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It was recently announced that both Mark Hamill and Gillian Anderson will be attending Fan Expo in Toronto, Canada this September. Will CIG ever have a CitizenCon or something similar in Canada?

TL;DRCIG hopes to hold a CitizenCon-style event in Canada but can't promise it, since the team is too busy to do many events and CitizenCon stays near its home base.

Jared HuckabyHost, Community Manager

We hope so. It's one of those things, it's again, nobody else is doing convention appearances at this point in development for a game that's at this point in development. So we did a lot of them early on while we were still spooling up. One of the more common things that gets thrown around is how long Star Citizen has been in development. And it was announced November 2012, and the team was five or six loosely affiliated people under whatever the incorporation was at the time. And then we had to build. We had to build a company as well as the game. But we had to build the company before we built the game. And that included building out Austin, building out LA, building out Manchester, then building out Frankfurt. And I think you see this with the amount of output that's come out this year, since December. It's only been recently that we're now up 100%, with a full head of steam and going. When I say recently, I'm talking about the last year and stuff like that. It's all about perspective when you say soon and recently and all that stuff. So what I say might be different than what you'd say, but to me, in the overall scope of things, it seems like it's recent, but it's been well over a year now. Now I've lost my train of thought. But yeah, so we've been splitting this stuff up. So during those times when we were waiting for a lot of systems to come online, it was easy for people to take off and go to these different events and for us to do these parties and stuff like that. But now that everything is firing and everything's got a full head of steam under it and everything is chugging along, it's a lot harder to break away and do parties and events like this, because they can be pretty disruptive. So that's one of the reasons we're not doing a giant Gamescom presentation this year like we have in past years. For CitizenCon it's a little easier because it's right in our backyard. So CitizenCon will be more in line with the type of events that we've traditionally done. But I just can't tell you. It's one of those things we hope to do. We did a Bar Citizen up in Canada with the Behaviour and Turbulent teams. And they live streamed it. It was six months ago, eight months ago. I don't know.

Reverse the Verse›July 1st, 2016·
Published on this date.1 Jul 2016
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