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Star Citizen truly outdoes itself with a $48,000 bundle for its most loyal whales

We live in a society where virtual spaceship DLC can cost more than most peoples' annual salary.

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We live in a society where virtual spaceship DLC can cost more than most peoples' annual salary.

Ever since it first warped onto the scene, Star Citizen has been infamous for its rapacious monetisation. The game's development seems never-ending but, long before you could play it in any form, Roberts Space Industries would sell you all sorts of space-things: Like this mine-laying ship that cost over $600 before mine-laying was even a feature in the game.

Here's the thing about Star Citizen, though. Its devotees are fiercely loyal to Chris Roberts' vision and will loudly defend the game's monetisation, its protracted development, and whatever else the detractors take aim at. Those same detractors meanwhile, just point and laugh at folk who spaff $30,000 on virtual spaceships.

But this time Star Citizen has truly outdone itself, with what surely has to be the single most expensive DLC in history. Yes, they warned us that this was the next step after horse armour, and Roberts Space Industries has delivered: Star Citizen now offers a $48,000 Legatus bundle containing every ship in the game (you'd hope so, too). The description of the bundle is as follows:

Star Citizen has been flogging Legatus bundles since 2018 and they've always been notorious within the community for their pricing, with the first clocking in at a mere $27,000. The cherry on top? You can't even buy this thing unless you're already in the Chairman's Club, a level of access that is granted to those who've spent over $1,000 in the game already.

Something about this feels as faintly obscene as it as absurd. Over on the Star Citizen subreddit the reaction is mainly one of amusement, while it seems the "space peasants" label has become a self-applied badge of honor among the game's lower-paying customers.

I guess if you've got $48K to blow on pretend spaceships, then you do you. But there's no doubt that being a Star Citizen fan can certainly cost you an arm and a Legatus.

 

[Tiago Rodrigues]

This industry is in the gutter lmao.

 

[Skifi28]

This industry is in the gutter lmao.

You're saying it's the industry like bundles the price of houses is a common occurence.

 

[Tiago Rodrigues]

You're saying it's the industry like bundles the price of houses is a common occurence.

yes this is the only baffling practice this industry has seen over the past 2 or 3 years.

Spoiler

/s

 

[adamsapple]

yes this is the only baffling practice this industry has seen over the past 2 or 3 years.

Spoiler

/s

PS+ and Game Pass increased like 1 to 2 dollars.

*This* is just straight up absurd lol. Granted, this is targeted at a very specific audience, but still.

 

[Skifi28]

yes this is the only baffling practice this industry has seen over the past 2 or 3 years.

I don't think anybody said the industry doesn't have issues, but DLC the price of houses is not one of them. This is a very specific type of scam outside of industry norms. You're comparing apples to planets.

 

[SlimySnake]

Arrest the fuckers. This is clearly a scam.

 

[Gen.Grievous]

I bought 3.

 

[March Climber]

This industry Star Citizen is in the gutter lmao.

 

[IFireflyl]

 

[adamsapple]

Arrest the fuckers. This is clearly a scam.

 

[Daneel Elijah]

I know that it may get taken wrong, and there is probably many ways my opinion is flawed, but it is good that only people who paid a lot can buy those stupid bundles. It kinda protect people who don't have the money to bankrupt themselves in the process. Still, there is more than one of those bundles, and I can't stop myself from thinking of some crazy man who took more than one. Imagine being someone who took the first bundle at 27 000$ and found out that like any freemium game their purchase is outdated/obsolete and lacking in all the great new toys?

 

[LiquidMetal14]

We had a thread about this already son. Unless every new item in the game will warrant a thread.

 

[Three]

Star Citizen truly outdoes itself with a $48,000 bundle for its most loyal whales

We live in a society where virtual spaceship DLC can cost more than most peoples' annual salary.

www.pcgamer.com

This is some old news:

Scam Citizen's new Legatus ship pack costs $48,000

https://www.tweaktown.com/news/95141/star-citizens-new-legatus-ship-pack-costs-48-000/index.html The prices are where things get pretty eye-opening. The Legatus bundle is mostly known for its wallet-gouging price tags; the first bundle, Legatus 2950, was released in 2018 for $27,000...

www.neogaf.com

 

[Imtjnotu]

Scam Citizen doing scam citizen things

 

[adamsapple]

This is some old news:

Scam Citizen's new Legatus ship pack costs $48,000

https://www.tweaktown.com/news/95141/star-citizens-new-legatus-ship-pack-costs-48-000/index.html The prices are where things get pretty eye-opening. The Legatus bundle is mostly known for its wallet-gouging price tags; the first bundle, Legatus 2950, was released in 2018 for $27,000...

www.neogaf.com

Ah well, the PC Gamer article is dated yesterday.

