Cloud Imperium Games has rewritten Star Citizen's gifting rules. For pledge items bought on or after October 30, buyers must select the gift option at checkout and enter the recipient's email immediately. An item bought for the purchaser's own account cannot be turned into a gift later.

The recipient has 30 calendar days to redeem the code. If it expires, RSI will cancel the gift and begin a refund to the buyer. Store credit cannot fund a gift purchase, and only eligible items display the gifting option.

The central restriction targets secondary markets. Any compensation for a gift is now prohibited, including cash, products, or services. Using gifting to sell or exchange items through secondary markets is also explicitly forbidden. RSI says those transactions breach its terms and may involve fraud.

Purchases made before October 30 remain under the gifting rules that applied when they were acquired. That does not make account sales acceptable: transferring an RSI account to a third party was already barred by the previous terms.

The change does not alter Star Citizen's development calendar. The game's status and past milestones remain on its catalog page.