They deliver new spaceship and vehicle jpegs to buy (and sometimes playable! Sometimes) and that's been their revenue source for over a decade.

Ever see a photo of CitizenCon attendees? It's but aged up 20 years or so.

EDIT: You'll see an even older if you can find pictures of the exclusive le epic steak dinner that the dev company put on, specifically to sell yet another internet spaceship exclusively to the le epic steak buyers. I lost that picture when I swapped computers and it's an old event now.

Meanwhile the same chuds post FB/IG rage memes about how genZers being millionaires from OF or drug dealing while they have to work for a living only to throw money at this vaporware.

but mom needs that credit card to pay for the gift cards for the fellow on the phone who is trying to remove her linux mac virus

I feel like i should just consistently post myself playing No Man's Sky in Star Shitizen forums

Star Citizen is the one thing that can make an EVE Online player feel superior

Every setback and drawback to Elite: Dangerous has been paraded around the Star Citizen cult as an indicator to keep the faith. That's amazing, because they try to sneer at flawed content when their content is just dream farts.

I had fun with Elite before covid, but the direction it was developed in kinda killed the vibes for me.

Too bad Elite forgot to bring it's game design to 21st century.

So people can show off their Jpegs that cost more than a car, and so Chris Robert's can pat them on the back and ask for more

It has an annual convention for the same reason it has internet spaceship jpegs (some are playable while many are not, even years after first sale) for hundreds or even thousands of dollars each.

It has been playable for years.

TOIL just sounds ominous on its own, never mind the shitty conditions surrounding it

“the Squadron 42 demo showcase for Chapter 1.”

So after 12 years of development they don't even have

Demo of

Showcase of

Chapter 1