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They've promised an ongoing persistent universe with Star Citizen, with no subscription fees and ongoing updates/upgrades after its official release (whenever t

by danso 8y ago

They've promised an ongoing persistent universe with Star Citizen, with no subscription fees and ongoing updates/upgrades after its official release (whenever that is). How many backers does SC/SQ42 actually have? Isn't it around or less than 2 million? That's a pretty low figure for an AAA game (one that features top acting talent, like Henry Cavill, Mark Hamill, Gillian Anderson, Gary Oldman). When SQ42 finally launches in 2020, they'll probably want to expand the userbase, and marketing is an effective way to do that. Even Rockstar, which is a current industry legend with unbeatable name recognition and hype around GTA and RDR, still spends hundreds of millions in advertising.

zrobotics 8y ago
They already have most of the market though. What will advertising really do for them, considering that anyone who will even remotely be interested in this game has already heard of it. The population of people who would be willing to play star citizen has to be smaller than the number of people interested in something like red dead or GTA, the original pitch focused on the fact that this game is niche enough to not attract AAA studios. Who will they advertise to, they've attracted enough attention that any potential players have already heard of this project?
- erikpukinskis 8y ago
  Well, there's the whole market of "people who want the game to exist before they buy it".... seems like a pretty big group.
ocdtrekkie 8y ago
I am definitely curious how they'll manage to keep post-release funding afloat for all of the server costs and content development. I would expect a game with Star Citizen's server demands to be a subscription title, and I doubt they'll be able to keep selling ships at the rate they have once you can reasonably earn them in-game. (You can now buy ships in-game, but it takes a lot more money than people tend to make right now, and everything gets reset regularly anyways at the moment.)

by danso 8y ago

zrobotics 8y ago

They already have most of the market though. What will advertising really do for them, considering that anyone who will even remotely be interested in this game has already heard of it. The population of people who would be willing to play star citizen has to be smaller than the number of people interested in something like red dead or GTA, the original pitch focused on the fact that this game is niche enough to not attract AAA studios. Who will they advertise to, they've attracted enough attention that any potential players have already heard of this project?

erikpukinskis 8y ago
Well, there's the whole market of "people who want the game to exist before they buy it".... seems like a pretty big group.

ocdtrekkie 8y ago

I am definitely curious how they'll manage to keep post-release funding afloat for all of the server costs and content development. I would expect a game with Star Citizen's server demands to be a subscription title, and I doubt they'll be able to keep selling ships at the rate they have once you can reasonably earn them in-game. (You can now buy ships in-game, but it takes a lot more money than people tend to make right now, and everything gets reset regularly anyways at the moment.)