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Star Citizen Introducing a $48,000 Ship Bundle, but Only for Players Who Have Already Spent $10,000::Star Citizen developer Cloud Imperium Games is releasing a ship bundle for its controversial space simulator that costs an eye-watering $48,000.
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I hope an underground software liberation group (cracking) can make this software accessible for everyone.
It’s $45 to buy the game outright.
It’s a start, but we can do better. Well, someone out there can! I’m patient lol
The gamer careful with his money has already bought Elite Dangerous on sale for less though. Even $45 for what is currently being offered is embarrassing.
WTF!
At the time of this article’s publication, Star Citizen had raised $658,161,596 from more than five million accounts.
The game has not even officially been released!!
Yeah, Star Citizen is world renowned master of squeezing immense amounts of cash from its userbase.
First, they have many ship tiers, and as the most basic ones cost $40+, they feel comfortable charging more for bigger ships, with some ships costing well over $1000.
Second, they commonly introduce wipes in updates, and those wipes only affect everything players accrued in-game, not purchases made with real cash. So you either accept having your entire progress wiped again and again, or you give up and buy your fleet for cash (and any meaningfully gamechanging ship costs hundreds of dollars). The developers claim that this is due to bugs and exploits being found, and that eventually everything will stay forever, no matter how you bought it, but they are obviously aware of the situation and will probably make sure this never happens.
Third, the game does a good job at immersing you into the universe, so some players really go for a second life there. For them, it is the successful counterpart of the Metaverse.
And just like that we end up with people spending insane amounts of money on in-game ships. Half of the players I know spent over $300 on the game, and I personally know people who spent upwards to $8000.
Scary part is that many of them aren’t rich, and one of the people I know literally saved for years and hid $8000 from their family to buy a ship pack. He is living in Ukraine, a country with GDP per capita of $4350.
Remembering when it was not yet released, thinking “This looks kinda cool, but the business model looks terrible”. Seems it got much worse.
Seems it got much worse.
Seems like it’s going great for the developer.
Not real life money right?
I can only assume you’ve no idea what Star Citizen is. 🤦🏽♂️
Bless his heart.
Is it that one bad game where you explore random planets?
That’s Star Field from Bethesda and you can say a lot about it but at least it exists.
Too many things with “star” in their names. Star wars, star trek, star field, star citizen
Galaxy dollars /s
Wrong
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I’d be willing to pay with real life money if they were real life spaceships.
Because there are lots of people in this thread who paint whales as “rich schmucks” who can afford to spend $48k without thinking twic. This is a myth that lots of the gaming industry itself loves to perpetuate, because it absolves them of taking responsibility for ruining lives.
Research has shown repeatedly that whales are much more likely to be people with mental health problems and/or gambling addicts. That Star Citizen isn’t a freemium game with loot boxes makes it marginally better than - let’s say - Genshin Impact, but offers like the bundle in the article is still predatory.
And yet? Nothing will be done. This is a target market that is more than acceptable to disdain, abuse, and otherwise fuck over.
It might be “cool” to be a nerd now, my fellows, but only on the surface. Don’t get suckered into believing they accept you. They’re just commodifying our interests for their gains. They are not us and they don’t want to be. They just want us to like them enough to pay them more than we otherwise would.
Fuck the poseurs.
What is one supposed to do about this? Genuine question.
Stop acting like they’re doing us all a favor by paying attention to our collective interests? It’s all marketing.
I just want to know who would buy this shit so I can do a few things:
1: bitch slap some sense into them 2: buy them lots of hookers and balloons 3: make sure they understand that a real world does exist
Cap’n i see the whale thar she blows
To quote Thor. Star citizen is a storefront pretending to be a game.
The god Thor?
You can get some pretty good gaming info during thunderstorms.
