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Star Citizen Tops $700M, Still No Release Date

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Re: Star Citizen Tops $700M, Still No Release Date

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Post by margalabargala »

akr4s1a wrote: post #38

Even if Star Citizen released tomorrow, exactly as Chris Roberts envisioned, everything was flawless, how many players could they realistically attract? It feels like most people who will ever want to play Star Citizen has played it. I'm worried what's left for Star Citizen is to keep monetizing their existing playerbase, not that their current playerbase is going to run dry of funds anytime soon.

I'm one that could be attracted.

When it first was announced, I thought "that sounds super neat, but I'm a broke college student so I'll wait and see".

12 years of headlines like this later, I've given them no money. But I would still absolutely pay for a game like the originally-described Star Citizen.

Re: Star Citizen Tops $700M, Still No Release Date

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Post by piva00 »

chrisco255 wrote: post #50
eximius wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, but a _significant_ portion of those are marketing. If you look only at development costs, nothing comes close to Star Citizen.

Wouldn't you argue that Star Citizen is mostly marketing?

Not paid (and expensive) marketing, like billboards, TV ads, whole campaigns across many media, etc.

Re: Star Citizen Tops $700M, Still No Release Date

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Post by jakubmazanec »

barryrandall wrote: post #60
jakubmazanec wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But is Half-life 3 even being developed?

Why would they waste time making their own games when they can make more distributing other people's games?

But Half-life is IMO one of the top gaming franchises. And after seeing Fallout adaptation, I think Half-life TV series would also be successful if properly made.

Re: Star Citizen Tops $700M, Still No Release Date

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Post by mrguyorama »

AlexandrB wrote: post #49
zaptrem wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think when CryTek died they gobbled up most/a lot of their engine engineering team and some crazy licensing. The Amazon Lumberyard "transition" seemed more like corporate partnership marketing to me considering how they've basically rewritten most CryEngine modules multiple times over by now.

IIRC at one point CryTek tried suing StarCitizen for some kind of violation of their license (something about releasing 2 games - StarCitizen and Squadron 54 - instead of one I think). There were some rumours that the Lumberyard thing was an attempt to get a more favourable license for basically the same engine. There's so much history with this project it's hard to remember it all.

All of the nonsense around the game engine is because they decided to build a galaxy scale MMO on top of a game engine who's entire pitch is "The single player shooter you make will look cutting edge. What, multiplayer? Who the hell wants that?"

Re: Star Citizen Tops $700M, Still No Release Date

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Post by mtndew4brkfst »

cyrillite wrote: post #63

Somehow I have literally never heard of this game. Does anybody here happen to have a video saved that offers one of those excellent “here’s why newcomers might fall in love with this game” videos that YouTubers sometimes put together?

Most audiences will still consider it to be somewhere between vaporware and a glorified tech demo, but its adherents are fervent.

Re: Star Citizen Tops $700M, Still No Release Date

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Post by PurpleRamen »

A_D_E_P_T wrote: post #9

12 years and $700M later, they're on Alpha 3.23. When this game started accepting donations, it was 2012. Mass Effect 3 was released in March of that year. Mass Effect 2 was released just two years previous, in 2010, and the first game in the series was released in late 2007. Less than four and a half years from start to finish. I know that development cycles have been growing quite a lot longer, but this is ridiculo…

That is a very pointless comparison. Mass Effect is a plot-driven theme-park, while Star Citizen is a World-Simulation. Not quite the same type of software. Minecraft or Microsoft Flight Simulator are probably the better comparison.

> Aside, does $700M make this the most expensive (or, rather, well-funded) video game of all time?

World of Warcraft and similar long-running service-games could be in the same range, but it's again a different type, and it's usually not known how much money went into their development.

Re: Star Citizen Tops $700M, Still No Release Date

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Post by PurpleRamen »

WheatMillington wrote: post #48
EcommerceFlow wrote: post #17

Ironically with inflation these past few years and enormous AAA flops (halo infinite reportedly cost 500mil), this doesn't even seem like all that much, especially since there's loads of content currently released as we type.

Doesn't seem like that much? It must be one of the most expensive games ever developed. Can you name any games that cost more than this one, except for the unreleased GTA 6?

According to Wikipedia[1], only Genshin Impact is known to be more expensive. But the list is of course lacking. Long-running service like most MMOs are missing from the list.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_video_g...

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