![]() So my money’s stuck in a game I can’t possibly play.”Īlong with the game-which originally had a targeted release date of 2014-Lord was supposed to have received numerous bits of physical swag. I have tremors…They just recently confirmed that you have to do the first-person shooter thing to get through Squadron 42. The first person mode is an especially hard sell. It’s since become a massively multiplayer online game and a separate single-player game with first-person shooter elements called Squadron 42, which RSI originally pitched as “A Wing Commander style single player mode, playable OFFLINE if you want.”įor Lord, it’s no longer the game he thought he was getting. According to the game’s original pitch on Kickstarter, it would be a space sim with a co-op multiplayer game, an offline single-player experience, and a persistent universe. Since it’s Chris Roberts, I figured he has a good handle on how to make a video game.”īut games change during development and, according to Lord, Star Citizen changed a lot. He had never backed a crowdfunded game before, but he wasn’t worried about it: “They said two years, I figured it would probably be maybe three, possibly even four, which would have put us in 2015, 2016. “I really liked Freelancer.” So when Wing Commander creator Chris Roberts, the developer of several video games and director of the Wing Commander film, announced Star Citizen, he was excited. “I loved Wing Commander,” he told me over Skype. In his free time, he loves playing video games set in space. ![]() Lord is a data scientist who works on developing AI for SAP-a data-processing company in Colorado. Lord's case isn't proof of some nefarious scam, but a tiny peek at the nature of crowdfunding a multimillion-dollar video game with high expectations and ever-expanding ambitions. ![]() It’s also a victim of one of the worst cases of feature creep in history. ![]() It’s managed a wide set of expectations, an increasingly Byzantine set of terms of service that, according to RSI, has changed five different times in six years. After six years in development and hundreds of millions of dollars raised, Star Citizen is the single largest crowdsourced project ever. According to Lord-and the LA county court records-the judge dismissed the case without prejudice, saying an arbitration clause buried in the Star Citizen end-user license agreement prevented Lord, or anyone, from taking RSI to court for a refund on a game that some backers think may never come out.Ĭrowdfunding is messy and new. On June 13, 2018, a judge ruled in favor of Star Citizen. ![]()
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