Last year, Star Citizen creator Christopher Roberts explained to fans that features promised in the game several years ago were "not a pipe dream" and that they would not take another "10 to 20 years" to implement into the game. They lied to us.While it could be argued that Star Citizen's lengthy delay in development is in part down to its long list of community-led stretch goals, the developer's last date-marked funding target was reached in 2014 as the game eclipsed $63,000,000.
The performance is terrible and it’s still in an ‘Alpha’ state,” one consumer complained. “The game they promised us can’t even barely run.
Some of the refund requests are incredibly high, up to $24,000. Some backers have said enough- the Federal Trade Commission received 129 complaints for the company, according to Forbes. Roberts also hired an expensive cast of actors, including Gary Oldman, Mark Hamill, and Gillian Anderson, to do motion capture for a cinematic “Squadron 42” trailer. Other devs spent weeks working on demos intended to keep crowdfunding money coming in. I was shocked.”įor example, Roberts reportedly told one senior graphics engineer to spend months working only on the visual effects of the ship shields. The promises being made-call it feature creep, call it whatever it is-now we can do this, now we can do that. “As the money rolled in, what I consider to be some of old bad habits popped up-not being super-focused,” Mark Day, whose company did work on “Star Citizen” in 20, told Forbes. Last year, financial statements revealed that the company was spending $4 million per month, but we don’t know exactly how much money Roberts is taking in- nor do we know how much his wife and brother, both working in senior positions at Cloud Imperium, are making as a salary, according to the report. But despite all the money coming in, “Star Citizen” seems to have no release date in sight, and where all of the money is going is of concern. Roberts described a game that would have “100 star systems,” and the Alpha currently doesn’t one completed star system.Ĭloud Imperium Games also received a $46 million investment last year. Some of those ships are in the conceptual art phases, and can’t even be used in the game yet, which is currently in its Alpha status, “Star Citizen” is nowhere near what it was promised to be yet. The money comes in, in part, from enthusiastic PC gamers purchasing digital ships, sometimes for thousands of dollars.
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