After finally getting a good night’s sleep the team here at
Roberts Space Industries would all like to
thank you for helping us make history.
It’s gratifying to see Star Citizen mentioned across the gaming and mainstream media; how its broken records, how it shows that people still believe in PC games, how they want to play a space sim, how it is another nail in the coffin of the traditional publisher model.
We hope that you will feel the same way. Even though a lot of press and commentators are praising our skill in running a campaign, the secret sauce that really made Star Citizen happen was YOUR dedication. Your belief in this game energized us as the days got long. Your desire to play kept us going as we faced technical issues and growing mountains of work to do. The community YOU built made sure WE stayed believers. You made this game your own; big publishers may someday look back at this as the beginning of the end, a day when the players took over the development process and made it their own. So from all of us at RSI: good work, Citizens!
The Pledge
You’ve spent the last month pledging for the Star Citizen project with your money, your time and your trust. Now it’s time for us to do the same.
We’ve created “The Pledge”, a founding document to let you know the standards to which we intend to keep ourselves to and how we will keep you informed and involved in the process over the next two years. You can access The Pledge here.
Grace Period
In the aftermath of some of the craziest 48 hours we’ve ever experienced it’s become clear that there’s a sizable number of people that were unable to pledge, or adjust their pledges due to the difficulties with the RSI site. Many people tried repeatedly over the weekend, only for the site to crash at various points during the check out. Some people switched to Kickstarter, but there were also a large number of people that Kickstarter wasn’t an option and so they have been left high and dry. The focus of our campaign was, from day one, involving the fans and trying to give them as many options to support us as possible. The last thing we want to do is punish any of you, and so we have decided to adapt our plans and offer a grace period for all current members of the RSI community.
If you have a membership, regardless of whether you have previously purchased a tier, you will be able to pledge at the current prices through this weekend. We will keep the limited add-on ships available through that time for everyone who tried to purchase one but wasn’t able. Everything will switch to the new pricing structure on Monday November 26th
Billing and Customer Service Issues
Over the last 72 hours almost 40,000 new members joined our community and combined with the RSI site going down, sometimes in the middle of someone’s transaction there are quite a few billing issues to resolve. We apologize for any inconveniences, and we just wanted to let you know that our customer support staff is working around the clock to resolve any issues. As there is such a high volume it will take at least a couple of days to work through the backlog of emails and intercom (our customer support software) messages.
If you have any issues you would like resolved which you have not previously notified us via [email protected] or [email protected] please email [email protected]. We’re dedicated to resolving any issues, so don’t worry, we will get to you and will do our best to fix any problem. We ask for you to please be patient. We’re a very small company, and while we’re staffing up to take care of our growing customer base, we only have two very overworked people dealing with fixing account issues – Cindy Armstrong, our CFO and Sandi Gardiner, our VP of Marketing.
Moving Forward
Look for updates from us in the very near future as we go about transitioning the site back to being focused on our community and telling the story of development.
For those of our backers in the USA we wish you a warm Thanksgiving holiday for later this week.
The biggest “Thank you” possible!
Chris Roberts and the RSI team.
<3 Keep resting while you can. With all those stretch goals we reached, we've given you folks a lot of work.
And there is no better team out there that’s better for this job!
All I can say is “history in the making”.
Agreed!
Yes, and then to imagine that the pledge is still going on… soon 6.4!!!
Fantastic work! (to all of you)
If these pledges keep pouring in CIG will be able to build a real life Bengal Carrier in orbit to use as their offices and headquarters.
@Bishop
In that case, give me a $30 subscription which includes the fees to visit the office
It’s about to pass 6.5 now. “Warp Speed, engage.”
All I can say is that I look forward to visiting the office of such an epic team
Agreed!!!
Agreed as well! <3
Agreed!
Agreed!
Agree!!
Agreed! and now you have 2 years lot of work and we have.. lot to wait but its better to wait and we have a very good game/content than a beta version!!!
WE TRUST IN YOU! to give us a game to play for many, many years. I played all actuall mmorpg´s and… nothing reach my expectation. So my full hopness is your projekt chris!
this is the first time ever i follow such a projekt from the first steps.. and damn it i need a credit card for sure!
greets
Lee (aka Hannes from Austria)
Here Here! *raises drink*
RSI,
You’ve ignited dreams here!! Get lots of rest. This community is voracious. The live chat is on fire. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I have never wanted time to pass this quickly.
100% agree,
agree and thank you RSI for the hope of a amazing space sim
greetings from germany
Thank us? No, we thank YOU.
Thank you.
I second that.
Thank you, RSI. This campaign alone was a breath-taking experience.
Yes we thank you and wish you the very best to break even more records by making this game as awesome as you can.
To celebrate the amazing end of the campaign I made a short trailer which contains all of the ingame footage you’ve provided us, maybe you guys like it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbOSJIbqDeg
It would be good to see the 2-3 Starbuck maneuvers made by the Hornets in the released videos.
Like at 1:10 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuynSgAvleo
Great work ! Very good man !
Great work, good to see it all patched together. looking forward to see how it all devolops over the next two years
Great work! Got me jazzed!
Where do I buy this game?
This is why its going to be so much fun making this game with all your involvement.
Need a meme for this:
First world problem: “I want the perfect game that doesn’t exist … I have to make it myself”
Looked good in my head anyway! I hope you get caught up on your sleep! You’ve earned it!
How do you think playing the game will be from your perspective considering you will have made it?
Here you go – http://i.imgur.com/jbpCR.png
Well, from the community’s side (especially us long-time WC fans), we can’t wait to see what you come up with.
Very nice
Very cinematic !
Great work!!
Chris, you should hire this guy immediately.. Fantastic work!
With guys like you in the community, the game will be better than anything else ever made
. Awesome trailer.
Hell Yeah!
Good job there mate, I liked the composition and epic music.
Who did the music btw?
OMG I now have goosebumps, Great trailer and brilliant music. GJ!
Congrats to Chris and the whole team I can’t wait to see what wonderful things you have in store for us. Get some rest folks you desrve it!
Nice!
Oh great – thanks a lot, man. That was just too epic – you just made the prospect of waiting two years for this to be finished even harder…
Seconded!
Yes, Thank you RSI.. Just thank you for being awesome!
I also wanted to post this.
Thank you for building this game for us and maybe change the way games are produced!
Exactly!
RSI, make the game we’ll all be proud of in the end. And have fun doing it!
Thank you!!
Indeed
I salute you Chris, and all the people on the CIG team. You guys rock!
Indeed, thank YOU, RSI. This is my first ever crowdfunded event, and I’m loving every moment of it. The prospect of having a really awesome game to play in two years time is excellent, too.
Do keep up the great work!
Its going to be a long but awesome two years
Awesome! Glad to hear the news, and a Happy Thanksgiving to you all!
wish you all the best
thanks to you Chris and RSI,it’s great to be part of this,you with your hard work make it possible.
Hello (random and greedy)publisher,f@#k you <3
do the ground floor pledgers still get the grace period of a year afther this weekend and will the ships still come with lifetime insurance for the coming year?
I believe the lifetime insurance was only for people pledging during the campaign rather than after.
If you have already pledged and upgrade, I’m pretty sure you still get lifetime insurance. Not sure about additional ships.
But thats the question… Live time Insurance or Not….
I’ll quote directly from RSI (you can read the entire post in the ‘Comm-link’ section, ‘Thank You – Transition Plan’): “What about pledges? Good news: those of you who got in on the ground floor are covered. Your ships have lifetime insurance policies and for the next year you will have the ability to purchase further tiers or upgrade existing ones at the initial prices. That’s not true of everyone else: if you want to back Star Citizen and participate in this amazing community, you still can… but it’s going to cost you a little extra as of now, and you aren’t going to have as many extras (no lifetime insurance, for example.)”
I see my bank account get at least $250 lighter in the next year and a heavy bomber next to my other tidy ships.
Thamril: Is the Retaliator really still available after Nov. 26? Do you know? I think the Cutlass will be gone after Nov. 26…
@Toast Good point, I will ask customer service that. I have the appropriate funds but I already have misbehaved buying what I have and would rather wait a few months. The heavy bomber would really round out my hangar and let me jump into any role so I have to have it!
@Toast Wow looks like you were right! Good thing I bought my Retailiator. The other 4 ships are of no interest to me at all my wallet is now safe from the SC hordes.
Nope. It was clearly stated otherwise before. A previous message from RSI explicitly said that the initial funders of the campaign (and only them) will be able to upgrade and buy additional tiers at the same price as before for an year, with the lifetime insurance as well, while new, post-campaign pledgers will have to pay extra price for the same stuff and will have no lifetime insurance, which seems to me a fair way to both allow people that didn’t knew about the campaign to jump aboard yet rewarding the initial funders somehow.
