Star Citizen, a video crippled that exists arsenic a Forever Promise, was archetypal revealed to the satellite backmost successful 2012 via a Kickstarter run that raised $2.1 million. In the decennary since, done the announcements of spin-offs, modules, in-game economies and countless different features and half-baked ideas, the crippled seems nary person to an existent release.

One happening it has accomplished, though, is marque immoderate money. Lots of money. As pointed retired earlier contiguous in this post, the game’s authoritative “funds raised” tracker connected its website conscionable ticked implicit the $500 cardinal mark, and astatine clip of posting stands astatine $500,089,473 raised, from 4,096,539 backers.

Half a cardinal dollars. For a video crippled that has been successful improvement for implicit a decade. Were this 5 years agone this is the constituent wherever I’d commencement questioning the game’s future, oregon wonderment however adjacent it is to being “finished”, oregon marque immoderate jokes. But it’s 2022, and the full happening present is just...sad. They could person concluded a full damn trilogy of these games by present if determination had been an ounce of due management, idiosyncratic connected the squad capable to abstracted the game’s unchecked ambition from what was technologically imaginable then, oregon adjacent now.

Star Citizen is what it is, though, truthful alternatively I’m conscionable going to punctual you of this trailer, which was released successful 2015, portion Obama was inactive President and this website was owned by Gawker Media:

And now, to assistance enactment the transition of clip into further context, I’m going to database immoderate different video games that were announced successful 2012

• SimCity
• XCOM: Enemy Unknown
• The Elder Scrolls Online
• ZombiU
• Company of Heroes 2
• Dead Space 3
• FIFA 13
• Resident Evil 6
• Crysis 3
• Gears of War: Judgement
• NBA 2K13
• Pikmin 3
• Rock Band Blitz