People like you keep using that word, but I don't think it means what you think it means.
Honestly, I stopped reading right there. It just sounds like you have no clue what you're talking about, never having played the game or seen what progress has been made.
It's literally not a scam. A poor investment? Maybe. But considering how much they can show off, it looks like they're making some good progress.
Perhaps you should have kept reading then, to avoid making yourself look like a fanboi, because only a fanboi would say "it doesnt matter if you dont like it look at the
PROGRESS".
Much of the "progress" shown is on features the product that was funded was not supposed to have. If you pay someone to build you a house, and said house is supposed to be finished in 2 months, then you show up 6 months later to find only the framework is done, but hey the builders made a sweet zen rock garden in the front yard, you would probably be pissed. If you order a sandwich at a restaurant, and the restaurant gives you 1/4th of a different meal two hours later while showing off the sweet new placemats they made, you would be pissed. If your local government passed a new tax levy to replace a bridge, then two years later the bridge still isnt built but the tax dollars buitl nice new offices for the government representatives, you would be pissed.
Star citizen is now over 3 years late. It has surpassed it's original funding goal by several orders of magnitude. The dev team is now FAR larger then it was originally. Yet the game is still in alpha, the features promised in the kickstarter still havent been delivered.
You know what we call a project that goes over budget by many orders of magnitude and spends said money on frivolous things other then the product itself?
A scam.
I call star citizen a scam because that is what it is, a project that sucks money from supporters while never delivering on the promised product. Many years and literal hundreds of millions of dollars later, all for an alpha that might be impressive by 2006 standards? Missing features all around, poor performance, incredible lack of content. Or perhaps you can explain how rockstar was able to make GTA V on $265 million with over 1000 employees working on the project over 6 years, yet chris roberts, with $200 million and 80 employees, cant deliver on his space action game that was supposed to cost only HALF A MILLION DOLLARS!
Yeah, thats right, Scam citizen had a crowdfunding goal of $500,000,and was supposed to be finished in 2015. It has now received 400x more money then that, yet it still isnt finished 6 years later. Where did all that money go, with such a small dev team? Smells awfully scammy.....