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I'm sure people will appreciate it in 2100 when the game is released.

Is the game going to be released?

Nope they are going to keep changing stuff, adding stuff tweaking it. They should just make something, then start adding more on.

I don't know why this comment was downvoted, it's pretty obvious that one should release early and often, then make changes instead of making long term change even before the product is released!

Backers have been getting regular releases for about 3 years already if not longer.

Releases, like "alpha versions of a completed game"; or like "statements about progress"?

Releases as in playable demos of small pieces of the game.

The comment you are replying to, as well as your own, are both being downvoted because they make wild assumptions about the state of the game clearly without knowing anything about it...

The final product is not released, but RSI is the most transparent game studio out there. Alpha Builds of the game are constantly being released, any backer can install it, log into it, give feedback, report bugs etc.

They are releasing early and often.

Duke Nukem got released, and if that made it anything can!

FWIW, Duke also swapped graphics and engines several times during development.

> Duke Nukem got released

Created by a completely independent studio, not the original makers.

AFAIK they reused a lot of the work done by the previous team.

And this same thing could never happen to Star Citizen?

Since there is no publisher sitting in the tail, it is at least IMHO far more unlikely.

CIG could run out of money and be forced to sell

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