I’m very interested in this as well! I think the recent updates where very unclear regarding the question, if there will be lifetime insurance for _all_ ships (regardless if added before or after the end of the crowdfunding campaing) of ground floor pledgers. The only point which is completely clear is that prices will stay the same, everything else… not so much.
Thank You everyone at RSI – you guys really are an inspiration to all & we are damn proud to be your backers
It’s amazing to see the total still going up quite quickly, $150,000 more than when the campaign officially stopped.
Contacted Sandi @ customer sercice and expressed my disappointment at due to technical difficulties was unable to access site and pledge in the final hours before closure and pre-grace period announcement.
Delighted to hear that lifetime insurance was grandfathered for me and all future ships and so i bought a ship tier immediately.
You really put the big impersonal companies to shame with the quality of customer service shown so far. Keep it up!
small companies are great like that. It sucks that not everyone understood that we’re dealing with a small company here and 10s of thousands of people were trying to access the site simultaneously for like 48 hours, who effectively became 100s of thousands of people because most mashed the refresh button hoping to get access. It’s a good thing!
. I just stayed away from the site in the last two days (except when I doubled my initial pledge) to try and help out.
I would hope *cough cough RSI COUGH COUGH* they will learn that they will need to over-estimate their server capacities when it comes time to re-vamp the site and when they start bringing game servers online
I would love for it never to happen again but in all honesty I don’t think that’s reasonable. Hate to bring up WoW here but even they repeatedly underestimate what will happen on release day.
I doubt they even underestimate really. But server capacity costs money, quite a bit of money actually. If you buy enough capacity to handle stressful events like launch days and stuff, I guess most of the rest of the time (i.e. almost all the time) your servers will sit there and do more or less nothing but eat power and bind capital you could use better somewhere else. So I’d gues sit would be just really bad business to let those spike events determine your server capacity. And at the end of the day, all gaming companies big and small need to work as businesses if they wan’t to stick around and make games.
That’s quite understandable from a business point of view, but let me drop the ball somewhere else. The server farms contribute a lot to this mess and if unopposed, will continue to ruin release days/special events like this in the future.
If more of them would be inclined to offer reasonably priced, temporary capacity, they might start earning some extra cash while also achieving higher levels of customer satisfaction. It’s not just special events or release days when this is needed, but also every major software patch/upgrade.
Going to ask an obvious question for the sake of clarity and my sanity: If I buy a ship before this weekend, the insurance and garage is grandfathered in?
Yes, if you buy a ship before the 26th, you will -definitely- get lifetime insurance and no garage/berthing fees for all ships you have purchased prior to the 26th.
After the 26th, you will be able to continue to purchase the ships available for the same price as during the pledge funding. What some people keep questioning is whether or not ships purchased after the grace period ends, will also have lifetime insurance/berthing privileges or not.
I believe they do, as a reward to pledgers for having been a backer from the funding campaign, as they specifically mention that those people who weren’t from that initial group will be subject to the new prices AND won’t have lifetime insurance for their ships. But people are still wondering and would like clarification from RSI on this specific point.
To be fair to the devs, I really don’t think they think there’s any confusion or ambiguity on this matter, and that what they’ve said covers it all. It’s the uncertainty in our minds that’s the issue (for us) but because there’s “real money” involved, it’s a concern that will probably rear its head over again until there’s a definitive statement from the team at RSI about it.
BUT, yes, you are definitely covered if you buy before or during this upcoming weekend!
Ronin –
I think the uncertainty has to do with what some of us are seeing in the Pledge information in our accounts.
I purchased the Rear Admiral package. When I read the info directly, it specifically mentions “1 year ship insurance”. It does NOT mention Lifetime Insurance.
I’m sorry to say, yes there is “confusion and ambiguity”. If there’s a grace period on the lifetime insurance, it definitely isn’t showing up in the descriptions of the various packages at this point. They’re all listed with 6-months or 1-year terms on the insurance, including the package that is attached to my account as I mentioned.
I do hope are correct about the grandfathering. I PRAY you are correct!
On a side note here – am I the only one, who thinks Sandi is a star? She nailed it during the live feed, showing off her language skills, answering loads of questions, and she’s been very helpful in sorting out all these questions after the pledge period ended.
Got chills reading this guys! I love you RSI and hope you guys get through the backlogs without too much grief
This is going to be the most interesting game development I’ve ever tried to follow since I started PC gaming 18 years ago!
I still cant believe we hit 6 million! I stayed up until 3am to see the counter hit 4 million and it was great watching the livestream hit 6 million and the final seconds of the campaign.
Good luck guys!
Thank you so much. I really hate the way publishers treat developers and their games today. I truly hope this game shows them that they are no longer invincible, and serves as a potential example for other developers to follow.
I look forward to watching the progress of Star Citizen’s development!
Thank you!
LOVE
Happy Thanksgiving and thanks for your awesome work!
Here is a short personal music tribute I made for you!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpvMaLCj2mU
Nice track, and nice idea also
Thanks!
thx for much for the work done already
and hope to see alot nice news is the comming 2 years
Congratulations on what can only be called a huge success (end voiceover from GLaDOS).
You’ve done a truly awesome job and my hope in you is something that I didn’t have in a developer since Pirates, and I am not shitting you.
Get some R&R while you can. All of you are probably in for a rollercoaster ride for the next two years, because the goals that were set, are goddamn steep.
Don’t get desperate, keep your hopes up, up until now you (and I mean everyone of you) did everything right. Just keep it up.
Gratz guys, It’s already amazing what you are doing. You already set a costumer service standard for the rest to follow.
Keep up the good work. and if you need new developers, i am available soon
Thank You RSI
Thank you Chris. Thank you and your team for coming out of the woodwork to finally give us, the true space sim fans, what we have been yearning for since the “death” of Wing Commander, Freelancer, and Freespace. Thank you for giving us a unified goal to breathe new life into the Space Sim genre, a genre that would have, for all intents and purposes, remained “dead” notes and treatments sitting on corporate conglomerate shelves, never to be dusted off again, because the “potential” to bring in as much money as Call of Duty 23 or SOCOM 9 or whatever FPS military battle clone is coming out, just “isn’t there”. Thank you for putting your customers first, and above all, caring what we think. It is so rare now that any game company gives a shake about their customers, it’s all about the bottom line, who cares if the end product is a sub par re-hash of last year’s game? Thank you from the bottoms of all of our hearts. Thank you, Mr. Chris Roberts, for having the nerve to stand up in the face of overwhelming negativity, nay-sayers, and established multi-national corporate publishers and say “We don’t need you anymore!” We the people have spoken, and our words have been herd. In two years time, we WILL be back in space, where we all long to be.
Long Live Star Citizen,
Long Live Cloud Imperium, and
Long Live Chris Roberts, the father, innovator, and re-inventor of the modern space sim.
Amen.
lamp do not love long posts…just saying
So say we all, STAR CITIZENS!
Amen +1 Couldn’t have said it better meself
Very well said
Having to wait so long is going to suck, but only because of the promises of an epic game hovering on the horizon. We’ve waited all this time for a good space sim whats to more years in the face of that?
“The last thing we want to do is punish any of you”… First of all congratulations to everyone that made it happen. Particularly I worked hard to make people knowing about Star Citizen and Squadron 42 and I am pretty sure that I achieved a lot of additional pledges, besides those that I did myself. But, I was a little desapointed with the information or rumor that future mission packs similar to Squadron 42 and Behind Enemy Lines won’t be for free! That sounds weird, since all the time, Chris answered the question “How you guys are going to make money?” all the times explaining about people buying things to customize their ships and things like that, acquiring this using real money instead in-game credits. And NEVER told anything like “… And we are going to sell the future mission packs”, or disks or whatever word that you want to use. I started this post using the phrase: “The last thing we want to do is punish any of you”… So, please Chris and all people from Cloud Imperium Games. The single player campaign fans pledged in the same way of those who are more fans of multiplayer free world. So, DO NOT punish those people who believed by reading your documentation and having their questions answered without nobody talking anything about “missions packs with ticket price”, but instead, always been answered with “you are going to pay for the copy and you are gonna play forever with constant updates without additional payment”. Even that it was a mistake do not inform this properly for those who are interested in the campaigns part of the game, its even not fair that the multiplayer open world fans play everything for free forever, while the campaign single-player fans have to pay for their future updates! If is not possible and is part of your revenue plan, at least do not make people who was earlier backer and helped on this project to feel deceived, and at least, provide for those earlier backers, those mission packs for free, forever! Thank you all! And I hope that you do not thing that only multiplayer free word fans make you achieving the 6 million! The single-player/multiplayer cooperative fans of campaings deserves the same treatment and respect. Do this and do not disapoint us! My hope that putting that stretch goal “Behind Enemy Lines for Free (if the stretch goal was achieved) was actually a typo, and you guys actually had no intention to make the single-player fans having to pay to be happy with the game, while the multiplayer free world wont need to pay nothing to have their full experience with the first release and any future updates.
