@neo-rtsd: I know a fair amount about it, and a lot of it leaves a bad taste in my mouth. The fact is that their much-touted budget is still much lower than the development cost of GTA5-- and far, far lower if you count marketing costs. GTA5 was much smaller in scope than what CIG is promising with Star Citizen, and Rockstar already knew how to build a good GTA game. CIG is blazing a lot of new trails.
All that would be fine-- risky... a long shot, even-- but fine, if they didn't also sell ships for hundreds (or even thousands) of dollars. I think their fan base has been convinced that this game is a sure homerun, when we're really not even sure there's going to be a ball game.
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