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Stretch Goals - Roberts Space Industries | Follow the development of Star Citizen and Squadron 42

Roberts Space Industries is the official go-to website for all news about Star Citizen and Squadron 42. It also hosts the online store for game items and merch, as well as all the community tools used by our fans.

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Cloud Imperium Games marked a major milestone Sunday (May 24) as the game developer's open world massively multiplayer online space game "Star Citizen" has reached $1 billion in lifetime funding before formalizing a release date for its full commercial launch.

It's an impressive benchmark for any title, but especially for a game 14 years in the making that was originally targeting a 2014 release.

 

[neo raider]

 

[Saberq]

Greatest money laundering operation I have seen

 

[Oberstein]

 

[clarky]

Greatest money laundering operation I have seen

Don't think you understand money laundering.

 

[The_hunter]

 

[asdasdasdbb]

I remember having discussions on whether Star Citizen was a scam... 10 years ago.

 

[German Shocks]

Wr

 

[semiconscious]

they've never gotten anything from me, & i've never gotten anything from them. so, we're even...

 

[//DEVIL//]

If there is one thing I figured in this life, is that it's ok for some people to get robbed and scammed.

The level of idiocity you must pocess to fund this and continue pouring money to these people is unmatched . So cheers to that and here is hoping you lose more money till you dead ass broke.

Thank you

 

[Gonzito]

That is fucking absurd

 

[Lux77]

Its basically gamedev version of Onlyfans

 

[Gaiff]

 

[German Shocks]

Its basically gamedev version of Onlyfans

Space toes

 

[Durin]

Its basically gamedev version of Onlyfans

They might as well throw in some free Toe Brakes for the big spenders that like getting jerked around.

 

[winjer]

Making one billion dollars without a finished product.
Even EA is looking at this thing with astonishment.

 

[neo raider]

What does this game offer to reach such absurd numbers?
The only things I know is the game is somehow still in development and filled with microtransactions.
And why is Squadron 42 a separate purchase?

 

[falconhoof]

Game is on free to play this weekend IIRC. Save yourself a billion for a few hours.

 

[Mengy]

they've never gotten anything from me, & i've never gotten anything from them. so, we're even...

Me neither. I've been waiting for over ten years to buy Star Citizen, I just keep waiting for the 1.0 release.



Maybe in another ten years?

 

[diffusionx]

It's become a cult at this point, of 55 year old nerds (used to be 45 year old nerds) trying to chase the wing commander dragon of their youth, spending their kids' retirement on JPEGs of fake space ships.

 

[rkofan87]

Stretch Goals - Roberts Space Industries | Follow the development of Star Citizen and Squadron 42

Roberts Space Industries is the official go-to website for all news about Star Citizen and Squadron 42. It also hosts the online store for game items and merch, as well as all the community tools used by our fans.

robertsspaceindustries.com

to all the great fans who donated so much money to this you get this.

 

[Justinus]

Why don't you guys...oh I don't know...try playing it for yourselves and see if YOU like it?

 

[bender]

Best deal in gaming.

 

[chromhound]

How is that possible

 

[Davevil]

Don't. Give. Visibility. To. A. Scam.

 

[LordCBH]

Damn this scam is still going?

 

[Vick]

I remember a friend saying Uncharted 3 on PS3 was going to be visually obliterated by Star Citizen soon.
We were playing the then brand new Resident Evil 6 in Co-Op.

 

[Bojji]

 

[MrRibeye]

Tell me GAF is this too big to fail?

 

[Buggy Loop]

We have this conversation every single $50M threshold.

2026 will be again a record year, to nobody's surprise when you see the content added.

What does this game offer to reach such absurd numbers?

Peoples are playing this daily with huge concurrent numbers. The game has no competition with what its doing. Jank and all, under all that the MMO sandbox they have simply has no competition. On top that CIG has made major changes to the game in the past 2 years, including a lot of stability and content.

The only things I know is the game is somehow still in development and filled with microtransactions.

What? You can pay $45 and play for years and get nearly all ships in the game (even stealing others') for 0$ microtransactions.

