Nothing, it seems, can stop Star Citizen's unprecedented push forward as a crowd-funded titan of the video game medium, even though there is no hard release date set. The passion project of Wing Commander creator Chris Roberts has amassed over $350 Million in funding, crossing yet another immense milestone.
I remember pledging, as it is called with Star Citizen, for a Rear Admiral package back in October, 2013. A month later, near the end of November 2013 outlets published news stories about the game hitting the $33 Million milestone. How far we've come, since.
At least, in terms of money acquired. Since the game has not actually been released in the almost 10 years since, Star Citizen has often been the target of criticism and controversies, with skeptics and disgruntled fans calling it a scam, or predicting that it will languish in development hell eternally.
These voices seem to be a vocal minority, as the recent milestone proves that plenty of gamers consider the project worth spending on. While a full release of neither Squadron 42, the single-player campaign portion of the game and the persistent Star Citizen universe, which is the open-ended MMO portion, is on the horizon, players with access have been able to play portions of the game that are finished for years now.
The rate of growth isn't slowing down either - it's picking up speed. Star Citizen hit broke multiple crowd-funding records at the start of this year, and pulled serious numbers throughout 2020 as well with almost $80 Million earned just that year.