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Yeah so surprised with that vaporware scam pinata...
To its credit, Star Citizen is neither vaporware nor a scam.
You can buy access to the game for just $45 USD, and the game is playable to you right now. It regularly receives updates, some minor and some major.
Vaporware is something that never gets released to the public. Like the Coleco Chameleon. Obviously, Star Citizen is playable right now by anyone that buys access to it.
A scam is when someone takes your money under fraudulent pretenses. Star Citizen takes your money for access to a space sim game, which is exactly what you get. Its not a scam, just terribly mismanaged with a very slow development pace.
Star Citizen is a piñata though. Both from games "journalism" (lol) and from Redditors, primarily.
I had a friend try to sales pitch me on pre-ordering it back in 2012. I said "I'll just wait for it to release". Still waiting.