A successful scam usually has to either be the first of it's kind or early on enough to make it work, because scams with precedent either won't work or would only work on a more limited audience.Įither way, it sucks because holy shit Star Citizen was my dream game and that has long since just gone out the window for me. I get that there's not much precedent for that, but that's kind of the thing. By constantly finding ways to get whales to give them money by delaying the product and continuing to string people along, they can keep the machine greased (re: paying the people working on it) but also taking that leadership cut.Īgain, it can be true that a product is being worked on that involves a lot of people but that some people are looking to prolong that process as much as possible to get money. On the most base level, the possible scam that could be levied here is that CIG is producing a product that they do someday plan on actually coming out an approximating the initial vision or even subsequent visions but they are prolonging that point as much as they can in order to milk the whales, both by promising the universe and more but also playing into the initial narrative that was always there that Star Citizen represented the last chance at this kind of space sim. It is also true that some of the leadership has benefited from the money being brought in and have incorporated family and friends into a system where they can benefit, too. The failure of Star Citizen to be what it should have been years ago is one that ultimately has to do with bad leadership. It is also true that they keep finding further reasons to get away from achieving that goal, be it by adding things, changing things, refocusing things, or what have you. It is also true that what is there is not what was promised, nor are they seemingly anywhere close to achieving that goal. It is a product that *some* people working on it believe in. It's a product that *some* people who bought into it still believe in. There is a product there that people can engage with. People are being paid for working on something. Click to shrink.I'm going to try to be as clear as possible with explaining this, but I'm admittedly going to be a little rambling due to infant induced sleep deprivation.
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