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Full headline, for the usual reasons: "Star Citizen Officially Crosses the $1 Billion Funding Raised Barrier as $5,000 Spaceship You Can't Fly In-Game Goes on Sale"
This grift would have been dead, gone, and consigned to the annals of obscure failure over a decade ago, if not for the utterly bizarre (but continually successful) manipulation of extremely gullible whales with way more money than sense, by selling, for multiple thousands of dollars per instance, what are essentially IOUs for things that aren't even in the so-called "game" yet, but which supposedly will be "someday." In this particular case, it's basically a $5000 USD long-term "preorder" for a thing with no set release date for a game which also has no set release date and has been in "development" for roughly a decade and a half now.
Even with NFTs, as beyond worthless as they are, at least one tended to get (a link to) the actual JPG for which one paid thousands of dollars (usually). One doesn't even get that much with this Star Citizen horseshit.
This grift would have been dead, gone, and consigned to the annals of obscure failure over a decade ago, if not for the utterly bizarre (but continually successful) manipulation of extremely gullible whales with way more money than sense, by selling, for multiple thousands of dollars per instance, what are essentially IOUs for things that aren't even in the so-called "game" yet, but which supposedly will be "someday." In this particular case, it's basically a $5000 USD long-term "preorder" for a thing with no set release date for a game which also has no set release date and has been in "development" for roughly a decade and a half now.
Even with NFTs, as beyond worthless as they are, at least one tended to get (a link to) the actual JPG for which one paid thousands of dollars (usually). One doesn't even get that much with this Star Citizen horseshit.
