I personally would be surprised if nefarious funding sources were used. There are many, many examples of whale SC idiocy, often posted in this thread, that demonstrate that there's a bottomless pit of below-average-IQ Star Citizens willing to throw money at CIG. And the marketing and graphics-over-substance shallowness are designed to attract new payers.I still believe strongly that there are several 'shadow investors' or dodgy money in the mix somewhere. There simply aren't enough whales, free spending or not, to consistently supply the amount of funding month after month or year after year to even begin to tally the funding tracker. I've been involved with this thing for way too long to be convinced that even a constant stream of subscribers, new $50-$100 backers or the preverbial and much maligned $1k-$35k whales buying up pixel spaceships or jpegs as being the sole source of Ci¬G's considerable annual income.
As much as I'm a concierge level backer and fairly typical with regard to the spending habits of the majority of that particular group or trend...I haven't given Ci¬G a penny for over 2 years...and I'm by no means alone in that regard. There's only so much you can tie down to sunk cost fallacy in a space game before it becomes highly unlikely...or even nonsensical
The whale-fracking money printer go brrrrrr
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