elite dangerous is similar iirc

yeah i wouldn spend that much, especially on a game in alpha

star citizen just sounds like a scam tbh 😂

i guess it could be viable for huge clans or factions or whatever who could have thousands of players to spend that much on capital ships and stuff

because a single person cant really run a ship designed for dozens

and pushed back since 2014

yeah people kept giving them money so they kept promising to add more features which takes more time

eventually they gave up on adding new stretch goals at $65 million IIRC, its at 250ish million rn

what's taking time is all that cocaine they gotta snort

they have so much

crowd funding games are awful because of loose budgets

no one can manage a project with constant increase of budget and no way of knowing when it's going to stop

probably half of the dev time was just trying to get a singleplayer game engine to run an MMO lol

and general expansion, they went from 13ish people to 500+

if you want to crowd fund a game make a clear cut off where the money stops

which is still tiny for a AAA game studio, and even more so for what they are promising

and then run it with a solid and constant budget

or else it becomes clownish

and the project falls in on itself

and that's if you even get funded in the first place

they are gonna use profits from a singleplayer campaign game they are developing rn to fund the main multiplayer game

although im not sure that will be enough

>scam

Meanwhile, they employ a full workforce

And have developed a large amount of content as it is

And also

Realistically speaking

After getting so much *unexpected* crowdfunding

They basically had to reimagine the entire scope of the game and start from scratch

And uh

6 years for developing a big project in *traditional* workforces is not unheard of either

>$28000 for pixel ships in a game that was slated to be released 5 years ago and still hasn’t been

>not a scam

I mean overgrowth was in dev for like 10 years

and that got realsed

Clearly you've never played EVE

And that game is still going strong 16 years after release

Eve is one of those game it's full of boomer and it's a litreal spreadsheet simulator

EVE is the best example of a player-driven economy

I like the Economic in the game and I'll be honest I wish Elite has just 40% of that game economy

And one that works quite well