Star Citizen: The money slag

Star Citizen is a huge multiply and multiplayer video game in first individual that is presently being developed for Microsoft Windows and also Linux by Cloud Imperial Games, a company founded in 2011 by Chris Roberts (Works Developer such as Wing Commander or Freelancer and also Movie Manufacturer) As Well As by Or twin Frankenmuth. The task was revealed by Roberts in a GDC in October 2012 as an ambitious computer game that would be moneyed through crowdfunding as a result of impossibility and also restrictions in typical publishing companies. The title existed as a video game based upon previous works from Chris, such as Wing Leader as well as Freelancer, appropriate to contemporary times. Nonetheless, many thanks to the wonderful passion as well as development of budget to fund the task it ended up being divided in the MMO Star Citizen and also the project of a Squadron player 42. Also, the success in funding considerably expanded pledges, goals and complexity of development, which has triggered no main launch day. In 2020 Cloud Imperial Gaming has actually elevated even more than $300,000,000 in financial investment and uses approximately 630 programmers around the globe in research studies found in Los Angeles, Austin, Frankfurt, Wilson/ Derby and Montreal. All this has turned into one of the Most ambitious computer game in history. Star Citizen is presently in Very early Access condition as well as obtains quarterly patches with new web content as well as functions. Access to this Alpha version is attained via a ship pack that includes access to the video clip game. In April 2021 ICC publishes the latest version of its Roadmap come with by the Development Tracker device, with the feature of showing even more in-depth details about the Tasks as well as developers involved in them. To Chris Roberts, Optimum in charge of CIG, stated that no launch dates for Armada 42 will now much longer be published, at the same time that he asserted not to publish neighboring dates for Star Citizen, if there is no certainty that will be introduced with their ended up web content, according to the Assumptions and polishing.

The Space Game Star Citizen has collected more than $400 million since the start of the crowdfunding campaign, since we have even arrived at almost $420 million. This shows that people believe in the vision of Chris Roberts and his team and that, although there are no signs of a speedy release to this day, let alone a fixed date for this.

How does the rapid growth come from?

Just 18 months ago, Star Citizen has cracked the 300 million dollar brand. Now the game has managed to collect $20 million in a few weeks. What are possible reasons for this?

After crowdfunding has reached its low in July of this year, the revenue has since risen then. Alone in the last week, $11,526,084 of US dollars have been added.

The timeline clearly shows a correlation between the release of updates and the increase of money. With the publication of the new Alpha 3.15 on 10.11. The revenue has increased rapidly. This circumstance was further favored by the ability to try the game between 19 November and December 1 for free.

The latest update has already received especially much praise from the community and the next update, the Alpha 3.16, should appear before the new year.

From KW 44 to 47, so after the release of Alpha 3.15, the weekly yield for the developers of Cloud Empire has simply twisted more than.

A further reason for the increase could be that Star Citizen may also benefit from the large flops of competition, such as the bug-solid Battlefield 2042 or the highest embarrassment Grand Theft Auto Trilogy. Many players are frustrated and looking for a game for holidays. Since the space adventure comes as called.

In this overview, you will receive a summary about the state of the game.

Where is Star Citizen just?

We have the last time with the big update of the Alpha 3.14 the game took a closer look at. The long-term plan of Roberts is still the construction of a huge universe. In Roberts Universe you should be able to land on stations, moons and even planets, all there are already in similar games like Elite Dangerous. Currently, however, only the persistent universe exists in Star Citizen, this condition should come closest to the finished game.

The only planetary system currently available is Stanton. This represents a kind of pattern for the rest of the universe and should give an insight that the finished game should look like. Update 3.14 is a milestone, after all, the last planet a gas giant — made into the game. Thus, there are currently four planets and twelve moons in the game. That has nothing to do with a huge universe.

In addition, the update new Gameplay mechanics brought into play. This includes, for example, a revised power management system, which allows you to put more energy into the debt, weapons or on the drive depending on the situation. In addition, the rocket control was improved, so you can now control your arsenal even more precisely.

Furthermore, the ship model Constellation Taurus was revised, and all ships received a new interface. Further small and large improvements can be found in our special.

Since that has passed a little time and meanwhile already Alpha 3.15 appeared. Further updates should follow at the beginning of next year.

What about Squadron 42?

Squadron 42 should be the single player campaign from Star Citizen. Robert's vision is the creation of a campaign that sets new standards. For this, world-famous actors like Mark Hamill, known from his role as Luke Skywalker, were brought to the boat. On your website, the developers of Cloud Imperial write the following:

Since Squadron 42 is in active development, you have the unique way to pursue the process with the team. Get regular status updates [...]

This statement is almost laughing, considering that the last update to the campaign is almost three years ago. This is probably due, among other things, that the developers already announced last year that they will not show any other gameplay until shortly before the release. There are no official indications when it will finally be so far.

We will continue to keep you up to date on what the development of Star Citizen is concerned. What do you think of Star Citizen? Are you supporters of the crowdfunding campaign?

From Marc Schmidt author & Lukas Schmidt Editorial manager 30.11.2021 at 14:16