@hystavito: Basically, yeah. You can borrow money from in game dealers to get another ship, and then you're in the hole.

In-game insurance, though, will be super cheap. It's paid for with in-game cash and is only meant as a small money sink to keep the economy stable.

@amirfoox: No one is demanding anything...You can get everything just by getting the base game, which costs $45. Stop being a drama queen.

@ecurl143: A "cash in" suggests they're making a profit. That's not at all true. Every dollar brought in before the game releases is being added to the budget.

And that statement has nothing to do with asking for more cash. It's letting the backer/customer know what their money is being used for. It's all about transparency. I don't see how you could possible see transparency as a bad thing.

@tomanon: They don't get paid as normal actors, because they aren't doing live action acting.

@Wintermist: "This was development cost"

This is incorrect. That wiki page has mixed known segments of budgets that were for development, with total budgets of games with unknown dev costs.

Basically, unless you see a number under "Marketing Cost", then the number in the Development cost represents the entire budget. Even then, looking at some of the ones that specify marketing costs are dubious.

So in actuality, this affirms your point even more.

@undercover30 You're wrong. There's definitely groups out there that play like this. The one I'm in does, and we have ~3000 people.

@prats93 Except that it won game of the year award, and is listed among the best games ever made.

But no, lets listen to Pratty here. He obviously knows his stuff.

@ps3gamer1234 No

@alphawolf-j Lol what?! Elite has been in production since before 2009. They've been building a custom engine specifically for Elite, and drawn the entire game and game mechanics up. Not only that, but Elite has a much larger amount of money coming from investors than they made in crowd funding campaign. Lastly, Elite had a studio that was already built and fully staffed, that knew the custom engine as they were the ones who built it.

@GameFan1983 The average level of donation is $100. Not $15,000. You can't reference a single super high package on their site that only 3 people have purchased, as your reference point.
At least an intelligent person wouldn't have done that.