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The amount of money Star Citizen has raised is amazing!

The amount of money Star Citizen has raised is amazing!

The brakes are so broken Star Citizen, which also manages to achieve a new huge achievement every few months. In particular, the community continues to support Cloud Imperium Games’ overly ambitious and now controversial space simulator relentlessly. Kind of like a crowdfunding title It just crossed $700 million.

More specifically, 5,242,705 players supported the team’s project, giving a total of $702,616,227, according to official figures available on the game’s website. It is worth noting that the previous figure of $600 million was reached in August 2023, as we informed you.

This means that funding for the project has increased significantly since it took the team about nine months to raise the last $100 million. In comparison, it took about eleven months for funding to go from $500 million to $600 million.

What still baffles many is that $700 million and a decade later, the game’s final release date is still uncertain. The same applies to Squadron 42, the single-player story-based project that the studio is developing in parallel.

At this point it should be noted that Star Citizen is officially The second most successful crowdfunding project everNot just in terms of gaming, but in general. Only the EOS blockchain has managed to surpass this number, raising $4 billion from its community.

For the record, Star Citizen debuted in 2012 on Kickstarter, as a spiritual successor to Chris Roberts’ beloved Wing Commander series. The game was scheduled to be released in 2014, but nearly ten years after it was first revealed, it is still in beta. This has caused tension in the community several times, with many wondering whether or not the game will actually be released.

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