I remember at some point in 2013 "Star Citizen" (the IP) got sold by "Chris Roberts" (the private person) to "Cloud Imperium Games" for three million dollars.
Of course, this is just another case of a fraudulent Kickstarter, because it means the company ("CIG") advertising "Star Citizen" on Kickstarter didn't even own the IP it asked money for while pretending it does.
Being deceived by Chris Roberts we essentially backed the wrong company, which not only didn't own a WIP gameplay implementation, it also didn't own the IP itself. It was an empty shell to collect money with smoke & mirrors.
That's mostly important for previous Kickstarter backers, who bought in in 2012, expecting to get to play that WIP gameplay shown in the pitch video. It's not important for people who bought in in 2014 and beyond, because why should they care? It doesn't matter for them.
The $3m was a hot topic in 2016, it was indeed taken out of the company. I've had conversations about that with different folks and I'm pretty certain it's been discussed on twitter and SA.
The $1dollar shares that the execs sold back for vast fortunes was the other example of large scale cash leaving the company, albeit via a legit mechanism. That's all public, anyone can look that up.
The company they created recently in the uk for licensing remains a mystery.
As for 2014 customers not caring about the original pitch - that wasn't my point. The guarantee of financial transparency which was removed is what I'm pointing to.
That guarantee added value to sales by way of confidence. Removing it devalues the sale and removes confidence.
The original pitch, original investors, the original terms of service and the original devs are all gone.
Their relationship with Crytek is also gone.
It has failed catastrophically and the idealogical component propping it up via ship sales, land sales, tank sales and soon we'll see property sales - is the single most interesting thing in all of this.
