Over $600 Million Later, Star Citizen Is Now at the Alpha 3.20 Stage::Star Citizen’s long-running development has inched forward yet again, this time to Alpha 3.20 stage.
Sunk cost falacy: The game! 😂
Over $600 Million Later, Star Citizen Is Now at the Alpha 3.20 Stage
Submitted 9 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world [bot] to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.ign.com/articles/over-600-million-later-star-citizen-is-now-at-the-alpha-320-stage
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Breve@pawb.social 9 months ago
Saltblue@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Scam citizen, people talk about Todd, but Chris Robbers is the most successful scam artist on the industry, true Capitan Ajab if you may, milking those whales to the dead.
just_another_person@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Okay…so…when can we try it out?
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.
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
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.
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.
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)
hornedfiend@sopuli.xyz 9 months ago
This is still a glorified tech demo and a walking simulator with ships. Gunplay is pretty sad,pvp is out of the question with that performance, gameplay loops are either bugged to hell or boring as hell.
Instead of adding more ships they should be focusing on polishing and improving what they currently have at least. It’s sad really.
Yokozuna@lemmy.world 9 months ago
So with some quick math, if everyone spent the same amount of money that played it each person would have spent $126 on it.
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
Yes, but that’s never how these things work.
Just as an example, I played a mobile game for a while. F2P was an option, and some players did that just fine. Some put maybe $10 in just to get the ads and annoyances to go away.
Then there was one specific user, who spent so much money on the game, he got banned more than once for having more of different kinds of resources that would normally be impossible to get in that quantity. They spent tens, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars on a mobile game.
They then quit, because they reached the point where they could no longer progress. Not because of another paywall, but because the game literally could not function at the level he pushed it from a resource standpoint.
Blubber28@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Those people are often where most of the money comes from in f2p games. They are referred to as “whales” by the gaming industry.
Yokozuna@lemmy.world 9 months ago
My man I just quickly crunched some numbers to find a average, of course you have variance in the spending habits of players from person to person.
Crazy that people can throw money away like you described though, they must live in a totally different world than most people. And getting banned for having more resources is honestly the funniest thing to happen from dumping money into a f2p game.
chaorace@lemmy.sdf.org 9 months ago
IRL Spiders Georg
Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Honestly pretty middle of the road as these things go. A world of warcraft subscription is $200 a year right now.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Why is that in a tech community?
northendtrooper@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Playing starfield vindicated the development of Star Citizen. I eventually stopped playing sf after 30 hours to go back to sc because I feel more enjoyment in the immersion given to me.
Vlyn@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
“Immersion” when every NPC stands around doing nothing in a t-pose and some of them sit half in the ground.
Not really sure where you got immersion from. The entire city is also just a prop on planets you can’t really interact with (except the space port part).
I’ve felt more immersed in Cyberpunk.
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
To be fair, starfield NPCs see through walls, and stare into your soul at all times.
Lets not pretend the bar is high in either game when it comes to NPCs.
Saltblue@lemmy.world 9 months ago
This is pure copium
ryannathans@aussie.zone 9 months ago
3.20 has beet a great launch
Should see 4.0 soon bringing some of the last big architecture needed for the full universe
Ya_Boy_Skinny_Penis@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Nice try Chris. You can’t puff up a substandard product without admitting you’ve done such a bad job at so many aspects of this scam that you’ve had to redo, like, all of it
Note: I do not blame you, you are raking in mucho bucks with no end in sight to the gravy train. Keep chugging!
ramblinguy@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Hold on, I’m not familiar with Star citizen, but do you have to spend real money to get ships in this game?
The MISC Hull C added with the Alpha 3.20 update costs an eye-watering $500
CalamityPayne@jlai.lu 9 months ago
AFAIK all ships can/will be purchasable with in game currency, but they’re available to backers for IRL monies during development. Been a while since I played but that’s how I remember it!
Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
This is correct. Everything is buyable with in game money. You can also rent ships in game, so if you want to get into something like, say, mining, you can rent a mining ship and then use it to earn enough to buy one.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
$25,000. That’s how much a single ship can cost.
rarest.org/…/expensive-star-citizen-ships
This game developer is such trash.
lemmyBeHere@lemmy.world 9 months ago
After a couple of free weekends, I was on the verge of buying it but then I saw that they separated squadron 42…
stagen@feddit.dk 9 months ago
Absolutely rediculous that it’s been allowed to go on for so long. Biggest scam in gaming history.
Astroturfed@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I think it’s incompetence really. They’ve basically started over on shit multiple times. It’s sort of that perfect is the enemy of good mantra at work. They’re never going to finish it.
Evilcoleslaw@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Why even try to finish it if you can just keep raking in money with fundraising? It’s a scam, not incompetence.
Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
This is exactly it. They’re continously pumping out content and updates; no scam would put in this much effort. But most of the effort is deeply ineffectual. It’s obvious that there’s some serious lack of organisation. They’re trying their best, but their best just sucks (and that’s not a dig at the people doing the grunt work, it’s clear that they’re very talented).
rifugee@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I think that they’re making perfect the enemy of good…and they can because people keep throwing money at them. Most dev teams don’t have that luxury.
PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 9 months ago
It’s performance art - that’s the entire point of it. Kind of like Microsoft Word
B1ackmsth@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
I think it’s both. Or rather, their only competence is scamming people with false advertising.