Star Citizen Introducing a $48,000 Ship Bundle, but Only for Players Who Have Already Spent $10,000

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.

Only for Players Who Have Already Spent $10,000

This is so predatory in itself.

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”

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

Some poor fuckers are getting fleeced.

I wonder if games that require such farfetched amounts of money should be included in the Luxury tax?

A lot of those "whales" have cognitive difficulties and/or gambling addictions issues. Since many if these game developers/publishers have no qualm blindly milking and profiteering. It should be no surprise if some sort of tax is levied to help societies (à-la-tobacco or sugar tax) attenuate the ravages of gambling addictions.

Moreover, Star Citizen has been released over 10 years ago while been continually updated.

At what point is it just senseless greed that has taken over the game?

Remembering when it was not yet released, thinking "This looks kinda cool, but the business model looks terrible". Seems it got much worse.

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

Not real life money right?

To quote Thor. Star citizen is a storefront pretending to be a game.

Cap'n i see the whale thar she blows

Wait, in real money? Or like video game money?

That $48K can get you a real plane though, or boat. But maybe someone paying that for ships in Star Citizen has both already 😅

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!!

If you are rich enough to afford to pay for this, you're too rich.

STOP GIVING THIS SHITTY COMPANY MONEYN YOU FUKIN RETARDS!

This kind of news really allows me to know which games not to play.

Honestly, at this point, if you buy this you and SC deserve each other, have fun.

Game cancer

Star Citizen is what iRacing players look at to feel better about themselves

Actually that's too mean to iRacing players since iRacing works

I hope an underground software liberation group (cracking) can make this software accessible for everyone.

My buddy loves this game, but I just don't really get it.

This isn't real money is it? Please tell me it isn't. I don't play this game but that would just be fucking sad.

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.

OK, I understand EVE and I understand Elite Dangerous, but this is not normal.

The biggest scam in gaming continues unchecked.

There are no married people playing this game

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.

Is this real world dollars or some kind of in-game currency?

Yes! Sign me up!!!

Pick me! I'll be the first in line!

This isn't a game anymore, it's just blatant money grabbing.

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