Another year has passed for Star, and the time came to look at his crowdfunding report to see how he advanced in 2023.

Fans of the game donated a little more than 117.5 million dollars for this case over the past year by buying basic packages, ships, subscriptions and various goodies. According to the convenient CCU Game tracker, this amount increased by 3.4% compared with 113 million dollars collected in 2022. It is also the largest year of crowdfunding in the entire 12-year history of Star Citizen. In fact, this is the sixth year in a row, when the Cloud Imperium Games space simulator has achieved the growth of annual crowdfunding. After (and before) a small decline in 2017, there were more than the previous one every year.

By the way, the number of registered accounts just exceeded 5 million, which, of course, is not bad, even if not all of them are paying customers. Many accounts are created for free to try out the game during periods when no obligations are required to access.

Of course, of course, the further growth of the support that Star Citizen receives was not guaranteed from his fans, especially in early 2023. 2022 was slow for the cycle of the main updates of the game: only Alpha 3 was released.17. Alpha 3 launch.18 in March 2023 began with the fact that, according to the Cloud Imperium itself, was a “very difficult start” due to the introduction of innovative, but unstable technologies. The combination of these factors, of course, caused a slowdown in promises, which made it seemed that supporting the game could decrease for the first time in many years.

However, the developers rolled up their sleeves and released Alpha 3 relatively quickly.19, 3.20, 3.21 and 3.22, posting a lot of content and functions on the network. The culmination of the year was the impressive Citizencon and the announcement that the Squadron 42 single -user campaign is full -functional. This restored the faith in the process among many sponsors and led to a very successful conduct of the intergalactic aerospace exhibition, including the largest day of crowdfunding of the game in history.

Since the dream of Chris Roberts is gradually gaining shape, and the prospect of the release of Squadron 42 is becoming more and more reliable, it will be interesting to see how Star Citizen will live in 2024.