Star Citizen Passes $141 Million as Dev Teases 2017 Plans

So, are we looking at a 2025 launch date? 2030? Or are they going to go the Sims 4 route and release the game unfinished and keep adding stuff for the next 10 years? Or is it the Fallout 4 model, where they release the game unfinished and leave the fixes to the mod community? Or is it the usual crowdfunding schtick, where they promise a game, then fold before the game is released?

I mean, they STILL can't even get the game stable enough that the player can get into a ship without falling through the fricken architecture. It's pathetic. It's great to have big ideas, but at some point you have to actually, you know, make them work.

I'm wondering who're the dumb fcks still giving money away to these incompetent imbeciles

Wish these guys would move from having 'another year of great ideas' to lets just deliver the damn project to completion. I've transitioned from being in awe of the plan and inspired by the direction to.. meh if i never delivered a completed project id be out of a job.

The white elephant of gaming this century. Too much money is not creating the required burn rate to force a developer to deliver the game. CIG don't need to deliver a game.. ever... Chris Roberts can keep working on perfecting the game, but as someone said to me "perfection is the enemy of good"

What's sad is so many people are aware this is a scam and yet there are still those thinking this is the best game never made. Go back to those games that looked so awesome at E3 (typically Ubisoft titles) and look what actually released.

Difference here is, those games saw the light of day, as downgraded as they were.

who keeps giving them money?????

Odd, no mention of layoffs or pending project implosion. Wasn't 3.0 meant to be out already?

I'm not sure that Roberts is doing anything differently than what other devs do, but the business model is somewhat untested and therefore untrustworthy. If Roberts wants to have the biggest, most definitive space sim ever, he's going to have to hype the game to get the backers, whereas a publisher already has the resources to fund the devs. Since this project is grown to such proportions (with little delivery but endless alphas), I think it's perfectly appropriate for people to be skeptical.

Lol, all these haters. I bought this game, one-time payment. $60, didn't care. Now I can putz around the engines and learn what the game is actually trying to accomplish. Not a bad investment. You don't have to keep putting money into this.

no mans sky 2.0

GS should have made a NY's resolution to stop covering this junk. I get it that the master race so desperately wants an exclusive that isn't shovelware, but boys you have to see how ridiculous this is....no?...sad.

...and when we reach our one billion goal, we will enter alpha.

2017 plans...and release is not one of em LOL

This must be the first game in history where the more money received decreases the likelihood of completion.

This has scam all over it. I'm reading that investors are already seeking litigation with the Dept of Justice to get their money back.

I played Space Marine with the new engine and that was pretty fun. Surprised that the transition was so smooth.

Star Citizen is a Ponzi scheme, sure you might eventually get a game but at this moment it's a money machine