After Nearly $1 Billion in Crowdfunding and 13 Years in Development, Star Citizen Is Nearly, Nah, Who’re We Kidding, It’s Never Going to Happen

Man, I admit that game had so much promise back in the day.

Today, it's people paying absurd amounts for CAD files to fly around.
 
I don't pre-order, I don't contribute to crowd-funding, I don't pay for Early Access games, I don't buy games at launch or shortly after. I pay for final, finished products. And I don't usually pay until I've played that product first. A scam like Star Citizen never had a chance of roping someone like me in.
 
DrezKill said:
I don't pre-order, I don't contribute to crowd-funding, I don't pay for Early Access games, I don't buy games at launch or shortly after. I pay for final, finished products. And I don't usually pay until I've played that product first. A scam like Star Citizen never had a chance of roping someone like me in.
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I will fully admit i bought into the hype. I've even pre ordered games I've liked the idea of sense. But I am more careful now.
 
DrezKill said:
I don't pre-order, I don't contribute to crowd-funding, I don't pay for Early Access games, I don't buy games at launch or shortly after. I pay for final, finished products. And I don't usually pay until I've played that product first. A scam like Star Citizen never had a chance of roping someone like me in.
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I will fully admit i bought into the hype. I've even pre ordered games I've liked the idea of sense. But I am more cautious since. And I won't Kickstart anything without a solid track record.
 
Grimlakin said:
I will fully admit i bought into the hype. I've even pre ordered games I've liked the idea of sense. But I am more cautious since. And I won't Kickstart anything without a solid track record.
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We've all been there. I was a young man once. I used to preorder video games and even entire consoles in my youth. Some lessons are only learned the hard way.
 
Look, say what you will but I salute Chris Roberts for somehow tapping into this gold vein and draining it for what it's worth.

I mean, if people would throw a billion effing dollars at me for promises and ETAs you'd bet your [insert color of your own skin] *** I'd be doing the same thing.
 
Grimlakin said:
I regret my small portion of that titanic number. Back in 2013.
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Me too in 2012, regretfully I even upgraded my pledge in 2013 to get a citizens card and a shirt, I wanted Squadron 42 so much.
But now I'm not even holding out false hope that it will ever release, I've been considering it vaporware since at least 2018.
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And I won't Kickstart anything without a solid track record.
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There was Chris Roberts attached to it, so I thought it was a safe bet, I only learned about his history of not shipping games and scamming film funds later.
 
DrezKill said:
I don't pre-order, I don't contribute to crowd-funding, I don't pay for Early Access games, I don't buy games at launch or shortly after. I pay for final, finished products. And I don't usually pay until I've played that product first. A scam like Star Citizen never had a chance of roping someone like me in.
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If I want some of the preorder content, I might preorder a game a couple days b4 launch, you can always refund if it turns out ot be crap. I did buy Factorio in early access and possibly Grim dawn, but they were already pretty far in developpement at that point and I heard good things about them.

But crowdfunding something like this, hell no
 
I'm starting to lose track of what games I've per-ordered. It hasn't been many, maybe TW3, a Resident Evil Game, an Metro Exodus, and those because I trusted they would launch in a good state. I was happy with the first two, and the third was okay but obviously ended up needing patches quick, so I didn't really feel burned in those instances. However, it's doubtful I'll ever do so again given the s-show that's more common these days and I can usually wait a couple of days to read launch-day reviews before buying, and depending on price might wait even longer for a discount as I did for Indiana Jones and Spider-Man 2.
 
Yeah, I'm not sure how much he's still involved after CIG took over a while back. The website still refers to Roberts Industries but I didn't see anything current regarding him specifically but that doesn't mean he's not still involved in some capacity.
 
Peter_Brosdahl said:
Yeah, I'm not sure how much he's still involved after CIG took over a while back. The website still refers to Roberts Industries but I didn't see anything current regarding him specifically but that doesn't mean he's not still involved in some capacity.
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What do you mean took over? He is the founder and CEO of CIG.. RSI is just a made up company in game not real.
 
I just checked. He's Gemini. Creative people always cooking up multiple schemes in their minds. You could say he's the trump of gaming because trump is also a Gemini. And ummm...no offense to any Gemini here but it is what it is. You guys just wanna do too much all at once.
 
Peter_Brosdahl said:
Didn't know that it and it only makes even more so confusing but maybe that was partly the point.
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I think you are mistaken, Cloud Imperium Games is not new, it has been the company they operated under ever since the original kickstarter campaign in 2012.
 
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