After over 13 years of development and 800 million dollars raised through crowdfunding and microtransactions...

about 12$ or something like that
but there's no way of obtaining them beside cash

i think they're like, 20 dollars or some amount? But the improvement is tiny for each one you buy iykwim

Some part for your ship that you can use to give it more maneuverability or speed or something. The backlash behind it is it’s another microtransaction in a sea of microtransactions (people have already been buying ships for an unreleased game for hundreds of dollars a pop) plus many of them aren’t actually interchangeable for most ships (ie if you buy one you can’t use it for other ships)

imagine war thunder and you can buy a thing that gives your plane a 0.3% speed boost. Obviously some will buy them and probably many of them

Star Citizen

literally who the fuck cares about this fucking boondoggle of a scam.
Are you retarded enough to play it? Because I've watched a handfull of streams and its buggy trash and simps paying for stuff so girls will play with them.
dogshit.

I think its a "if you sell this, what isn't for sale" kind of thing

some faggot snoy looking sissy with funko pops in his background made a clickbait video and the low iq sheep come flocking

Here comes the airplane/spaceship!

addon to ship

each ship has its own blade

have to buy blades for each ship individually

from the cash shop of a crowd-funded game with a budget of ~$800M

When's the game coming out again?

post yfw you didn't fall for scam citizen

people who have nothing else have built it into a community and a hobby

it already came out and was terrible. This is all post launch updates.

You know if you at least threw your money into a fire it would have have kept you warm half the night. You literally got nothing backing this shit.

It's gonna be a spectacle when/if the game releases.

crazy how little a budget that size actually gets you
what is the optimal budget for an ambitious Anon Babbleideo game?

I have sympathy for anyone who backed before 2016. But anyone paying in now is insane. The fact its still going is insane to me.

The enemy of art is the absence of limitation.

I think in this specific case the problem is the game being in development is just too profitable. So they have no reason to actually finish it until the supporters turn on them. Same with all those porn games that have a Patreon and a lot of early access games on Steam.

money has diminishing returns. with 10 mil you can make a game thats 90% as good as a game with 1 bil budget. clair obscur is the newest of many examples that prove this

the limiting factor to make good games is not money. its talent. 99% of game devs are shit and cant make a good game no matter how much money you give them. the remaining 1% can make a great game for less than 1 mil

How do scam citizen cucks have so much money yet so little brains? It’s like a cult.

Where the fuck is the money still coming from

3400 upboats

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They ain’t happy

800 millions dollars donated from thin air

Still jew people for 10 bucks a pixel

thats so fucking sad it makes me want to sit on a toilet and shit for the next twelve hours

It's p2w ship modding. They sold them for a shit ton of money and it ruined what little PvP existed. Now they are taking them from the people who paid for them. They are seemingly unable to stop themselves from handling it progressively more poorly.

My bet is money laundering, no way people are legitimately retarded to fund this

Honest to god what do you even do in this game. I've heard about this game a thousand times but I don't know a soul who plays it or have any idea how it's structured

Anyone ever see this movie?

after player backlash

This ""game"" has "players"?!

Blades are programs you can patch into your ship to improve statistics dramatically through the use of AI subprograms or some other technobabble shit; the dogfighting PvP community in this game is obsessed as the only real things you can do in the game are PVP, darkrp prison, mine or space truck.

Components in your ship can be swapped out from gimbals to cannons, ranging from ballistics to energy weapons, etc. with different vendors all over the system offering different parts in different shops. These blades that you can plug into your ship are to be only purchaseable for their trial period (anywhere from 3 months to a year or more) on the cash shop. As it is in the game, most of the ships you can earn up to using in-game currency from odd jobs like mining or smuggling, bounty hunting other players, etc. so it goes against that to lock a direct upgrade behind a paywall. Blades have also been in discussion for almost a decade because they are the start of the development pathway to AI blades that allow people to put bots on ship turrets for mining or personal defense instead of hiring players and trusting them with unrestricted access to 80% of your ship. I've been hijacked before and lost 450K it fucking sucks and it was like 2-3 days work gone because I hired lazy space mexicans

Not a scam btw

99.999% of you just cant afford to play this game, seethe more Ameripoors.

Why were they complaining? Star Citizen is not a game, it's an object of worship that you sacrifice your money to.

HAHAHAHA

@all these people who defended this scam after ALL THESE YEARS.

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here is our road map for a road map

So you dont have a road map?

well as you can see from our road map for a road map, we're working on it.

you're poor.

Why is Genshit so expensive?
It's a shitty gacha

I'm blessed with intelligence and superior speed though

Is that motherfucking Gary Sinise?

