The reason Star Citizen will take forever to make

[Mr Puggsly]

VAMatt said:

Mr Puggsly said:

Why exactly?

Is this game somehow obligated to achieve certain goals in a period of time?

Seems like a huge achievment that's arguably bigger than needs to be. But I guess thats also the charm of this project.

The devs made certain representations to investors about what they could do and when they could do it.  They stopped short of explicit promises, but they certainly made it seem as though they could do a lot more, a lot faster than they have.  They took money from people based on the investors belief that they were contributing to the development of the thing the devs presented.  But, in reality, the devs have continually moved the goal posts, collected more and more money, and have not delivered anything close to what's been promised on anything close to the indicated timeline.  

There's certainly a fraud argument to be made there.  I don't know for sure that it will be successful.  But, there's been so much money dumped into this hole by so many people that I have to assume some group of them will be pissed enough to look for a legal remedy.  

So basically you're just making an assumption?

I would suspect investors are going into this knowing its risk and giving developers freedom. Even if the project did fall apart the studio would likely just declare bankruptcy.

Personally, I feel its best if there is no legal action if this project never gets completed in some form. That's ultimately the risk of investing. Many companies have lost money funding games that were never completed or just sucked.