Star Citizen Raised $35 Million In 2017

@Thanatos2k: You know what happens when you care about release dates more than anything else? Mass Effect Andromeda.

@Thanatos2k: lol gamespot used to report on every million they made. They didn't even report on 3.0 launching the city building system they created, the single player demo(which should be released to backers), their partnering with Intel, or any other advancements. They just like 90% of the other media outlets are on strict orders to only show negative news or try to spin things into negative news. If this game succeeds real AAA devs won't need publishers anymore and create the games we want them to. Because they can get their money through crowed funding and maintain creative control over their product

@Thanatos2k: wait wait... so you're saying it's fine for them to make articles about funding but not about anything this funding leads to?

which gives misinformation that the game isn't actually getting anywhere? ( I mean we all know why GS does this because it brings out all the zealots from both sides spouting nonsense giving GS more clicks, look at the frigging article title for f**** sake, if that isn't a title to draw in the usual "scam citizen" comments then what is?)

"Gamespot reports on trailers and marketing presentations. Star Citizen has neither." you know once a year Roberts holds his own expo, you can look this up there's some brilliant footage and then he goes to other Expos and shows off new stuff at them, none of which I see here

and before you come back with some comment about how I'm a evangelical backer blah blah I've spent no money and i'm sitting back playing other games patiently waiting for a full release or a larger Beta experience because it's not like there aren't other games to play right?

@Thanatos2k: Oh really? Gamespot doesn't cover game alphas? What about PUBG, jackass? What about Fortnite? ARK, The Long Dark, Darkest Dungeon, Don't Starve, Besiege, Subnautica. All of them are or were Alpha/Early Access games that have been covered extensively by Gamespot.

Cloud Imperium Games has released abundant content about the Star Citizen's development, including multiple videos every week for 3+ years. There have been countless game trailers, promo videos, convention presentations, live demos, and live streaming events. Gamespot has not reported on most of them. Whereas Gamespot conspicuously does report on anything negative regarding Star Citizen, like the legal battle with Crytek, as well as things that are spun negatively, like how much crowdfunding the game has made. Gamespot refuses to report on anything positive because CIG doesn't bribe them with ads like the big evil game publishers.

And BTW, I just discovered that Gamespot has reported on the Squadron 42 vertical slice; they published this video yesterday. (I'm big enough to give credit where credit is do, and admit when I make a mistake. It only took Gamespot two weeks!) Strangely, Gamespot didn't publish an article on their site about the Squadron 42 vertical slice (because no notification was sent), or even a link to their own video in the article above. I wonder why!?!

So obviously you don't know WTF you're talking about and are simply defending whatever Gamespot does because you're a f***ing lapdog.

@davillain-: I agree, and rotten ones at that.

@Mogan: The only reason we've been hearing about Star Citizen is because they need to raise money. But the game is at no place to start doing marketing and propaganda. Maybe in two years the game will be ready to announce their release date and only then they will start advertising.

@Mogan: You are making the wrong comparison my friend. The attention NMS had, that you mentioned, was due to it's upcoming launch (and also because SONY joined as a publisher at that point). When SC is ready to launch you will hear about it non stop.

@rmokeefe76: wow what a compelling argument. Sounds like you don't know jack shit about the game and just assume that cause pessimism is edgy

@livedreamplay: A lot of people are ignorant to that fact!

@malibutomi: Fine but it doesnt mean final product cant go down quality wise. We have seen that many times before.