‘Star Citizen,’ a video game that raised $300M but may never be ready to play
Eh, I chucked them $50 or whatever it was for what was clearly a 10+ year project (at the time I gave them my money). I&#x27;ve had fun playing the modules already released but if they never deliver a full game I can think of worse things I&#x27;ve spend $50 on.<p>I&#x27;ve always seen crowd funding as chucking a little money at an idea that interests you, if it works then cool, if not then it wasn&#x27;t (and shouldn&#x27;t ever be) an amount I&#x27;m going to lose sleep over.<p>As for the people spending thousands of dollars on promised future digital shiny things? I just don&#x27;t understand it, why are you paying money for virtual things that don&#x27;t exist yet in a game that doesn&#x27;t even exist yet? But then I&#x27;ve never understood the (reasonably) recent trend for paying hundreds&#x2F;thousands of dollars on cosmetic items for games that you&#x27;re actually playing so maybe I&#x27;m missing something.