Hi Jean!was looking for you before in the live chat….maybe someone of the devs can give you a little word for making you no more disappointed.
smile!!
He has some valid points though.
Thanks Lechuck. I sent some emails already. STill waiting for a answer. Probably delayed due people been out-of-office in the next days.
Well Jean you can still play the game Singleplayer even without Mission Packs.. the Mission Packs are kinda an addition nothing to be a punishment.
it will be kinda like in Freelancer when you have completed the missions you go ahead into the free World and do little missions etc. from the Whiteboard. (At least i think it will be like that.) Mission Packs will kinda be like an extended campaign.. And as pledger you will get first one free. so Hell.. We get A LOT for what we have pledged.. don’t you think ?
When you say “We” you are talking of the fans of STar Citizen, and not talking of the fans of Squadron 42 (former fans of Wing Commander, more than Wc Privateer and Freelancer). People who are more fan of Wing Commander have a trend to prefer to follow histories and campaigns, not making missions or improving a ship. Of course, it ‘s cool, but not a preference for those kind of players. When I played Freelancer I played the missions around the universe for a while, but after the end of campaign, and only with this option, I bemae tired and didn’t play anymore, because I was more interested in playing histories than making my ship better, or improving my fight skill. So, I just think that there’s no reason to make the updates FOREVER free for multiplayers open world fans and not doing the same for those who prefer following histories of campaigns (which will be the mission packs like Behind Enemy Lines) – I didn’t any differnce between the Lancer package and the Colonel pkg (which was my pledge), so why my experience with the game needs to be reduced -if I did not buy future mission packs – while the Lancers are going to play for free for the enternity. It was the same price for the pledge, so, the full experiience of both types of games prefer, should be available for free in the updates too. I think that it was a mistake something like this not been clarified during the pledge campaign. It attracted a lot of people that was thinking that will have mission packs also for free Forever… So, I think that would be so more elegant to make what I sugested, making Mission Packs also wihtout ticket price for the earlier backers who didn’t have the proper clarification, at least. And put some information in the site clarifying later buyers of the game, that for them, since they were not earlier backers, they will have to pay for future mission packs single-player. Simply, is not fair with those people, that they have to pay to maintain their full experience with the game in the future, while the multiplayer open world fans do not to pay anything anymore.
You are talking about 2 completely different kind of content. The microupdates is the way developers will have to react to players actions and make the universe dynamic as promised. They may add some missions to the main campaign for free too (I read it somewhere) but in no way they will be a complete storyline. On the other hand, I’m sure Behind The Enemy Lines will be a whole new storyline, with acting voiceovers, and no less than 15-20 missions (well, we need more details but considering that the core campaign intially was going to have 30 missions less than half that number is hard to call it an expansion), an you want such material, FOR FREE?!
The only way CIG can release a campaign expansion for free is if they change the business model to monthly fee (of course removing the cash shop). Personally I don’t have problems with monthly fee model, but I understand most people doesn’t like it. Anyway, it is a pointless discussion because CIG won’t change the business model to monthly fee. So, they need another way to make money to keep the game interesting and alive. That way are the Expansions thus they can’t be free.
Right! And as you prefer multi you dont have problems in playing only the multi and not buying the single new campaigns if you dont want to.
Weekly updates missions FOREVER, it’s very expensive too. Are you really sure that the constant updates weekly will be cheaper than builting new campaigns will all the engine ready – which definitely wont be so frequent? And you want all these new updates FOREVER for free? Sorry man, that doesn’t make sense! The multiplayer updates been FOREVER it will cost a lot more than non-frequent mission packs (even because they were going already have most of the job in terms of engine ready done). So, its simply unfair single-player campaing fans having to pay while multiplayer fans not.
Hi hi guys, I can understand your point of view regarding paying for extra mission but perhaps I could help with an easier perspective to ease the edges. First of all this game is big, real big n CI is a company that needs money to run and sustain. The online mmo version is free to play once you bought the game for as long as there are pple that take interest and would do micro transactions to ensure its survival. I’m sure there would be future temptations that lures players to part their money with
Ne ways,think of it this way, if the online version is depending on micro transaction to perhaps survive and pay for the online servers, how are they gonna get money to create the single player games? Single players stuffs will surely be highly detailed with voice acting, detailed storyline, places n etc and will take time n money to create. Single player add-ons is entirely another big monster the company has to deal with. It could probably be an entire different team that only create contents for single play. you are buying and supporting the story and creations of hardworking citizens. Also if mmo players wanna enjoy the extra stories they too have to pay for it. Do not think of it as a punishment nor a scam but a support and encouragement to the dev team so they could create more n more single player contents. Further more at least they have the intention of making mor single player stuffs after squadron 42 instead of full out online stuffs.
Well said and completely agree – it’s just going to be anohter form of dlc and i’m entirely happy with that and will pay to extend the SQ42 campaign and re enlist to do the extra missions as and when they become available
If the addon was mandatory for all parties involved, be it Star Citizens or Squadron 42 players, then it would be fair for all. Squadron players wouldn’t feel like having to pay for Citizens and the latter would do their part in keeping this game up and running. A vote to settle this matter (if necessary) would be very appreciated.
Yes! The difference here, is that the single players Fans will be REQUIRED to pay for mission packs in the future, while multiplayres wont be required. At the end of the day, single players are going to pay to the multiplayer fans be happy with all the possibilities for free in their side, while to have all possiblites in the single player side, you are required to pay. Even that I could understand that they need money, still, it wont clarified during the Pledge Campaign. Who pledged thinking in single-player, was thinking that will have updates forever for free too! So, those people deserves having the future packs for free! And let the future buyers pay not your account, multiplayer fans, but the account o fthe single player fans too, I mean, this way, it s fair for everyone who pledged, regardless their preference.
Man, you are missing one important thing that makes your whole argument fail. You are both single and multiplayer player. You can anjoy both the SC universe or Squadron 42. The same way “multiplayer” players. Everybody is in the same boat and everybody will have to pay for expansions. Microupdates will be free for you too. Is up to you if you want to enjoy the SC galaxy or not. Choose not to is no excues to ask for FREE content just because who does get’s free microupdates.
As early backers we already have a whole expansion for free. Ask for more is simply egoist and you are asking later players to pay your enjoyment. That is unfair.
I’d be happy to pay for single player campain additions to keep the spice flowing
I cant but totally agree with you Jean.
I wont be really upset becouse I’m more focused to the persistent world… but can definetly see your point.
If I can play full campaign for “free” (I allready payd more than 100$ so free is way to say) I really will love to, but I wont pay any extra dollar on it.
i think chris has said, that the weekly/bi-weekly micro-updates will be free, but larger add-on are supposed to be sold.
i can’t remember where i read it though. the info is so spread around…
Yup lets just wait, now there is such many tons of information, and so many questions pending… they will need some time to pack all the info, an there is 2 years to take or change decisions.
Not all people have the oportunity to participate of all Chris conferences. What is said and needs to be considered is what is wroten in this website in the description of the game. And who read that, before pledging, thinking from the perspective that you want and prefer campaigns, much more than multiplayer free world experience, definitely you take the conclusion that new missions (which is not specified that is not mission packs with history) would be for free.
Ok. They need this for their revenue I heard here. Do that ok! But only for the future buyers, not for the earlier backers which thought and pledged thinking that will have their prefered preference available for free forever.
dude, don’t worry there will be free updates, just like the site says…
it’s just that larger add-ons won’t be free. and i think that’s fine, they have to be financed after all…
and just because you missed some info and not every little bit is easily traceable around the net does not mean we are entitled to press them to get everything for free. that’s just greedy. the site is a work in progress, just as the game is…
any info we might know today may change along the lines of development, when difficulties are encountered.
Though I can understand your feelings, are wrong and your logic is wrong.
Every game of this scope, AAA, that releases a major update (DLC, Expansion Pack, whatever) sells it because it is almost, by itself, a new game. When we talk of fee free MMOs (SC is a sort of MMO) like Guid Wars 2, in order to remain free they rely on Expansion Packs, that are huge, sells. The cash shops in these games are there to cover running costs mostly. It is unreasonable to ask CIG to release such kind of material for free.
