Star Citizen has now raised over $700 million based on figures from developer Cloud Imperium Video games.
The developer behind the controversial area sim makes income publicly accessible on its website, which at the time of this text’s publication reveals Star Citizen has raised $701,186,615. CIG calls this cash “funds raised.”
CIG even breaks down the income by latest months, weeks, and hours. At its lowest level on the morning of Could 28, Star Citizen introduced in $42,886 in a single hour, about $1.5 million yesterday, Could 27, $10,883,513 final week, and $4,753,264 for the month of April (issues seem to have picked up significantly in Could after the launch of the Alpha 3.23: Journey Beckons replace).
Star Citizen is taken into account considered one of the most controversial initiatives in all video video games. Over the 12 years since its crowdfunding drive started, it has been known as many issues together with a rip-off by those that ponder whether it would ever correctly launch. Its digital area ships, a few of which value lots of of {dollars}, are sometimes the focus of criticism.
Alpha 3.23 launched two months after CIG started speaking about Star Citizen’s 1.0 launch being close by, over a decade after the recreation launched its first crowdfunding drive. CIG chief Chris Roberts has mentioned 2024 will see the launch of Star Citizen Alpha 4.0, and that the developer is working to carry options developed for Squadron 42, the standalone story-based recreation starring the likes of Mark Hamill and Gillian Anderson, to the persistent universe portion of the recreation “at an accelerated fee”.
That is all constructing as much as Star Citizen 1.0, which, Roberts has mentioned, “is what we contemplate the options and content material set to characterize ‘industrial’ launch.” Nevertheless, there may be nonetheless no launch date and even launch window for Star Citizen 1.0. CIG will share the roadmap later this 12 months, it has mentioned.
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