Having seen a few tweets from ever-eager backers about recent developments, I decided to check it out knowing that the worst-case scenario was that I’d waste an evening and uninstall it. Well, that was until a recent free fly, which opened the Star Citizen gates to everyone for free for a week. I rarely pay £50 for a game on release day, let alone paying that amount for one in alpha that may or may not ever come out. “Madness”, I thought and stopped looking into the game entirely. Heck, one Star Citizen player has spent over $30,000 on the game. There was even the option to buy every ship in Star Citizen for $27,000 at one point. I made the decision to steer clear of the project years ago, having read that ships were being sold, sometimes even just as concept art, for hundreds and thousands of dollars. Fast forward to 2021 and Star Citizen remains not only unfinished but still in an alpha state despite having raised $347,743,980 from eager backers at the time of writing. To others, it is simply known as “Scam Citizen”.ĭevelopment on Star Citizen, the spiritual successor to Freelancer, started back in 2011, before being announced through a successful Kickstarter campaign with the promise of a 2014 release. To some, it is the game that dreams are made of. Star Citizen is a controversial topic in gaming.
