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Star Citizen’s new cash shop offerings provoked fresh pay-to-win and predatory monetization accusations | Massively Overpowered (massivelyop.com)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

that has promised not one but two games that are not coming out.

Not just the games. Don't forget all the feelies, the physical stuff they promised to manufacture.

This guy lost a court case trying to get a refund on his $5k seven years back:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/star-citizen-court-documents-reveal-the-messy-reality-of-crowdfunding-a-dollar200-million-game/

Along with the game—which originally had a targeted release date of 2014—Lord was supposed to have received numerous bits of physical swag. “So aside from [the game], I’m supposed to get a spaceship USB drive, silver collector’s box, CDs, DVDs, spaceship blueprints, models of the spaceship, a hardback book,” he said. “That’s the making of Star Citizen, which—if they end up making this game—might turn into an encyclopedia set.”

That was back when only $200 million had been sunk into the development.