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Star Citizen Video Game Launches $27,000 Players' Pack (bbc.com)

Posted by msmash on from the what-in-the-world dept.

An anonymous reader shares a report: Crowdfunded space simulation game Star Citizen has launched its $27,000 Legatus Pack, which includes nearly all its spacecraft plus extras. Only players who have already spent $1,000 in the game can access the pack. Cloud Imperium, the creators of Star Citizen, has received more than $200m in crowdfunding since launching a Kickstarter campaign for it in 2012. According to its website it has more than two million players, although the game itself is still in development. Star Citizen aims to create a vast science fiction universe that can be explored in dozens of spaceships, with first-person space combat, all online and multi-player.

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  1. Re:$200M in funding? No. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yes, but they have been collecting donations from devoted cult members ever since, and it's on the order of $200M total that's been raised through all funding channels. 7 years on, the insanity continues with no end in sight.

  2. Re: Chris Roberts isn't a finisher by Sumus+Semper+Una · · Score: 3, Informative

    Oh man, I loved Freelancer. Probably my favorite space combat game. I'd love to find a game like it that runs on Linux.

    No idea if all of these work on Linux (some, like X2 and X3 definitely do), but other games similar to the Freelancer genre:

    X2 (I know it's old, but it was still quite good if you could get over the terrible voice acting)
    X3 (in its many forms. Just stay away from X: Reunion)
    Rebel Galaxy (simplified combat and trading, but pretty fun)
    Independence War 1 and 2 (these are really old, but classic - you can find them on Good Old Games)
    Endless Sky (top-down only and somewhat simple, but it's free!)

    It's a pretty stale genre unfortunately. There are some games in the genre in early access right now that could end up being good, but I'd pass on them all at the moment.

  3. Re:people are starving by Smidge204 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Because they know poor people are _fat_ on average.

    Citation needed.

    Turns out something like hunger is a complex subject, and isn't as clear cut. That's why several tiers of "food security" exist; to better understand the problem. If you can only afford things from the dollar menu at McD's three meals a day, that's not good food security. You might not be starving but your diet is garbage, and your health and quality of life will likely suffer for it.

    If you are making a choice between paying your utility bills or going grocery shopping, you're in bad shape... and by that definition, that's about 6 million people in the US.
    =Smidge=