Star Citizen Raises $8M in September, Down 12% Yearly
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.