Star Citizen developer Cloud Imperium Games is releasing a ship bundle for its controversial space simulator that costs an eye-watering $48,000.
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.
A few of the most broke-assed people I know in my gaming circles are all in on this game. The rest of us tried to gently prod them away but it’s like a cult.
It is 100% a multi-level-marketing feeling I get from the active players that keep trying to reach out and get us in on it. I’m talkin late 90s Quixtar MLM pyramid scam feels.
Well I guess if anyone had doubts before about SC being a giant fucking scam, they can put those to rest. I was on the fence previously, but this answered it for me.
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If you are rich enough to afford to pay for this, you’re too rich.
A few of the most broke-assed people I know in my gaming circles are all in on this game. The rest of us tried to gently prod them away but it’s like a cult.
It is 100% a multi-level-marketing feeling I get from the active players that keep trying to reach out and get us in on it. I’m talkin late 90s Quixtar MLM pyramid scam feels.
Landowner class spends that kind of money on larks its nuts but like those people should be seperated from their money imo
Remembering when it was not yet released, thinking “This looks kinda cool, but the business model looks terrible”. Seems it got much worse.
Game cancer
Is this real world dollars or some kind of in-game currency?
Wait, in real money? Or like video game money?
Real cash.
Cap’n i see the whale thar she blows
There are no married people playing this 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.
Honestly, at this point, if you buy this you and SC deserve each other, have fun.
Some poor fuckers are getting fleeced.
Never play Star Citizen, even if it somehow becomes playable. Got it.
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
They don’t want to risk such a large chargeback or lawsuit over “accidental” purchase by a new user, so are only trying to sell to proven whales.
I hope an underground software liberation group (cracking) can make this software accessible for everyone.
It’s an MMO, so that would require hosting private servers and figuring out how to redirect the game to those servers. Not likely to happen.
Redirecting wouldn’t be challenging. Redirecting in a turnkey manner and requiring minimal effort on the part of the user?
Ah yeah. Shits tricky.
Yea reverse engineering they’re servers would be a lot tbf, but who knows, crazier things have happened
Well I guess if anyone had doubts before about SC being a giant fucking scam, they can put those to rest. I was on the fence previously, but this answered it for me.
This kind of news really allows me to know which games not to play.
At this point you don’t need to do a lot of research to know to stay away from Star Citizen