That reason is I've watched roughly and near-exactly this trailer five fucking years ago. You can still find it on Youtube if you bother to look. Fuck it, I'll do it myself. LOOK.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMSGlZSL0DE
And that isn't the only time, or even the first. I'm genuinely amazed that this grift is so perfect that the same vaporware can get polished up again and again, spinning its wheels in place, and people on the official forum and in Youtube comments say they're in tears about this.
I won't say I respect the hustle because I don't lick boots, but I am truly impressed with how powerful this grift is that it's self-perpetuating with that little to show for it over half a billion dollars and over a decade later.
I once considered putting money into Star Citizen very early on.
I was initially glad I didn't when I found out what an euphoric fusion of Redditor liberal and 4chan fascist wet dreams the setting was, with an (elected!) space emperor of humanity that is effectively pulled around by corporate puppet strings and the fantastical far future of almost a thousand years from now is a bunch of bleak 90s shopping malls with hot dog stands and the aesthetics are a blend of Silicon Valley "minimalism" and Chris Roberts directly lifting imagery from movies and shows he consumed and demanding a sellable ripoff of it season after season.
Speaking of Chris Roberts, he put himself into the game's lore as
but somehow more euphoric.
https://starcitizen.tools/Chris_Roberts_(lore)
Oh yeah and that super heroic megacorporation had a few atrocities it was very very sorry about but in a very cool heroic way that involved auditing itself and declaring the atrocity issues were handled.
https://starcitizen.tools/Roberts_Space_Industries