He’s talking about Jason Thor Hall @ https://www.youtube.com/@PirateSoftware
Who’s behind https://store.steampowered.com/app/567380/Heartbound/
His middle name is Thor and that’s what he goes by (who wouldn’t)
He’s recently gotten a lot of attention because his YT Shorts have just exploded.
Oh wow, I’ve seen this guys shorts start popping up constantly. He seems like he understands the algorithm enough to explode
He’s a really good streamer and a great programmer and game developer to boot. He also has ferrets for pets and live streams them. Dude is the whole nerd entertainment package.
I banish you all for watching YouTube Shorts
Whaaat? C’mon, it keeps us from making TikTok accounts. …and this Thor guy is really cool. Lol
His shorts are great. Thanks for sharing them.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://www.piped.video/@PirateSoftware
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
Lol might as well be. Thor. The former Blizzard security dude who turned game Dev and live streams now.
I know it’s not the same, but you could just play elite dangerous which is an actual game, and you can get new ships through a crazy new innovative mechanic called “playing the game”
This isn’t a game anymore, it’s just blatant money grabbing.
There are no married people playing this game
*random oil sheikh with 50 wives enters the game
I think whats scarier is that there probably definitely are some who are married and their spouse has zero idea how much they’ve spent.
That $48K can get you a real plane though, or boat. But maybe someone paying that for ships in Star Citizen has both already 😅
48k for a plane or boat? Good luck with that.
Something like this, there are more selections within that range on that site,
https://www.yachtworld.com/yacht/1991-hunter-35.5-legend-9163237/
Or these
https://hangar.flights/airplanes/affordable-personal-aircraft/
So, you’re not accounting for the required training and licensing to operate those, I take it? FYI, even if you “fast track” the training and go straight for the written exam that precedes logged flight hours (sim and real, both), you’re still looking at ~$30k just to be allowed to fly. Then, there’s the routine (& frequent) maintenance, storage, fuel, etc.
Sure, you can buy a cute li’l death trap for <$50k, but it’s a lawn ornament without licensing.
Don’t get me wrong: fuck Star Citizen sideways with an alien chode tumor. Just, don’t point to garage-tier aviation “solutions” as a fair comparison. 🤗
The parent poster was correct: you can buy a plane for that kind of money. Respectfully, your point about training and maintenance is irrelevant. The truth is the parent poster was right, and the comparison is an eloquent one that furthers the point that the offer from SC’s developer is ludicrous.
Nobody actually wants to buy a plane or a boat, don’t worry! 😜
To be fair, I’m uncertain whether you can actually complete that purchase legally without being licensed yourself or a licensed pilot under current contract. 🤓
To be fair…
You can, you just need to hire a pilot if you want to fly in it. How do you think rich people fly around in their jets? Do you really think the pilots own the planes?
Did you even read my comment? 🤦🏽♂️
If you can afford to spend 60k on a video game, you can afford to get a license and a plane, I’m pretty sure…
Inb4 Star Citizen tries to feel more exclusive by instituting spaceship pilot training and licensing that requires logged hours and such…
…you know, so people don’t ruin their “investments”! D:
Don’t forget, you gotta pay for those licenses and classes
https://www.aerotrader.com/aircraft-for-sale?sort=price%3Aasc
Neat you can get a shitty plane in need of a major overhaul.
According to a friend of mine that plays, the whales were asking for this feature so they didn’t have to go through the purchase process for each ship
Fucking billionaries… :)
My buddy loves this game, but I just don’t really get it.
Why don’t you get it? Huge fun space game, has more content now than most other games and they’ve only just started working on it properly after finishing squadron 42
Based on my friend’s description, it’s a perpetual work in progress. It seems like the appeal to him is the idea what it might eventually become, and the anticipation of updates, as opposed to what it currently is. Not for me.
It hasn’t been the focus of the company, until now. The devs were all working on the squadron 42 game until this month. Now the focus has moved to star citizen
Once you spend 10k, you’ll understand.
I swear I’ve heard the same thing about NFTs
