• Skipcast@lemmy.world
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      Is a heavily mismanaged game. Calling it a scam would be a misuse of the word.

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        It’s a scam. They scammed the original Kickstarter investors. Ffs i had a whole campaign TEN YEARS AGO that started the refunds! Like I FUCKING STARTED THAT SHIT! If you get a refund in star citizen- YOU’RE WELCOME. It took hundreds of emails of people claiming they were scammed for them to allow refunds!

        Now over ten years later you chucklefuck losers want to defend that. Get the fuck out! You don’t know what the fuck you are talking about!

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          14 years and they have almost figured out how to have a reloadable rifle. This whole project has become a scam not due to having nothing people can play, but that they have crowd funded over 1 billion dollars (and counting) without (I feel) any real expectations internally of ever having a finished product.

          Chris Roberts has cemented his legacy as the sole person to ruin his own games. In fact he may have done the most damage to space games then anyone else.

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        You only have to visit the secondary market for SC in-game merch to find the scammy bits. The funny this isn’t that this game is fully of overpriced, stupid bullshit. It’s that six developers who fell out the back of the Wing Commander franchise found a way to bilk people for billions of dollars by creating the thing Mark Zuckerberg has been losing 10x as much on for just as long.

        Digital real estate. Digital in-game businesses. Digital currency. A clumsy interface with dogshit codebase to match that’s sagging under its own technical debt and still ten years behind the development curve. Star Citizen is the Metaverse.

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        Those were all at least playable games, and the world Cup editions of FIFA at least came out ever 4 years and had meaningful differences from the previous world Cup edition. And weren’t just a glorified NFT scam