A new episode of
10 for the Chairman on the Roberts Space Industries website answers further
questions about development of
Star Citizen, RSI's upcoming space combat remake.
Also, there's more to the
$41 Million funding announcement that we
noted last
night where Chris explains that they have no intention of selling out to a
bigger company and disappointing their backers
like
some crowd-funded projects have:
Now to answer the myriad forum threads
that popped up worrying about the possibility of Cloud Imperium being acquired
by another, bigger company – don’t worry! We have no plans nor interest in
following this path! We don’t need to go to anyone with deep pockets to make OUR
dream a reality. To mass-produce hardware like the Rift, you need an outlay of
hundreds of millions of dollars. Luckily our ships are digital so we have hardly
any cost of goods, just the cost of developing the universe of Star Citizen and
running servers that Star Citizen’s universe will be simulated on. Thanks to the
generosity of the Star Citizen community we have these two things covered
And last but not least I’m having way to much fun building the universe of my
dreams for everyone to adventure in! I’ve been down the big company acquisition
route twice before and there’s a reason I am making Star Citizen totally
independently!