Star Citizen Crowdfunding Hits $29M [Nov 23, 2013, 1:11 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
The
Roberts Space Industries website announces that the crowd-sourced
fundraising for Star Citizen as the PC space combat game has now passed
the $29 million mark. This triggers a new stretch goal, and it seems their
imaginations are losing pace with the funding, as this just promises to spend
it, as "additional funding for the Squadron 42 single–player experience," and
this new trailer
offers an explanation of the game's single-player experience. Here's word on how
fans can help with the writer's block for their next stretch goal, if it hasn't
been reached already by the time this is posted: "Now it’s time for you to pick
the $32 million stretch goal ship. We’ve removed the winner and the
lowest-performing option from the last poll. What will it be now? A massive
cargo hauler, a speedy information runner, a dedicated salvage ship? The choice
is in your hands!"
1badmf wrote on Nov 23, 2013, 16:55:
i can't believe i'm reading this. some of you honestly think that chris roberts is committing fraud!? that he's just making up numbers out of thin air to keep a lie going? an honest question - what has he done to elicit that kind of suspicion. i appreciate that fraud is an increasing problem today, but you CANNOT apply that to specific situations where all the evidence is to the contrary. it's a logical fallacy.
i mean, i get it - you guys think we fans are showering the project with undue adulation and that's your right. but then, how is it any better that you fools take a dump on the project with nary a hint of evidence? it's the same act, just at the other end of the spectrum, and a worse offense in my opinion because it's entirely negative. seriously, do you guys actually think CR is committing fraud?!? do you listen to yourselves?
The problem is that we can do math, and while 30 million is a great number for making a video game, it's still not much for what's being promised.
Sandbox games cost a fortune to make. GTA 5 cost 260 million to make and market (so probably 130 million or so to develop), and will offer a fraction of the interactivity that Star Citizen is promising.
It just seems like a gargantuan project for that amount of money. Something is inordinate here. Unless this game plans to pull an Eve Online and slowly develop over 10 years it's hard to see them launching in any reasonable amount of time.
I'm hoping they pull it off, I really do. But there's a disconnect here between promises and reality.
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