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    Star Citizen releases $5000 ‘concept’ ship as game crosses $1 billion in funding

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    2. solidgun1 on

      If you can’t get out of Alpha after a billion dollars, then it is no longer a game….it is a bottomless sinkhole.

    3. gaseous_ass on

      I’m beyond pissed off at this project. I was an early backer. I expected iterative development initially, but a stable release with future updates. The scope creep on this has been insane, and it’s still a buggy soup.

    5. jackobite360 on

      im 10+ years into buying a £20 ship, Iv played a few times never for long and im thinking prob never again.

    7. Sirusho_Yunyan on

      How have they not been investigated for something that is blatantly false advertising.

    9. jizzyjugsjohnson on

      Nobody in the history of vidya games has ever milked whales harder than Christopher Croberts

    12. -Hikifroggy- on

      I’m generally curious of the top creators living situation is like because there’s no way 1 billion going to this fraking game. They had to be siphoning that money to something else 

    13. No_Housing_9602 on

      Insane to me that this game has 1 billion in funding with no actual release date.

    14. Brilliant_Oven9044 on

      At this point Star Citizen feels less like a game and more like the world’s biggest crowdfunding experiment. I get supporting a project you love, but paying $5000 for a “concept” ship in a game that still isn’t fully released is honestly wild to me. Still impressive how loyal the community has stayed after all these years though.

    15. Shinjetsu01 on

      Honestly at this point it’s just MAGA in a Gaming environment.

      Because there’s no other way for Scam Citizens to understand what they’re doing. it’s a cult. Imagine the IDEA behind Making America Great Again. I actually quite like it. Of course everyone wants America to be great.

      The game is literally that idea. The greatest game in modern history. Wow. Sounds amazing. So…what do we do?

      Chris Roberts has no fucking clue. He’s just Trump. Word salad garbage. Grifting 24/7. How he is where he is, baffles me.

      Devs don’t know. They can appear like they do, but they don’t have a direction to achieve what has been promised. These are just the government. Trying to make it appear like everything is “MAGA”.

      Someone must know right?

      Ah yes, the faithful backers. Except no, they don’t know either. But there’s the IDEA. That’s Scam Citizens right now. They’re wearing red hats, buying Trump phones, crypto and bibles. Too far gone to realise the idea was bullshit. Oh sure, they see an update here or there that they like but in reality they were lied to. Too far in now to see any other way.

      The weirdest part is just how they’ll try to convince you THEY’RE the normal ones and YOU’RE the wrong one for calling out the grift. How dare you try to tell them they’re not having fun, how this actively hurts the gaming industry and essentially society as a whole. Imagine the difference you could make to a local charity by instead of buying a concept of a ship that is likely to never exist, from a company that’s laughing at you, donating to them.

      Boggles the mind.

    16. Firecrash on

      Players are enjoying the game and know what they’re in for.

      Meanwhile any post on reddit: REEEE STOP HAVING FUN

    18. PartyPoison98 on

      To go against the grain a little bit here…

      CIG have been ridiculous, and there’s no way things should take this long or cost this much.

      But if you do ever play Star Citizen, you can see the vision and even in it’s current janky state the game is expansive and immersive in a way that no other game is.

      It’s not acceptable in it’s current state, but when the stars align and the game *works*, you understand why the backers still back them.

    19. nilssonen on

      I got a starter pack and a low 5 digit ID, think the account is 14 years old. It will be old enough to vote before I need to by new joysticks to play 🙂

    22. Informal-Pair-306 on

      Years back there were so many star citizen defenders saying ‘you don’t understand it’s more than a game.’

    23. TheJambrew on

      Not trying to make a joke, I genuinely misread this at first glance as “contempt ship”

    24. MobilePenguins on

      My friend told me to preorder the game in the 9th grade… I’m 29 years old now. I told him I’d buy it after it releases and I’m staying true to that all these years later!

    26. Bleezy79 on

      Biggest grift in video games. Lol. But I guess if the supporters keep throwing them money. Whose fault is it really?!

    27. istergeen on

      Reminds me of a line from the movie Schenectady NY, “it’s been 18 years, when are we going to start performing? “

    28. UndocumentedMartian on

      Is the game still suffering from scope creep? I haven’t played or followed SC for some time. Did they ever get server meshing to work beyond the proof of concept stage?

    31. uzu_afk on

      I can only laugh my ass off and at the same time wonder how I can take money off these gullible people since they are so eagerly keen to donate it for non functioning pixels.

    32. stinkusdinkus on

      Star Citizen is not a game. The developers are selling the surplus enjoyment you get from anticipation. That feeling when you buy a new toy and it’s on its way from Amazon. You get a little hit each time you check the shipping status.

    35. UniuM on

      I was already a very old player on Eve online when this came out, and everyone said, people would jump ship to SC.
      Here am I, an Eve online fossil, still playing, and wondering what Eve could have been if it had 1 bil to invest.

    37. Rhym3z_Official on

      While it’s obviously not a scam and they’ve been putting in work, it still boggles my mind why some people give so much money. Like just pledge the $40 or whatever and leave it at that. Damn. Still it’s always interesting to see people freak out over these kinds of headlines while knowing and caring nothing about the damn game