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'Star Citizen' Reaches $200 Million in Funding
Dedicated Star Citizen fans have pushed the game's crowdfunding revenue to a new milestone with the game now having raised over $200,000,000.
Currently playable in an alpha version that's available after purchasing one of the various game packs, the most common starter packs totaling around $45, Star Citizen and its developer and publisher Cloud Imperium Games have been raising money for the game for several years. According to the live stats for Star Citizen's crowdfunding progress, the game has raised $200,024,490 at the time of publishing with exactly 2,121,588 "Star Citizens" contributing to the game. That equates to just over $94 spent on the game per person.
[...] Star Citizen is currently in development and has a playable alpha with no official release date announced for the full game.
It'll come out of Beta around the $1 billion mark.
Also at Wccftech.
Previously: Star Citizen Reaches $100 Million in Crowdfunding, Alpha 2.0 Released
Star Citizen Developers Sued by Crytek
Star Citizen Begins Selling a $27,000 DLC Pack
'Star Citizen' Court Documents Reveal the Messy Reality of Crowdfunding a $200 Million Game (the story was updated with a correction stating that the actual number was a little over $190 million)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 19 2018, @04:03PM (1 child)
If they want respectability, they ought to put an end to the fundraising. As it is, they'll never put out a game, no matter how awesome it may be, that will live up anywhere close to the hype of this. "$200M-plus, and this is all they could put out???"
On the other hand, which game was fundraising a bunch of money and they basically said, "Nope, we tried real hard, but we can't do it. Thanks for all the money, though!"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 20 2018, @09:26AM
They have shareholders or investors or whatever beyond the 200 million here. So someone else is profiting.
Really for 200 million dollars the game should be DLC/paid content free or even free outside of donation runs for operating costs yearly at the amount of donations they raised.