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.

  • tory@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Never play Star Citizen, even if it somehow becomes playable. Got it.

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      1 year ago

      The game costs $45, for the record. For an MMO. With no subscription fees.

      WOW costs $155 per year.

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        Yeah, this is what I keep telling people but nobody wants to listen.

        Once the snowball effect has taken hold, it’s next to impossible to reverse.

        I fully expect us to see SC detractors to vanish into thin air like those who voted for George Bush Jr. once the game launches and everyone is playing it.

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          It’s fucking Stockholm syndrome with you people and that game. I tried it for a few weeks. You constantly run into huge game breaking bugs that, when you google it, people say ‘yeah its been like that for years here is the 20 minute work around’.

          ITS ALPHA OF COURSE THERE ARE BUGS GAWD DON’T YOU UNDERSTAND GAMES?!

          There. I got that argument from you out of the way. Games aren’t in alpha for over a decade and rake in half a billion dollars and not manage to crank out a working product. Thats not how this works. There are 2 options. Its a scam or they are morons.

      • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
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        That’s a incorrect comparison. You’re treating WoW and Star Citizen to be similar games. When WoW for more than a decade has been in its own premium bucket.

        The average MMO today is free. Then the small percentages of MMOs that require the core game purchased.

      • VaultBoyNewVegas@lemmy.world
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        GW2 is free and FFXIV is also free up to storm blood or shadowbringers expansion. How much content is there in Star citizen again?

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          Same way people spend thousands on games that are “free to play”. What kind of a rock have you been living under? People routinely spend $10,000 on mobile games.

          Yes, you can buy spaceships for hundreds or even thousands of dollars. You can also buy those same ships using money earned in game. This is not the first or last game to do this, and it’s really weird how every time a pointless article gets written about it for cheap clicks, a bunch of people suddenly want to pretend that they’re only just just encountering this phenomenon for the first time.

        • QueriesQueried@sh.itjust.works
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          1 year ago

          Genshin and league of legends are both free, how do you think people (collectively) spend millions on them year over year?