• cecilkorik@lemmy.ca
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    19 hours ago

    Correct, it is a development nightmare yes, it is beyond ridiculously delayed, it is overhyped, it is overpriced, it is predatory, it is stupid in countless ways, but a scam is intentionally fraudulent and anyone making that claim of Star Citizen is being disingenuous. It is a game being actively developed by idiotic, toxic, malignant narcissists powered largely by self-absorbed vanity, but that’s not the same thing as a scam perpetrated by fraudsters. They’re both very, very bad, but they’re also very, very much not the same thing and we should stop confusing such basic concepts with each other.

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      13 hours ago

      Bernie Madoff and Sam Bankman-Fried didn’t start their companies with the intention to defraud their customers. But they quickly found themselves in too deep and the only thing they could do was ask for money to keep it afloat as long as they could. The only difference between those ventures and Star Citizen is that Star Citizen hasn’t collapsed under its own weight yet.