#STAR CITIZEN FUNDING UPDATE#
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The Original Site showcased a trailer for Star Citizen with lore and an original goal of 2,000,000 USD for development. Snoot Entertainment, meanwhile, is run by Keith Calder and Jess Wu Calder, and produces, develops and finances various films, including Blindspotting, Blair Witch and Little Monsters. In October 2012, Cloud Imperium Games started a crowdfunding campaign on their own website for Star Citizen. Zomba would later pick up the contract for вЂNSYNC, but in 2002 the company was acquired by BMG Entertainment (which, funnily enough, was being run by the now-CEO of Take Two Entertainment, Strauss Zelnick). The Calder Family Office is run by music billionaire Clive Calder, who co-founded the Zomba music group in the mid-вЂ™70s that would go on to acquire the contract for the Backstreet Boys for a measly $US35,000. ItвЂ™s worth noting that the Calder Family Office and Snoot Entertainment are the same family.

#STAR CITIZEN FUNDING FULL#

Chris Roberts continues to maintain full control of the Board and Group. There were no changes to the Board composition as a result of this transaction. The share prices reflect a discounted option price for existing shareholders that was pre-negotiated at the time of the initial investment in 2018. An official note on the Cloud Imperium GamesвЂ™ corporate page notes that the $US28 million investment was a pre-negotiated one-time share purchase that was arranged when ITG Investment, Snoot Entertainment and the Calder Family Office bought into Star Citizen back in 2018. ItвЂ™s a staggering total from a game that started with $3.4 million ($US2.1 million) on Kickstarter, although the actual transaction here doesnвЂ™t result in any change of control for gamers hoping for a faster release.

That same group of investors has just put another $US17.25 million into the project, bringing the total amount of investment just over $550 million ($US338.25 million). Players have already poured $US275 million into the long-running space epic, and the studio raised another $US46 million from a group of investors two years ago. The article has been updated to fix this mistake.The Star Citizen juggernaut continues.

UPDATE: The Funding Tracker displays the number of accounts that have signed up for the game (three million), not exclusively accounts that have funded it. According to fan-compiled data, which we verified, backers provided.

#STAR CITIZEN FUNDING UPDATE#

The game's first major update of 2021, Alpha 3.13, should be arriving quite soon to all backers, bringing with it improvements to refinery stations, planetary caves, alongside visual wear-and-tear for ships, new missions, and more. Star Citizen continues to break records and the end of 2021 marked another year of crowdfunding growth for Cloud Imperium Games. Meanwhile, the page's Release View section displays the planned Alpha updates, their contents, and tentative release windows. The Star Citizen official Progress Tracker can be found here, which displays how far along in development are the various upcoming elements and feature overhauls. At the time of this writing, Roberts Space Industries reported a total of 250,456,659 (ВЈ193.7 million) in total funds raised from 2,447,236 individual Star Citizens.

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Studio founder Chris Roberts said that no more release windows will be announced until the campaign portion is 'closer to the home stretch and have high confidence in the remaining time needed to finish the game to the quality we want.' Cloud Imperium Games revealed in late 2020 that it has decided to not showcase any more gameplay of the star-studded campaign publicly. However, the delayed story campaign side of the title, Squadron 42, hasn't had any public showings lately, and it even missed its planned beta windows. The most recent update carried the first server-wide dynamic event and a hand-held tractor beam among its many additions. Combined, these have brought in features such as a new atmospheric flight model, further upgrades to planet visuals, inventory and storage system overhaul, as well as physical reactions for G-forces and weather elements on characters. The in-development space trading and combat sim went past $300 million in June of 2020, meaning it made its latest $50 million in just nine months.Дuring that time, Star Citizen has flown through three major alpha updates: 3.10, 3.11, and 3.12. The total reached the impressive $350 million mark today. The behemoth Star Citizen project of Cloud Imperium Games has hit another crowd-funding milestone.

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