Star Citizen has been the most successful Kickstarter campaign to-date, racking up over $55 million in crowdfunding, and the good news is that all of that is going directly towards development of the game.
Chairman Chris Roberts confirmed this in an open letter to backers:
“I have a lot of industry friends pat me on the back and say, “Wow, it must be so great to be operating in profit even before you ship!” Their look usually turns to incredulity when I explain that my intention is for all the money we bring in before launch to be spent on development."
He also noted that the game is much more ambitious than he could have dreamed it would be back in 2012:
"Funding to date has allowed us to go so far beyond what I thought was possible in 2012. You’re still getting that game, no question, but it will be all the richer and so much more immersive because of the additional funding...
Now look at our monthly fundraising and use that to set the amount of resources being used to develop this game. We keep a healthy cash reserve so that if funding stopped tomorrow we would still be able to deliver Star Citizen (not quite to the current level of ambition, but well above what was planned in Oct 2012)."
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