They also discovered that the American FTC has received 129 consumer complaints about the game, asking for $24,000 in refunds. The article also digs up news that Roberts bought himself a $4.7 million mansion in 2018, that the company employs 537 people, spending $30 million annually just on their salaries, and that Cloud Imperium only has (or had) $14 million in reserve.
Perez and Vardi spoke to 20 former employees of Roberts’ who all lament his poor management skills and talk about why development is so slow. “This is not fraud,” writes Matt Perez and Nathan Vardi, “Roberts really is working on a game-but it is incompetence and mismanagement on a galactic scale.” On May 1, 2019, Forbes published a bombshell article detailing the behind the scenes goings-on of Cloud Imperium and Chris Roberts’ management. But if you’re looking for an abbreviated account, you’re in the right place. It’s the most funded video game ever, and second highest-funded crowdfunding campaign next to only EOS Blockchain.įor a richer account of the last year of Star Citizen’s development (April 2019-April 2020), check out my video below. Roberts later moved the crowdfunding to his personal website, where, with the help of massive microtransactions, later raising over $275 million and counting. This came largely due to Chris Roberts, creator of Wing Commander, and longtime cult-favorite game developer. A Year of Troubled Developmentįor the unaware, Star Citizen is an online space-shooter funded on Kickstarter in 2012 to the tune of $2.1 million and change. It’s also caused many a controversy, with lawsuits, angry backers demanding refunds, the most expensive microtransactions in gaming, and plenty more drama where that came from. It’s the highest-earning crowdfunded video game ever, due in large part to its ambition.
Development of Star Citizen has been ongoing since 2011, yet a release date is nowhere in sight.
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