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Star Citizen Hits $200 Million in Crowdfunding

Accepted submission by takyon at 2018-11-19 12:38:22
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'Star Citizen' Reaches $200 Million in Funding [comicbook.com]

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 [robertsspaceindustries.com], 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 [wccftech.com].

Previously: Star Citizen Reaches $100 Million in Crowdfunding, Alpha 2.0 Released [soylentnews.org]
Star Citizen Developers Sued by Crytek [soylentnews.org]
Star Citizen Begins Selling a $27,000 DLC Pack [soylentnews.org]
'Star Citizen' Court Documents Reveal the Messy Reality of Crowdfunding a $200 Million Game [soylentnews.org] (the story was updated with a correction stating that the actual number was a little over $190 million)


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