Star Citizen crowdfunding passes $700 million
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Cloud Imperium Games' sci-fi space sim and RPG Star Citizen has passed another major crowdfunding milestone: $700 million. The latest $100 million has been raised in less than a year as well.

Chris Roberts’ vacation fund has reached a new milestone. soypoint-2

so-true With your help we can get this up to 1 billion, which will ensure that Chris gets to visit more places and can enjoy more of the local cuisine. Oh, yeah, and it helps the game get finished sooner, of course.

In other news, they finally reworked the game’s UI after 12 years of R&D, and it now looks worse than it did before. Progress. soypoint-1

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  • space_comrade [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    9·
    6 months ago

    Elite Dangerous literally has a whole 1:1 scale galaxy you can explore and it kind of works. Sure it’s a pretty niche game and not for everybody but people are having fun with it.

    • fox [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      10·
      6 months ago

      Elite also lets you fly from point to point if you really really want to and it is indeed terribly boring and impossibly long without some sort of FTL

      • keepcarrot [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
        1·
        6 months ago

        Or even FTFTL. I remember travelling for two hours to a star system because it wasn’t far enough for fsd (big one) and I ran out of fuel

        • fox [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
          2·
          6 months ago

          The running joke of getting players to go to the one space station in the Proxima Centauri system to get a free spaceship. You drop in near Proxima A and need to fly to Proxima B, the other member of the binary system. But it’s like a four hour trip with the in-system FTL maxed.