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Star Citizen has now raised over $800m, with still no release in sight (www.eurogamer.net)
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[–] QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

Thanks for typing that out. I really appreciate the example from your own experience. I'm glad your city didn't get in too deep with that scammer.

There are a lot of different kinds of scams, not all of them are the best for comparing to something like game development, so maybe we can find something a bit more applicable (like No Man's Sky).

No Man's Sky made a lot of big promises leading up to it's initial release.

Was No Man's Sky a scam while it was under initial development?

Was No Man's Sky a scam when it first released?

If yes, was it still a scam while Sean continued to improve the game with the first few updates?

Would you consider No Man's Sky to be a scam in its current state today?