I’m sure the price of any SC’s expansion pack will be reasonable and, of course, only 1 time pay. Buy it will help keep the game alive and will encourage developers to release future expansions of the campaign. Your experience of the main campaign won’t be diminished because of an expansion, it’ll remain exactly the same, however, if you want to play that expansion you’ll have to buy it. Vut, if your concern are the new ships that could be released with it, I’m sure they’ll be available in SC’s galaxy either you buy or not said expansion; so, besides extended storyline, there won’t be any extra benefit over core game players. In no way is a punishment sell expansion packs.
As I said, I understand your feelings but, as you can see, are wrong.
“however, if you want to play that expansion you’ll have to buy it.” And you? Are you going to be required to pay for the updates for the multiplayer stuff that you prefer? Well… Very smart from your side. I am going to pay for you, to make sure that Cloud can survive, so you really have your content for free FOREVER as they promissed. So, let’s the Colonel pay for all people living happy in the Star Citizen world. The Lancers deserves more. Colonels have to have this duty to pay! Really? Are you really think that’s fair? Fair would be having different prices for the packages. But we didnt have different prices. People who pledged in single player campaing experience, paid the same value. I didnt see a more cheaper pledge where you paid less since youre more interested in single player campaigns and at this case, you will have to pay for future upddates. Nothing like that. A lot of people doesnt know that companies needs this or that to survive, as you explained. They learn what is wroten in the merchandising. In this case, what was wroten in the Star Citizen description. And there was nothing, even in minor font size, saying that you would be required to pay for future mission packs of single player campaigns. Not even a word. And Chris and team helped to people think that really it would be for free, since always answered that additional content would be free, and not specifying anything about free only for the multiplayer part of the game. Even that it needs to be maintained to the universe survive, it was a wrong thing, and sound like they deceived people to achieve more pledges. But I don’t think so. It sounds to me like a mistake, due the rush and crazyness that was the Pledge campaign. But still, a failure from a service seemed promissed that are not be provided. So, lets the make the things right. Just provide the future campaigns ALWAYS FOR FREE FOR EARLIER BACKERS, because we were the people who didnt read anything about having to pay for future expansions, not the future buyers of the game. Then, put this information that is lacking for the future buyers, so that they know for sure what they are going to pay and what they wont be required. Why anyone would be against something like that? Do not use us for your own purpose to have your experience better and at a less cost! Lets make everything fair for ALL EARLIER BACKERS! If I have to pay for single player future campaigns, definitely the earlier backers should pay subscritpitions to play this game, the multiplayer part. As you told about the single player campaigns will have a reasonable price, ok, lets due subscriptions for a reasonable price then, so we could make sure the single-player campains for FREE for everyone! It’s more just for everyone! But I don’t like that. I prefer my first suggestion.
I don’t agree also that it needs to be voted. Of course that the majority of people who pledged prefer the multiplayer expereience of this game, and are going to be happy in letting those losers single-player fans to pay and making enough revenue so that they continue to have their full experience for free, forever. It was just a mistake. Lack of clear information which lead people to pledge thinking that they could have these mission packs for free. So, let all future mission packs for free for the earlier backers forever, put the information in the website that, for future buyers, mission packs wont be for free, and we all will have what we deserve, in a fair way for all, and not giving privileges for only a group of earlier backers and not all them.
First time that I alerted about this subject in the live chat, a lot of a fan boys came to practically kick me out (if they had this tool in the chat they certainly would make that), just because I was saying that was not fair. paying for missions packs and was not the promisse that they did in the description of the game. Som people started to say that I don’t know how to read, or saying that the things about free forever is in the context of Star Citizen, which is a different thing than single-player campaigns like Squadron 42 and due that, future missions packs (except Behine Enemy Lines) will have to be paid, and only missions, stuff for the persistent multiplayer online world where promissed for free.
Well, I knew for sure that I didn’t understand anything of the description of Star Citizen, in the wrong way, so I get back to the FAQ available for anyone (even non-backers) and I saw first:
1-)”Will there be story updates or expansions?
We’re going to be constantly updating the universe from our end. I’m not interested in having yearly updates. We will have a team of people adding content on a weekly or bi-weekly basis. So we’ll be always adding data, stories, and campaigns as well as reacting to what the players are doing.”
Great, until this point I know that there will be updates including histories and new campaigns. Let’s go to the next one:
2-) “Is Star Citizen an MMO?
No! Star Citizen will take the best of all possible worlds, ranging from a permanent, persistent world similar to those found in MMOs to an offline, single player campaign like those found in the Wing Commander
series…”
Ok. Only me notice that big exclamation in the “No”?I am sure that now that I told you all, you all can see clearly. There’s no such thing which fanboys said: “updates for free forever, are described in the context of Star Citizen which is a persisent world, while SQ42 and campaigns are another thing”. No! The definition of Star Citizen by Cloud Imperium Games is that it is the persistent world + Campaigns (like Squadron 42 and Behind Enemy Lines)
And finally:
3-) “Is Star Citizen “free to play”? A subscription game?
To play Star Citizen you need only to buy the initial game. There will never be a monthly charge for usage. Some in-game items may be available as microtransactions, but we will NEVER sell anything that can’t be acquired through honest (and fun!) gameplay.”
Yes! I thought. Star Citizen which by definition is a persistent world PLUS offilne campaings, you only will need to buy the copy and then, all future content NEVER will be sold in a way that can’t be acquired through gameplay. And, as the previous answers told, we are going to have updates of stories, campaigns and so on!
See? Everything described in STar Citizen page is in context of offline campaigns or additional mission packs too. Because, Star Citizen is defined as both, and not only one of them.
Things clarified, I insist that if you guys should make this right, put some clarification ASAP, and for all backers which buy anything here, prior to this change in the description of Star Citizen, must be the warranty of having any future mission packs for free. For future buyers, the description changed will be there already, so that they will have certain that the price that they are paying do not includes future missoin packs (campaigns).
“and just because you missed some info and not every little bit is easily traceable around the net does not mean we are entitled to press them to get everything for free. that’s just greedy. the site is a work in progress, just as the game is…”
Just answering this… Right… I missed the info and it’s greedy. The site is a WIP. Ok. Let’s say then that things can change. Let’s put a subscription for everyone so the future single-player campaigns can be released for free then. It can be categorized as the same – a promissed not acomplished. From the point of view of a multiplayer fan, that’s not a problem the single-player campaigns fans having to be required to pay for their updates, but let’s do this, subscriptions for all multiplayer fans PAY for us, single-player campaign fans having their full content for free too! I am pretty sure that a lot of you guys wouldn’t like that… So why our single-player fans have to like that, since the description of SC didn’t tell anything about paying for future campaigns. Quite contrary, as already explained above, it includes everything inside “Star Citizen” and everything is described as free forever (for those who paid for the copy of the game)!
Star Citizen reporting for duty Sir, yes Sir (Future explorer of our Universe)
Thank you for the nice updates, keep em coming. Keep up the good work.
Procrastination… It’s the ‘Merican’ way to crash a site… Who needs DOS when you got 40,000 crazy loyal fans waiting to the last minute to spend mad amounts of money for a great cause… w00t, pixel! But RSI rocks & took it like Donkey’s take a load up a hill(Keep it clean)! Yeah, Merica! Pew, Pew, Pew….
Thank you so much CR & RSI for bringing it back… You guys are amazing & I really look forward to all you’re going to do and prove to the industry… I have really missed this type of gaming… Thank you, can’t wait… Are we there yet?
NICELY WRITTEN ! Go Cloud Imperium we are Behind you !
I love the RSI team photo. It looks like the average age of the members is about my age. Now I don’t feel so old….:-)
That’s not everyone – just the members of the team at the Austin, Texas 24 hour countdown!
There’s a few more – and some of them are young 20 to 30 something whippersnappers!
We’ll do a proper team photo at some point, it just hard as we’re spread out between several locations.
Did you guys drink all that wine? Those racks behind you look pretty empty
I don’t think you people could smile any harder if you tried!
But congratulations! It’s well deserved and I so appreciate the pledge. It’s nice to know your hearts and minds are in the same place as ours.
there you go, off ejoying your selves and leaving the LAMP holding the fort
Congratulations everyone
You folks have a great and restful Thanksgiving. Looking forward to watching the game progress.
The five year old me (that eternally dwells within when it comes to marvelling at great sci-fi) and who saw StarWars and grew up with 70′s and 80′s sci-fi would like to say a massive thankyou for making his dreams a reality.
We’re with and behind you guys all the way over the next two years. Make us proud (like i know you will) and we’ll reward you to the Nth degree.
THANKYOU for your vision Chris, thankyou to the devs and team there for your epic undertaking which I’m sure will go down in videogame history.
