Comment on Over $600 Million Later, Star Citizen Is Now at the Alpha 3.20 Stage

just_another_person@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• newthrowaway20@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You can play it now. They even offer a free weekend every now and then. I tried it a few years back but never got very far into it…

  Who knows, the game might release by 2030 at this rate.

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  • smegger@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They had a free week recently. But it ended up taking almost the entire week to actually successfully install and launch it. So I played it for maybe 5min

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• Coffeemonkepants@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You can also pay for it and get a refund, which is what I did. It isn’t anywhere close to being finished.

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  • just_another_person@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m just super curious at to what $600m would get me. Maybe suckering people into paying for it out of curiousity was their genius business plan along though.

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    • cyd@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s the cost of about three typical AAA games. Genshin Impact’s costs up to around its second year of development is also about that much.

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      • Ashyr@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The average cost of a AAA game is $80m.

        “AAA games are the big-budget games that large studios and publishers typically make. The average AAA game takes about four years to develop, with an average cost of about $80 million and higher. But this amount can vary significantly depending on the type of game and its level of complexity.”

        -https://rocketbrush.com/blog/how-much-does-it-cost-to-develop-a-game

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• Ace0fBlades@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Whenever you want…provided you spend like 50 dollars on a starter ship (my knowledge is based on the state of the game in 2014 don’t hate)

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  • Eggroley@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s $45 right now…

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    • SupraMario@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They have sales, I grabbed it a few years ago for like $20. Yeah it’s got bugs but I’ve got a good bit of time playing it. It’s got plenty to do, people in here didn’t really play it and are on the hate train. Don’t be a whale and you’ll get your money out of it.

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