that you will play for a week and put down. Star Citizen is the promise of endless adventure in the openness of space. We all don\u2019t have the same exact dream. Some of us want to explore uncharted stars, some of us want to build a trading empire, some of us want to make our name as a fearless bounty hunter or mercenary or some want to pray on easy targets as a notorious pirate. The spaceship sitting in our hangars represents that promise of adventure, the ability to blast off into space to make our fortune and a name for ourselves. We all in some way are following our childhood dreams when we looked up to the stars and wondered what it would be like traveling among them.\n\nThis dream drives everyone at CIG and I\u2019m pretty sure it\u2019s why so many of you have embraced Star Citizen with such enthusiasm.\n\nWe are not building Star Citizen to turn a quick profit, or satisfy shareholders at some big Publisher, we\u2019re building Star Citizen because we want to make this dream a reality. One that you are helping become a reality with your incredible support. People may say how can you do all this? How can you build such a wildly ambitious game?\n\nWe\u2019re in this for the long run. Because of your incredible support, we are already the biggest budgeted Space Sim in history, giving us the freedom to hire the best of the best and to take the time to do things right. However I\u2019m not foolish enough to think everything will always go perfectly on Star Citizen. We will occasionally stumble. Not everything will go according to plan. And we definitely won\u2019t be able to build a game that matches everyone\u2019s personal vision of the game. That\u2019s impossible with so many people!\n\nBut I\u2019m confident that with this team and the support of everyone in the growing Star Citizen community we will deliver a game that will make the majority of you happy and create a universe that all of us will spend many years to come creating our own stories. A universe that will never be static, but always improving and expanding. I am more committed to this than ever and the team and I won\u2019t be satisfied with anything less.\n\nSo today, the team and I give thanks to all of you for being such an amazing community and giving us your trust. We won\u2019t let you down!\n\n\u2014 Chris Roberts"},"links_count":0,"comment_count":857,"created_at":"2013-11-28T00:00:00+00:00","created_at_human":"12 years ago"},"meta":{"processed_at":"2026-05-09 00:09:11","valid_relations":["images","links"],"prev_id":13407,"next_id":13409}}