Star Citizen shows no signs of slowing down, in terms of raising dollars for players In fact, last year might have been the biggest year for a refunded game.
Group data shared in the background Star Citizen it turns out that it shows that the multigame project has received an estimated $ 47.7 million from fundraising in 2019. That is a 26% increase over the previous year. Combined with $ 46 million in private investment from 2018, creator Chris Roberts and his team at Roberts Space Industries (RSI) have raised an estimated $ 131.5 million over the past two years.
RSI m aintains the performance of its cashback earnings on its website
RSI declined to confirm the payment of Polygon's $ 47.7 million cash collection. Statement made in December acknowledged that the company had a “record-breaking” funding year.
Launched as a Kickstarter campaign in 2012, i Star Citizen The project has two main products. The first, called the Persistent Universe (PU), is a MMO-like feeling that is currently being played, albeit imperfectly, before alpha. The second, single-player game Square 42, is expected to enter beta later this year and will include the acting skills of Mark Hamill, Gillian Anderson, Henry Cavill, and others. Both products are for sale at The RSI website, where you can get into action there as little as $ 45.
RSI sells more than just games, though. It also offers star ships for the first time, some of which cost $ 100. It is through the sale of these ships that a large amount of RSI is received – self-reported $ 267 million to date
The Star Citizen The project remains the largest fundraising project of any kind, for any purpose. To put things in perspective, you understand that there were 380 successful Kickstarters videos in 2019 that put together a good figure of $ 16.3 million. Star Citizen he has received almost three times as much money in the past year.
New features coming to the PU in the future include real persistence between sessions, allowing players to keep the goods they buy – such as clothes and weapons – after they come out. RSI also plans to add a multiplayer mode for 40 players. Combined new arms mode, called the battle theater, looks like a classic Warfield franchise, with two teams of players fighting each other by competing over a competing field.
