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Star Citizen passes $300m in crowdfunding | GamesIndustry.biz gamesindustry.biz/articles/2020-…
You know the drill.

Neither of the two games promised for 2014 at $2m, then 2016 at $65m are anywhere near completion. In fact, the development has regressed to such a degree that even the hard-core tribe have been up in arms since the last build update earlier last month.
Yes, the numbers are crazy.

robertsspaceindustries.com/funding-goals
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, the tribe are still up in arms

robertsspaceindustries.com/spectrum/commu…

robertsspaceindustries.com/spectrum/commu…
btw, I am not sure why media are reporting only the numbers on their website when in fact they got $46m in investor money Summer of 2018, and another $17m earlier this year. Not counting all other income.

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It's Fri and I'm in between builds, emails, and general weekend fuckery which I've mostly been ignoring all week. So here's a little diversion based on this earlier tweet.



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1st, let me start by saying that in the 8 yrs since I backed Star Citizen, I have yet to come across a *single* gamer who wants to see it fail. Not one. Not even in 2015 when I wrote that first blog about why I felt it was destined to fail due to Chris Roberts inflating its scope
Most of the angst can be summarized into the following categories of gamer backers who:

1) want out via refunds (most didn't get one)
2) want to see it to the end, but are still disgruntled
3) think they're part of "something" else
4) just want to lol at the ensuing train wreck
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Right - I'm bored (and in between builds), so it's time for a Star Citizen thread that I've been curating this past weekend.

First, remember my last thread about the travesty that was the 3.9 release and the controversy that it caused? Catch up here:

Well shortly before that one, I also touched on the whole Theaters Of War debacle (from Nov 2019) and which was almost ready and totally coming in early 2020.

Well, apparently even after they canned it, now we find out that it's back on the shiny objects menu. In case you missed the news on this Battlefield (not to be confused with Battle Royale) mod, you can read more about it here.

polygon.com/pc/2019/11/24/…
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My social media DMs are blowing up again. There must be a new Star Citizen fiasco brewing. And yes, there totally is. And yes it's about the badly broken 3.9 build which CIG shockingly released to live servers yesterday against the advisory from their own wave of testers.
In case you missed the latest scope creep fiasco, you can catch up on this thread.

Having shoved yet another massive scope creep feature into the game, and which literally broke everything you could possibly imagine, CIG made the decision to release it anyway. Why? Because they have a ship they want to sell for $395 - $440. Yup

robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/tran…
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