“Publishers? We don’t need no stinkin publishers.” to paraphrase “Blazing Saddles”.
Congratulations to all the team at RSI have a Happy Thanksgiving!
Thank you for putting this genre on the radar again!
THANK YOU! I pledged more than I want to think about whilst in moment of temporary insanity… no no, I think I’ll be in a state of permanent insanity for the next 2 years at least.
Yeah
me too, and also will upgrade my pledge and subscribe 
Oh and I’m looking forward to that Novella from Dave Haddock.
Rock on, guys and gals!
Thanks to everyone that made us reach that magic $6+ million.
It’s the first time I funded a game and I think I actually feel a tiny bit pregnant with a space sim now. (Maybe it’s begetter of a space sim in my case.)
Damn, I’m so excited and then I realise it’ll take two years or so before I can play the game. Ah man!
To Chris Roberts and his team: I’ll thank you when the game is done.
I am not going to thak anyone when the game is done I will be too busy playing it:D
:*), the same.
<3
Someday in the not too distant future, I’m going to be walking down the street in my Star Citizen t-shirt, and someone’s going to stop me and ask me with reverence/envy “Were you there since the beginning?”, and I’ll just smile and feel sadness for all those that failed to join the greatness when they had the chance. Thank you, Chris Roberts and the whole Cloud Imperium team.
I hope everyone at CIG has a great Turkey day! Congrats on the funding and thanks again for making it possible for us to show our support!
Hi Chris and the Team,
This is such exciting news! This grace period is a ‘Godsend’ as I spent countless hours trying to get on and pledge, and I’m sure being here in Australia didn’t help matters any.
Thank you for your thoughtfulness, and I can’t wait, like everyone else to really start creating this dream we are all now apart of.
All the best to you and all those who have pledged.
Thank you so much for the grace period as well!!!
I am from New Zealand and our Internet sucks compared to what some other countries have and so I have been spending like crazy (for me anyway not rich) on buying ships as I dont know how much time I will be able to spend on the game because of time away at work and other boring real life stuff!!!
I will need the time to pay off my credit card and then using it again to buy a real good pc to play this at the max.
Once again thank you all for this wonderful game I am so looking forward to playing this game with all space sim fans.
The whole process was amazing. I feel honored to have been a part of it in some small way. We have faith in you Chris and the team at Cloud Imperium to deliver us a game that we all want, so much so we all put our money where our mouths were.
We have done the impossible, and that makes us mighty.
We all have contributed to the space game history
In my case, this is the first time I have expent a few hundred USD in a game (adjusted to my possibilities, I am not a big fish!), specially taking into account that I am by nature an off-line single-player. I am proud about being part of this fan community. No matter if I have to expend 2 or more years for Star Citizen to be finished and polished. In the meantime, I will play Discovery FREELANCER 
. But what I am most proud is about helping a SME founded by enthusiast to beat the big publishers. This David against Golliath will be remembered in the forecoming years! 
FOR THE PC! FOR THE SPACE-SIM!
This is a tremendous milestone for RSI, and the humble start of R&K’s Ship Procurement Agency specialised in the business of reselling “secondhand” ships.
Let me know when your business is up and running, I can help you procure some of those ships
Drake Interplanetary couldn’t have worded it better ;P
Sorry for the grammar, I must leave the drink
I meant “what I am most proud is about helping a SME founded by ENTHUSIASTS in beating the big publishers. THANK YOU for listening us and for building this universe for us. Now, WE CAN DREAM 
Thank you, CIG, Chris, the whole team, for all your efforts already and in waking up a lost generation of gamers from their slumber. You have experienced the sleeping lion, that has awakened. We will be here following your trails and guarding you from the little kids that do not understand, we shall teach them and they shall be converted to the cause, such is the allure of the space sim.
I salute you for your incredible success and bravery in the face of such danger of putting ones reputation on the line.
- Freespace 2 veteran gamer and modder, Freelancer player
RSI exemplifies true customer service in this industry in a way that was not possible years ago. Crowd funding has changed the game (no pun intended) considerably, and I hope this is the beginning of a new trend. Today you pay an average of $60 for a game you had no input on and no say in. I know I am willing (assuming I’m able) to contribute a bit more to a team I trust on a project for which I feel my voice is being heard and appreciated.
“how it is another nail in the coffin of the traditional publisher model.”
This line fills me with hope to be honest. I’m glad that such a broken system is starting to deteriorate in popularity. I’m sure a certain lamp also agrees.
Thanks to the team and those that pledged. I look forward to participate in the development of this game and in a small way, make it my own.
BRAVO ZULU team! Outstanding work! Thanks also to Sandi for getting my account info straightended out! BTW, we had a boy!!!!
You are all legends. Every single one of you.
I want to thank LAMP for the commitment it has shown us during the long dark hours in chat!
ALL HAIL LAMP!
Without you we never would have made it!
We will be at your side at all times!
It was about time, Chris and all you guys and girls, we have been waiting for a WC/Freelancer/Privateer Game Online World, for damn too long already….just take a glance on, how many MMOs have been destroyed but a few, until you came along…
For since you give another Space Opera, the taste of which we have experienced from Chris Games so far, this will be a renaissance for the PC Gaming Industry in the making.
All your bad copies have failed, or never ever even tried to copycat your way of making games, suits and mediocre systems cannot match flesh and blood in acting and story coupled with technology and PC gaming.
I wonder how ignorant was the whole gaming establishment not to follow on Roberts footsteps, i guess the next generation will become a better audience and students of his school.
We, the forgotten gamers, who have experienced the level of Roberts Games, know…and thus we pledged without thinking over twice.
I don’t feel sorry for the suits, failing MMOs and rest of a dying breed of mediocre games…probably they never ever played Privateer through Clive Owen’s eyes, and were never ever the Heart of the Tiger through Mark Hammil, or Vigilant through Malcolm’s enticing figure.
What made the Spartans great, was the same thing like Roberts Games….flesh and blood and Spear…..which is People/actors/story and gaming together as One…Space Opera to see/play and live through.
This is why….i pledged! and Thank You!
Three times the original target. More than one and a half times the old record. And just over the undreamable dream target. Wow… pledge looks good to me,
I clocked out when we hit 5.5 mil. When I saw that we actually hit over 6 mil the next time I checked, I was so amazed, I was speechless. I can’t wait to plat Star Citizen! In the mean time I’ll be playing some of the classics, like Freelancer and the Wing Commander games, since I never had a chance to play them before.
GREAT WORK so far!, hope u can pull it of
I’m missing “Unlock System 70″ at 5 Mil.
->Next, at $5.0 million: “home and namesake of a traveling species.”
To Chris Roberts and the team, thank you for taking on what i can see as being a truly visionary game that has the works more ambition than any game i have encountered thus far.
It is truly my honor to be in this day and age to see something like this take shape, that i have always dreamed up of in my head, to fulfill what Freelancer intended to be and be part of a milestone in gaming history, and world history.
I am proud to be an investor, as a gamer and avid supporter for Star Citizen. Godspeed, and continue working to turn our dreams into reality!
Excellent job! Now, one year to upgrade my PC before the Alpha phase and buy at least 3 new LCD screens so that I can enjoy the game immersion in full scale
$570 bucks into the game so far, don’t make me regret it!
Felt lost the last few days
Kinda sad this part is over. It was amazing fun and to see a dream of mine come true and then be so successfull in funding felt so good. Keep smiling to myself. Good luck Chris and the team! We are all with you all the way…
$6.5 Stretch Goal: A personalized plea for mercy from the development team after realizing they have no idea what to give you anymore
I’m sure we wont regret our decision of believing in you guys! let’s go for it
I’ve always thought there’s room for catastrophe but that thought is not existant when it comes to Star Citizen and RSI. I fully believe you will keep your promises and that you measure up to our expectations. It is truly a dream come true.
This makes me all so fuzzy warm inside. Great game and community. And with Lamp we got the perfect mascot.
RSI – you guys are the best in what you do. I think this is why our devotion and loyalty made the difference. Its awesome that we together got as far as we got. Many of us pledgers didn’t think we would EVER achieve such a high point in fundraising. I think its both ours and yours RSI dreams come true! Keep up the good work. We will be closely watching you with pounding hearts and excitement of everything new you will decide to show to us and release for review!
Happy Thanksgiving to you too Chris, Sandi, Ben… Fred!… lol… and everyone in RS!
Wow! the server times are messed up, it’s in the future now is 8:17 pm
it’s One full hour ahead! o_O
All I want to say is “Thank you CIG team for the opportunity to be part of this”
@Chris
When is the next AMA session?
