I was there 3000 years ago during the initial kickstarter and got taken in by the grift for the $5 starter ship.
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2 points
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Intention is a tough thing to judge. If someone involved in SC in the early years told me that they genuinely thought it was going to be a two or three year initial development cycle, then release and dlc/updates, I would believe them because that’s what they were saying it was going to be - but then the feature creep kicked in, Roberts learned that he could sell non-existent ships for big money, and the whole economy of the game evolved as a result such that actually releasing it no longer makes sense for the company, so it was at some point after the kickstarter that it consciously became a scam.
