Star Citizen Just Had its Biggest Crowdfunding Day Ever With $3.5 Million in 24 Hours
Star Citizen Just Had its Biggest Crowdfunding Day Ever With $3.5 Million in 24 Hours
The crowdfunding effort for the space simulator Star Citizen continues, and the game just enjoyed its biggest day of funding ever.
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it's a huge success story for Star Citizen. I htink they are delighting the dreams of people who want to travel and work in space, but know they can never afford to really do so. Bethesda's Starfield is a sort of attempt to do Star Citizen, but it's just not as gritty and realistic as Star Citizen.
With the amount some folk have spent on Star Citizen I think they actually could afford to explore space in real life
I think India landed a probe on the Moon for less money than what was spent on SC.
Holy shit, they did. Less than half of the money, even
Starfield is single player, so it's not really in the same category. Star Citizen was meant to connect people, which is why the lack of launch sucks so hard. Nobody can ever convince me it's playable without a permanent, persistent universe for this reason.
It's a really interesting one, it's done much better than most people expected and seems to have a very strong community. It could evolve into something really interesting in the long-term, like it's entirely possible that twenty years from now it'll still be going strong with a healthy user base, it might even have the scope to really embed itself and still be popular in fifty years.
I never expected it to get to where it is and I never expected it to get to any of it's previous milestones, now I'm starting to really wonder how far it could go