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“It explodes Star Citizen”: the war is declared between these two communities

Starfield is Microsoft’s big video game cartridge. This RPG in space promises to be particularly ambitious and somewhat reminiscent of another game…

Starfield vs. Star Citizen

On one side we have Star Citizen. The development of this ambitious title began in 2011 but the idea goes back even longer. It germinated in the mind of Chris Roberts in the early 2000s. At the time, the project was called Freelancer and the goal was to immerse players in a living and massively multiplayer space universe. But too ambitious and too expensive, it was finally released in 2003, pushed by Microsoft, without meeting the expectations of its creator. If today, there is no one to force Chris Roberts and his studio to lower their ambitions, the game is still hampered by them. Star Citizen is one of those projects so ambitious that one wonders if they will ever come out. Admittedly, the game is available in early access but even players sometimes doubt that it will ever be finished.

On the other, there is Starfield. And its resemblance to Star Citizen is not limited to the first four letters of its name. If Starfield is not intended to be a massively multiplayer game, it shares with Chris Roberts’ game the fact of being a particularly ambitious space game. And if the rivalry between the two titles was so far not well marked, the recent presentation of gameplay of the game from Bethesda has rekindled the flame of discord.

Until Starfield goes live, we can stop the comparing it to Star Citizen. Whether you think SC is a scam, good, or bad, it matters not. It’s the only game doing what it does in real time. No cut scenes, every multi passenger ship is fully explorable, all persistently online.

The fans are fighting

In the middle of Starfield Direct, we could already see players saying “Star Citizen is now dead” in the chat. And this confrontation continued long after the presentation, on social networks. And what is the perfect place for it (besides Twitter)? Reddit of course. It is indeed on the thread dedicated to Star Citizen that low karma decided to share his love of Starfield. The post has since been deleted because it didn’t directly discuss Star Citizen. But it is possible that the moderators did not really appreciate his point:

So far it’s blowing up Star Citizen. Starfield seems to be focused on what most people want and what gaming should be. With the exception of the multiplayer portion, which is large but currently doesn’t exist for most people in Star Citizen, Starfield covers everything I want in Star Citizen.

Suffice to say that in the comments, it gets a little scarred. On the one hand, some claim that Starfield will offer players the promises that Star Citizen will never achieve. On the other hand, defenders of the latter assert that Starfield will never be able to measure up and are already pointing out its flaws (limited customization, single-player game, etc.). It’s a safe bet that this quarrel will start again when Starfield is released, scheduled, we remind you, for September 6th.

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With what Star Citizen has raised to date, you can do The Witcher 3 about 7 times, and still…

Star Citizenthe space simulator of Cloud Imperium Games, is the game of eternal development. At the moment, the game does not have a confirmed release date, nor a release window. However, what it does have is a good cushion of money, one that has increased considerably since last 2022, and that is that Star Citizen has already cost more than two very powerful Triple A.

If in September of the previous year we echoed the 500 million dollars invested in the development of this massive game, today we have to talk about the same thing again. It is something that we can easily resort to, but it is that when you hear that Star Citizen has had a cost of nothing less than 589 million dollarsIt’s easy to get scared.

That’s right, US development is dangerously close, step by step, to a billion dollars invested. As the company itself has commented in a easy access pagethe simulator has almost 5 million players in your database. All of them, responsible for the game having reached that gargantuan figure.

In fact, so that you take into account the amount that has been handled in this development not yet finished, Star Citizen has cost more than GTA 5 and cyberpunk 2077 combined. The first of these, the open world of rock starhad a budget of 265 million dollars between development and advertising. On the other hand, the RPG of CD project it cost about 316 million dollars In its development. A total amount of 581 million that Star Citizen exceeds by 8 million.

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The most curious thing is if we compare it with other lower budget games like The Witcher 3. As Gamespot shared in 2015, the Polish RPG cost 306 million złoty, something like 81 million dollars. With what Star Citizen has cost we could do 7 more adventures Geralt for just under 570 million.

What about Squadron 42?

The million dollar question. Star Citizen’s single player campaign remains a promise, so far unfulfilled. It was introduced in 2012 with a little teaser. Since then, we have been able to see it twice counted and, for the moment, No date launch and everything seems to indicate that Cloud Imperium’s interest is focused on this expanded universe, not on the story mode.