Star Citizen crowdfunding scam surpasses $800 million

Star Citizen has been a project that has existed in the minds of its creators since 2003. In 2012, the game got announced after a successful Kickstarter that pledged around 2 million dollars. However, as with many Kickstarter scams, nothing ever materialized from it. Star Citizen seems to be a low effort clone of EVE Online based on the description. Both are online games, both require absurd amounts of money for digital thingamajigs, and both are inherently a scam. There’s nothing worse than games that try to imitate the concept of economy where you actually have to put real money in them, aside some exceptions. We at Infinite Start will cover where this scam can go.

Star Citizen is a scam

Let’s be honest here, during the 2020’s with the NFT crisis, Star Citizen decided to jump the scam wagon. It is obvious that the only thing they care about is the money, the game isn’t being developed, and when it releases, it will be a disaster if it ever does. Therefore, the company behind this game took the safe approach on keep farming for more donation money in the long run.

Making an EVE online clone shouldn’t really take decades. It is possible to just flip assets and recycle code, everyone does that nowadays. The novelty and the mystery however is what keeps people pumping money into this obvious scam. Not to mention that when the NFT ships happened, it was an obvious attempt of using FOMO for people to drop more money into it.

Star Citizen has to be one of the biggest scams in the history of gaming, but many people are completely unaware of it. There’s a reason the term “average person” exists, while I despise people using gaming as a medium for scams, people should do their best to be informed about what they put money on.