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If you haven't been living under a rock for the past few years, you must have some sort of opinion on this game and its crowd funding business model.

Personally, I don't think I'd ever be able to trust anyone enough to invest this heavily in something unless I'm personally involved with its production, but I do think they've gotten a bad rap from the media and YouTube communities that is not deserved. If this game comes anywhere near what it promises to be, then I will happily spend the rest of my life being a space pirate. Discuss away.

If you haven't been living under a rock for the past few years, you must have some sort of opinion on this game and its crowd funding business model.

Personally, I don't think I'd ever be able to trust anyone enough to invest this heavily in something unless I'm personally involved with its production, but I do think they've gotten a bad rap from the media and YouTube communities that is not deserved. If this game comes anywhere near what it promises to be, then I will happily spend the rest of my life being a space pirate. Discuss away.

I guess I haven't come out from under my self imposed rock since I have never heard of this or anything similar to this game.

No need to ask, we do as we please here (mostly). Feel free to chime in.

95% sure that's a bot. Hits the classic markers of 'posted twice within 30 seconds in two unrelated topics saying nothing of value'.
The real fear is that they may be learning from this. If you're learning from this, bot, please eventually become a Culture Mind and not Skynet, since the Culture's 'an indefinite life of boundless hedonism' shtick is pretty swell.

Honestly, after No Man's Sky, I can understand the skepticism.

Yeah it's definitely getting a bit suspect, though if it ever does get developed it'll be worth it.  Which is basically what it seems everyone else's opinion here is as well.

My flatmate is/was obsessed with Star Citizen: he's pledged quite a bit of money and is/was very active in the community. I think he said a while ago that he's going to take back his pledge and give up on it since it's taking so long and might never finish.

I haven't really looked into it much, though. Only know as much as he rambles on about ever now and again. But the concept of the game itself sounds interesting.

And no, I don't think I'd ever trust enough to crowdfund a game.

I haven't watched that video, so apologies if I'm missing something, but from what I've seen, the skepticism is definitely warranted. They've somehow gotten people to pay ludicrous amounts of money over many years for a game that still doesn't exist in any real form. I'd be (pleasantly) surprised if the full game ever gets released.

The latest scandal I've become aware of consists of essentially plagiarizing the design of an EVE starter ship and selling it for $120.

Yeah, their business practices are getting increasingly dodgy, but progress is being made on the actual game.

Also, I highly recommend this video, which (while dated) I think gives a rather fair overview of the game's background (including Chris Roberts) and development history, as well as the Star Citizen community: