I'm not really defending the game, but i bought a ship like a decade ago during a kickstarter promo or something. I "played" the game maybe once a year ever since then. I got my money out of it a long time ago. The game isn't great. It's probably not even good, but i have never seen anytging like it. It looks insane, (runs rather poor) the space flight sim part is fantastic. The ship detail is something that hasn't been there before and will never been seen again. (Makes sense, since that's where their money goes). People are really nice in the game, and i had the best interactions i ever had in any game.

Long story short, i hate what happens to a game that i generally like, and the idea behind it. The amount of money put into is bizzare. On the other hand, there are "real" scam games, that made 250 million dollars and are genuinely just unreal engine 5 assets scattered around, with no game in sight, and generally people don't talk about it the same way they talk about star citizen.