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> The designer (Chris Roberts) landed way too much money https://robertsspaceindustries.com/funding-goals https://robertsspaceindustries.com/funding-goals Cur

> The designer (Chris Roberts) landed way too much money https://robertsspaceindustries.com/funding-goals https://robertsspaceindustries.com/funding-goals Currently at ~300 MILLION dollars? imagine if this game broke the 1 Billion $ barrier in funding.... that would be insane! At this point its almost a "meme" to donate to this project. Like rich crazies on wsb's throwing money around, this projects donation button, probably hits the dopamine receptors too

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nix23 6y ago
>Currently at ~300 MILLION dollars? But that's not so much for such a game, for comparison: "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2" - $200 million "Grand Theft Auto V" - $137.5 million to $265 million "Destiny" - $500 million https://www.businessinsider.com/the-most-expensive-video-games-ever-made-2014-7?r=US&IR=T#destiny-500-million-10 https://www.businessinsider.com/the-most-expensive-video-gam...
- SahAssar 6y ago
  Most of those include marketing too. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_video_games_to_develop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_video_g... Star Citizen has the highest development cost.
  - nix23 6y ago
    Star Wars: The Old Republic 200 Star Citizen 215+ But again if you compare SC to SW.....
    - SahAssar 6y ago
      > But again if you compare SC to SW..... They are both pretty much failures? Expect only one of them took money from customers before having anything to show for it.
      - nix23 6y ago
        >They are both pretty much failures If something is not finished you cannot tell :-) But one of them are a failure.
        SahAssar 6y ago
        I think being 400% over schedule can be considered a kind of failure.
  - ehnto 6y ago
    It is also two games, not one. Squadron 42 is being developed separately and will release separately to Star Citizen. They also had a failed attempt at Squadron42 developed by a partner agency that was thrown away.
    - SahAssar 6y ago
      I would imagine that any multi-hundred-million project has had unproductive branches, pivots and starts. Star Citizens has been been more public, so it's harder to compare, but I don't think many of the others on the list had a straight path to what was released.
viraptor 6y ago
> rich crazies on wsb's Could someone explain this, please? Is that wall street bets or something different?
- abledon 6y ago
  https://youtu.be/5sPlNsESRs0?t=202 https://youtu.be/5sPlNsESRs0?t=202

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nix23 6y ago

>Currently at ~300 MILLION dollars? But that's not so much for such a game, for comparison: "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2" - $200 million "Grand Theft Auto V" - $137.5 million to $265 million "Destiny" - $500 million https://www.businessinsider.com/the-most-expensive-video-games-ever-made-2014-7?r=US&IR=T#destiny-500-million-10 https://www.businessinsider.com/the-most-expensive-video-gam...

SahAssar 6y ago
Most of those include marketing too. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_video_games_to_develop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_video_g... Star Citizen has the highest development cost.
- nix23 6y ago
  Star Wars: The Old Republic 200 Star Citizen 215+ But again if you compare SC to SW.....
  - SahAssar 6y ago
    > But again if you compare SC to SW..... They are both pretty much failures? Expect only one of them took money from customers before having anything to show for it.
    - nix23 6y ago
      >They are both pretty much failures If something is not finished you cannot tell :-) But one of them are a failure.
      - SahAssar 6y ago
        I think being 400% over schedule can be considered a kind of failure.
- ehnto 6y ago
  It is also two games, not one. Squadron 42 is being developed separately and will release separately to Star Citizen. They also had a failed attempt at Squadron42 developed by a partner agency that was thrown away.
  - SahAssar 6y ago
    I would imagine that any multi-hundred-million project has had unproductive branches, pivots and starts. Star Citizens has been been more public, so it's harder to compare, but I don't think many of the others on the list had a straight path to what was released.

viraptor 6y ago

> rich crazies on wsb's Could someone explain this, please? Is that wall street bets or something different?

abledon 6y ago
https://youtu.be/5sPlNsESRs0?t=202 https://youtu.be/5sPlNsESRs0?t=202