{"id":1588063,"date":"2026-05-25T11:21:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T11:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/Utaci8ZNWEFXmgCc8iHkjk"},"modified":"2026-05-25T11:21:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T11:21:23","slug":"star-citizen-blasts-through-1-billion-in-player-funding-as-its-developer-lists-a-new-5000-spaceship-for-sale-that-is-not-yet-ready-to-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/star-citizen-blasts-through-1-billion-in-player-funding-as-its-developer-lists-a-new-5000-spaceship-for-sale-that-is-not-yet-ready-to-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Citizen blasts through $1 billion in player funding, as its developer lists a new $5,000 spaceship for sale that is ‘not yet ready to play’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It finally happened. Star Citizen<\/a> has officially surpassed $1 billion in player funding. Well, I say ‘finally’, it actually crashed through the barrier a lot faster than I expected. I’ve kept a close eye on the funding tracker<\/a> for Cloud Imperium Games’ hugely ambitious space MMO as it approached the big one-billy milestone, and with around $10 million to go last time I checked, I anticipated it hitting the target sometime in the next few weeks.<\/p>\n

I suppose I was technically correct. But I didn’t take into account the fact that Star Citizen is playable for free<\/a> until Wednesday, as part of its annual DefenseCon<\/a> event where you can test out all its spaceships at zero cost. That means a lot more people will have been checking it. Some of those will undoubtedly have been seduced by all its big shiny spacecraft, which would explain the sudden spike in funding over the last few days.<\/p>\n

This makes Star Citizen one of only two games<\/a> known to have plus $1 billion budgets, the other being Monopoly Go\u2014though most of that budget was spent on marketing. There are a few games rumoured to have +$1 billion budgets, however, like Call of Duty: Black Ops 6<\/a> and Grand Theft Auto 6<\/a>. I wouldn’t be surprised if Fortnite<\/a> was up there too, given what it must have spent on all those brand crossovers.<\/p>\n

If you’re curious how exactly Star Citizen raised so much money, its latest spaceship helps explain the story. Just before it hit the $1 billion mark, Cloud Imperium Game started sending out invites<\/a> for select players to purchase the Anvil Odin<\/a>, which the developer says “closes out the final remaining stretch goals established at the very beginning of the project’s journey.”<\/p>\n

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