Star Citizen , the new space sim project from Wing Commander creator Chris Roberts, has broken all of the crowdfunding records. The game has currently raised over $59 million via crowdfunding. That’s absurd. That is climbing to levels of standard game budgets, outside of the indie sphere.
Star Citizen started on Kickstarter where it raised six million dollars in just thirty days. The project then continued to accept pledges through its own website. It is currently the top crowdfunded project of any type of all time.
If we are able to continuously fund projects to this degree, crowdfunding might be a new source of revenue for AAA projects as well. Personally I am interested to see whether or not Star Citizen will break 100 million dollars, because then we are talking about some triple A budgeting.
Source: Star Citizen