Star Citizen Budget in 2025 Being a Monstrous Disaster Isn’t Stopping Fans From Calling It a Glorified ‘Tech Demo’

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Star Citizen Budget in 2025 Being a Monstrous Disaster Isn’t Stopping Fans From Calling It a Glorified ‘Tech Demo’

It’s no secret that Star Citizen is quite a controversial game. Under development by Cloud Imperium Games, Star Citizen can be best described as a multiplayer-focused space trading and combat game, which was created after a rather successful Kickstarter campaign back in 2012, drawing in an astonishing $2 million.

The game’s budget has only inflated over the years, making it one of the most expensive pieces of media ever created. This culminated in the production of a demo that fans have not taken very kindly to.

Players are frustrated by the fact that Star Citizen has yet to have a proper game build

Cloud Imperium Games’ Star Citizen was formulated in 2012, and it has been nearly 13 years since its initially successful Kickstarter campaign. The game has since seen many changes, especially regarding its scope and capabilities.

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In particular, CIG has been aiming for the stars here, with each successive update promising the moon. However, it would appear that fans are not at all satisfied with the current direction of the game, calling it a glorified tech demo.

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Regardless of where you stand, you can’t deny the head scratcher that is $800 million dollars and 13(?) years of development resulting in what is essentially a tech demo that breaks with every update.

As seen in a rather popular

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post on the r/starcitizen subreddit, most players are quite dissatisfied with CIG. The fact that the game is nowhere near being complete, and took 13 years to develop a whole bunch of nothing, has not been taken too kindly.

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Many have called the current build of Star Citizen nothing more than a glorified tech demo – one that cost a whopping $800 million to make.

If anything, the game’s current build looks lackluster and without polish, which a game with this much funding and time backing it up should not have. 

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The game is still incomplete, and in certain ways plays worse than many other early access titles available today.

The publisher/developer duo’s inability to release a solid, complete version of the game after 13 years may come as a shock to many, but for others, it was quite expected.

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While much of the delay can be attributed to Star Citizen’s pursuit of perfection and reworking everything from the ground up, it does beg the question of whether this was necessary in the first place.

After all, having nothing to show backers despite a 13-year development cycle (and an $800 million budget!) is not a good sign. Star Citizen’s current build is really quite lacking at present, but the publisher still plans on releasing the game in 2026.

This is not the first time Star Citizen has come under scrutiny 

Star Citizen has had its fair share of controversy in the past. Nearly 25% of its backers have asked for a refund, which ultimately culminated in backers receiving a full refund if the game was not released within 18 months of their backing date.

Backers have slowly grown disillusioned toward CIG’s policies and the general lack of a polished, playable product.

CIG then took the strange decision to split Star Citizen into two parts – Squadron 42, a single-player narrative-focused game, and Star Citizen itself, which remains true to the original vision of an MMORPG.

This got them into a legal dispute with Crytek, the company behind the CryEngine (the game engine on which Star Citizen runs), as they were only eligible for one license.

With so many controversies, many are beginning to doubt CIG’s intentions at this point and consider that Star Citizen will never actually be released out of early access.

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