Star Citizen Passes $141 Million as Dev Teases 2017 Plans

@Nerpraptor: Look it up on google. It's been 6 years. I'm still excited for the game, but will wait until release to buy it. Another big problem with crowd sourced games is : Most sales are made pre release which means the company can't rely on additional sales to fund the next project, and a heavy reliance on microtransactions to fuel support for this title. This doesn't mean the game won't be worth playing. I'm planning on building my first pc because of this game.

@Nerpraptor: Development started in 2011, there was in-game footage in 2012. He states a few minutes into the video that he'd been working on it for a year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vhRQPhL1YU

@kyelo: There is nothing wrong in feature creep. But they should have built a small well-performing core game first and then added on as many features as were bought and paid for by the backers. Let's face the facts, they bit off far more than they could chew.

@kyelo: Buying things from lotto money and planning a multi-million dollar business venture are not valid comparisons imo. Feature creep needs to be contained at some point, doesn't matter how much money they're taking in during development, the development will never end until they decide on an actual finishing point.

I'm very neutral on this game since I haven't invested any money and I can wait to actually play it and decide how I feel about it, but there's no doubt that ever-expanding the scope of your game is going to be a bad thing after a certain point. I donno if this game has reached that point yet, but I understand the concerns some people have, when new goals are constantly introduced, and old timelines constantly missed.