Star Citizen’s crowdfunding has reached a brand new milestone, as Cloud Imperium Video games has now raised greater than $500 million for its improvement. The sport initially started a crowdfunding effort on Kickstarter in October 2012, shortly amassing over $2 million on that platform and beginning a development that will see it frequently amass extra cash through the years.
As noticed by Eurogamer, the present funding complete sits at $500,121,052 from over 4 million backers, on the time of writing. What’s outstanding right here is that Star Citizen reached the $400 million milestone in November final yr, which signifies that $100 million in funding was accrued in simply the final 10 months.
After a decade of improvement, Star Citizen is in an alpha stage and a remaining launch date for a full sport launch has but to be revealed. The alpha construct incorporates various options, starships, and places to discover, however the extremely anticipated Squadron 42 single-player marketing campaign has but to materialize. Star Citizen’s single-player journey is one which followers have been anticipating for years now and options various big-name actors within the story similar to Mark Hamill, Gary Oldman, and Gillian Anderson.
Growth hasn’t been with out controversy although, as Cloud Imperium discovered itself in hassle final yr with the UK’s Promoting Requirements Authority (ASA) for promoting ships on the market that are not playable and even viewable within the sport.
Cloud Imperium additionally started to restrict the quantity of element it shared in its roadmaps with its neighborhood, with the studio explaining that its “most passionate gamers” noticed these options as guarantees and have become more and more upset when these targets have been delayed and shifted to later dates.
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