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Star Citizen Video Game Launches $27,000 Players' Pack (bbc.com)
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.
Can fund a deposit of an apartment outside of your mom's basement instead.
And I though that Far Cry 5 was pricey.
I should use this sig to advertise my book ISBN-13 : 978-1501515132.
OK, for that kind of money, you come to my house and custom program a game for me.
Really, the ideas and concepts they have are pretty spectacular and with $200m in funding they can probably see it to the end. I mean, I won't spend $27,000 on a video game as that's rather absurd, but I paid $45 knowing full well I was getting something that's still in its very early stages of development but at least there is progress.
So it's just like American politics. Hell. America in general.
The Russians have won. They have made the world a cesspool of distrust, greed, fear and hate.
200m poured in, still in development. Of the games that actually make it to release after crowdfunding a good chunk come out looking nothing like what was advertised or even what was shown in testing.
If this game comes out worth playing it will be the exception not the rule
for 28K you can buy a REAL CAR!
He can't move to the point where the game has any depth. He keeps chasing the duke nukem rainbow.
I think it's been seven years since I first sent them money, and there still isn't a release date.
I heard Martin Shkreli bought two.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
That's individual freedom for you. We each get to decide how our personal property is used.
Where the system kind of breaks down is in two ways. When some people don't have any property and can't even survive. And when well meaning people want to use force to redistribute wealth by denying individuals their rights.
And if you think pissing away $27k on a video game is terrible you need to take a look at how the 1% and 0.1% live.
P.S. I'm for spending tax dollars on things that improve life for everyone, even if only indirectly. (i.e. I'm not a Libertarian) One example that has a big pay off is when women are educated to a high school or college level. Their children tend to grow up with a higher standard of living and the next generation has fewer problems with addiction. Living in a community where there aren't a bunch of drug addicts committing property crime would improve my current situation. (putting junkies in prison doesn't work, in my experience they get out and repeat the same crap and cost tax payers millions)
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
I don't think the people who are starving were going to be spending money on $27,000 digital purchases. You may as well complain about the fact that there are hundred million dollar yachts, hundred thousand dollar cars, and hundred dollar steaks while you're at it. You yourself probably have some luxury device that you overpaid for too. Possibly the very same one you're using to post your comments here.
Also, North America has an obesity problem several times larger than it does with undernourishment. I believe that even the rate for morbid obesity is twice as large. If you're starving in the U.S. or Canada it's either because your out in the sticks and completely cut off from most support systems (and probably your immediate neighbors) or because you're mentally ill and wandering the streets.
There's such an abundance of food here that no one need starve. The real issue is that people would rather lament about it online instead of actually doing anything in the real world themselves to solve even a tiny part of the problem.
It's a trick to get it posted all over the place, and since I'd never heard of it before Slashdot posted this story, mission accomplished.
Shit I know it's always been about money but for fuck's sake it's like it's not even a legitimate game anymore it's just an arms race fuelled by whoever has the most disposable income to blow on so-called 'in game purchases'. Why stop there? Why not just sell a God Mode upgrade for $1,000,000 that makes you omniscent, omnipotent, immortal, and gives you everything there is to get in the so-called 'game'?
It's a trick to get it posted all over the place, and since I'd never heard of it before Slashdot posted this story, mission accomplished.
Posting to reverse an accidental mod (I was trying to mod the parent as "Insightful" and accidentally hit "flamebait")
Would I rather play Elite where all real money will buy you is a sick paint job and people with nice ships actually have to work / farm / grind / cheat for it.
Or would I rather play Star Citizen where only rich elitists bastards with money and no brains get to have nice ships?
For me it's not a hard choice.
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For those of you concerned about the class implications of Star Citizen's extreme pay to win PVP model there is but one retort, "Silence Pleebs!"
Who's starving to death in North America?
The only cases I know of are those of "starvation due to self-neglect" (i.e. elderly with no family, young children neglected by their parents) and starvation as a result of a crime (someone literally holding someone prisoner and starving them). And those are very rare cases.
Starvation due to lack of funds hasn't been a thing in North America is something close to a hundred years at this point. It's so good that even relevant charities trying to collect the funds now have to mask the numbers under arbitrary definition of "food insecurity" as to mask the fact that starvation due to lack of funds has been all but eliminated outside a few regions in Africa and Asia. And we're well on the way to eliminate those soon.
The food related problem that is actually acute in North America is the exact opposite. Far too much food. People are too fat.
Literally, people are starving to death in North America, and on the other hand, 27000$ megatransactions. THE FUCK
This argument equally applies to any form of recreation. The gaming industry is ~$80 billion a year. The (legal) gambling industry is $335 billion. Film industry (Hollywood) is $40B. Tobacco is $500B. All of this is money being pissed away that could have just as equally gone to starving people.
And just why the hell do you only care about people in North America? All those starving kids in South America or Asia can just go chew shoes I guess?
But I guess that's an important distinction, because we're pretty rich over here. **Cough Central america is part of north america but we're going to ignore them too for now Cough**. If only there was some way to FORCE people into supporting those who need support. I mean, that sounds pretty fascist and authoritarian, but hey, it's for a good cause. Maybe these funds could even come from the people who could most easily pay it, the rich. Or at least the high income earners. Kinda the same thing*. And then you realize that EBT is a real thing and we already do that. If you're starving, we will feed you. Because we're a good nation of good people. There are some forms, there are people that will help you with that. And despite all this, there are STILL people who will be starving. And not just the fashion models. The people that have issues and just can't get themselves together to even go get a free handout. dropouts. Unless you want to make them wards of the state, strip them of their rights, strap them down, and force feed them... some percentage of society will starve. The goal is not zero, that's impossible. The goal is to be relatively low (making us more attractive than competitors), and to give people a means to go feed themselves. Because without a means, they tend to riot and burn shit.
