Exclusive: The Saga Of 'Star Citizen,' A Video Game That Raised $300 Million—But May Never Be Ready To Play

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'Star Citizen' is a video game that raised $300 million—but you may never be able to play it

t’s October 2018 and 2,000 video game fanatics are jammed into Austin’s Long Center for the Performing Arts to get a glimpse of, the sprawling online multiplayer game being made by legendary designer Chris Roberts. Most of the people here helped to pay for the game’s development—on average, $200 each, although some backers have given thousands. An epic sci-fi fantasy,was supposed to be finished in 2014.

If you don’t play video games, you probably have never heard of Roberts. But in the world of consoles and controllers, he is Keith Richards: an aging rock star who can still get fans to reach into their pockets. Roberts first gained fame with his early 1990s hit, a space combat series that grossed over $400 million and featured Hollywood stars like Mark Hamill and Malcolm McDowell. He followed that success by starting his own studio, Digital Anvil, with Microsoft as an investor.

This is not fraud—Roberts really is working on a game—but it is incompetence and mismanagement on a galactic scale.

 

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Good dont want to at all

You can literally play the game right now....

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Exclusive: The Saga Of 'Star Citizen,' A Video Game That Raised $300 Million—But May Never Be Ready To Playsome day... in the future... maybe... I'm not saying it's all a scam, I'm just saying that if I had put money into this I'd think it was a scam by now. No.
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Exclusive: The Saga Of 'Star Citizen,' A Video Game That Raised $300 Million—But May Never Be Ready To Playstarwar77 Well, okay. Congratulations on starting a successful small business in the competitive collectible nerd toy industry. Load the immigrants up, and send them off..
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Exclusive: The Saga Of 'Star Citizen,' A Video Game That Raised $300 Million—But May Never Be Ready To PlayMaybe you guys should go on Steam and see the massive amounts one can spend on DLC. Everything will be available in game, $45 is all that needs to be spent, especially since ship rental will be in the game in 2 months.
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Exclusive: The Saga Of 'Star Citizen,' A Video Game That Raised $300 Million—But May Never Be Ready To PlayCDoub96 Ping dsmart It's about time a reputable source investigated this borderline scam before it completely collapses. Well done Forbes. The Project is surviving month by month now and has no money in reserves. If the funding stops they will go bankrupt just like Chris did with DigitalAnvil.
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Exclusive: The Saga Of 'Star Citizen,' A Video Game That Raised $300 Million—But May Never Be Ready To PlayWaste not. Stop playing games and laser tag my bank account. Thanks in advance.🤑 PaulTassi I would so love to be interviewed about me hanging out in a private Teamspeak channel and calling him the 100 million dollar man and won't buy his thing until it 'percolates' -- w/o knowing CR was in the chat room.
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