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Star Citizen Funding Crosses $250 Million - MMORPG.com

SystemSystem Member UncommonPosts: 12,599
edited December 2019 in News & Features Discussion

imageStar Citizen Funding Crosses $250 Million - MMORPG.com

Funding for Star Citizen has now crossed $250 million as advertised by RSI recently.

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  • foxgirlfoxgirl Member RarePosts: 485
    It is time! Time for chuckles to send himself into space and then fold the company to start another project.
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  • NorseGodNorseGod Member EpicPosts: 2,654
    edited December 2019
     
    "Last Stage" lol
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  • newbismxnewbismx Member UncommonPosts: 276
    edited December 2019
    with 1 dollar being worth 5 in terms of development for SC vs traditional publishers (per Chris Roberts) - This is now the equivalent of  1 and a 1/4 Billion Dollar game.
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  • AmatheAmathe Member LegendaryPosts: 7,630
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  • ThaneThane Member EpicPosts: 3,534
    edited December 2019
    well, if they actually manage to sync all those different clients into one game some day, i will try to find out how much of the game i can actually play, without buying spaceships or whatnot for real money (and just buying "the game")

    but i guess whatever happens, this game can't be much of a failure anymore, on a finance base

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  • WhiteLanternWhiteLantern Member RarePosts: 3,309
    I think I saw that they raised 9m last month alone. Are people still giving them money?!?
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  • NorseGodNorseGod Member EpicPosts: 2,654
    edited December 2019
    @ShankTheTank You're wrong. 2.4 million have not funded this game. They are counting all those registrations from all those Free Fly Events, multiple times per year for over 7 years, regardless if they spent money.

    IMO, 2.4 million people trying a game over a 7 year period of time is not impressive. For example, how many millions registered in the first day Crimson Desert was announced? Well, it was more than SC can do in 7 years.

    What is impressive, is the amount of money they have raised and all the many ways to make even more money, than to finish an actual game.

    So my question to you is, Roberts can make $250 Billion dollars and still not release a game, how is that good for the gaming community?
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  • SpiiderSpiider Member RarePosts: 1,135
    No need to ever have a cash shop, price tag on a game or sub. This game should be free for 250 million donated by the community.

    Yet it will not be. It will be a cash grab played by niche crowd. I doubt it will be played by more than 20k active people.
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  • blazingcutblazingcut Member UncommonPosts: 65
    As much as i hate how stupid and ridiculous the whole project is, i must give props and applaud the management of this company, for their ability to continue successfully scam people for their money..and it works
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  • TillerTiller Member LegendaryPosts: 11,163
    edited December 2019
    This picture gets me every time..





    "Hey guys lets play pretend..I has a ship"
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  • NorseGodNorseGod Member EpicPosts: 2,654
    Tiller said:
    This picture gets me every time..





    "Hey guys lets play pretend..I has a ship"
                                                        /


    I always think he's holding a slice of pizza.
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  • Tuor7Tuor7 Member RarePosts: 982
    Looks good. But will it ever play good?
  • AeanderAeander Member LegendaryPosts: 7,836
    The quickest way to make Star Citizen release is to stop buying ships. 
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  • KyleranKyleran Member LegendaryPosts: 43,498
    Aeander said:
    The quickest way to make Star Citizen release is to stop buying ships. 
    Well clearly that's never gonna happen....

    Perhaps it never will release?

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  • klash2defklash2def Member EpicPosts: 1,949
    As the legendary Ron Burgundy would say:

    Actually I'm not even mad, that's amazing.
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  • foxgirlfoxgirl Member RarePosts: 485

    Tiller said:

    This picture gets me every time..







    "Hey guys lets play pretend..I has a ship"
                                                        /






    You too can come play toy planes with me!
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  • Viper482Viper482 Member LegendaryPosts: 4,064
    Screw this crook
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  • TillerTiller Member LegendaryPosts: 11,163
    edited December 2019

    NorseGod said:


    Tiller said:

    This picture gets me every time..







