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PC space game Star Citizen has been in development for a while now. Some people are worried it's been in development too long. As the scope of the project grows and features are delayed, detractors accuse developer Chris Roberts and his company Cloud Imperium Games of succumbing to the dreaded "feature creep".It's a sentiment that has grown in recent weeks following the delay of the first-person shooter portion of Star Citizen and news of a few departures of key members of the development team. And let's not forget the huge amount of money CIG has at its disposal to fuel development of Star Citizen: at the time of publication an incredible $85m of funding had been raised from just over 900,000 backers.
Couple this with the nature of Star Citizen's funding - much of its money comes from the sale of virtual ships despite the game still being in development - and the result is louder, and more vociferous, questions of Roberts' operation.
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