If this wasn't coming from a nearly half billion dollar squandering piece of vaporware that's enriching a family of grifters, I could see this as a brilliant teaser for a space sci fi Lovecraftian horror game.
If this wasn't coming from a nearly half billion dollar squandering piece of vaporware that's enriching a family of grifters, I could see this as a brilliant teaser for a space sci fi Lovecraftian horror game.
Nearly, not quite there yet. But they're still making record revenues over this same time last year from hundreds or even thousands of dollars of new "pledges" from each credulous fan at a time, so at this rate, it will be half a billion pretty soon.
Are they still bring in new players? Can't imagine new players not scared away by its reputation and prices. Also can't image existing players paying even more to have very little delivered year after year. JPEG factory has halted production, yes?
Yep lots of big youtubers love occasionally dropping a highly cherry picked video to advertise the game. Pisses me off to no end cos not a single viewer will get that cherry picked experience.
I think they are, unfortunately.
A lot of the ongoing revenue, unless it's some kind of money laundering thing, seems to be sunk cost fallacy and fanboys (let's face it, it's like 99% aging men you see in the CitizenCon pics) further "pledging" to stick it to the critics and doubters.
Wait, wait. CitizenCon? There's a fucking convention devoted to ONE GAME? That doesn't even exist yet?
Yes.
When covid became a thing, though, they had a convenient reason to do even less for the rubes.
They used to do wild stuff like have their big spenders come to a steak dinner for thousands a pop. Photos of the event are hard to find now (I saw them on SomethingAwful's dedicated thread at the time), but it was the dumpiest, malest, oldest, whitest bunch you can imagine. Those people looked like they haven't played a video game since Freelancer, and judging by what they want, that's probably true.