![]() ![]() “We’re hitting six or seven-million dollar months as a regular occurrence,” he told the Guardian. A Kickstarter campaign, launched partly as a stopgap measure while they extended their server capacity, raised more than $2.1m.ĭavid Swofford, the director of communications of Cloud Imperium Games, said that Star Citizen raised more than $6m in November alone. The Guinness World Records company officially gave Star Citizen the record for largest crowdfunding project in March, when backing for the project reached $39m – a number Cloud Imperium is now well on its way to doubling.Įarly support was so overwhelming that it crashed Cloud Imperium’s site in October 2012. (The next largest, a publishing platform called Ethereum, has raised a comparatively paltry $18m.) To date, the developers have raised just over $65m from nearly 700,000 backers, which makes Star Citizen the largest crowdfunded project there has ever been by a huge margin. In their eagerness to play, people have been buying starships in huge numbers, which has helped the game’s makers completely annihilate all previous crowdfunding records. ![]() These spacecraft are being pre-purchased for use in an eagerly awaited multiplayer online PC game called Star Citizen, currently in development by Cloud Imperium Games. Two hundred people have already paid $2,500 for a Javelin-class starship of their very own. If this sounds to you like science fiction, you would be correct.
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