Surely it can't be because the clowns behind the grift are making way more money being clowns and claiming they can't show the cult what's in the box because what's in the box needs a few more hundred million dollars and just a few years, promise for reals this time.
Surely it's because what's in the box is post-Gambo levels of 
and that'll make thousands of dollars of internet jpeg investments pay off.
That's the thing with Star Citizen: it's a big money-sucking cloud of vague promises, so it's easy for the believers to make themselves believe what they want is in that mystery box, just waiting to pop out. Imagine a video game about internet spaceships making this particular believer's particular come true and the mystery box pops open at last with a big steaming fragrant eruption of .
It won't, but I suppose putting enough money into anything will make someone believe reality will bend according to their invested desires.
Is this game still in development? Isn't Chris Roberts like going in international vacations while these people buy imaginary virtual spaceships for like 300k dollars?
Yes to all above questions, though the amount is only in the tens of thousands of dollars and rising.