Star Citizen Online - The search for more money

Vlett said:

I hope they've allocated some of this capital to an index fund to maintain payroll indefinitely?

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not seen anything official, but read estimates they could be spending $5-6m per month now. looks like they have over 600 employees now.

They should just see what the cost would be to purchase the Moon. In fact, they could just use the funds to start there own NASA. Why build a game, when you can try to do it for real.

Goatface said:

not seen anything official, but read estimates they could be spending $5-6m per month now. looks like they have over 600 employees now.

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Filling Chris's bong is hard work.

How has Pantheon "shown" more completed work than this game.

Animosity said:

How has Pantheon "shown" more completed work than this game.

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Say what? You can actually log in and fly around and do some random shit in this game, at least. Pantheon will show you like two minutes of gameplay in a podcast and every few months have their Twitch bitch do a stream. That's about it.

IF(and that's a big if) Pantheon is ever released, the garbage version of Star Citizen that exists now will more than likely be 10x better than it.

can’t wait for the update where they discuss completely scrapping their current engine for a UE 5 rehaul.

Pasteton said:

can’t wait for the update where they discuss completely scrapping their current engine for a UE 5 rehaul.

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And they ask for more cash "We only need 500 million more to get it done. Please buy more pixels!"

Is this playable yet?

I released a game on Steam in like 2011 and one guy who worked for us wanted to be paid in Star Citizen credits.

He got them. But what has it got him? ...

Valderen said:

Damn this is ridiculous, they had a record month in November with 23millions, and have a record year with 108millions so far in 2022. What a brilliant business model they have come up with. No game after 10 years in development, you’d think people would wake up and stop giving them money but no, they keep giving more and more.

They now have something like 1000 employees too.

It‘s just completely mind boggling.

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This shit is money laundering. I would say "How are they not being investigated?" but they probably are. What they have developed so far could be paid with from just this year alone, and by a large margin less. Ive been given access to what they do have and.. I just dont see where the money is going if it is truly being invested into the game.

More like "This is Nitti. Hes a dear friend of mine. We hired him for 450k a year to "advise" us in our financial decisions. He lives where there is the least amount of taxes being taken out of his check."

Daidraco said:

This shit is money laundering. I would say "How are they not being investigated?" but they probably are. What they have developed so far could be paid with from just this year alone, and by a large margin less. Ive been given access to what they do have and.. I just dont see where the money is going if it is truly being invested into the game.

More like "This is Nitti. Hes a dear friend of mine. We hired him for 450k a year to "advise" us in our financial decisions. He lives where there is the least amount of taxes being taken out of his check."

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I agree with the assessment of money laundering. There is a crime network involved with this game. Too people that no nothing about online games or video gaming, this would easily look like a legit business. Too experienced gamers, this looks more and more like a nice money laundering scheme that professes to have all this staff and yet might not have what they say they have. It is compounded by the fact that the company is represented around the world. "Yes James Colosimo has worked for us for years as a lead engineer. The man is well respected in the field and thus gets paid a cool 500k a year." My hats off to the company because it will take somebody actually starting an investigation for them to get caught. It fucking works better than construction or garbage handling as you never have to worry about marking on somebody else's territory.

How does money laundering work in this setting? Like they are getting ‘donations’ and those are then getting fed back to the donors who are presumably criminal organizations ? If so then that’s pretty funny as I would not have placed the wing commander guy at the head of a laundering scheme. But then again breaking bad was about a high school chemistry teacher

How about you bless us with what is really happening then, Del ?

Daidraco said:

How about you bless us with what is really happening then, Del ?

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A studio is making a massive game. Massive games take a lot of time in the current day. People can already play said game in an alpha state and buy things that they consider makes the game more enjoyable to them. A fuckload of games already do this everywhere and many are making much more money than Star Citizen. It's really not that difficult to comprehend. Nah... must be a conspiracy to launder money!

Del said:

A studio is making a massive game. Massive games take a lot of time in the current day. People can already play said game in an alpha state and buy things that they consider makes the game more enjoyable to them. A fuckload of games already do this everywhere and many are making much more money than Star Citizen. It's really not that difficult to comprehend. Nah... must be a conspiracy to launder money!

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Name a single game that has generated even 1/10th the $ of this game while being in an alpha state.

Lumi said:

Name a single game that has generated even 1/10th the $ of this game while being in an alpha state.

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Is this a serious question? There are hundreds, if not thousands of early access games these days. Plenty of them have been hugely successful and sold DLC and skins long before their "official releases", and that's not even counting what's going on in China and Korea.