Tanker4444 said:
I think its likely they´ll make it to 200 M. The latest ship sale brought in significantly more than I´d have expected it to. The Dragonfly is an overpriced LTI token yet it did gangbusters.
I know this is in the category "idle speculation and scepticism" but I have trouble believing the funding numbers on their website. Honestly if I was head of marketing, it's the first thing I'd fumble with, as making it seem like a lot of people are investing in something is the easiest way to convince others to "join in". Companies have been doing this since the dawn of time.
I'm
not saying CIG
definitely lies about these numbers, all I'm saying is that I'd be sceptical with regards to any numbers a company puts out without any available documentation or verification. (Or at least a disclaimer whether it concerns an audited or unaudited financial statement)
Honestly though, according to CIG approximately 300,000 unique citizens in total have played the PTU since its release in 2015, only clocking in 1,500,000 hours in total. That's a measly
5 hours per citizen over the course of 6 months, according to their own stats! At least if the contents of the released letter are actually true

. Yet I have to believe that a $35 ship sale rakes in $2,173,038 in a single month? That's over 50,000 units sold even if you assume that they earned 20% of that money from other sources (new citizens, other ships)...
There's just so much information out there without any possibility for verification that I honestly think it's impossible to make any believable/accurate claims with regards to CIGs finances.
Edit: Before people start making claims, the (somewhat vague) fundraising numbers given on their website would amount to ~56 dollars spent per active PTU-playing citizen. While somewhat high with regards to their average playtime, it's not an entirely unrealistic number by any means (there's some
really big spenders in the pool), so I have to stress again that I'm not saying their numbers are false, just that I wouldn't draw any conclusions from them untill knowing the numbers had been verified through a financial audit.