It remains to be seen how CIG will continue developing its games as its funds seemingly dwindle, but the studio is actively seeking additional funding

Well, there's an unexpected turn of events.

Cloud Imperium Games is set to hold its annual Citizencon on October 19th-20th, 2024, with fans planned to see a demo of Squadron 42’s Chapter 1, which was internally said to “get our community on board with the fact they are getting very close to Squadron’s full release.”

Of course, fans should also expect to see a lot more of Star Citizen. But as the past 12 years have shown us all, nothing is set in stone.

So they're working their people with no weekends to get a demo of the first chapter of a spin-off game that is intended as an interim release preceeding the actual game that they promised backers over a decade ago. Sounds peachy.

Setting aside mismanagement of the development on Star Citizen, I do think that the willingness of people to dump enormous amounts of money into Star Citizen development does demonstrate that there really is a large body of people who really would like to see a new, good, space combat game of the Wing Commander sort.