Long article. Click the link to see it all.
http://www.wired.com/2015/03/fans-dropped-77m-guys-buggy-half-built-game/
http://www.wired.com/2015/03/fans-dropped-77m-guys-buggy-half-built-game/
Star Citizen began as a crowdfunding project in the fall of 2012 and has since raised an astonishing $77 million from some 770,000 backers. That's an order of magnitude more money than the next-biggest crowdfunded videogame project. It's several multiples more than any other crowdfunding project of any kind. It's equivalent to the budget of a top-tier game like Watch Dogs or to Snapchat's Series B funding round. And Star Citizen continues to bring in millions of dollars every month. Yet only a few isolated segments of the game have been released so far, and even those are in a very early, bug-ridden form.