DEAR Mr. Roberts… HECK! Dear RSI
This is the very first Crowdfunding project i´ve ever supported. Yes, it´s because the past masterpieces of Chris Roberts, too. But what convinced me the most, was the manner CR spoke to us, later the manner the whole team was in to the community. I´ve NEVER EVER heard about such a big bond. This fact made me trust even more in you, the team. And this fact made me spend more than i should. BUT I KNOW I WILL NOT REGRET. Take one more day to recover and then let´s do this together. You make the game, and we cover your passion. Best regards from south Germany! Your´s,
Zwen
P.s. How´s the Lamp doing? ;P
P.p.s. WEE NEED MORE SHIPS!!!!!!! ;P
the one thing, the secred ingedience, the hidden super weapon in this campaign was … THE LAMP!! no other cloudfunding project had it so far, you did and see where it got you…
someone can link me a video where we see the lampscene?^^ I wasnt here to watch it when it happened
Thanks Chris and to the RSI team from a fan here in the Asia Pacific region, (yeah dont forget us, we have Wing Commander and Freelancer fans around this side of world too
Looking forward to the realization of your true vision of this great game for all space sim fans around the world. We’ve all here contributed to the first steps, lets make it happen
THE PLEDGE PRICES HAVE CHANGED?
You said we would get a 48hour grace period, but you have already changed your prices?
You should see the old prices. Are you logged in? If you aren’t you’ll see the new ones, or if your RSI account was created after 11/19/2012…
If not please email [email protected]
We believe in you and your team Chris! Can’t wait for the next updates.
Outstanding work. This was an amazing experience from start to finish and its just the beginning. It has been a long time since I have been this excited about a game. I have no doubts that Chris Roberts and the rest of the gang will come through in a big way. The community that has formed during this process is already strong. We were celebrating what was happening as we stayed glued to the screen for much of the campaign. It was apparent early in this process that we were a part of something special. Thank you!
Thank you for creating this game, looking forwards to the tricking down of the updates during the course of the next 2 years. =)
GL & HF, RSI!
Let’s make this a GG!
Let’s do this! Let’s build a game that will turn console pigs to the light side of gaming that i PC!
Its eye opening and feeling ‘home’ to see so many people back this project. I mean, unless you (who backed) this project really believe in PC gaming and very likely love space sim, its hard for me to believe you will pay more than $30 for this project which have not even in alpha yet.
Great job guys! I am excited for this game, to collaborate and enjoy my space sim life with all of you soon
Is there anywhere where we can get more info on the add-on ships? Its a bit hard to fork out so many $’s blind and years in advance of the product.
We’re going to do a brochure of each ship the way we did for the Constellation. It’s just going to take some time. Until then we’ve published the specs on all ships except the Vanduul fighter and the Idris Corvette.
If you’ve already backed, you’ll be able to upgrade or add on another ship to your account at the original prices for the next 12 months, so there’s no hurry if you want to wait to see pictures before upgrading.
Speaking of the Idris Corvette, any chance more slots will open up for that?
Chris, the Pirate Fighter has been an unexpected addition to the lot and I wanted to say big thanks for that. Personally speaking, I feel the concept of piracy can be taken to a whole different level and I would love to see this path opened up to everybody as early as possible and keep the door open pledgewise.
Imagine that you get attacked/captured by pirates and rather than biting the bullet, you are given the choice to join or die (after your cargo has been ‘cleared’). Or how about the option of going ‘rogue’ during the Squadron 42 campaign with a shiny new toy?
Piracy opens up a lot of possibilities to tell a story from another point of view or to branch out an existing story. Given the fact that piracy does not respect borders or races, it is possible to use it as a connection to all species (and the whole universe), whether they are at war or not.
Last but not least: dedicated pirate ships. I would really, really love to see some radical custom jobs on existing ships, even hybrids that may or may not be welded together from existing ones. This would do a lot to reflect the cultural variety of all species among the pirates. And also highlight their ability to make do or improve on whatever they can get their hands on.
By no means am I advertising piracy here, but I feel that the concept deserves attention and players should have an option to experience all facets of this growing universe. It’s a nice counter-point to the morally high seated concept of citizenship which for all I know is built on peace and stability. Out there on the borders, this is rarely the case and morals only get in between players and their continued survival.
As someone who once long ago worked on a PC game title which was essentially ruined by our publisher, it’s good to see this project and others like it gaining traction.
Lets keep the creative control and game design in the hands of the game developers where it belongs, not stuffy publishing companies who only care about increasing profit!
Now, Your Turn. make ‘awesome’.
First off, glad to see the pledge period extended – the extra money brought in can only ‘add’ to the game.
Insurance – what exactly is that?
When you are playing the single player missions, I assume that it is not applicable.
For Multiplayer, if you have either purchased a ‘better’ ship or upgraded it, what happens if you lose a fire fight? If you don’t have insurance, do you re-spawn somewhere with a basic ship?
Does insurance add in-game value to the ship that can be re-couped and put toward a better ship?
Is insurance something that cannot be bought after the pledge, when the game is released?
Is there a faq about it somewhere???
That would be nice to see sooner rather than later.
I believe Chris mentioned this before, & because it would bring more immersion into the game, & being a good money sink would help the economy in game.
I also believe it was mentioned that the “re-spawn” would be something that you eject from your ship & get picked up later, but it’s a work in progress.
Insurance doesn’t add value, just insures you your stuff. & insurance will be in the game after pledge (the pledge means you’ll never lose that ship [you may lose add-ons, or upgrades]).
& lastly if you are a pirate there’s no way you can get insurance I believe Chris mentioned.
As I said before, I support you 110%, BUT no credit card means no financial “support”. And damn it, Mom and Dad refuse to help me out! I’m just a simple college student, with no job whatsoever. Sorry I can’t do more than get word out slightly more, and give you a nice well-earned fist pump in the air.
It’s pretty cool to be part of history! I never would have imagined that a community such as this would come together and in our own little way contribute to such an enormous undertaking. I’m not big on crowd-funding or the like but when I saw that this was in the works and who was working on it, the decision to contribute was easy! To PC Gaming, to Space Sims, to RSI, Cheers!
Lamp hopes blub is well taken care of! Congrats!
I pledge allegiance to the Jump-point of the Coud Imperium, and to the Empire for which it stands, one Confederation under [Chris], indivisible, with liberty and justice for all Citizens.
Make it happen now and we are all good.
I am so happy for the grace period! I have had financial problems and had 2 computers crashed on me last week. Looking forward to the updates and the final product.
Are we going to be able to upgrade a Kickstarter pledge to a higher tier this weekend here at RSI, given the administrative lag after a Kickstarter campaign finishes?
Cheers
I squeak to this message!
What a ride. Thank you Chris for envisioning this awesome universe and you and your team for running such an amazing Kickstarter.
I keep searching Kickstarter for a time machine project. No luck yet. 2 years is a long time!
26th Nov just happens to be my birthday and I bought myself a few birthday presents here on RSI! Thank you and on to the development stage, of course after a well deserved rest for the team!
First off, a major congratulations to what you have achieved. And secondly (and I apologise for rehashing a worn topic) because there still seems to be significant confusion as to the lifetime insurance issue, until told otherwise I am going to assume that if you had a membership before the pledge drive ended AND you had pledged before the pledge drive ended then adding another ship to your pledge will also include lifetime insurance and garaging for that ship (at least for the duration of the grace period). I really hope this is correct because I wanted to add the Hornet to my Constellation pledge but couldn’t get access in the dying hours to do so, so I added it just now during the grace period and the lack of lifetime insurance would be most upsetting.
Insurance in the game, I can grantee, wouldn’t be that bad. Something like this in the game is a functional money sink, & wouldn’t be a game breaker economically. If you plan on going pirate, then it could be a pain, but that is to be expected.
Thank you guys for making a game that may challenge my beast of a laptop!!!!
Well, it was a wild ride that’s for sure! I don’t think I’ve been involved (or felt so involved) with any game to that extent before, and I thank you for inviting us all to share with you the experience of the past several weeks, and most especially that last 48 hours!
I also want to give s special thanks to Sandi who was exceptionally helpful and responsive throughout, while answering my questions and allaying my concerns about some billing issues I had.
You may be a small team, but you’ve all got great heart and spirit, and I know the journey will be well worth the efforts of everyone involved.
I look forward to the future and eagerly await the many forthcoming episodes along our journey to become Star Citizens!
Just plain awesome, I need a break from 8 years of eve and if Chris Roberts is behind it, I’d pledge up no matter what the project was, i’ve played the old Wing Commander back in the early days, was awesome
Thanks Chris Roberts for making my millenium
Thank you and a huge one at that. I can’t wait to hop back in a proper space sim.
