14 DAY TRIAL // Cloud Imperium, the developer working on Star Citizen, launches a Kickstarter-powered crowdfunding campaign for their game after experiencing a number of issues with their own website.
The developer says that the servers powering its own crowdfunding solution collapsed under the weight of traffic and fans were unable to give money for a few days. This prodded them to move to Kickstarter, which offers a more scalable and more stable platform.
Initially, team leader Chris Roberts was unwilling to turn to Kickstarter because he wanted to have a clear connection to those who pledged money for his game.
Star Citizen is a new space-based ship simulation which will allow fans to choose a ship, customize it in any way they want and then explore and fight in a deep universe.
Players can choose what role they want to play, from pirate to trader and soldier.
As long as Star Citizen gets funding, the game will be launched during 2014.