Star Citizen Website Has Now Raised Over Half A Billion {Dollars}

Star Citizen, a online game that exists as a Endlessly Promise, was first revealed to the world again in 2012 by way of a Kickstarter marketing campaign that raised $2.1 million. Within the decade since, by means of the bulletins of spin-offs, modules, in-game economies and numerous different options and half-baked concepts, the sport appears no nearer to an precise launch.

One factor it has achieved, although, is make some cash. A number of cash. As identified earlier as we speak on this put up, the sport’s official “funds raised” tracker on its web site simply ticked over the $500 million mark, and at time of posting stands at $500,089,473 raised, from 4,096,539 backers.

Half a billion {dollars}. For a online game that has been in improvement for over a decade. Have been this 5 years in the past that is the purpose the place I’d begin questioning the sport’s future, or surprise how shut it’s to being “completed”, or make some jokes. However it’s 2022, and the entire thing now’s simply…unhappy. They may have concluded a complete rattling trilogy of those video games by now if there had been an oz of correct administration, somebody on the group capable of separate the sport’s unchecked ambition from what was technologically potential then, and even now.

Star Citizen is what it’s, although, so as an alternative I’m simply going to remind you of this trailer, which was launched in 2015, whereas Obama was nonetheless President and this web site was owned by Gawker Media:

And now, to assist put the passage of time into additional context, I’m going to checklist another video video games that had been introduced in 2012

SimCityXCOM: Enemy UnknownThe Elder Scrolls OnlineZombiUCompany of Heroes 2Dead Area 3FIFA 13Resident Evil 6Crysis 3Gears of Battle: JudgementNBA 2K13Pikmin 3Rock Band Blitz