Congratulations to the team. I was watching you all from Australia during the webcast. I played all of the Wing Commander and follow-on games as a kid. I’ve pledged as I believe you can create that same experience, if not better.
Good Luck. Thanks.
I still wonder what will happen when publishers up and down the street realize where they went wrong and try to sue the $*!7 out of developers and crowdfunders. like the riaa members and their zombieslug governed brethren.
Sue them for what?
They cant because they dont own the game or have anything to do with it.
Words can’t express how happy I am to see all the goals reached, to see the team interact with the community, and to see how dedicated everybody is to this. I have absolute confidence that this is going to be amazing. So, to everybody at RSI, thank you. Thank you for everything you have done, and all of the things to come.
Really looking forward to it guys
First off, Commander Roberts and crew, we salute you!
I have been reading forums for more than a decade now and I just want to comment on the caliber of commentors on this site. Too often the people on gaming sites are just there to troll the other guys or to mention something negative, no matter what the subject matter is.
It shows that the level of person dedicated to true gaming (that’s US GUYS here, RSI included!), are made from the right stuff
@BluGeminii: i totally agree to your words! This is exactly my thinking, and that’s why i love to stay here and read all the notes. Make this comunity to be an example for the world: stay on this level.
The universe of PC games has changed on Nov 19, 2012; and i think about 90.000 people may have the same feeling.
CONGRATS TO RSI
so say we all
good job guys
Greetings RSI and all space lovers,
So many years ago I started up Freelancer, it was the first time I expierenced my jaw drop. Only so few games managed to achieve that since. I was hoping for, dreaming about Freelancer 2 alas to no avail. That dream was lost in time, until RSI came to be. I joined before 10/10/10 and my mind started playing tricks on me. I could see myself a few years in the future, sitting there like back in the days when I was a kid playing Freelancer: jaw to the floor, eyes teary and heart full of joy.
I believe in you sir Chris Roberts, I believe in you RSI.
So say we all.
Right there with you!
Well they could make a poll what to do with the rest of the money (more ship costumization (furniture etc.))
And now :
Thank you for the amazing pledge campaign.
PLEASE get some rest (cause it will be a rare luxury the next few years muhahahaha)
Hello RSI Team,
greetings from Hamburg.
Very good work, go on.
So happy this is happening! Good luck! you got a lot to do!
To be honest, i think you would have alot more people picking up the $250 pledge if it carried over the 4 copies from the quad damage pledge.
Especially since you are effectively distributing a 4 crew ship along with it, it makes a lot more sense.
Please just make the game already. This could all be just a big con.
I’ve never been so excited about anything in my life! That’s why I put my hand deep into my pockets to give you guys as much as I could and I’m sure many others did the same as well. We have faith in you. Don’t let us down.
Look here big publishers, THIS is service!
We thank YOU too RSI for making this games.
thank you rsi team
My thanks to all at RSI and in fact all the supporters who pledged for restoring my faith in PC gaming. Good luck with the game but i suspect if it has even most of what I’ve seen in the videos so far i will find it hard to be disapointed by this
THANK YOU SO MUCH RSI!!!
I loved the atmosphere, the feeling of the game universe. Later I lost the focus on gaming (of course I played several games on PC 
. But now, everything is back. I feel like a kid, even if I’m already in my mid 30s 
You and we as the community just started something really great. Its so much more than only a game!
I’m so proud to be member of this community!
I’ve played Wing Commander I back than on Amiga 500
So lets continue this wonderful beginning…
Thank you again!
German Translation can be found at http://werde-star-citizen.de
I’m so happy to be a part of it!
Be carefull with what you are going to translated in another site. I don’t think that for the next weeks, the content should be available for all people, since they are going to build a wall, we pledgers should respect that. That’s why I stopped to update with entries in some game communitites in my country as well stopped to update my blog. I only will update when I see that the inforamtion is not inside the wall. Maybe you already know that and is prepared to do that, but this alert is for anyone else.
Thank you very much RSI team, you guys are legends!
RSI THANKYOU! you deserve every cent, Chris you have shown everyone that dreams come true, I’m proud to be part of an such an awesome event and this is something my sons have become part of as well.. goes to show that things like this can bridge a generation gap and more! Looking forward to seeing and being part of the development progress and remember You guys are the leaders in a new generation of gaming.. you deserve all the praise and more!
Thank you Chris and the RSI team for making something I’ve been wishing for for a long, long time become a reality. I now have the the final reason to dump my X-box in the trash and get back to my first love, the pc! I am a disabled Viet Nam vet who spends a lot of time gaming and as such have been hugely disappointed with the garbage that passes as “quality” these days, the rubbish that the big publishers foist on us. You have been sorely missed! I have complete faith that you and your team will deliver the goods as promised and so I will now spend my considerable free time building the cockpit for my new Corvette, and the spanking new PC to support it. Now get some rest, and get to work! There is much to be done in the coming months.
I am so happy for you at RSI and everyone in the community right now! This could not have gone much better, you have proven that there is a real appetite for the Space Simulator and that we do not need to use the traditional publisher model to make an excellent game for the next generation a reality! It is truly inspiring and it is what so many people have wanted for many years, I mean did you ever read the petition pleading for Freelancer 2 that thousands of people signed? http://www.petitiononline.com/FLPet/petition.html.
Well now it looks like our dream is coming true and I believe you can deliver it! Onward and upwards, thrusters to maximum!
Your honesty, your autenticity, your bravery, Crhis, was what has inspired us. You made us believe this dream could become true.
There are times in history that it changes because the right person is in the right place at the right time. But many times nothing changes because that person is not bold enough to fight for his own dreams. Your greatness is to be brave and to be yourself and do what you felt was right. We just followed you.
I’m sure if you were not a passionate gamer as you are this project would never come this far, probably would never come true. You appealed to our passion for PC games and Space Sims, a passion you share. How could we say NO?
I’m sure together we’ll make an awesome game, and I’ve got the feeling few other games will have the soul this game already have, because it is your soul Chris, and we all saw it.
So, “be brave, be yourself, and all will be fine”
So Say We All!!!
To Chris and the team please look after yourselfs,get plenty of sleep and take care of each other I dont want anything bad to happen this is my dream game coming true.
Come on TEN MILLION DOLLARS! Well, maybe not, but it’s nice to see that pledges are still coming in! Congratulations to all of us!
As sometimes stated above. Now the real work begins =)
But a big “Thank You” back because without your Ideas and Concepts we probably would not believe in you because this is what all who pledged do. Belive in you!
I don’t see LAMP on the pledge photo, needs to be fixed! xD
Anyway, i am too amazed by what happened in the last few days, and seeing this amount of suuport for PC space sims makes me happy. Looking forward to the bright future of SC!
You know I am so proud to be part of all this endeavor.
Thank you CR and RSI Team for giving me this opportunity.
Let alone the money the visions and the people behind this are the real thing.
Go Star Citizen Go.
this is sooooo awesome. i cant wait for star citizen to come out. i have never supported anything like this before. and have been waiting a long time for a game of this caliber. know one is more capable then you team chris!
Agreed!!!
Well, that was awsome! I am still flattered by the momentum the whole campaign gained towards the deadline, tearing down those stretch goals faster than you could say “furball” to a Kilrathi. This really was something worth participating in
Up to now, the space genre was practically dead. There was nothing new coming and so I had to stick to great fan projects like Privateer Gemini Gold or Wing Commander Saga, revisiting the playgrounds of my youth to get my dose of space awsomeness.
Hell Yeah, I normally don’t buy a pig in a poke, but everything you delivered so far feels just right. Although the logical part of my mind tells me to be carefull because much of what you did was some brilliant marketing. Yes, it was absolutely genius to release the brochure of the still untextured constellation to push the campaign and the short starport footage also helped a lot. But the gamer in me doesn’t care at all because all those tiny bits already breathe the spirit of a great space game. A game I am longing for since the brilliant Freespace 2.
Thank You Chris and Team for having the curage to revive a genre that was dormant far too long.
Thanks to all the people that, like me, supported this projekt with their money. I am looking forward to the next two years with this great community. This is OUR game!
Actually i DEMMAND YOU TO BEGIN TO WORK XD (joking), i am soooo excited that every single day that passes i am eager to see all the progress!
I am so proud and happy to be a part of it.
This game will be like a lighthouse to our beloved hobby.
Grats to Chris, the RSI- and the CR-Team for this good start.
Looking forward to all the (great) things to come…
And to meet you all in space
I totally agree with that. The times are changing, its in the air.
EA and the other mainstream publisher who only interested in the cheapest way to get more and more money get a slap in their face if other good developers get inspired by RSI.
It´s a great step into a new Era of game development.
Thank you Chris, thank you RSI Team.
