The fundraising on the Star Citizen has already exceeded the total cost of production CP2077, GTA 5 and RDR2

Video games have long ceased to be the destiny of enthusiasts, creating their small creations alone or in small teams. However, even by the standards of the industry, the Star Citizen budget is absurd: almost $ 590 million has already been collected from players for production.

This amount specified on the official website of the project is amazing even in context. Last year alone, players donated Cloud Imperium Games (through CCU Games) more than 113 million dollars – the most in the history of Star Citizen.

However, only in comparison with other large -budget games, it becomes clear how expensive the Dreams of Chris Roberts is.

• The Cyberpunk 2077 budget amounted to 1.2 billion zlotys (through the CD Projekt Group), or – at the rate of 2020 – about $ 313 million. Of this amount, 55% of the costs (about $ 173 million) amounted to production costs. The rest had to, for example, for marketing.
• According to unofficial data, the creation of the original release of Grand Theft Auto V (excluding subsequent development costs) was to cost $ 265 million, with 137 million dollars, it was reported only to production. (through Gamesindustry.biz).
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2009) cost Activision in the amount of 200 to 250 million dollars (through Los Angeles Times), but only $ 40-50 million went to production. That is how much (or more) was to draw up a budget of last year’s remake, although this was not confirmed (through @ralphsvalve on Twitter).

The list can be continued by mentioning, in particular, Red Dead Redemption 2 (Official Budget: $ 170 million). Nevertheless, the truth is that even after adding marketing costs, probably not a single video game will come close to the constantly growing budget Star Citizen. And there are no signs that Chris Roberts spends as much on promoting the game as, for example, Activision spends on the series Call of Duty.

A project that can surpass SC in this area, perhaps only GTA 6 – according to recent rumors about a budget of $ 1-2 billion.

It is only a pity that such an impressive amount on the account of Cloud Imperium Games is partly explained by a long period of production (and at the same time to some extent is its cause). Star Citizen has been in development for more than 10 years, luring the players with promises of the ideal, full -fledged space simulator

A fact, the game does not stand still and is developed in a kind of early access, but nothing indicates that the Cloud Imperium Games studio is preparing to release the full version. On the contrary, at the beginning of 2022 it was said that the debut of the Squadron 42 campaign will be held "in two years" (do not expect to see this game), and we will wait much longer.