Star Citizen Features Gary Oldman, Mark Hamill, Gillian Anderson in Its Campaign

@isshiah: there's only one A-list celeb in that list (sorry mark hammil) and you are greatly over estimating how much these kind of jobs pay (hence why they are going on strike) they put aside 5 million for voice actors(it was one of the stretch goals)

@lulababy: That's awesome, by then you're an adult and can play it.

@ratchet200: the pointless haters are the real funny ones

@guitarman86: careful with that kind of logical view on game development, the haters will try to smite you down

@ABIBASS: and smeagol

@notaniceman: SC combat is extremely boring and simplistic. There's no mass to any of the craft. They flit about like hummingbirds. You have no sense of flight whatsoever. It's a simple point and click interface designed for mice. It's not a true space sim, just an arcade shooter. In Elite your craft actually have mass and you have a true sense of flight. Using a HOTAS is a joy in Elite. In SC, it's a burden, something no true space sim would do.

@notaniceman: SC dosnt play like Elite, for starters combat is a bit faster.

@Richardthe3rd: Hopefully it will hit 150 million in funding.. I'd say underfunded. More!!

Funders voted for this with their money and in the actual votes. Funders want the best damn space game ever.

@Richardthe3rd: Overfunded? Lol... Please go look at the amount of money used to fund other AAA games. More like underfunded.

@Richardthe3rd: Gary Oldman plastic? That's a first. He's one of the best actors Hollywood has to offer. At least their doing SOMETHING with the extra funding people have given them.

@tomanon: You know, what they save the most on is marketing, that is a huuuuge chunk they don't have to pay for. OH and examples maybe:

The Witcher 3, $82 million development cost.
Metal Gear Solid V, $80 million development cost.
Watch Dogs, $68 million development cost.
Crysis 3, $66 million development cost.

Taken from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_video_games_to_develop.

This was development cost, on top of that you put the marketing cost which is often close to the whole development cost, and sometimes a whole lot more than it cost to make the whole game.

Maybe now you can guess what can be made with Star Citizen, currently sitting at $92 million, and still rising. It will continue to rise during the whole development time. All of this goes purely into the development, not marketing expenses at all.

So, does it still look so bad to you?

@tomanon:They have 230+ people working on the game I'm pretty sure that is more costly then a few actors of for a video game. Besides this isn't the same as a blockbuster movie...these actors where probably not cheap but didn't cost millions per actor either. They shot for like 90 days total.

@tomanon : DeRP.

The actors were a $5 million stretch goal at the very beginning of the funding.........they have now taken another 85 million+ ontop of that.

Being correctly informed on what you comment on is truly the scourge of the modern gaming world.

@tomanon: You ARE kidding, right?

@jansdman: I'm with you there

@jansdman: And you doing that would be devastating for mankind?

@schmollian: Game is fun or no sale. They could use dancing cats for all I care, so long as it's fun.