I’m proud to announce that the Star Citizen community has brought us to $21 million in crowd funding just shy of our first anniversary! Your support is now allowing the project to expand on ideas in ways we didn’t originally think possible. Every additional pledge makes Star Citizen a better experience. At the $21 million, you unlock the full salvage mechanic, which allows us to produce the assets needed to make salvaging an in-depth game mechanic akin to exploration or piracy!
- Salvage Mechanic: Salvage isn’t an aside: it’s a career, with its own mechanic, story tie-ins and universe-shaping endgames. Search the galaxy for a host of valuable and interesting secrets using both the flight and FPS components. Discover the secrets of the ancient Hadesians, locate valuable components and cargo… or go down in history the first to make contact an entirely new alien race!
In addition, we are unlocking a new $23 million goal: the addition of a Xi’an Scout as a playable asset in the game. We’ve recently begun putting together concept art of Xi’an worlds, which got us thinking about the game’s Xi’an ships: how can we make them play differently than the standard human ships? We have a few ideas and with this stretch goal we can put them into the game! In addition to alien designs and interfaces, the Xi’an craft will feature a totally different maneuvering system.
NKD wrote on Oct 9, 2013, 01:23:That's like not believing that overpriced apple products are successful. Its hit a critical mass that has a life of its own now.Creston wrote on Oct 9, 2013, 01:06:Slinkycatz wrote on Oct 8, 2013, 21:15:
Every day hundreds are signing up... it has been a slow uptick of the # of people signing up every day. It is not just the USA but all over the world.
I just don't believe that 2000 people are signing up every day for $77 a piece, and keep on doing this so day after day after week after week after month after month. Not when no other Kickstarter has gotten even anywhere near those numbers of people. Yet Roberts keeps adding a million dollars basically every week?
I'm pretty sure this is just investor money that they're pretending is crowdsourced.
I'm a Star Citizen backer, but I share your suspicions. I'm sorry, but crowd sourced titles like this follow a pretty consistent pattern with how the money comes in. You don't keep up steady and consistent gains over a long period of time.
If I had to guess, I'd say a certain amount of investor money was gained early on, and he's pretending that its rolling in slowly to keep the game in the press. Admittedly a bit of a tinfoil hat theory, but something is definitely fishy here.
Mr. Tact wrote on Oct 12, 2013, 11:42:
Ouch. Is it a good story at least?
PsychoMoggieBagpuss wrote on Oct 11, 2013, 12:24:Ouch. Is it a good story at least?
I managed to spend over $8k in one night, though that was due to being in a foreign country and putting the decimal point in the wrong place when I was converting stuff in my head
It was a good night, just not an 8k night...............
Mr. Tact wrote on Oct 9, 2013, 11:18:Verno wrote on Oct 9, 2013, 09:22:Right, there are lots of things I might spend $5k on, but would you spend $5k for an evening on the town?
I don't know, I would have no problem spending 5 grand on something I really believe in. I just don't really believe in videogames
jdreyer wrote on Oct 9, 2013, 19:27:We already made the Star Citizen's AA or SCAABadIronTree wrote on Oct 9, 2013, 08:39:That's a good point. I've actually read of a lot of people doing that.
Nothing fishy... i started with 60$ ship... then i got upgraded to the 120$ ship... then to the 250$.... After some months i got an 110$ Freelancer and a aurora LX for 25$.. then i got a Starfare for 170$
And now total i have paid for a game, that it will never been possible to have without the donations , more than 800$ total...
So most of the money come from original backers
saluk wrote on Oct 9, 2013, 14:31:
I like space. I like ships. I like flying ships in space. I like a lot of the ideas that are going in this game, it sounds like a dream. Most games that sound like a dream are merely ok - or bad. Sure, I bought into SC - I will be getting my copy of the game when it comes out. But I just don't understand why people are buying ships for a game that is far from being ready? How do you know you want that ship? You haven't been able to see how it performs in the damn game! Every MMO I've ever played nerfs and buffs the classes all the time - that's going to happen here. I mean, they look cool sitting in your hanger, but you can just look at the screenshots if you want to see how it looks. You still don't know how it's going to fly. It makes no sense to me. I wouldn't buy ships with real money in any case - buying virtual items usually rubs me the wrong way - but I REALLY don't understand buying these things on complete faith. Faith that the game warrants the expenditure, but more than that, faith that the ship is worth the cost.
BadIronTree wrote on Oct 9, 2013, 08:39:That's a good point. I've actually read of a lot of people doing that.
Nothing fishy... i started with 60$ ship... then i got upgraded to the 120$ ship... then to the 250$.... After some months i got an 110$ Freelancer and a aurora LX for 25$.. then i got a Starfare for 170$
And now total i have paid for a game, that it will never been possible to have without the donations , more than 800$ total...
So most of the money come from original backers
saluk wrote on Oct 9, 2013, 14:31:
But I just don't understand why people are buying ships for a game that is far from being ready? How do you know you want that ship?
Slinkycatz wrote on Oct 8, 2013, 21:15:NKD wrote on Oct 8, 2013, 19:10:
Where is all this money coming from?
