Somehow, 2022 was Star Citizen's most successful year to date

Somehow, 2020 was Star Citizen's to the highest degree boffo year to date

An image of a Hammerhead space ship from the game star citizen.

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Stellar Citizen is still breakage crowdfunding records, having now brocaded complete $350 billion pursuing one of its most successful eld so distant.

GamesIndustry.biz reports that Cloud Imperium Games passed the latest milestone in February, delivery in an additional $5 million in that month alone. That follows the gamey's biggest year until now—even seven age after its first Kickstarter drive, 2020 netted CIG approximately $77 million.

In conclusion November was a high spot of the year, with a free-fly event reportedly bringing in $16.9 million past letting anyone try exterior the game's stallion roll of ships. By the closing of the month, CIG bought awake another studio to create more Star Citizen content.

GIBiz notes that, piece the developer categorises this income below crowdfunding, most of these funds come from starter pack purchases and the sale or rental of Star Citizen's virtual ships.

Of course, Asterisk Citizen is still seemingly no nearer to any kind of 'final' release. Overmuch-touted singleplayer campaign Squadron 42 is still nowhere to beryllium seen, and piece alpha updates preserve to roll, the ideal of a persistent, massively multiplayer universe still seems a distant pipe dream. In an 8th day of remembrance video last Oct, Chris Roberts explained that he "wasn't elated with how effectively we've been showing progress on Squadron 42".

Fans aren't the only ones complaining about impecunious communication, either. Developers at CIG's Texas office criticised management for being slow to respond to the state's disrespectful winter storms, tattle staff to use their paid sentence off in conditions that power saw much of Texas snowed under without power.

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