Comment on Star Citizen’s new cash shop offerings provoked fresh pay-to-win and predatory monetization accusations | Massively Overpowered

• Sendpicsofsandwiches@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s not a scam guys. GUYS It’s not a scam quit calling it that. Just because saps, I mean marks, I mean people bought $400 digital ships over a decade ago and haven’t seen shit yet, doesn’t mean this game won’t release any day now.

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  • LandedGentry@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    • Asafum@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If they were smart they would put all of their eggs into squadron 42, make it as good as they can

      They did, it’s why star citizen was lagging behind so hard for so long. All the production focus went into squadron 42 like 6ish years ago. Squadron 42 is announced for release next year and since the announcement they turned production focus back to star citizen. Still SC 1.0 is going to be years away still because they’re so damn slow with everything they do…

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    • tal@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      that has promised not one but two games that are not coming out.

      Not just the games. Don’t forget all the feelies, the physical stuff they promised to manufacture.

      This guy lost a court case trying to get a refund on his $5k seven years back:

      vice.com/…/star-citizen-court-documents-reveal-th…

      Along with the game—which originally had a targeted release date of 2014—Lord was supposed to have received numerous bits of physical swag. “So aside from [the game], I’m supposed to get a spaceship USB drive, silver collector’s box, CDs, DVDs, spaceship blueprints, models of the spaceship, a hardback book,” he said. “That’s the making of Star Citizen, which—if they end up making this game—might turn into an encyclopedia set.”

      That was back when only $200 million had been sunk into the development.

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• DeathsEmbrace@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The way they designed this game I swear to god the entire thing is one giant MLM and Star Citizen is the product they want you to sell to everyone else.

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• ExtantHuman@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Not even beta or EA.

  What do you call the thing you can load up and play right now?

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  • LandedGentry@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    • ExtantHuman@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Which you can Access… Early.

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  • TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “Load up and play” is a very loaded statement. When I tried it, about a year ago, it was a buggy, glitchy, crash-prone mess that ran like deepfried garbage.

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    • ExtantHuman@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Sure, like most early access things.

      I get it. They deserve a lot of criticism. But pretending it’s vaporware when there’s a tangible product you can try - buggy or not - is a really stupid argument.

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• Tetsuo@jlai.lu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Eheh for a second I thought EA was Electronic Arts.

  Like a beta game is unstable but before the beta you get the EA stage/release where it’s just doesn’t work but is still for sale.

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