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Star Citizen crowdfunding passes $700 million, 12 years after development began and still without a release date
(www.neowin.net)
Chris Roberts' vacation fund has reached a new milestone. 
With your help we can get this up to 1 billion, which will ensure that Chris gets to visit more places and can enjoy more of the local cuisine. Oh, yeah, and it helps the game get finished sooner, of course.
In other news, they finally reworked the game's UI after 12 years of R&D, and it now looks worse than it did before. Progress. 
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They didn't make a cool engine though. They just made a pretty Cryengine demo that runs like shit which is scam game easy mode.
Nah it's a bit more complicated than that. They completely revamped the rendering and netcode to support seamless transitions between space, ground, building, ships etc. What they managed to do with the engine is not easy at all. None of it excuses the blatant grifting tho, just saying some of the devs did pretty cool things there.
Fair enough. I haven't really followed it too closely so I guess there's more technical advancement going on than I've noticed.
Have you ever actually done 3D game development? I promise it's not really that simple. Not everything about this game has to be complete shit just because the owner of the company is a grifter, they definitely hired talented people to do the work even if the work is ultimately a scam.