Sep 26, 2022 19:00:00

Sagrada Familia in the game world developed for over 10 years `` Star Citizen '' succeeded in raising more than 70 billion yen from more than 4 million people

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Raoul Antonio

The multiplayer game ' Star Citizen ', which was announced in 2012 and has been in development for over 10 years, has been called ' the Sagrada Familia of the gaming world '. It turned out that it reached the dollar (about 71.9 billion yen).

Star Citizen has officially reached half a billion in funding - Xfire
https://www.xfire.com/star-citizen-half-billion-funding/

Star Citizen is a game announced in 2012, described in the genre as 'multiplayer space trading and combat simulation'. When the project was launched on the cloud funding site Kickstarter in October of the same year, the goal was to raise $ 2.1 million (approximately 160 million yen at that rate).

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mr.hasgaha

The game, which started with the goal of ``creating the largest space exploration game ever'', has become the largest ever in terms of total procurement amount after 10 years of development. According to an article in 2017 reporting on the progress of Star Citizen, at this point the procurement amount has already reached 150 million dollars (about 16.95 billion yen at the rate at that time), `` Shenmue 3 '' It was said that it was the highest amount in the history of game crowdfunding, far apart from 6.7 million dollars (about 757 million yen).

After that, Star Citizen steadily raised funds, and the total amount of funding posted on the official website was 505,000,255 dollars (about 72,062 million yen) at the time of article creation, and the number of backers was 4,100,251. people have reached In November 2021, the amount of procurement reached $ 400 million (about 57.5 billion yen), so in just 10 months, we have collected $ 100 million (about 14.4 billion yen).

However, it is reported that game development is not progressing as smoothly as funding. Game media Xfire said about Star Citizen, whose alpha version has been released, ``The novelty of graphics and spacecraft modeling faded over time, and many players who supported Star Citizen became disillusioned. , starting to feel like they've been swindled out of their money, and complaining that even after 10 years of development, core gameplay systems are still missing.For a game this expensive, Star Citizen Bugs and glitches are frequent, and it's not uncommon for NPCs to get stuck or behave strangely, or for spaceships to suddenly crash.'

In addition, Star Citizen also has a sister work '

Squadron 42 ' that shares the world view, but it is also said that there has been no movement since 2014. Some speculate that the release of Squadron 42 will take a few more years .

More than 4 million fans are looking forward to Star Citizen, but it is unknown when the official release will be. The roadmap posted on the official website is scheduled for July 2023, so the release may be after that.

According to the Star Citizen JP Wiki operated by volunteers, if you want to play the alpha version of Star Citizen, you need to purchase a starter package of $ 49.5 including tax (about 7100 yen). In addition, an event called Free Fly, where you can experience it for free, is held several times a year, and most recently, an event where you can play for free until September 15, 2022 was held .