Star Citizen Now Selling $48,000 Bundle That Includes Every Ship

Star citizen players get what they deserve if they buy this. It is pretty clear this game will never be finished and its only purpose is to extract money from whales with more money than brain cells.

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First off, I would never spend that much on a game. Got a $70 starter pack. Nothing more than you would spend on a normal game. Can't blame cig for playing the monetization game. Either there's regulations that stops this shit or capitalism goes brr. That's the world we've built.

As for the game itself; when Star Citizen works there's nothing like it. A huge space battle followed by a tense zero g boarding action. Taking the cargo and salvage afterwards. Hell, just flying across a solar system and landing on a planet and getting out and walking around -- all without a load screen -- is something to be experienced.

To anyone reading this. If you're the type of person that has the resources and you buy games at ~50-70 price point, do it. Even with all the alpha bullshit. Even with all the easy echo chamber shit posts. There's some magic happening with SC.

Plenty of streamers if you're on the fence. Berks is good if you just want to catch a stream.

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- You can blame CIG for the monetization game, you can blame anyone doing it. Especially when the goal post gets moved over and over and over. When the goal post was placed specifically to increase monetization. I'm glad people like them game at it's current state, but it's hard to argue that there arnt some ethical monetization issues at hand.
  
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- Star citizen has raked in almost a billion dollars. It is on par with all the revenue WOW has ever raked in in all of its expansions combined. Its a whale harvester with a game slapped on top. Youre free to think its fun, it should be given how much money had been dumped into it but everyone else is also free to think its more or less a ripoff/scam.
  
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- I'm a cheap starter too. Really enjoy the game for sure! It completely ruined Starfield for me... I was out of Starfield the first time I "flew" the spaceship... Loading screens... All of it... Star Citizen killed any joy in that game for me. Haha.
  
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I've been playing it for years and I certainly hope it's never "finished". It gets massive updates every 3 months (quarterly), and even after it's officially 1.0 I hope it continues to get regular updates. The version is irrelevant to me at this point - it's fun, interesting, and unlike anything else out there, and it only gets better with each update. That's all I want out of the project.

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- So you want a service instead of a game?
  
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I got roped in by a former schoolmate in 2013 or whenever their kickstarter was. I liked freelancer and thought this would be something like that. I took the smallest pack for around thirty bucks. I tried it every couple of years but it always was just a janky mess that barely functioned with an almost cult like following. Really strange one this.

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Allegedly someone is making a Freelancer-esque like open world space game. Its called "Underspace", and it looks decent. Release sometime in the first half of this year, I think.

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- Thank you, loved freelancer, will keep an eye out for it.
  
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- Looks very cool, cautious optimism here...
  
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- Oh, that looks pretty cool! I saw they have a demo on itch.io. I'll give that a spin when I get home. Thanks for sharing!
  
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Everspace 1 (Roguelite) and Everspace 2 (RPG) both were built with the Freelancer mindset. I can highly recommend both!

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- They're both very good.
  
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I've been paying Helium Rain. It's free to play on steam. No micro transactions or anything. It's Newtonian physics though.

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Imagine buying 50k worth of digital assets in one go. They're already downloaded on your computer anyway. You just can't use them in game lmao

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Pretty sure it's simply there to make headlines, outrage people and get some people who don't care to see what the game is about

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- Last I checked they had an ecosystem that any developer would kill to have. A closed off pool of players who are all loyal. Everyone I've talked to that has gotten to play it has defended it. So it obviously has something going. I think most people just expected a normal release and it seems to have morphed into a different business model?
  
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I mean, it's better than some mobile games that have cost people even more than 50 grand through incremental purchases. Here you get every ship.

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- Here you get everyship.
  
  ...everyship... so far
  
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- Yeah and this isn't for the average player. But still could you imagine being like "Add to Cart > Checkout" on 50k for a game?
  
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Only about half of those vehicles are actually in the game right now, too.

The thing is, with only one exception that I can think of, everything can be acquired in-game. The only reason you'd buy one of these ship packages is to have immediate access to those specific types of gameplay and, eventually, free in-game insurance (which otherwise also uses in-game currency). Sometimes these things make sense for player Orgs, but I can't imagine any Org needing all vehicles at all times... especially at that price.

