No Man’s Sky is a bit scratchy now and even a whole good sci-fi survival game in which we can explore planets. A similar but more ambitious project is Star Citizen, which has long since developed its solo campaign, Squadron 42. Cloud Imperium Games has been working on this community-funded project for more than a decade, measuring hundreds of millions of dollars from backers collectively. According to the report, Star Citizen has now crossed the $400 million (!) Let’s take a look at this, as this amount of money spent on open-world science fiction rivals the budget of blockbuster movies!
However, some of the most expensive films include titles such as Pirates of the Caribbean: In Unknown Waters with a net budget of $378.5 million or the last three Avengers films with a net budget of $320-365 million. So these (roughly) $400 million movies are now on par with the most expensive video games (Red Dead Redemption 2 – about $500 million, Cybrpunk 2077 – about $316 million) on Star Citizen. The official site We can see that a total of $401,015,471 has been spent on Star Citizen so far, that’s how much the game has been backed and that there are already 3,359,542 people playing it, which is an extraordinary amount which means that a lot of people Confidence voted for him with a few odd sums for Chris Roberts and his team. Hundreds of thousands and millions of dollars in support have been received in recent days alone, although the strongest month was May 2021, when more than $13 million poured into the Imperium cloud.
Star Citizen support reached or exceeded $300 million in the first half of 2020, about a year and a half ago, and in March of this year 350 million dollars, so in just eight months, another $50 million was raised. Cloud Imperium also collects money in the form of starter packages, subscriptions and virtual spaceships, and developers take pride in communicating directly with their players, giving them exactly what they want for their money, and using the proceeds to develop Star Citizen .. True, there have been embarrassing reports in recent years about the chaos of development, which Means that Chris Roberts mismanage revenue and time, so development has been going on since 2010-2011.
Star Citizen is currently located in alpha, a Official itinerary Accordingly, update 3.16 will come at the end of the year, followed by 3.17 in the first quarter of 2022. The situation is similar to the story-focused 42 Squadron, which has not yet reached beta, but was supposed to have come out seven years ago. That way, Hollywood stars star Mark Hamill, Gary Oldman, Gillian Anderson, Andy Serkis, Ben Mendelsohn and Henry Cavill anyway.