And it will probably take us many years to enjoy the final version.

The case of Star Citizen and its early access is one of the most curious that we know of in our industry.

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The issue of games in early access is quite tricky, and many games end up being released and surprise the public, achieving majority acceptance, as has been the case with Baldur’s Gate 3, but there are also catastrophic cases. We don’t know if Star Citizen is going to turn out to be a positive or negative case, but the truth is that it is such a particular project that it surprises in every way, especially if we talk about its surprising budgetwhich manages to embarrass many of the big AAAs in our industry, and the most curious thing is that after raising that amount of money it is still in the alpha phase.

We already told you at the beginning of the month that Star Citizen had managed to raise 600 million dollars, a stratospheric figure, which is extraordinarily large even for the most monstrous projects in our sector, but the truth is that this He has done it without even leaving his alpha phase. Of course, from time to time new updates arrive for the people who are already enjoying it in early access, these same people being the ones who are largely financing the project.

According to the latest figures, we have also been able to know that this exorbitant figure has been contributed by around 4 million peopleit is very likely that both this number, and the number of dollars contributed, will increase significantly more before the game is released, something that does not seem to be happening in the short term.

We will still have to wait a long time before we can play the final version

Unfortunately, as we have already said, everything indicates that It will take a long time to be able to enjoy the final version of Star Citizen. We have been waiting for many years now, and as we have mentioned, it is still in the alpha phase, and the extension of this project probably warrants this development time.

Even with all this, we are talking about a game that promises a lot, in all aspects, so even if we have to wait a decade, it is still one of the titles that we can most recommend looking forward to, as well as a clear candidate for end up becoming one of the best games in history.

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