Star Citizen, a online game that exists as a Without end Promise, was first revealed to the world again in 2012 through a Kickstarter marketing campaign that raised $2.1 million. Within the decade since, by the bulletins of spin-offs, modules, in-game economies and numerous different options and half-baked concepts, the sport appears no nearer to an precise launch.
One factor it has achieved, although, is make some cash. Plenty of cash. As identified earlier right this moment on this submit, the sport’s official “funds raised” tracker on its web site simply ticked over the $500 million mark, and at time of posting stands at $500,089,473 raised, from 4,096,539 backers.
Half a billion {dollars}. For a online game that has been in growth for over a decade. Have been this 5 years in the past that is the purpose the place I’d begin questioning the sport’s future, or marvel how shut it’s to being “completed”, or make some jokes. However it’s 2022, and the entire thing now’s simply…unhappy. They might have concluded a complete rattling trilogy of those video games by now if there had been an oz of correct administration, somebody on the group capable of separate the sport’s unchecked ambition from what was technologically potential then, and even now.
Star Citizen is what it’s, although, so as a substitute I’m simply going to remind you of this trailer, which was launched in 2015, whereas Obama was nonetheless President and this web site was owned by Gawker Media:
And now, to assist put the passage of time into additional context, I’m going to checklist another video video games that have been introduced in 2012
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- SimCity
- XCOM: Enemy Unknown
- The Elder Scrolls On-line
- ZombiU
- Firm of Heroes 2
- Useless House 3
- FIFA 13
- Resident Evil 6
- Crysis 3
- Gears of Struggle: Judgement
- NBA 2K13
- Pikmin 3
- Rock Band Blitz
