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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday May 30 2018, @11:31AM   Printer-friendly
from the nearly-all? dept.

The space simulation game Star Citizen has found a new way to extract money from the crowd:

Crowdfunded space simulation game Star Citizen has launched its $27,000 (£20,000) Legatus Pack, which includes nearly all its spacecraft plus extras.

Only players who have already spent $1,000 in the game can access the pack.

Cloud Imperium, the creators of Star Citizen, has received more than $200m in crowdfunding since launching a Kickstarter campaign for it in 2012.

According to its website it has more than two million players, although the game itself is still in development.

Previously: Star Citizen Reaches $100 Million in Crowdfunding, Alpha 2.0 Released
Star Citizen Developers Sued by Crytek


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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 30 2018, @02:24PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 30 2018, @02:24PM (#686276)

    the proper term for this kind of self-delusion in due course

    sunk cost fallacy?

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  • (Score: 2) by zocalo on Wednesday May 30 2018, @02:42PM

    by zocalo (302) on Wednesday May 30 2018, @02:42PM (#686283)
    Also close, but seems to miss the mark just enough in the same way that the Stockholm effect and Dunning-Kruger do that makes me suspect there might be a more specific and appropriate scientic term for "drinking the Kool-Aid". Perhaps it's just "Cultism", but psychologically that seems to be a generic catch-all that spans multiple potential reasons for joing a cult.
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