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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.