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Star Citizen (indie space-sim) funding now at whopping $37 million
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BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
jesus, these guys better deliver. people are blindly spending real life car money on videogame spaceships. if this game turns out shitty i can't even imagine how dumb those backers who spent 20k+ will feel.
Man, this genre was so dead that I'll be happy even if they turn out a by-the-numbers singleplayer+multiplayer space sim.
Have you guys seen Elite: Dangerous? It's ridiculously impressive, especially considering how much less money they're working with than Star Citizen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vm9W8vs0IWo
bigboss370
Member
$37 million?? jesus, thats a bigger budget than some (most?) AAA games.
Dictator93
Member
Europeans dont drive cars, they take the bus and the underground.
It already has.
Between Oculus and SC the genre has seen a revival to rival its original late 90s peak.
Post wasn't there when I replied, but read my mind!
BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
stretch goal: we can stop calling this an indie game when it hits 50m
SolarPowered
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I would have panicked and closed contributions after thirty million. I know making games is expensive, but I wouldn't want people to expect the world either. Hopefully it turns out to be the GOAT. My wallet will be stalking them stealthily until release.
Vulcano's assistant
Banned
I think the initial promise was so huge, that they may actually still be some bucks shy of it.
dripdripsplash
Member
When is this supposed to release ?
And isn't it a problem that people is buying all the coolest ships now, leaving newer players in the dust when the game releases ?
And isn't it a problem that people is buying all the coolest ships now, leaving newer players in the dust when the game releases ?
OverturePT
Member
The coolest ships aren't available to people who pledge. There will be much better/bigger ships in game. Obviously it gives these people somewhat of an headstart but that's to be expected, they need incentive.
Btw, am I the only one who hasn't pledge to this game? 37M, Jesus... I think I'll pledge when the dogfight module is out.
Will it? If you think of games as a service they can keep adding to it and make it into the ultimate space sim even after it is released.
maabus1999
Member
since there is demand for the genre I wonder if some company will make free space 3 now...
SlipperySlope
Banned
How'd they get it that high? It seems the Kickstarter closed at $2 million? Where did the extra money come from?
Let me start off by saying I'm really hyped for Star Citizen. But I'm way more hyped for the exploration (and to some extent the economy aspect) of the game than the combat.
Deep space combat really isn't very fun imo. It's like flight simulator combat, but way more chaotic. With the removal of the gravity and the ground it just becomes totally frantic and uncontrolled. Tactics are scrapped and it becomes an endless turn and break fest.
It also seems like they are going for those unrealistictly ineffective laser weapons that shoots where you look.
I hope all these backers don't expect too much from the combat. Of course I don't know yet what they will manage to pull out of their hats, but the short alpha combat demo they showed didn't look too promising to me.
Deep space combat really isn't very fun imo. It's like flight simulator combat, but way more chaotic. With the removal of the gravity and the ground it just becomes totally frantic and uncontrolled. Tactics are scrapped and it becomes an endless turn and break fest.
It also seems like they are going for those unrealistictly ineffective laser weapons that shoots where you look.
I hope all these backers don't expect too much from the combat. Of course I don't know yet what they will manage to pull out of their hats, but the short alpha combat demo they showed didn't look too promising to me.
kutthoat5150
Member
Chris said this type of funding is equivalent to a 50-60 million dollar AAA game who uses the traditional publisher method of funding. This is truly insane for the type of game their making. I'm sure he'll deliver but I bet its not coming until the 2nd half of 2015 with all the stretch goals they have met so far.
maquiladora
Member
Proud to be part of it. Excited for Star Citizen + Rift,
Yeah , I think we need to play some of these games before we can call it a "revival to rival the genres peak"
Teknopathetic
Member
"I hope all these backers don't expect too much from the combat."
You say this as if you're the only person aware of what space combat entails. I'd imagine most of the backers have played at least one space combat/sim before and are well aware of what that means for the combat and *gasp* they might even like that.
You say this as if you're the only person aware of what space combat entails. I'd imagine most of the backers have played at least one space combat/sim before and are well aware of what that means for the combat and *gasp* they might even like that.
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Deep Space Combat, at unplanned locations, is pretty much undoable, even by taking that first assumption of "Lol newtonian physics"
I still wish EVE atleast had Line of Sight collision
kutthoat5150
Member
I think alpha slots will run out pretty soon so it would be interesting to see how they can continue the huge money flow without any new backers
Dictator93
Member
A very talented bunch distributed accross the globe.
Seriously, they are all very talented.
D
Deleted member 245925
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They will just add more alpha slots like they already did a few times.
Yes, it's CryEngine.
So I guess you are saying they are talented?
Yeah it's on Cryengine. Looks really nice in-game (Hangar Module).
You might very well be right. But it's just too much money and too many backers to just be old space combat sim fans backing, right? I think that the majority of the backers are people quite like a lot of my friends; that have never played a space sim game in their life but are blown away by the scale and graphics of the game. They think of Star Wars and assume the combat will be awesome.
kutthoat5150
Member
They did that because they met a goal that allowed them to host more servers around the world which allowed more players to join the alpha, I'm not so sure they'll do that a second time
Dictator93
Member
The Kickstarter was only a small portion of the original campaign. The funding is taking place on http://www.robertsspaceindustries.com, as it has since day one.
fluffydelusions
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Appropriate gif
Trickster
Member
Not to rain on the money train parade. But am I the only one getting a bit tired that the only news we seem to get about this game is everytime it get's a few more million in crowd funding? I get the importance of it, but I'm more interested in how the game actually plays and looks than how much of a budget it has
kutthoat5150
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