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Originally Posted by Nehkara
I find this all fascinating and I wonder if there is a large part of the gaming industry watching very closely. If you can raise what is likely to be (at the end of the campaign) $30-$50 million without a publisher or investors... it could be a new way forward for some developers.
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This could only work in a few unique situations. With Star Citizen, you basically have the entire space sim genre rallying around a single game, because they've been starved for so long and the "father" of space sims is making it. There's no way a game in a genre like FPS or RTS could generate this same kind of momentum, there's too much competition
What I could see happening though is the original goal of Star Citizen, which was to gain enough crowd funding support to convince outside investors to fund the rest. I could see more developers going this route, creating a Kickstarter with a pre-set goal and if they reach it then the publishers give the go ahead. Might be a good way to start getting more new IP instead of the same old Call of Battlefield 17