Why are some games in beta forever?

[sethnintendo]

Conina said:

sethnintendo said:
Lol what about that Star Citizen game? Can you even play it right now? I heard people were throwing down shit ton of money down on ships.

Star Citizen is in development for 5 - 6 years so far... not unusual for a game of that scale.

Other big games can hide their long development time with a late announcement. That secret development doesn't work when the game is financed by crowd funding.

Yea except a few classic cases like Duke Nukem Forever.  Most big games can hide for a few years while they get it going.  However, I saw on Star Citizen wiki that there is still no release date so looks like 2019 at the soonest.