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Star Citizen Begins Selling a $27,000 DLC Pack

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

takyon writes:

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
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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 30 2018, @09:45PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 30 2018, @09:45PM (#686501)

    The game looks quite amazing and I was looking forward to play. So I went and tried to buy it, that is when I found you basically pay a little less than a AAA title for a single ship with only a few in-game benefits. That game can blow me, I'm tired of the pay-to-win business model.

    I try to only support devs who make games out of a love for games, those doing it for the money rarely make the good games with depth beyond the texture files.

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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday May 30 2018, @10:21PM (1 child)

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Wednesday May 30 2018, @10:21PM (#686517) Journal

    I found you basically pay a little less than a AAA title for a single ship with only a few in-game benefits. That game can blow me, I'm tired of the pay-to-win business model.

    It's realism! IRL Space Wars will be won by the rich!

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 30 2018, @10:34PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 30 2018, @10:34PM (#686520)

      Yay! Just what I always dreamed of in a video game. I hope they have some sort of mandatory over-play-time so you need to finish a giant quest before logging off or lose all progress.