Star Citizen Raises $600 Million, Still No Release Date
Now, we've reached new heights, as Star Citizen has just reached the $600 million mark. No, it still doesn't have a release date. This amount was raised by 4,760,845 backers, or "Star Citizens", who have successfully brought its crowdfunding well over the half-a-billion mark. The project already had the most successful crowdfunding of all time, so this is just another record broken by the team over at Cloud Imperium Games.
This news was spotted on the website for Star Citizen and its single-player spin-off, Squadron 42. Here, we can see that $600,019,451 has been raised at the time of writing. This is well above any of the stretch goals, with the last one being $65,000,000. It doesn't seem that there will be anything extra for reaching this new milestone, other than the fact that it gives Cloud Imperium Games more money to play around with.
This amount also helps Star Citizen maintain its huge lead for the most expensive game to develop of all time. It's now almost double of second place Cyberpunk 2077's budget, coming at $357 million. Even the budget for The Last of Us Part 2, which shocked many fans recently, falls behind at $249 million.
Without stretch goals, ongoing crowdfunding efforts are helped by the fact that the team is charging around $52 for Star Citizen's early access. It's not clear how many fans are optionally donating on top of this, but its followers are remarkably dedicated, so we can't rule that out.
Outside of this fanbase, however, it's projects like Star Citizens that had long given Kickstarter games a poor reputation. While Star Citizen may be the most infamous, since many assume it will never launch, those that did manage to stick to a release date didn't fare much better. From Mighty No. 9 to Yooka-Laylee, a slew of disappointing releases tarnished the idea of funding games through services like Kickstarter. It took hits like Undertale, Divinity: Original Sin and Shovel Knight to salvage the practice. Now, many titles opt for Early Access if they can, such as Baldur's Gate 3.
It remains to be seen if Star Citizen gets a release date anytime soon. As for now, neither that nor Squadron 42 have a launch window, but there are updates over on the developer's YouTube channel.
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