Star Citizen Raises $600 Million, Still No Release Date

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I think we're all running out of ways to explain how long and disastrous Star Citizen's development has been. It's been more than ten years since its initial Kickstarter campaign went live. When it started, I wasn't even old enough to buy an energy drink. I hadn't even picked my GCSEs. Babies born in 2012 are turning 11 this year, for Christ's sake. All the while, Star Citizen kept trucking along, continuing to raise absurd amounts of money regardless of the bad press.

Now, we've reached new heights, as Star Citizen has just reached the $600 million mark. No, it still doesn't have a release date. This amount was raised by 4,760,845 backers, or "Star Citizens", who have successfully brought its crowdfunding well over the half-a-billion mark. The project already had the most successful crowdfunding of all time, so this is just another record broken by the team over at Cloud Imperium Games.

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This news was spotted on the website for Star Citizen and its single-player spin-off, Squadron 42. Here, we can see that $600,019,451 has been raised at the time of writing. This is well above any of the stretch goals, with the last one being $65,000,000. It doesn't seem that there will be anything extra for reaching this new milestone, other than the fact that it gives Cloud Imperium Games more money to play around with.

This amount also helps Star Citizen maintain its huge lead for the most expensive game to develop of all time. It's now almost double of second place Cyberpunk 2077's budget, coming at $357 million. Even the budget for The Last of Us Part 2, which shocked many fans recently, falls behind at $249 million.

Without stretch goals, ongoing crowdfunding efforts are