    "Hey guys lets play pretend..I has a ship"
                                                        /





    I always think he's holding a slice of pizza.



    Pizza, yes, but wait...I'm gonna photoshop something else into his hand....brb
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  • LukzfreshLukzfresh Member UncommonPosts: 125
    It’s clear some of the money was stolen along the way... regardless of when the game is released.
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  • mcrippinsmcrippins Member RarePosts: 1,626
    I'm confused. Been playing this for the last week or so with a friend, and we've been having a good time. I understand that there's a ways to go regarding development, but technically the game is already in a playable state. There are missions to do and ships to fly, and I gotta say, it's a beautiful fkn game.

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  • vegetableoilvegetableoil Member RarePosts: 768

    Lukzfresh said:

    It’s clear some of the money was stolen along the way... regardless of when the game is released.



    Actually forbes has documentation of it, if I'm not mistaken they develop the game in cryengine in 2012 and then scrap everything 2016 and move it to lumberyard because cryengine is bad for multiplayer games "Looks pretty but shit for multiplayer" 4 years development money down to the toilet The closest thing for Star citizen having "diarrhea", later they get sued by crytek because when migrating they use some of the assets from cryengine, more money down the toilet. I don't think this is the end.
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  • gervaise1gervaise1 Member EpicPosts: 6,919
    edited December 2019

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    Actually forbes has documentation of it, if I'm not mistaken they develop the game in cryengine in 2012 and then scrap everything 2016 and move it to lumberyard because cryengine is bad for multiplayer games "Looks pretty but shit for multiplayer" 4 years development money down to the toilet The closest thing for Star citizen having "diarrhea", later they get sued by crytek because when migrating they use some of the assets from cryengine, more money down the toilet. I don't think this is the end.

    You are mistaken.  Long running thread on it and other stuff surrounding it - now closed.

    In a nutshell:
    Early development     = CryEngine 4.x (or whatever it was) + RSI developed code
    Current development = Lumberyard + RSI own code

    However since Amazon "bought" CryEngine 4.x (the exact same version whatever the number was to which they started adding their own stuff:

    Current development = CryEngine 4.x (or whatever version) + Amazon own stuff + RSI own stuff.

    The whole change over took - something like - a couple of days for a couple of people.

    The benefits were access to all the other tools / engines that Amazon have incorporated into Lumberyard along with thousands of bug fixes to the CryEngine code. And presumably financial benefits. So no they didn't scrap 4 years of work and it looks like a smart move.

    Maybe you misread the Forbes article - or it was simply wrong or designed for clicks like the 2017 one about them being out of money (clearly wrong).




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  • ThaneThane Member EpicPosts: 3,534
    vegetableoil said:

    Lukzfresh said:

    It’s clear some of the money was stolen along the way... regardless of when the game is released.



    Actually forbes has documentation of it, if I'm not mistaken they develop the game in cryengine in 2012 and then scrap everything 2016 and move it to lumberyard because cryengine is bad for multiplayer games "Looks pretty but shit for multiplayer" 4 years development money down to the toilet The closest thing for Star citizen having "diarrhea", later they get sued by crytek because when migrating they use some of the assets from cryengine, more money down the toilet. I don't think this is the end.
    aaaactually, i think they got sued just because they switched and didn't continue developing the game in cryengine

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  • NorseGodNorseGod Member EpicPosts: 2,654
    Let's discuss the engine when they actually manage to finish building one.
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  • Spriggen1337Spriggen1337 Member UncommonPosts: 276
    edited December 2019
    bad choices made by roberts in this game you can just tell he is just indulging in the kickstarter money!
    seriously this game coulda been out a long time ago but he keeps tacking on things that coulda been developed post launch like elite dangerous and eve do i really hope this game tanks hard because of what it has done to players! i mean last gameplay i saw rubber banding of everything (ships players objects) and the gun play is kinda poop!
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