![]() The CIG team, led by chief development officer Erin Roberts (who is also Chris Roberts’ brother), were in Singapore recently to show off some new updates to the game. ![]() This has caused some negativity among those who invested earlier and expect to see the game launch in a fully playable state.Īfter 10 years and having raised over US$500 million, what does Star Citizen look like now? Today, the game is in Alpha stage with no announced deadline for the Beta release. Rather than being forced to ship out a substandard product to appease the shareholders, like the traditional game studios, the developer Cloud Imperium Games (CIG) took on a very different path for the funding model for Star Citizen with its crowdfunding and backers.Ī point of contention now is its long development time. The crowdfunding raised over US$2 million in its first month. ![]() When Star Citizen first started as a Kickstarter project back in 2012, its vision of being an ambitious massively multiplayer online space simulator was bold and visionary.Ĭonceptualised by the renowned Chris Roberts, Star Citizen is a spiritual successor of Wing Commander: Privateer (1993), Starlancer (2000) and Freelancer (2003), and received plenty of interest as well as commitment from backers. ![]()
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