Star Citizen, a online game that exists as a Forever Promise, was first revealed to the world again in 2012 by way of a Kickstarter marketing campaign that raised $2.1 million. In the last decade since, by means of the bulletins of spin-offs, modules, in-game economies and numerous different options and half-baked concepts, the sport appears no nearer to an precise launch.

One factor it has completed, although, is make some cash. Lots of cash. As identified earlier at the moment on this submit, the sport’s official “funds raised” tracker on its web site simply ticked over the $500 million mark, and at time of posting stands at $500,089,473 raised, from 4,096,539 backers.

Half a billion {dollars}. For a online game that has been in growth for over a decade. Were this 5 years in the past that is the purpose the place I’d begin questioning the sport’s future, or marvel how shut it’s to being “finished”, or make some jokes. But it’s 2022, and the entire thing now could be simply…unhappy. They may have concluded a complete rattling trilogy of those video games by now if there had been an oz of correct administration, somebody on the group capable of separate the sport’s unchecked ambition from what was technologically doable then, and even now.

Star Citizen is what it’s, although, so as a substitute I’m simply going to remind you of this trailer, which was launched in 2015, whereas Obama was nonetheless President and this web site was owned by Gawker Media:

And now, to assist put the passage of time into additional context, I’m going to record another video video games that had been introduced in 2012

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• SimCity
• XCOM: Enemy Unknown
• The Elder Scrolls Online
• ZombiU
• Company of Heroes 2
• Dead Space 3
• FIFA 13
• Resident Evil 6
• Crysis 3
• Gears of War: Judgement
• NBA 2K13
• Pikmin 3
• Rock Band Blitz