Star Citizen. Finally someone calls a spade a spade. Scam.

[Faelco]

Cerebralbore101 said:

Faelco said:
It's funny to see people defending it by saying "it's progressing, the alpha is playable".

After 8 years and more than 200 millions spent in it, having a playable alpha, still in progress, is less than the minimum.

Technically not a scam, maybe, but between incompetence and dishonesty, surely.

Originally alpha meant having most of the code working, but no 3D assets, sound, or animations. A true alpha should look like little more than N64 style rough models running around. Alpha means "Oh, we have 10% of the game done." Beta means the game is complete minus bug testing/fixing. Gold = it's ready to ship. 

Originally, maybe. But today, companies make the first players test or demonstrations on alpha versions, the games are already playable (in a part) in this state.

But for Star Citizen, it might be the original meaning: it doesn't sound like 10% of the game is finished yet..