Star Citizen cracks $8 million mark from crowdfunding
By Tim Colwill on February 18, 2013 at 9:02 am
If you’re one of the many who donated to Star Citizen, either through the Kickstarter or through the funding drive on the website, congratulations! Thanks to you, the game has now blasted through $8 million in funding, and if it wasn’t already the biggest crowdfunding game on record then, well, it sure as hell is now.
The announcement means that Star Citizen has actually gained another $1.75 million since the Kickstarter campaign closed in November — which must no doubt somewhat upset some of the other Kickstarters which have (Kick)started and failed in that intervening time. More than $500,000 has been raised in the last two weeks alone.
“The amount of support we are seeing from our fans is nothing short of amazing,” claimed Roberts in a press release. “Our backers are totally connecting with the development team and it just gets them so excited to come in to the office every day and work to make the next great space sim.”
Source: Massively
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Well they deserved it. If they manage to do everything they said they wanted to do then Star Citizen will be king of all games and hopefully set a new bar in the industry.
Take that EA/Activision… :P
I guess with people doing the monthly subs (like me), it just keeps going up and up. Nice job.
Expectations on this game are very, very high, hopefully the expectations of the backers doesn’t hit the “epic” ceiling where they will be unfulfilled on it’s release because expectations were held too high.
Great to see a game like this getting worked on though, brings back memories of the good ol’ days of PC gaming.