Yes that’s right, there were simply too many of us hurling our credit cards at the project. Even now they’re ”only just getting the core site back online.” They stand at $455,590 from 4,564 backers.
Their engineers are busy tinkering with the core site to get their ”proper crowd funding page” back up and operational. They can still take people’s pledges though.
”We’re absolutely floored by the attention and humbled by your comments. We hoped everyone would be excited about the big idea behind Star Citizen and Squadron 42 – but we had no expectation about the kind of praise and interest we received yesterday,” detailed Chris Roberts in an email.
”The downside of all this attention was that the huge number of people from all around the world trying to learn about Star Citizen and make their pledge, crashed our custom crowd funding page and also took down the core community site.”
He continued: ”Until then, we were on track to break crowd funding records. Now, thirty hours later, we’re only just getting the core site back online. The proper crowd funding page is still unfortunately down, but we have a backup site that, while not having the full range of features we intended, can take people’s pledges.”
The studio will be resuming ‘normal service’ as soon as they can - money isn’t everything.
”We didn’t just set out to raise money to build a game; we set out to build a community. The intention was never to shut off the forums, disable the Golden Tickets or stop the flow of information after the launch; anything but.”
”We hope you’ll bear with us as we get the community back online. The features you’ve enjoyed for the past month will continue – the Comm-Link, RSI Museum and Time Capsule – along with much more information about Star Citizen and chances to interact with its development team,” said Roberts.
”If you haven’t made your pledge yet, please do as I would hate for the technical problems to have derailed our initial momentum. We still have a ways to go but I have no doubt with your support we will get there. This is our chance to tell the world: PC gaming and space sims are BACK!”
Check out the official Star Citizen website for more.
