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Star Citizen, the Cloud Imperium Games-developed space sim and role-playing game, is continuing to hit massive crowd-funding milestones. Less than a year after the company touted $600 million raised via its community for the game's ongoing development, the $700 million mark has officially been passed.


The confirmation arrives from the company's own funding tracker, which happily displays "700,461,674" dollars raised at the time of writing. The tracker's built-in timeline also shows a sharp uptick in funds raised during the past couple of weeks. This is also when the game kicked off its latest free-to-play event, offering non-backers access to the title's persistent universe as well as almost any ship to fly during the trial. On May 25 alone, the title raised almost three million dollars.

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[feynoob]

Best scam game. Idiots still putting money on this game.

 

[NecrosaroIII]

Is Star Citizen even a real game.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

"what you even do in this game?"

if you know, you know

 

[Laptop1991]

It's never officially coming out.

 

[Gamerguy84]

Can't wait until it becomes the first 1 billion game. Kylie Jenner of games.

 

[LavitzSlambert]

This new scam as a service business model is really working for them.

 

[AJUMP23]

Does that mean squadron 42 will release soon?

 

[Gideon]

Best scam game. Idiots still putting money on this game.

How are the people calling this a scam always the first in the thread?

 

[Seider]

I dont care about Star Citizen.

 

[Frwrd]

Please become real... Even if it's something close to it...

 

[CrustyBritches]

I only ever wanted Squadron 42.

 

[ReyBrujo]

Tommy Tallarico must be proud.

 

[Coconutt]

 

[Ribi]

Good for them.

Meanwhile spider man 2 with a reused city and engine cost 300mil and GTA costs about as much an takes as long and no one complains.

 

[feynoob]

How are the people calling this a scam always the first in the thread?

I am still waiting to play this ghost space game.

 

[Ribi]

It's never officially coming out.

Shit ton of games "officially" come out and are clearly early access games or gimped. Officially released means jack fucking shit to a GAAS. And yes I'm looking at you NMS and SOT

 

[Topher]

Is Star Citizen even a real game.

Yes. It's just been in Alpha status forever. People play it all the time though.

 

[Dr. Claus]

Yes. It's just been in Alpha status forever. People play it all the time though.

Barely functional, with tons of bugs, glitches, and other issues. But don’t worry, they will announce a new ship coming out in a few months for 499.99 for those who wish to fund even more money into Robert’s new yacht. I hear he and Richard Garriot have some crazy parties.

 

[Topher]

Barely functional, with tons of bugs, glitches, and other issues. But don’t worry, they will announce a new ship coming out in a few months for 499.99 for those who wish to fund even more money into Robert’s new yacht. I hear he and Richard Garriot have some crazy parties.

Wish it were not the case, but you are correct. If it isn't the people paying a ridiculous amount of money for ships then its the "backers" who just give money for nothing. RSI has little incentive to actually make money selling the game.

Like others have said, I just wanted Squadron 42.

 

[tusharngf]

 

[WX3]

I gave these guys $100 like seven years ago, and let me tell you, the five hours I have played the game was money well spent.

 

[amigastar]

They would get my money if they would release and finish the Singleplayer campaign already.

 

[Majormaxxx]

In the words of Taylor Swift,

We are never ever getting the game.

 

[Ribi]

In the words of Taylor Swift,

We are never ever getting the game.

Still free to play until tomorrow

 

[Hawking Radiation]

I gave these guys $100 like seven years ago, and let me tell you, the five hours I have played the game was money well spent.

We all know what Chris is doing with this money

 

[newtypepilot]

the scam that never ends.

Always promising new features so they never have to a release a final product. The perpetual goal post shifting. The best part is manipulating the suckers with sunk cost fallacy and making them think it's not a scam at all.

 

[poppabk]

Seeing as a free weekend caused a big uptick in funds, the game must be doing something right.

 

[Hawking Radiation]

I only ever wanted Squadron 42.

They gotta show something soon. I mean this game was meant to release in 20 fucking 14.

 

[Topher]

They gotta show something soon. I mean this game was meant to release in 20 fucking 14.

never gets old

 

[Danjin44]

Shit ton of games "officially" come out and are clearly early access games or gimped. Officially released means jack fucking shit to a GAAS. And yes I'm looking at you NMS and SOT

Star Citizen is a GaaS game?

 

[E-Cat]

Wait, this game isn't Starfield??

 

[Topher]

Star Citizen is a GaaS game?

Games as a Scam?

sorry.....couldn't help it

 

[bitbydeath]

Good for them.

Meanwhile spider man 2 with a reused city and engine cost 300mil and GTA costs about as much an takes as long and no one complains.

