Star Citizen expected to reach $100 million in funding
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Wing Commander, and more recently Star Citizen creator Chris Roberts recently delivered his BAFTA Masterclass presentation in Los Angeles and via Twitch, revealing target launch dates for each phase of the game. As reported by Polygon, the beta programs for the game's first-person shooter and planetside components are due this spring, followed by arena commander 2.0 ships in summer. Additionally, the first episode of the story-based Squadron 42 single-player campaign will arrive this fall, with the backers-only alpha program for the persistent universe part of the game due by the end of the year. Roberts expects that Star Citizen will see its commercial launch in 2016.
The designer discussed the community engagement and crowdfunding efforts of the space simulation game, noting that the developer is "now close to $70 million, and it's likely the carry-on will probably be over $100 by the time the game is close to public release." Roberts stressed that Star Citizen's crowdfunding efforts "isn't really about the money," but rather "it's really about bringing people in to create this community and have them sort of share that experience with you as you're building it."
The game is on the top of the list of the highest funded crowdfunding projects. With all this money invested I have enormous expectations for this game. Saw LevelCapGaming talking about this game in one of his videos. I'm definitely buying it.
One positive here is that they are much further along with development when giving out timeline/schedules this time. Its possible they have a much clearer and realistic picture of release dates.
That is a lot of money but I have heard good things about the game so it will be interesting to see what they will do to the game with the money once they have it.
OhDiegoCosta How can they say this "isn't really about the money"? Of course it is. The whole community building idea is just to make crowdfunding sound less commercial
This game is funded by the community. No business backers with AD placement. The money you invest gets you in game items. If you don't like it, don't invest. But until you can launch a game project and get 70+Mil in backers in just a couple years, don't act
As for me: I just bought a $45 game pack! Can't wait till it's fully out. This game will be amazing. It already is, and it's only in beta.
Most of you havent heard of it because you mainly play on the consoles and not the PC. Most PC gamers I know of have heard of it so that probably why you guys havent heard of it.
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