Elite: Dangerous announced as sequel to 1980's space trader - Kickstarter

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SvennoJ said:

I dunno, 2 million isn't all that much.
Star Citizen is already at 3m (I forgot about the original funding, thanks Zarx) and they're using it as proof of concept to get extra investor money.

Roberts hopes to raise somewhere between $2 million to $4 million to convince angel investors to fully fund the game.
http://www.polygon.com/2012/10/23/3545926/star-citizen-reaches-500000-goal-in-kickstarter-funding-nearing-2

So 2 million for Elite Dangerous doesn't seem all that much, certainly not if he wants his team of 235 to work on it.

Braben won't say how many people are working on Elite: Dangerous right now because he expects to ramp up staff as the Kickstarter takes shape. But we do know 235 people work for Frontier across two studios, one in the UK, the other in Canada.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-11-06-elite-dangerous-screenshots-and-video-are-coming-braben-says

It should make it now I see Star citizen raised over 3 million in a month.

Star Citezen has a much better pitch tho, they already have ingame trailers, lots of info, etc. They seem to also have an established plan on how to build the game as well. And they are much more transparent, with their Reddit AMA and the devs are active on the forums.