Star Citizen ends crowdfunding with $6.2 million
Chris Roberts' ambitious space sim Star Citizen has completed its push for cash, gathering more than $6.2 million from Kickstarter and its official Roberts Space Industries site. The combined total makes it the largest crowdfunded game to date.
Chris Roberts' ambitious space sim Star Citizen has completed its push for cash, gathering more than $6.2 million from Kickstarter and pledges on its official Roberts Space Industries site. The combined total makes it the largest crowdfunded game to date.
The RSI site now forwards to a thank you note, with promises of further updates in a few days. "We will also be launching new sections which have been in the works for some time: the Galactapedia will tell you more about the Star Citizen world, Engineering will introduce you to game mechanics that are being planned and Holovids will offer you video footage from the game as it takes shape."
The funding, which easily surpassed the the previous crowdfunding record of $4 million that fantasy RPG Project Eternity garnered for Obsidian Entertainment, kicked into overdrive during the weekend, with an announcement late Friday that the game had passed the $4.1 million barrier. But by early today, funding had passed the $5.5 million barrier, ensuring the last stretch goal of the largest player-operated ship, the Bengal Carrier. The funding also ensures additional capital Roberts secured to fund the game, which will be specifically aimed at high-end PCs.
In case you missed it, the development team at Cloud Imperium Games released two more soundless work-in-progress videos, the first showing how the concept art for the spaceport was evolving in-game, and the second giving a little more of a glimpse of the game's AI.
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Chris Roberts' ambitious space sim Star Citizen has completed its push for cash, gathering more than $6.2 million from Kickstarter and its official Roberts Space Industries site. The combined total makes it the largest crowdfunded game to date.-
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I second this motion
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Holy mother of christ.. motion carried!
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I can't wait for the dogfighting alpha next year.
I also noticed, that unless you pledged, you won't get access to the Roberts Space Industries website until much closer to release in 2014.
Sounds like they're trying to create a tight-knit community page just for pledgers. (all 90,000 of them)
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Sadly 90,000 unit sales of a game today is still considered a bomb by publishers.. ;(
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It's more that its difficult to sell 90k copies and end up not losing money. It's pretty easy to burn through cash trying to hit the art and feature bar that people want out of a game. Those 90k copies through steam would be maybe half of the money they've currently just rasied on Kickstarter.
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Less than a quarter, actually. Think about it, some people are pledging $10k. Nobody does that for a single game through Steam, nor is is possible.
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Oh I'm not bagging on the accomplishment at all! I'm very excited about it, I'm just lamenting the fact that today's publishers consider 90k in sales a bomb.. ;(
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If Star Citizen delivers the goods, the'll get all the publicity that a AAA title earns from major review outlets. That will drive more traffic to their site, which means more copies solid and a higher return on their investment.
Also, they'll need fewer sales beyond the original 90k to be considered a hit, because they're cutting out the middlemen. Fewer hands dipping into the coffers means more funds for building the game, and organic publicity/hype means they don't need to spend as much -- if any -- money to get the same attention that a high-profile, high cost AAA title would require just to break even.
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Kickstarted games are still sold through traditional means after they are created. The bulk of actual sales will hopefully come when the game is finished.
That's not 90k sales. It's 90k pre-orders averaging almost $70 per person.
90k is pretty damn good for pre-sales for a product that doesn't exist, couldn't get "normal" funding, and sold through unusual means (Kickstarter as opposed to a video game retailer).
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X-Wing and TIE Fighter are dead. That series has been ruined by the prequels. We just need to wait and see if the new movies warrant a revival.
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i feel like even if they released equivalently good space sims, but they were prequel / "new" lucasarts universe stuff, they wouldn't be as good for us old fucks
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It started as one and then they switch it out after they zoom back in.
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When your ship get exploded in the game you get it back minus any upgrades you did to the stock hull.
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Normally you get it included with a new ship for a number of months and then you have to pay for it or you lose your ship when you die.
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I think the RSI site is still open if you want to support it (get in early) because they had some technical issues the past day. This will probably only be for the next day or so.
https://www.robertsspaceindustries.com/star-citizen/
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Odd that this game would have cost $20 million to make 10 years ago.
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...Prophecy was actually pretty fun.
I did like it. Please don't hurt me.
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So why exactly do I need to buy ships for a sp game? are they not unlockable? do i permanently lose them when i die?
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The single player portion seems like your typical space sim campaign. Its the online portion that will have 1 master server and the ability to host your own server that utilizes insurance and such. When your online ship is destroyed, you need to buy a new one or have insurance replace your old one.
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I think it will be comparable. They're very similar games. But whether it will be as good remains to be seen. Freespace was in many regards more sophisticated than Wing Commander, but at the same time, it was kind of a natural progression from Wing Commander. Maybe the original Quake and the first Unreal game would be a fair comparison. If Star Citizen will be a copy of Wing Commander I don't think it will be as good. It would be too simplistic, with far too much cheese. It needs to be a reimagining. Like Freespace it needs to take it's original concept and take it a few steps further, in writing, design, complexity. Personally I have hopes it will be as good, or better.
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