Except unlike Duke Nukem Forever, this game started development less than two years ago. If this were like any other traditionnal AAA game, as in having their own funding, you wouldn’t have even heard about it yet. Most games are silently in development for 2-3 years before the public even gets a teaser. The…

That for me is Strike three, as it almost screams scam. Now, time will tell whether or not Star Citizen lives up to what he claims it does, but I have a feeling this is going to be Destiny 2.0, a game with a huge budget where the developers have very little communication with their community and will release a game…

Strike One: The reason CryENGINE was chosen is because there’s a HUGE pool of devs with years of experience in the engine from which to hire from. Creating their own engine would’ve added years to the project and would have had zero experienced talent to draw from.

Or it could be a Blizzard situation, where they take forever and eventually release something really good?

I am sorry, it looks like you have literally have no clue about the game. The funding for the game reached ages ago, and people are not forced to fund anymore. It is their way of getting the game faster as it is being made and putting down the money on ships as a pledge of good faith, not for access.

I’m sorry, two fucking years is not a long time for game development. This is being built from scratch, so they will have to spend a lot of time getting things implemented, let alone optimizing them. Just go back to the videos of any E3 were the game is launched two or three years later: the end result is widely…