Star Citizen Has Flown Away With $350 million In Crowdfunding Cash

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Star Citizen the upcoming massive space faring sim from Cloud Imperium Games, has clocked up more than $350 million of your cash.

After dropping a Kickstarter back in 2012 that sucked in an impressive pool of cash and crashed their own website, the team behind Star Citizen has broken yet another milestone while crowdfunding this upcoming adventure. According to the data provided on the Roberts Space Industries website, the official space for this fight n flight, Cloud Imperium Games has now broken the £350 million mark in funding. Sitting at 351,183,780 on our last check, Star Citizen looks to have blasted past the goal around sixteen months after it hit the $250million mark. While this isn’t likely to be the last time the company behind the promise of a truly awe-inspiring new space faring sim tops all our expectations, we still wonder why exactly?

Nearly a decade of development and $350 million in funding down does not mean that Star Citizen is any closer to a full release. Since it dropped on Kickstarter, the initial concept of a space faring MMO, think Elite Dangerous but more ambitious, has suffered from delays, lawsuits, and extensive feature creep. Initial ideas of a 2014 release for this title didn’t land and early roadmaps appear nowhere near accurate. The developers had to battle off a law from Crytek some years ago and Cloud Imperium kicked off development of Squadron 42, a single-player story-based campaign set in universe of Star Citizen.

While dealing with all these issues, and more, Cloud Imperium has been busy rounding up funding that mostly comes from you. With ongoing crowdfunding events, $27,000 spaceship packs, and no game in sight, I still don’t understand where the value proposition is. Me, I’m off to check in on the status of the new Elite Dangerous Odyssey update. If you’re still in the queue for Star Citizen, you can check out the latest over on the official website now.

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