At this point, everyone not playing Star Citizen has to be crazy or something. Why else would over 2.7 million people throw over $300 million of their hard-earned dollars at a game that began development nine years ago and doesn’t appear to be anywhere near finished? And likely never will be. Updates are regular and constantly filled with re-works of things that were supposed to be finished years ago.

For example, the latest large-scale update that came at the end of April reworked the game’s doors. I’m not joking.

To be fair to Star Citizen, the game is also constantly getting new ships, weapons, and locations to visit, but this never-ending grind of reworking assets at the same time as adding new ones means that Star Citizen’s development cycle is literally never-ending. One wonders what this will mean for the next-gen graphical technology that’s right around the corner.

Last weekend was a particularly successful one for Star Citizen, the reason for which completely escapes me. On both Friday and Saturday of last week, Star Citizen raked in over $650,000. That pushed the game over the $300 million mark and now sits at a comfortable $300,783,642 in funding as of the time of this writing.

With that kind of budget, Star Citizen is now the second most expensive game ever made, just behind the original Destiny (according to Business Insider). That said, we don’t expect that record to last for long, and Star Citizen will likely overtake Destiny sometime in 2023 or maybe 2024. If a global recession, race riots, and a pandemic won’t stop people from giving cash to Star Citizen, I don’t think anything will.

The second quarter of 2020 will bring update 3.10 at some point that will include two new locations, improvements to ship AI, a new weapon damage type, turret and gunnery improvements, and tweaks to how ships behave at high speeds. There’s also going to be two new ships and four new weapons systems added to Star Citizen.

And if you haven’t already downloaded Star Citizen, just know you’re quickly going to find yourself in the minority.

Source: Roberts Space Industries