You’re welcome! And on behalf of every fan of Star Citizen, I’d like to thank you, Chris Roberts, and your dedicated team. You guys have given us a reason to believe in PC gaming again. It’s as if you reached into our minds and pulled out the game we’ve always dreamed of.
So far, so good. The community is full of interesting and respectful individuals. While most of us didn’t know what was going on, so many kind individuals did their best to spread the word. To spread knowledge to people that wanted it. I can’t wait to participate in discussions on the forum. And I look forward to playing the alpha and beta versions of Star Citizen.
Thanks, Chris Roberts… for inspiring us all.
Cant wait
this will be awsome!
@ Chris
Thank you very much TO YOU for this incredible project which realizes our wildest dreams.
However, I have a question : how will you do that “mod tools” don’t be “cheat tools” ?
Let me explain. I made a Freelancer mod where I revamped economy and exploration. But players quickly discovered trade routes, new bases, new wrecks not cause they flew with their ship, but because they used mod tools as FL explorer, FL Companion, FL hack …
I wouldn’t this to happen with Star Citizen. Will it be possible that coordinates of objects, commodity prices and other things can be read only by modders or administrators, and they can prevent mod tools to read these data, by crypting them or putting them only on the server side and not on client side ?
That’s a good point you raise there.
The mod tools of other games practically invite blatant cheating, especially in single player campaigns and to some extent in multiplayer. Most of all when it comes to fixed locations for hidden items. The tools themselves also revealed vital information and game mechanics that could be mercilessly exploited and abused. In essence, mod tools are largely sanctioned cheats these days.
I dearly hope that Star Citizen’s mod tools will set the record straight and restore their intended purpose, namely modifying and creating content.
simply keep the relevant files on server rither than client? making client read from the server in order to get the data. technology is going forward
@ Chris
I agree with Ladwin. These facts of “cheating” made us very disappointed. Ladwin was working herd alone to create something great and some “bastards” made the choice to use these softwares to know everything without afforts.
Oups sorry, I have had a bad finger with “e” and “a”.
You must read “hArd” and “Efforts”.
Sorry
From Kickstarter homepage
Persistent Universe (hosted by US)
Mod-able multiplayer (hosted by YOU)
I think the Persistent Universe (the online galaxy) may have different data vs
the Mod-able multiplayer which should act like private game.
So the cheating should not be a problem as you host your own private game, you are the one who decide to cheat or not while ultimately it have nothing to do with the MMO Persistent Universe.
That’s not the point, the point is : “If i mod this and this on my server (for example, adding a high end vessel in a high end system), will people be able to rush it in 5 minutes, instead of farming 20 days, thanks to the mod tools ?”. If this opportunity is given (not deliberately, of course) to the people playing on your private server, it’s something like cheating and that’s a pain in the ass.
I’ll add my voice to this one ! The mod tools should interact with something on the modder’s computer or server side, with a restricted connection or something ?
From Spain, also support this great idea. Thx for remember us that sims still alive.
Guys, i wonder, is it possible to publish some web statistics about the traffic over the last week or two? Must be very interesting graph (especially the last 24h of the campaign)!
I just love the way this stuff above seems like a personal note, rather then some ‘official-political’ blabla we are used to from other companies. Just wanted to let you know
Keep up the great work guys!
Always professional, always caring about your community; you guys are the best and there really is nothing else to say but, keep up the great work!
If you keep up to you’re pledge, we will be one very happy community
(can’t please everyone but thats a doh)
First time I have ever laid down money on a game that doesn’t even exist yet.
This should be an interesting ride for the next few years.
I’m on board, and looking forward to development dispatches
Agreed. I’ve never backed anything before, but this one was a no-brainer.
Same here, loved the old Wing Commander games, really loved Privateer!
My only problem with the games were that they were too closed, not expansive enough, so far, everything I read about this is a positive.
I have always wanted to play a first rate space game, with multiplayer aspects and particularly ships with more than one person on them.
If this game is open ended enough, it could very well be the game I always wanted to play.
Well so far i can only say one thing for sure: I’m really glad that i’m aboard!
Thank you RSI & also many thanks to the entire Community, it’s great to be a part of it <3
I do love these! And I do hope they continue with the current pace, and that the main project of the game doesn’t infect its speed too much!
hmmmm… ok. if i’m not logged in, i see a “ships dev doc” instead of my “account” tab. when i log in, the first tab disappears (was more interesting than my account tab). yes i’m excited as everybody else… BUT
i know it’s all in the beginning, i wanted to see if anybody cares about anything else than fanboying.
That is available from the Star Citizen page also, and many other links are there too. Thanks for pointing this out – we’ll be working to make everything ever better over the coming weeks.
wow. you’re fast!
Just something I want to note:
As a matter of fact this is not the first game on which a community has such a high impact: Natural Selection2 with the VERY small developerstudio: Unknown Worlds Entertainment did this the past ~8 Years!
The community was/is is embbeded into the development in a way, that even a few community members are now working full-time for UWE.
Congrats to everyone at RSI, and thank you for even making this thing possible! Looking forward to the awesome ride you guys are giving us in a couple of years.
Did everybody mention that Star Citizen madit to the Forbes?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2012/11/19/star-citizen-smashes-previous-video-game-crowd-funding-records-raising-6-2-million/
Thank you RSI!
This game is my dream game in every sense. A bad-ass Space sim made by Chris Roberts.
I love how the RSI updates and announcements feel as if they come from a friend and fellow game nut and not a PR department.
To paraphrase the Grateful Dead: What a long cool trip this will be.
https://docs.google.com/a/schaffrick.ca/spreadsheet/lv?key=0AlblbRhPNxOWdFhMV3ZBNHhfMnZWcHM3MXYzb1dWTHc#gid=0
I was looking at the ships here, and on the Retaliator (and on the kickstarter update) there are 12 level 3 hardpoints and 5 level 4 hardpoints. Mounted on these are 8 missiles on the 12 level 3 hardpoints and 8 turrets jammed into the 5 turret slots. One of these numbers is wrong. I would guess there should be only 5 turrets, as the ship holds 6 people (1 per turret + the pilot).
Also, still waiting for the Scythe’s stats. For the price, it had best be severely OP, lol.
Thanks for extending the opportunity to support, opportunity grasped!
I wish my good friend Dan Cobham (Zodd) was still around, he introduced me to Wing Commander way back in early 1991. Upped my support level in his memory.
Still using call sign Bingo, from my days on the Tiger’s Claw
Your site has an error on both this page and the ships page, it keeps causing my Firefox browser to crash. The error is:
A script on this page may be busy, or it may have stopped responding. You can stop the script now, or you can continue to see if the script will complete.
Script: http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.6.1/jquery.min.js?ver=3.4.1:18
Whether I press stop or continue doesn’t seem to matter, it just comes up over and over until I either reload the page or close the browser.
I would like to thank you, CR, and the awesome team that you have assembled to work on this game. You have made me feel like a part of the universe already
Thanks Chris for makein this project. A long time passed with no playworthy space sim.. i’m looking forward to get a go with the new fighter and trying out what’s possible
Thanks to all the team for such a stunning campaign,and furthermore the U-stream was very entertaining your dedication and attitude made me up my pledge not bad as i’m usually a skinflint and to rich atm,either
Hope we get to more millions before christmas, just to rub some salt in the wounds of EA Games
I do what I can to help on that, PC is back!
Ah great, i couldn’t get to pledge because of the giant storm during the final day, seeing these grace period thing really saved me.
thanks a lot, and can’t wait to play the game in a year or 2, been waiting for this game since i finished Freelancer.
First of all, congrats you guys! Thank you for making my dream game
I’m still a little confused regarding lifetime insurance and pledges. If someone could help clear this up it would be much appreciated.
I know that all early backers will be able to upgrade their existing tier for a year and recieve lifetime insurance. The confusion for me is for ships that you buy IN ADDITION to the ships in the tiers.
For instance, I really want to get the retailator but I’m not sure if I have the funds at the moment. If I wait until after this weekend to purchase the retaliator, will it have litetime insurance/no garage or berthing fees? Or does this perk only apply to the existing or upgrading ships beloning to the pledge tiers. Basically I’m wondering if that perk will extend to individual ships bought in addition to the tier packages or if it only applies to ships bought or upgraded through the different tier packages?
Thanks for help clearing this up and thanks again for making this awesome game!
I m so happy
I wouldn’t mind if they made a game like X series + or freelancer with extra features…
As long as you guys give out a decent story i’m happy.
Also agreed keep throwing updates as long as possible to keep our minds busy while we wait hehe. AND FOR GOD SAKE DONT RUSH WITH THE GAME!!!