Summary
Star Citizenenthusiasts show no sign of slowing down their support, as the project has now raised $700 million. This is despite the game being notorious for its long development time without much to show for it, as it has now been in the works for almost 12 years.
Star Citizen still has no release date, although fans can play an early access build. The standard edition is listed for $51.48, going up to $85.79 with the premium release. This likely accounts for much of the money raised, on top of the separate donations as part of the game’s ongoing crowdfunding efforts.
Star Citizen Keeps Bringing In The Money
This latest development has been noted by the folks over onr/games, who are pretty baffled to see that Star Citizen is still reaching these milestones. True enough, you can head over to theStar Citizen websiteand see that, as of the time of writing, it has raised $701,506,844. This has been raised across 5,240,919 backers and is more than enough to smash every single stretch goal that the developers have put forward.
That’s actually a bit of an understatement - the last stretch goal was $65,000,000. That was reached some time ago.
It was only last August that we were here reporting thatStar Citizen had raised $600,000, so it managed to pull in another $100,000 in less than a year. It did get a$48,000 ship bundletowards the beginning of the year, so who knows? Maybe someverypassionate Star Citizens decided to splash out on it.
So, when can we expect to play the full release of Star Citizen? This version of the game, Star Citizen 1.0, has no release date, but it was at least mentioned as a goal in anupdateearlier this month. Outside of this, version 4.0 of the current build isexpectedto launch in Q3 2024, so that should at least inch us closer to the completed version of the game. The last update went live on May 10, so the game is still very much being supported after all this time.
Whenever it launches, Star Citizen will be available to play on PC. It’s in development alongside a separate single-player campaign, titled Squadron 42.
