It is an indisputable fact that millions of dollars are returned in the gaming industry. Most of the productions released as of 2022 are being developed with astonishing budgets. Of course, these are valid for games that are backed by giant companies such as Rockstar Games, Activision and EA. Since these companies have proven themselves, they do not make the slightest financial constraint in the development process, and they easily get their return with sales figures.
Apart from this, there are also companies that do not have financial power like the companies we mentioned above and instead try to do something with the donations they receive from the players. However, there is such a company called Cloud Imperium Games that the amount of donations it has collected for the game Star Citizen, which it announced in 2012 and has been in development for 10 years, is both astonishing and arousing suspicion.
The amount of donations collected for Star Citizen reaches $ 500 million
Star Citizen was first announced in 2012. Cloud Imperium Games’ goal here is to make one of the greatest space exploration games of all time. Since the developer did not have the necessary funds for such a large project, he stepped into the process through donations and obtained a fund of $ 2.1 million with the Kickstarter campaign in the first place.
Star Citizen, which has been in development for 10 years, is in alpha version as of 2022 and does not seem to be released anytime soon. However, the amount of donations collected in this process was officially astonishing. Because Cloud Imperium Games has raised a total of 500 million dollars from more than 4 million supporters to date.
Apart from that, the common opinion of the players who tried Star Citizen is that the game is quite impressive, but it is not at the level yet to be released. It is also stated to have sophisticated graphics and well-thought-out, yet complex game mechanics. Of course, such statements cause questions about the game.
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