People telling their friends about the game. The average donation is still at about $77 per person right now.
Every day hundreds are signing up... it has been a slow uptick of the # of people signing up every day. It is not just the USA but all over the world.
$23 million is what will give CIG $21 million [after PayPal/Kickstarter/Credit card companies take their cut] to make the game without needing any outside investors/publishers.
Verno wrote on Oct 9, 2013, 09:22:Right, there are lots of things I might spend $5k on, but would you spend $5k for an evening on the town?
I don't know, I would have no problem spending 5 grand on something I really believe in. I just don't really believe in videogames
NKD wrote on Oct 9, 2013, 01:23:Creston wrote on Oct 9, 2013, 01:06:Slinkycatz wrote on Oct 8, 2013, 21:15:
Every day hundreds are signing up... it has been a slow uptick of the # of people signing up every day. It is not just the USA but all over the world.
I just don't believe that 2000 people are signing up every day for $77 a piece, and keep on doing this so day after day after week after week after month after month. Not when no other Kickstarter has gotten even anywhere near those numbers of people. Yet Roberts keeps adding a million dollars basically every week?
I'm pretty sure this is just investor money that they're pretending is crowdsourced.
I'm a Star Citizen backer, but I share your suspicions. I'm sorry, but crowd sourced titles like this follow a pretty consistent pattern with how the money comes in. You don't keep up steady and consistent gains over a long period of time.
If I had to guess, I'd say a certain amount of investor money was gained early on, and he's pretending that its rolling in slowly to keep the game in the press. Admittedly a bit of a tinfoil hat theory, but something is definitely fishy here.
Tumbler wrote on Oct 8, 2013, 20:50:
I'm really close skipping the ps4 / 180 nonsense and dumping that $400+ into pc upgrades. Star Citizen is supposed to have a big sale or something on 10/10, maybe they'll have something that pushes me over the edge.
InBlack wrote on Oct 9, 2013, 04:10:
Its too fucking ambitious by far, and the whole damn thing is screaming SCAM! of some kind...
Mr. Tact wrote on Oct 9, 2013, 07:51:Slashman wrote on Oct 8, 2013, 20:34:He was probably just a troll. There are people like that (spending 5k on a night out) but not many of them, and even fewer who frequent internet gaming forums. I only wish I was one of them.
One asshat on the Egosoft forums was proud to announce that he went in at the $5000 tier. When I remarked that maybe he should have given that to charity or something, he accused me of 'not knowing how to make money' and that 5K was barely a night on the town.
loomy wrote on Oct 9, 2013, 08:15:
lol conspiracy theorists. this bunch of fox mulders have star citizen figured out
remember the guy who said nobody would buy the game because everyone interested had already donated? some people have no perspective. as if there aren't enough nerds in the world for this to make sense.
fucking bluesnews economists
Mr. Tact wrote on Oct 9, 2013, 07:51:Slashman wrote on Oct 8, 2013, 20:34:He was probably just a troll. There are people like that (spending 5k on a night out) but not many of them, and even fewer who frequent internet gaming forums. I only wish I was one of them.
One asshat on the Egosoft forums was proud to announce that he went in at the $5000 tier. When I remarked that maybe he should have given that to charity or something, he accused me of 'not knowing how to make money' and that 5K was barely a night on the town.
jdreyer wrote on Oct 9, 2013, 06:22:NKD wrote on Oct 9, 2013, 01:23:Creston wrote on Oct 9, 2013, 01:06:Slinkycatz wrote on Oct 8, 2013, 21:15:
Every day hundreds are signing up... it has been a slow uptick of the # of people signing up every day. It is not just the USA but all over the world.
I just don't believe that 2000 people are signing up every day for $77 a piece, and keep on doing this so day after day after week after week after month after month. Not when no other Kickstarter has gotten even anywhere near those numbers of people. Yet Roberts keeps adding a million dollars basically every week?
I'm pretty sure this is just investor money that they're pretending is crowdsourced.
I'm a Star Citizen backer, but I share your suspicions. I'm sorry, but crowd sourced titles like this follow a pretty consistent pattern with how the money comes in. You don't keep up steady and consistent gains over a long period of time.
If I had to guess, I'd say a certain amount of investor money was gained early on, and he's pretending that its rolling in slowly to keep the game in the press. Admittedly a bit of a tinfoil hat theory, but something is definitely fishy here.
Yeah, there's something a bit fishy with the way the money is constantly flowing in. Typically a project will have an intial spike, and then a slowly tapering tail. SC spiked and came down, but it hasn't had a tail, it's had a plateau. It's very unusual.
Slashman wrote on Oct 8, 2013, 20:34:He was probably just a troll. There are people like that (spending 5k on a night out) but not many of them, and even fewer who frequent internet gaming forums. I only wish I was one of them.
One asshat on the Egosoft forums was proud to announce that he went in at the $5000 tier. When I remarked that maybe he should have given that to charity or something, he accused me of 'not knowing how to make money' and that 5K was barely a night on the town.