It’s no different than all those NFT based games from 6 years ago, only this is 10x bigger than any of them ever got. No actual game will ever be released, everyone who paid as much on a digital ship as an actual used car will ever get to properly fly it as they were promised.
Those were all at least playable games, and the world Cup editions of FIFA at least came out ever 4 years and had meaningful differences from the previous world Cup edition. And weren’t just a glorified NFT scam
And their entire value is based on them having committed all their future shovels for the next 8 years. So what happens when all those contracts are cancelled because the buyers are bankrupt?
Enron was #7 before they collapsed. Nvidia will be the hardest hit when the AI bubble pops
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.