Re: Star Citizen: Half a Billion Dollars and Still Not Done

On 3/18/2024 10:24 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

Whether this whole thing is just some endless scam to keep Roberts and
his employees endlessly (and profitably) employed without actually,
you know, providing a finished product is arguable.

Preselling cosmetics tells me it is a scam.  Like many others it probably didn't start that way.  They might have at one time worked on the game but at 14 years it was long ago time to sue the hell out of them to return whatever funds they had left and possibly put them in jail for fraud.
Assuming they don't ever release it, it's already more than an order of magnitude beyond the biggest crowdfunding failures & scams of all time. The largest I could find was in the $15 million range.  Do you remember Theranos?  It wasn't crowdfunded, but it's the biggest and most infamous funded startup, and that wasn't much more.
They must be trying to outdo Duke Nukem Forever and take their title for "Longest Development Time" Which coincidentally was also 14 years and was a huge flop.
It's something I'd be interested in if it ever came out, but I'm not touching it with a 10 foot pole until long enough to tell if it's the disaster I expect (and with preselling cosmetics I'm 99.99% sure it will be)
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