Star Citizen crowdfunding passes $700 million
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Cloud Imperium Games' sci-fi space sim and RPG Star Citizen has passed another major crowdfunding milestone: $700 million. The latest $100 million has been raised in less than a year as well.

Chris Roberts' vacation fund has reached a new milestone. soypoint-2

so-true With your help we can get this up to 1 billion, which will ensure that Chris gets to visit more places and can enjoy more of the local cuisine. Oh, yeah, and it helps the game get finished sooner, of course.

In other news, they finally reworked the game's UI after 12 years of R&D, and it now looks worse than it did before. Progress. soypoint-1

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  • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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    6 months ago

    What I hate about this is how cliche the premise is. Why couldn’t they make it into a cowboy bebop-type jazzy dystopian hell instead of an annoying ultra serious MUH MEGACORPORATIONS!! dystopian hell

    • barrbaric [he/him]
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      6 months ago

      There are two key reasons:

      1. Something like Cowboy Bebop would require a lot of effort to make every area unique and characterful, while making things generic will be easier to copy-paste.
      2. Tech bros are libertarians.

      Also IIRC it's supposed to be more "muh spacerome", which is probably worse.

    • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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      6 months ago

      Outlaw Star would be so cool for a game but anglos wouldn't like it because of the heavy chinese influence in the aesthetic.

      • moncharleskey@lemmy.zip
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        6 months ago

        You mean the popular Japenese anime that aired on Toonami, the same network space that carried Cowboy Bebop?

        • Flyberius [comrade/them]
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          6 months ago

          And also had some bewb scenes that managed to escape the UK censors.

          Sorry...