Star Citizen Pushes Through the $700 Million Raised Mark and No, There Still Isn’t a Release Date – IGN
Star Citizen Pushes Through the $700 Million Raised Mark and No, There Still Isn’t a Release Date – IGN
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It’s still in alpha, according to their own website. But don’t tell Star Citizen fans this. They are basically the Scientologists of the gaming community.
Edit: They’ve arrived. Just can’t help themselves.
I mean after the 50M mark it was obvious the kind of scam they are operating.
Ponzi scheme? 🤫
Maybe there will be a release date when it reaches $1B
I so badly want this game to come out before I am 60 and I want it to be good but right now it’s a incredibly expensive tech demo and if I had any say I would lower the scope and work on the rest of the promised items after I had a mmo
Has anyone actually played it? It’s pretty unique
Just another $100 million and we’re over the finish line! Yessir, it’s going to be one hell of a game once that extra $200 million is raised! You won’t believe your eyes when you see what a measly $300 million more will get you!
(Note: I’ve been making this same joke about Star Citizen for years now, and it continues to age like fine wine.)
If bernie madoff was a video game
Do people in this sub realize the game is out and you can play it? I understand they label it as beta or alpha or whatever but it’s not like there isn’t people who have sunk hundreds of hours into it and enjoyed their time. This is not Camelot unchained lol
I invested in this and if there was any way to get my money back I would. This many years in it feels like a ponzi scheme
Hey if Skull and bones costed 200 million dollars and was AAAA does this make this game an AAAAAA game?
What releases first? Star Citizen or Winds of Winter?
Will they hit a billion?
If games can be art, can game development be performance art? I’m bewildered, unsettled, and confused as to how this can be. Is it a statement about what gamers will tolerate in place of AAA slop?
I prefer to think of Star Citizen as a future case study as to why game publishers can be necessary. The game is not a scam, but a very good example of feature creep and having no one to put in deadlines for a finished product.
So, will this be the first videogame to reach a billion in funding without actually having a launch date? I think it’s absolutely wild and at this point sort of cultish.
Save yourself some money and just play WC3 and 4. They still hold up pretty well.
Scam Citizen strikes again!
Damn where is all that money going?
They’re really taking this long con thing pretty far. Shame about people’s sunk cost fallacy.
I’m going to be honest, I really want to play star citizen, but I won’t pay for a game that’s in its prerelease state and I don’t want to pay for a game that might not actually ever release
Lol 700 million for a game and people still defend it. Im shocked how easy people get fooled.
This “game” will never be “released”.
It’s a money grifting machine that is already doing what it is supposed to do. They make bank and fools with too much money at their hands are throwing even more at them. It will never be deemed complete and it won’t ever be worth the money that was sunken into it.
How do people keep backing this shit? Do they think 700 million dollars is not enough to develop a game? And they’re like “oh I should help funding this game as well”?
I can think of FAR more games costing $60 that are:
Complete shit not worth the money
Good but the company prevents playing them later because they demand you buy the next title
Are released then abandoned and infested with hackers making it unplayable
At least with SC the buy-in for many was only $45 and they keep adding stuff.
I probably have a different opinion than many but when the game first started out it might be considered very close to a scam with how many times it was delayed and over promised. Now though, if you buy it you know what you’re getting into, it’s no secret. And again, it’s completely playable.
I never bought into it because I didn’t think it would ever launch but had I bought into it I would be aware what kind of risk crowdfunding encompasses.
Star Citizen will never be released unlese people stop giving it money.
When do I get my …
400 million One Empire foot locker (the red topped loot box but with a blue top)
500 million One Empire P4-AR (a P4-AR in blue)
600 million One Empire med-gun (you know, blue)
I bought a ship for $50 bucks one time a long time ago during the initial releases?
I’m wondering if it’s more likely in my lifetime that I fly it in the completed game or something similar in real life.
Been following this project since the tail end of 2017 primarily because it’s been a drama-filled dumpsterfire of a train wreck in slow motion… and holy hell… it’s amazing that this farce is still fucking going.
The Sagrada Familia of PC gaming.
I quit this game after I spent 30mins walking from my bed to my ship only to walk into a closed door and die. I have limited free time and I don’t want to spend it in some space age airport sim.
The biggest legal con of all time. This is making Enron look like child’s play
Always hear about this but have no idea what it is. Is this a real game? Why does it need so many backers? Can’t they just release the game and call it a day? Is it like a starfield/mass effect type game?? I do not understand this concept lol
The same people who complained about Starfield looking and feeling empty (even though it’s literal space) are probably pouring money into a game where there is no story
I wonder how many contributors either already passed or will pass before ever seeing this came completed.
When Microsoft pushed Freelancer to release before it was ready, it must have caused Chris Roberts a great deal of trauma, and this is the result of that trauma.
I’m assuming it’s just a big money laundering scheme at this point lol
People should stop funding them and make them work with what they have already. Giving them money only spoils them. Great games were made with limitations in mind.
played during free weekend. 5 mins to get to my ship, another 5 to travel to my friends. another 5 to figure out what we’re doing. 10 mins to destination. reach destination and blow up bounty ship within 3 seconds. repeat. who has time for this shit? overly complex and frustratingly annoying borefest
Why would they release it if they can keep making money by sitting on their asses?
Every time SC hits a new funding milestone, this sub can’t seem to fathom that a lot of people want a deep-scope persistent mmofps space sim. This sub also can’t seem to fathom that this level of ambition will take time and money to build – a big reason why SC still has no competitors despite the clear demand and potential for game studios to make some money.
And then you read comments on this sub about yet another AAA game that had crazy high preorders and hype, with everyone complaining that it released too early, bugged, and broken. (Often for relatively simple singleplayer games)
Very few of the vocal critics in this community seem to be able to put 2 and 2 together.