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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.
And that would be still more than what the developers of Star Citizen have delivered in 6 years.
I think it's been seven years since I first sent them money, and there still isn't a release date.
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 $27,000 digital purchases. You may as well complain about the fact that there are hundred million dollar yachts, hundred thousand dollar cars, and hundred dollar steaks while you're at it. You yourself probably have some luxury device that you overpaid for too. Possibly the very same one you're using to post your comments here.
Also, North America has an obesity problem several times larger than it does with undernourishment. I believe that even the rate for morbid obesity is twice as large. If you're starving in the U.S. or Canada it's either because your out in the sticks and completely cut off from most support systems (and probably your immediate neighbors) or because you're mentally ill and wandering the streets.
There's such an abundance of food here that no one need starve. The real issue is that people would rather lament about it online instead of actually doing anything in the real world themselves to solve even a tiny part of the problem.
I'm sure Chris appreciates you helping the propaganda cause as they go whale hunting. I'm not sure the whales will be as sanguine in the end though, they're in it for slightly more than 45$.
It has been many years since this project was started. The current game play is terrible and he keeps changing things to keep up with current hardware. In short he can't finish since he can achieve his perfection. In the interim, several games with similar game play have been conceived and released. Some people are good at concepts and other are good at implementation. He is the former and what this project needs is the latter. He has the money. He needs to hire someone to take over and let them get a product out there. He has a history of this kind of thing. Check Freelancer
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.
Step 1. Buy game.
Step 2. Buy $27K pack to win game.
Step 3. Put game away because you've already won.
Wow, that is a time-saver!
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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.
Some games are worth it. Most people would consider me cheap and I wouldn't disagree. But I've spent well over that on Rocksmith DLC, much more if you count equipment. But that's more a hobby then a game so it's a little different. I would have a hard time justifying it for most games.
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.
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=
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.