Even when Star Citizen 1.0 will be "released", it won't stop there.

Elite Dangerous was "released" in 2014, and it basically bled Frontier to the point where one year they were -$25M and Braben had to step down, now they have no money to invest really into the fundamentals of that game such as the engine and it'll dwindle down and die. A lot of the ED fanbase moved to Star Citizen for one. But ED "released".

And why is Squadron 42 a separate purchase?

You can't even buy Squadron 42 if you wanted for years now, so no?

 

[German Shocks]

We have this conversation every single $50M threshold.

2026 will be again a record year, to nobody's surprise when you see the content added.



Peoples are playing this daily with huge concurrent numbers. The game has no competition with what its doing. Jank and all, under all that the MMO sandbox they have simply has no competition. On top that CIG has made major changes to the game in the past 2 years, including a lot of stability and content.



What? You can pay $45 and play for years and get nearly all ships in the game (even stealing others') for 0$ microtransactions.

Even when Star Citizen 1.0 will be "released", it won't stop there.

Elite Dangerous was "released" in 2014, and it basically bled Frontier to the point where one year they were -$25M and Braben had to step down, now they have no money to invest really into the fundamentals of that game such as the engine and it'll dwindle down and die. A lot of the ED fanbase moved to Star Citizen for one. But ED "released".



You can't even buy Squadron 42 if you wanted for years now, so no?

So wait ... This game is actually playable?

 

[rkofan87]

Why don't you guys...oh I don't know...try playing it for yourselves and see if YOU like it?

why don't you go back to the Star Citizen compound

 

[Darchaos]

Hey, its only 2 years left before Squadron 42 is here, yep

 

[clarky]

So wait ... This game is actually playable?

Been playable for a long time.

 

[Topher]

So wait ... This game is actually playable?

Has been for a while

 

[bender]

So wait ... This game is actually playable?

 

[German Shocks]

Been playable for a long time.

Has been for a while

 

[Ceallach]

Insanely legendary grift

 

[rkofan87]

yes it is still does not mean it's a.

 

[Davevil]

Why don't you guys...oh I don't know...try playing it for yourselves and see if YOU like it?

 

[Prodyhig]

The real exclusive scam Pc game

 

[Buggy Loop]

So wait ... This game is actually playable?

Yes.

The thing is that SQ42 took a lot of resources from Star Citizen but with that project in the final phase, a lot of the team shifted back to Star Citizen and the patches keep adding and adding.

Some of the latest patches for PVE content, destiny vibes

Spoiler

Being able to be a fighter within a carrier and traveling between solar systems with your buddies for a mission is pretty fucking cool



Or offer protection services to haulers into PVP systems



Or just Sandbox, if there's players looking for opportunities, there's always gonna be the other side trying to find a way to get it from you (pirates)



Is it something I would recommend right now? No. Well you can always try for free in those free weekends and see. But the game is very sandbox right now and that's not for everyone. The full blown mission progress will come later, right now it's more like a random generator for solo missions and its the legacy one that hasn't had work done on it for years.
There's the PVE content from the patches I showed in the spoiler but not really solo content, more like raids.

Thing is peoples saying it's a scam is cute. How dare thousands of peoples daily have fun in the MMO!

 

[OmegaSupreme]

Fools and their money. Squardon 42 when? I wonder how much WOW has cost over its lifetime? You know an actual proper game. Do you think its cost a billion dollars?

 

[xanaum]

And at the end of the day, Star Citizen is all about the friends we make along the way. We got the biggest ongoing scam in the history of human citizenship right here.

 

[newtypepilot]

"and we'll need another billion!!"

 

[OmegaSupreme]

Are they going to redo the cut scenes in Squadron 42 to account for the aging of the actors?

 

[Gen.Grievous]

25 bucks of that is mine. Longest ever preorder.

 

[Miles708]

Sci-Fi nerds are an idiotic bunch

 

[Jinzo Prime]

Selling better than CRACK

 

[Shin-Ra]

There's one born every minute second.