That 300M figure included costs from all their projects, which we know at that time they were already working on:

Ratchet and Clank;
Spider-Man 2
Venom
Wolverine
X-Men
(Possibly Spider-Man 3 as well)

 

[Buggy Loop]

Good for them.

Meanwhile spider man 2 with a reused city and engine cost 300mil and GTA costs about as much an takes as long and no one complains.

Isn’t GTA 6 going over $2B ?

 

[Buggy Loop]

They gotta show something soon. I mean this game was meant to release in 20 fucking 14.

2014 demo was cute in retrospect



Hiding the loading with flash out and on rail landing. Almost Starfield but better actually than a pure loading screen.

2015 crytek found the tech for seamless space to planet loading and it was too much of a leap in technology for the MMO to just send SQ42 with the old tech.

Now the tech..



And last year Citizencon SQ42



They implemented half of the tech showcased at Citizencon into Star Citizen 6 months later, and the rest of features in coming patches, with 4.0 in Q3 that has server meshing. All the tech at Citizencon was tech that was used to make SQ42 as it is in that trailer. Well without server stuff obviously as it’s offline. That means the team is shifting from single player to MMO.

Big announcement for SQ42 at this year’s Citizencon in October.

Star Citizen is a GaaS game?

MMO are inherently “gaas” before the word was even invented. World of Warcraft , Eve online, etc. Boot up Eve online today compared to what it was a decade ago and it’s vastly different. Counter-strike, DOTA 2, Team Fortress 2 is gaas. A handful of bad gaas games and gamers flipping tables put the word gaas as some fucking devil or something. Getting tiring. It’s like I would call every jRPG fans a weeb. Large scale generalizing.

 

[Spukc]

Stupid shit seems to work

 

[VolticArchangel]

Does that mean squadron 42 will release soon?

I only ever wanted Squadron 42.

They said feature complete back in CitizenCon last October. So, more like 3 years from then, around CitizenCon 2026 announcing a release date, should be the bare minimum going by their dev speed.

As for Star Citizen, expect a feature complete 1.0, somewhere around 2033/34, just to be on the safer side.

 

[Ribi]

Isn’t GTA 6 going over $2B ?

Shh you can't say that because people don't care about its budget or feature creep of the engine like horse balls

 

[Ozzy Onya A2Z]

I have interest in one game and a passing interest in the tech of the other. It's been so long I don't even remember if I ever backed this thing or not. It's getting there............ . .. . .. . . . .. . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . .. .. . ...

 

[Cyberpunkd]

How are the people calling this a scam always the first in the thread?

 

[Jinzo Prime]

This new scam as a service business model is really working for them.

SAAS.

 

[hybrid_birth]

Waste of money. Someone should crowdfund a Lost odyssey remake instead. Would cost less. Since Microsoft doesn't want to pay for it.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

Chris Roberts is amazing at raising money. I wonder if he'll ever finish the game or if he just plans to keep developing it until he dies so he can live off the free money for the rest of his natural life

 

[Zathalus]

Actually tried the game over the free weekend. I'll give it one thing, it is clearly on a scale no other game can match. Certainly not a scam, but probably mismanaged quite heavily.

 

[Utherellus]

You get up from the bed, travel on a bullet train through the megalopolis covering entire planet, get in your ship and fly with Mach 2 to the upper layers of atmosphere.

Then you engage quantum drive and observe how in-game object actually accelerates to sub-C speeds as it travels through millions of actual kilometers as distant dot flickering is transforming to another planet.

Idfk about overused jokes or mind gymnastics. Deep down your hearts you all know that they achieved unprecedented things. Things that are genuinely interesting and exciting to interact with.

In an industry of dried-out innovation and flash graphical conveyor belts, would you preferred us not to have such unique messy phenomenon?

 

[manfestival]

You get up from the bed, travel on a bullet train through the megalopolis covering entire planet, get in your ship and fly with Mach 2 to the upper layers of atmosphere.

Then you engage quantum drive and observe how in-game object actually accelerates to sub-C speeds as it travels through millions of actual kilometers as distant dot flickering is transforming to another planet.

This happens to me everytime I login and stopped bothering till maybe one day. People that hype it make me laugh

 

[b0uncyfr0]

Has anyone ever litigated anything against these guys? Surely there has to be deadline for this bullshit.

 

[TVexperto]

• They can’t make an UI
• They can’t make a flight model (flying stuff is supposed to be core gameplay)
• JPG sold years ago becoming obsolete before release because of scammy power creep marketing
• New ambitious JPG added to 10 year old backlog
• Revision of core gameplay mechanics promised years ago to appease fomo marketing team
• Disastrous performances as usual
• …

Wonderful project!!! People supporting this shit show are pathetic.

 

[Paasei]

Soon the whales show up in this thread to defend the fuck out of it, because they spent over 10k on this and really don't want to acknowledge their bad decision.