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- As someone who is in no way invested, has only seen this as some kind of vapor product but still mildly interested, what does it say about the in-game economy and required level of grind if 50k real world money is the fast track to owning all in-game ships? It's got to be ludicrous, right?
  
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In that case ypu are quite litterarly paying for a bunch of boolean variables being changed from a 0 to a 1.

If this was done in powershell:

Get-Ship -identity * | Set-Ship -AvaliableToPlayer 1

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- Thats how they have to work. If you run into a player with a ship you don't have it still needs the asset to display it on your client. It just makes it seem a little silly is all. You are paying for access, and thats true for all of these game cosmetics.
  
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It sounds laughable, but then I realise that anyone that can afford dropping 50k on just a video game are doing way better than me and most other people. I'm not sure who's getting the biggest laugh here.

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- Its just the same thing as mobile game profits. They target the wealthiest players. They probably only need to sell this pack a few times to be satisfied with it. This game just has a lot more to offer than say, LOTR: Rise to War.
  
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- Them, because you're not smart enough to join a radical militia instead of thinking "maybe they're just winning at life"
  
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Cocaine is expensive…

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It's a helluva drug

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These are the NFTs people are somehow okay with paying for.

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This is a good example of real uses of NFTs. Not some jpeg of a monkey.

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- No this is every bit as dumb. Its just a slightly different form of dumb
  
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- No, the whole market is run by one company. There is no point in having a blockchain.
  
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- Right! A third party system to track ownership for digital good likes this makes a little more sense. Still have to have other ecosystems that support it for it to matter though.
  
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Good lord. Given the choice, I don't know which is the better option: dropping $50k on virtual spaceships, or dropping $50k on women on Chaturbate.

Or just spend it on Lego, at least you'll have something tangible to own.

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Don't forget, Lego tends to go up in value over time

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- If you don't use it...
  
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- it really doesn't
  
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And then what do you have to play for?

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Ships will be destroyed and the player will have to replace them later hehe.

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People about to have a field day with this one.

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Aren't bundle deals for saving money? Won't your rich fans already have bought ships from years ago? Who is this bundle for - the super rich instead of the usual insanely rich?

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They let you "reclaim"/"melt" things you bought before. I think this is an attempt to make a few rich people that are $30k or so in "complete their collection", and then probably repeat that year after year every time they release an updated pack.

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A game that is still in early access and will most likely never leave it has DLCs worth 10 thousands dollars? Completely crazy how they just are able to do it and their community still defends them

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I thought their view was to stop selling ships when the game finally releases. Considering they announced that their Citizen ??? game's release was on the horizon, you'd think they'd pivot away from mugging whales off for ships, but I have a feeling this practice will never end in SC.

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A few years ago, they added the ability to buy/rent ships with ingame money. So it seems that they are willing to deliver features they promised, even when those features compete with their ship sales.

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I am a gamer, but you cannot convince me that any game is worth anything near $48k from the end consumer. At best you’ll get maybe $200 over the course of 3+ years with good dlc content.

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Someone hasn't seen the whales of F2P. I've seen stat cards in war thunder worth triple that of age 1 year

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Compared to train Sim that's cheap!

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Do they owe sales tax on something that doesn't exist?

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Tried the free fly days recently, the game would crash every time I played because apparently my 16GB of RAM isn't enough to play this game. Yes, I changed my page file to accommodate, yes it ran longer afterwards but still crashed, also changing your page file to accommodate your game's dogshit optimization, even in early access, is not an acceptable way to handle the problem. I noped the fuck out of star citizen after that, so I guess their free fly days did the opposite for me and convinced me that the game wasn't worth my time or effort to play.

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I've played with 16 gig RAM for years so that's not the issue, homie

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- It absolutely 100% is the problem, it's what the crash logs point too and what every ridiculous reddit troubleshooting thread says to do, increase the fucking page file. The only thing I can think of is the crash logs might be referencing VRAM not system RAM, of which I have 8GB on a vega56. Regardless if of that's the case then it's the same problem, dogshit optimization.
  
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