The Kickstarter campaign raised about $2M.
You lead a very very sheltered life. Around 25% of the American/Canadian population cannot afford enough meals to stay healthy/alive. They are often helped by social programs, but (left on their own income) they would starve.
I've never understood it.
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
I'd never heard of it either, but as the expectation of the amount I'm going to spend on them is somewhere between nothing and fuck all I'd say mission *not* accomplished.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Citation needed.
It's such bullshit that they have started to claim 'food insecure', as if that counts...Because they know poor people are _fat_ on average.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
7 years ago? :D
Sadly, on the same note the Space Quest equivalent of SC has been dead in the water after Mark Crowe I think it was bailed for 2 years while dealing with a family member with alzheimers. During the same time the voice of the narrator from the previous games had died leaving them with a bunch of spots to fill to bring the game up to modern standards.
Also Star Control got sold to Stardock, and the latest game is a 'reboot' fully done by Stardock with no input from Reiche III and company. So yeah, barely 30 years later everything that I grew up with has been recommercialized and proven why perpetual copyrights suck ass: Because it just leads to some legally mandated asshole buying the IP and turning it into something completely different than the original creators presented to you.
So what you're saying is that there are government and community programs aimed at making sure people don't starve to death as long as they don't "self-neglect".
Star Citizen has been 'in the works' for what, 5 years now? Longer? VAPORWARE. And those of you forking over money for this never-will-be-completed game... a fool and their dollars are easily separated.
Gotta hand it to Cloud Imperium, they're duping everyone out of money and already litigating in courts (VERY EXPENSIVE.) Fools. This has to be the greatest thing ever for Cloud Imperium, they're making tons of money and have NEVER delivered a product. Amazing.
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=
They'll tell you when the game is going to be released.
WHO are these people with $27000 to spend on a single video game... ?
Seriously... $27k?!?.... If someone can literally pony up that much money for a video game's digital content. They should literally have their money straight up taken from them and used to house homeless people. Not even joking!
How many of these six millions died of starvation. Citations please.
Hint: if there was even one such death, it would be international news for weeks. Wide variety of social nets specifically aimed at keeping people that can't afford food fed in North America has been fully reaching everyone for decades at this point.
If there was a case of someone genuinely dying of starvation because they couldn't afford food, which was the claim, it would be international news for weeks.
So good luck looking for citations of things that aren't about self neglect, dependent neglect or crime. Because you won't find any. Starvation has not been a thing in 1st world in so many decades, we literally don't know what it looks like any more, hence the knee jerking.
See, people dying of starvation are actually fairly visible. They look the part. And death takes weeks to month to arrive. Which is why they're usually caught by social security net even in case of self neglect, and the few cases that aren't actually do make news when found.
I cannot wait for this to to fail and be a pale underwhelming joke like No Man's Sky only on a grander scale; if it even gets that far. The schadenfreude will be epic. This is the new Duke Nukem Forever.
I backed it for $1250. Why? Because I grew up on Wing Commander and you never forget your first love. Is it really a surprise that someone who tried to remake Wing Commander: Privateer as an MMO would back a game that basically promises to be Wing Commander 2/3 mixed with Privateer in an MMO setting? The only person I've met through work that backed it for a similar $5000 or more amount was a 6 figure salaried Network Security engineer. Similar in age, people that still appreciate space games and had to wait 15 years for their genre to get revived are happy to pour money into one of the biggest names in the genre.
So your definition of "food problem solved" is "people not literally wasting away to death from lack of food"? There's no standard higher than that you'd have society aspire to? You think any charity that includes food as a goal is needless because McDonalds has a dollar menu?
Jesus
I'm the real fool here. Why do I click on slashdot comments? Such a huge fraction is sheltered STEMlord monsters, and I should know that by now. I just wanted to see people joking about a ridiculous video game, and instead there's a hot plate of garbage opinions.
How many thousands of dollars do people spend on golf gear and green fees every year? How about fishing boats? Gaming is not the most expensive or retarded hobby, by a long shot.
So if you're not literally dying from starvation, you're not actually starving and it doesn't count?
First of all, fuck you for that attitude.
Second, we're lucky enough to have social programs, both taxpayer funded and privately operated, that people can generally avoid literally wasting away to death... but that does not mean hunger isn't a problem. The mere fact that such programs are necessary means that hunger is a problem.
=Smidge=
Or surfing, diving, sailing, rock climbing, skiing, on a car or motor bike, or god forbid: fashion?
Cost free eBook I read (by iBook/Kobo/Amazon/ObookO/Gutenberg etc.): "The Green Odyssey" by Philip Jose Farmer.
You can tell someone has lived a sheltered life when they spin a first world problem of "mom didn't wake up in time from her hangover, so kids get lunch as their first meal" as something even remotely comparable to "people dying of hunger".
Seriously, fuck you. I've seen what actual dying of hunger did to people. You trying to conflate that with your first world problems of "oh noes, they're slightly hungry in the mornings" is beyond the pale.
>Literally, people are starving to death in North America
Yes, my definition of problem solved is people not starving in North America.
Have you ever seen what world hunger did in Africa and Asia? Just how sheltered, ignorant and frankly stupid are you to even suggest that this is not a good thing?
You truly are a fool, but not because you click on slashdot comments. Get out of the damn basement, and hit those few remaining regions in the world that still have hunger for a serious reality check. You sound like you desperately need one.
You can also die from being too fat. And chances of you dying of it are infinitely higher than of starvation, because as I noted above, no one dies of it any more due to financial constraints.
By announcing this product, they have at no cost to themselves gained advertising of Star Citizen all over the Internet. Who knows, they might even sell one or two, but it doesnâ(TM)t matter. They have brought the world to their web site, which was the real point all along.