 

[Ribi]

Ah well, the PC Gamer article is dated yesterday.

Click bait for the same package available all year round for years

 

[Sentenza]

On one hand this is obvious ragebait, as anyone who spent any amount of time playing Star Citizen would quickly realize that you have virtually no actual reason or incentive to spend this type of money on the game (or ANY amount of money past your initial purchase, really) if you aren't in the rabbit hole of making it an in-circle status symbol.

On the other hand, CIG kinda deserves to be ridiculed at any given chance for this, since their blatant whale hunting keeps getting more and more shameless.

That said...

We live in a society where virtual spaceship DLC can cost more than most peoples' annual salary.

Oh, come on. Drop the fucking bullshit.
"We live in a society" where a player of Genshin Impact, Lostk Ark or Fortnite (or any other popular mobile game, really) can spend four times as much and that's nowhere near to the ceiling.
Say what you want about the shitty whale-hunting going on in Star Citizen, at least these fools know exactly what they are paying for and they aren't spiraled into disguised gambling in the form of gatcha mechanics.

 

[Elysium44]

We live in a society where virtual spaceship DLC can cost more than most peoples' annual salary.

We live in a society where professional writers don't know how to use apostrophes.

 

[Dacvak]

Who cares

 

[Snake29]

A package that exist for many years already is some big news? It only got updated....

If the media would spent more time writing about SC instead of cherry picking stuff out of it without any context around. Luckely, last CitizenCon made a lot of people realize why this project is big and why it takes time.

 

[Evil Calvin]

Well, $4.7 million of that went to buy Chris' mansion.

 

[Evil Calvin]

This was in 2015 and were bleeding cash then

 

[mckmas8808]

Arrest the fuckers. This is clearly a scam.

It honestly is Scam Citizen and they are scamming right in front of our eyes. And most people can't seem to see it! LOL!

 

[adamsapple]

A package that exist for many years already is some big news? It only got updated....

If the media would spent more time writing about SC instead of cherry picking stuff out of it without any context around. Luckely, last CitizenCon made a lot of people realize why this project is big and why it takes time.

It's been 11 years and nearly $700 million dollars in crowd-funding. Realistically, how much more time do you think it should take?

 

[Sentenza]

Well, $4.7 million of that went to buy Chris' mansion.

Their year-to-year balance is literally publicly available at the end of every fiscal year.
Discussions about this production would be a lot more productive if people gave them shit for the things that they actually do poorly, rather than making up dubious shit about boats and mansions.

 

[MiguelItUp]

It's insane to me that they're still doing this. So much of the game is still a WIP and it's baffling to me. There are plenty of other teams out there that have made much more solid experiences in less time, but here we are. It's sad that they just keep on doing it before so much of the game is far from done. But what's even worse is that some how there ARE people that are continuing to give them money.

 

[SmokedMeat]

You can always rent a ship you plebs.

 

[Majormaxxx]

Greedy fucks

 

[Majormaxxx]

Their year-to-year balance is literally publicly available at the end of every fiscal year.
Discussions about this production would be a lot more productive if people gave them shit for the things that they actually do poorly, rather than making up dubious shit about boats and mansions.

So you don't believe their salaries are inflated due to the generous budget?

 

[Senua]

 

[Madonis]

Hey, if you can afford to burn money like that, please go ahead. It's fun to read the resulting news stories.

 

[TVexperto]

It seems that some Star Citizen backers are more interested in collecting jpegs of spaceships than playing the actual game. While I appreciate the passion and dedication of the community, I can't help but find it a bit amusing that someone would be willing to spend $1,000 on a digital asset that doesn't actually do anything. (just look at the other thread here... so many idiots actually pay that stuff)

Star Citizen remains an unfinished, bug-ridden mess, with people eager to purchase JPEGs of spaceships rather than a completed game.

 

[ReBurn]

I still hope they sell a million of them.

 

[Sentenza]

So you don't believe their salaries are inflated due to the generous budget?

They are the ones deciding their own salaries, like every executive in every company ever existed, so "inflated" is entirely a matter of opinion.

 

[The Pleasure]

It's been 11 years and nearly $700 million dollars in crowd-funding. Realistically, how much more time do you think it should take?

Unlike Halo fans, Star Citizen fans seem to be happy at least?

