Star Citizen heeft in september opnieuw 8 miljoen dollar binnengehaald.
Volg je de space-sandbox al een tijdje, dan zal die zin je waarschijnlijk niet doen opkijken. De game zit nog altijd in de alfafase. Het totale opgehaalde bedrag is al de 1 miljard dollar gepasseerd. En maand na maand blijft het pledgegeld binnenstromen. Erover schrijven voelt inmiddels een beetje alsof je meldt dat de zon vanochtend weer opkwam.
Deze maand zit er wel een addertje onder het gras. Voor de tweede keer op rij ligt het totaal lager dan een jaar eerder.
Star Citizen made another $8 million in September.
If you've followed the space sandbox for any length of time, that sentence probably won't raise an eyebrow. The game is still in alpha. It has already passed $1 billion in total funding. And month after month, the pledge money keeps arriving. Writing about it has started to feel like announcing that the sun came up this morning.
This particular month has a wrinkle, though. For the second time in a row, the total is lower than it was a year ago.
A Big Number, But a Smaller One
The scale matters, so let's start there. Eight million dollars in a single month is a huge amount of money for any game. It's even more striking for a project that hasn't reached a full release. Plenty of finished, launched multiplayer titles would be thrilled to bring in that kind of cash over thirty days. Star Citizen does it while players are still, technically, testing an unfinished product.
October is always a busy month for Elder Scrolls Online, and this year is no exception. The MMORPG will once again throw itself into the Halloween spirit, which surprises nobody. The real news is tucked inside the game's monthly event calendar. Season 2: Echoes of Skyrim now has a firm release date of Wednesday, October 21st.
That date matters for more than one reason. Before the new season arrives, two older paid expansions will become part of the standard game. For anyone who has been circling Tamriel for a while without buying every add-on, that may be the bigger deal.
Aion 2 hasn't even launched properly yet, and it's already shoving its way up Steam's charts.
The paid head start for founder's pack buyers has only been running for a couple of days. That's long enough for NCsoft's new MMORPG to show up near the top of both of Steam's big public lists: the best-selling games and the most-played ones. For a genre that has spent years being called a relic, that's worth paying attention to.
Climbing the charts
Start with sales. At the time of the original report, Aion 2 was sitting at #4 on Steam's top sellers list. That's a strong position, but it had been higher. For a while the game held the #1 spot outright, and NCsoft marked the moment by handing out a coupon code to players. It's a small gesture, but it shows the studio is watching those rankings as closely as everyone else.
Astralis has a new name on its cap table, and it's one football fans will know. Real Madrid goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois and entrepreneur Gonzalo Vila are investing in Fusion Esports Group, the company that owns the Danish esports brand. They are coming in through NXTPLAY, the investment vehicle the two of them founded.
The timing is the interesting part. The deal was announced on Tuesday, 29 September. Eight weeks earlier, on 1 August, Astralis signed off on audited accounts warning that the business needed more cash than it had actually secured.
Nobody has said how much money is involved. The financial terms weren't disclosed, so we don't know the size of NXTPLAY's stake or how much fresh funding Fusion is getting.
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