Star Citizen has become highly criticized during its long production process, both for the fact that there is still no clear release date and for the challenges backers who have abandoned the project have faced in receiving a refund. Pre-production of the game began in 2010, with production starting in 2011.
The game was announced via a private crowdfunding page in September 2012, and was later joined on Octoby a successful Kickstarter campaign which drew in over US$2 million. An extended retry of unrealized plans for Freelancer, Star Citizen is being led by director Chris Roberts. The game is being developed and published by Cloud Imperium Games for Microsoft Windows. Star Citizen is an in-development multiplayer, space trading and combat simulation game.