 

[The Stig]

This has to be money laundering

 

[The Stig]

I can't help but find it a bit amusing that someone would be willing to spend $1,000 on a digital asset that doesn't actually do anything.

Dude, let me tell you about this amazing new idea called NFTs.............

 

[Godot25]

This is fucking hilarious because if any other western gaming company tried to sell even 500$ microtransaction they would be burned alive by media. But with Star Citizen it's like...meh, we don't care.

I wonder what is causing this strange behaviour. Why are people outraged at 20$ optional skin in Overwatch 2 (for example) while this shit doesn't even warrant an attention?

 

[Alexios]

This is fucking hilarious because if any other western gaming company tried to sell even 500$ microtransaction they would be burned alive by media. But with Star Citizen it's like...meh, we don't care.

I wonder what is causing this strange behaviour. Why are people outraged at 20$ optional skin in Overwatch 2 (for example) while this shit doesn't even warrant an attention?

The game being called scam citizen left and right is not enough for you? What, you want actual investigative journalism to get some actual dirt on them? They've been trying all these years and even with so much staff in several different studios and people who once worked in them but don't any more all over the place they haven't got shit, but it's easier to just make memes when you can't get anything concrete against them. As other said you can spend a lot more on mobile games that shut down in a year losing everything but you don't see such passionate devotion about those from the people who froth about this one. This is already the second thread made about this specific package update for the usual people to say the same tired shit like this. Feel free to make a third a few days later if you think that's still not enough criticism I guess, nobody's gonna stop you apparently

 

[Majormaxxx]

They are the ones deciding their own salaries, like every executive in every company ever existed, so "inflated" is entirely a matter of opinion.

Then your previous claim about the imaginary boats and mansions is a moo point. Moo, like a cow's opinion

 

[Majormaxxx]

This is fucking hilarious because if any other western gaming company tried to sell even 500$ microtransaction they would be burned alive by media. But with Star Citizen it's like...meh, we don't care.

I wonder what is causing this strange behaviour. Why are people outraged at 20$ optional skin in Overwatch 2 (for example) while this shit doesn't even warrant an attention?

Bruh if you HIRE someone to design you one of these space ships in a 3d program it will be cheaper than "buying" it from scam citizen. This is sick. I think the scam is so huge people are getting desensitized.

 

[Ribi]

This is fucking hilarious because if any other western gaming company tried to sell even 500$ microtransaction they would be burned alive by media. But with Star Citizen it's like...meh, we don't care.

I wonder what is causing this strange behaviour. Why are people outraged at 20$ optional skin in Overwatch 2 (for example) while this shit doesn't even warrant an attention?

You know eve exists right? You complain then?

Hell what about Rocksmith?

 

[Sentenza]

Then your previous claim about the imaginary boats and mansions is a moo point. Moo, like a cow's opinion

Aside for the fact that Chris Roberts does NOT own a boat (despise people using pictures of him being ospited on one to prove the contrary) the core point is that they can buy whatever the fuck they want with their salary, but they didn't "steal funds to buy things" because their balance accounting has been made publicly available.

This is turning like the Kotick's thread where people wonder "why someone is taking his side".
Because truth matters and "I don't like the company" or "I don't like the guy" shouldn't be used as a retarded excuse to make up shit on the spot or to complain about vapid bullshit.

 

[winjer]

We were not born in the age of sail to explore the world. We were not born in the age of ships to explore space.
We were born in the age to buy horse armor, NFTs and packs of digital stuff for 48.000 dollars.

 

[_Justinian_]

The basic game costs $45 to play. Why does any of this other stuff matter to anyone?

 

[Dr.Morris79]

We were not born in the age of sail to explore the world. We were not born in the age of ships to explore space.
We were born in the age to buy horse armor, NFTs and packs of digital stuff for 48.000 dollars.

And Prime. Don't forget Prime

'Gotta catch em all'

 

[Dr.Morris79]

Aside for the fact that Chris Roberts does NOT own a boat (despise people using pictures of him being ospited on one to prove the contrary) the core point is that they can buy whatever the fuck they want with their salary, but they didn't "steal funds to buy things" because their balance accounting has been made publicly available.

This is turning like the Kotick's thread where people wonder "why someone is taking his side".
Because truth matters and "I don't like the company" or "I don't like the guy" shouldn't be used as a retarded excuse to make up shit on the spot or to complain about vapid bullshit.

I just wanted Sqaudron 42

 

[DaGwaphics]

Hmm... C class Mercedes or video game skins....

 

[Krappadizzle]

Probably should wait for a Steam sale.