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OH MY STARS! THE GAME THAT SPONGED CROWD FUNDING FOR MILLIONS IS TRYING TO GRAB MORE MONEY!? UNTHINKABLE!
It's not a scam guys. GUYS It's not a scam quit calling it that. Just because saps, I mean marks, I mean people bought $400 digital ships over a decade ago and haven't seen shit yet, doesn't mean this game won't release any day now.
Not just the games. Don't forget all the feelies, the physical stuff they promised to manufacture.
This guy lost a court case trying to get a refund on his $5k seven years back:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/star-citizen-court-documents-reveal-the-messy-reality-of-crowdfunding-a-dollar200-million-game/
That was back when only $200 million had been sunk into the development.
They did, it's why star citizen was lagging behind so hard for so long. All the production focus went into squadron 42 like 6ish years ago. Squadron 42 is announced for release next year and since the announcement they turned production focus back to star citizen. Still SC 1.0 is going to be years away still because they're so damn slow with everything they do...
The way they designed this game I swear to god the entire thing is one giant MLM and Star Citizen is the product they want you to sell to everyone else.
What do you call the thing you can load up and play right now?
A farce, if you go by the last time I tried it a year or two ago. And before you tell me I need to keep checking it out: I backed the kickstarter. I have given them plenty of time.
If this ever magically becomes a game, great. As it is, it's been one very long grift and I am glad I didn't give them anything beyond what I lost in that initial backing.
"Load up and play" is a very loaded statement. When I tried it, about a year ago, it was a buggy, glitchy, crash-prone mess that ran like deepfried garbage.
Sure, like most early access things.
I get it. They deserve a lot of criticism. But pretending it's vaporware when there's a tangible product you can try - buggy or not - is a really stupid argument.
Which you can Access... Early.
Eheh for a second I thought EA was Electronic Arts.
Like a beta game is unstable but before the beta you get the EA stage/release where it's just doesn't work but is still for sale.