![]() This article was first published in Hardware Zone. Considering the game is still making this amount of money nine years into development, one can safely assume that Cloud Imperium Games are in no rush to push it out to the public yet. For Star Atlas development, they have partnered with Sperasoft studios, an AAA game dev studio that. Conflicts of interest only happen if there are people in both teams of Star Citizen and Star Atlas at the same time. The Kickstarter campaign, which ended on November 19. Different teams, different goals, different target audiences. Between a Kickstarter campaign and direct contributions Cloud Imperium Games has now raised 9,061,882 for its space simulation Star Citizen. A playable beta for the game was planned for launch last year. Star Atlas is completely different to Star Citizen. Star Citizen currently exists in an early access/alpha state, with no confirmed release date. With this US$400 million, Cloud Imperium Games have officially raised 200 times the amount of money they sought in the original Kickstarter campaign. These ships and upgrades technically don’t exist yet, which means that players are pre-ordering items for a game that hasn’t come out yet. Most of the raised money comes from pledges made via the game’s website, which collects player donations, payment for merchandise and in-game equipment like ships and upgrades. As the years roll by, developer Cloud Imperium Games have continued to announce new content coming to the game - including but not limited to ships that cost real-world money, new game modes and an extensive single-player campaign starring Hollywood A-listers like Henry Cavill, Gary Oldman, Mark Hamill and more. This has been a fascinating game development cycle to watch. The game still has no release date, by the way. The game has just reached a new crowdfunding milestone, raising over US$400 million (S$547 million) from 3,371,873 players at the time of writing. The Kickstarter-backed sci-fi game Star Citizen has been in development since 2012, and somehow still continues to make boatloads of money despite never getting released. ![]()
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