Sunk cost is a hell of a drug

plus many of them aren’t actually interchangeable for most ships (ie if you buy one you can’t use it for other ships)

star citizen paypiggies are more cucked than WEGgers

this is a poor person thread, if your family isnt worth millions then post here.

here

I am a multigigatrillionaire but I have not spent a single rupee on this game sir

CoD & Genshin Impact have a 1.0 release, are playable, and have an established gameloop.
They also didn't take over a decade to release.

Wait... This game doesn't have a bullshite Early Access and is still "coming soon"?

It's not a game. It's an experience.

Throwing a lot of money at something doesn't fix a problem or make something better

My friend gave me a ship so that I could play with him. We hopped on this week and nothing was fucking working. We couldn't accept any contracts and we were in a never-ending queue when we tried to leave the hangar. This "game" has been in development for 13 years and you can't even fucking do anything.

Reddit has turned on them

everything is going to be a scam

Oh jeez!
slowpoke.jpg.exe

We're all gonna die

Just need more time patriots

It was obvious Scam Citzen was going to be a P2W garbage from the minute they started announcing those ships you could buy with real money.
Even if they could somehow tardwrangle Chris Roberts to actually release something that resembles a game the game will have a completely fucked economy from day 1 where mega whales control everything

This was over before it even started

It was obvious Scam Citzen was going to be a P2W garbage from the minute they started announcing those ships you could buy with real money.

Even if they could somehow tardwrangle Chris Roberts to actually release something that resembles a game the game will have a completely fucked economy from day 1 where mega whales control everything

Which is actually based because they deserve it for still supporting this shit

This is the most unhinged monetization I've ever seen

Only took him 12 years and 57K USD to realize this

Every modern space sim is dogshit in one way or another but star citizen somehow always manages to come out on top of the shit pile.

I don't fault early backers that didn't do their research into how Roberts was kicked off his own game by the publisher before because after several delays he couldn't deliver anything.
I do blame morons who have been cheering on the scope/feature creep for years now

only three thousand burgers for a base

holy shit

Spend tens of thousands on the supreme capital super duper ship

No, spending on ship modifiers is pay to win!!!

Will the boomertards supporting this scam finally realise that they're being scammed now or what

I genuinely don't think this game can actually have a full release anymore, it's like the world's biggest kickstarter jenga tower where coming out of early access is removing that critical block letting people still pretend they didn't get scammed and it'll all truly come tumbling down

I keep forgetting about Star Citizen, I thought it died

1980's equipment in a game about space exploration

not requiring a hand photo before trusting anyone

eve online made me paranoid

I love going into these sorts of threads to troll by saying clearly p2w features aren't p2w

Liked X4.

Apologize

$20 for a granular upgrade to your $300 ship

obviously it's fine since you can spend hundreds of hours on a sub-minimum wageslave grind to get the same ship (disappears after a seasonal wipe)
Who the fuck is stupid enough to fall for this shit

what the FUCK

It's just parody, at this point.
How do you even find people to play with when the community has priced out everyone except the spoiled babies with main character syndrome

don't have to I always knew he was right

in stock

Oh...oh no.

And salvage

It counts the active develop costs too.

You can't really blame them when people are so fucking stupid.

Carrot seed

W-what?

1 pack of seed

N-no..

This is a joke, right? There's so much in this image that is utterly ridiculous.

So it's engineering from Elite Dangerous but they made it P2W?

Wonder when (not if) they'll just make work like a gacha game? Way more money that way.

him being right about Roberts being incapable of directing anything doesn't change the fact that he's a retarded sperg that is wrong about everything else

Did SC players just remember the safe word after being willingly raped over a decade?

$45

He bought

HAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAH BASED MEXICANS GET FUCKED PAYPIGGY

I got coherced by buddies into paying for this piece of shit.
It crashed 5 times and it took HOURS of constant finding the people I was playing with.
Thank fuck I only spent 40€ on this.

Are the ships NFTs?

It's not a good game that went to shit, it was well known from early on the exact flavor of piece of shit this game was going to be. The only ones I can excuse are early crowdfunding backers because I can understand how it could look appealing at the time, but anyone after that is just retarded and deserves this.

I think you mean payers. They paid for a money sink and now after $800m+ budget and a decade of development time they get mad over suppose paid-to-win flight blades? I'm pretty sure the whole system itself was design with paid-to-win at its core. Why you made at another one added to the bunch with a game that doesn't have a clear release in sight?

You can buy 5 kilograms of carrot seeds for $45

can/will be able to purchase most gameplay related things with in-game currency for actually playing the game

people still shell out thousands of realbux for ships

now there's a direct p2w ship enhancement that isn't just "bigger more expensive ship that can be run by one pilot"

retarded pay piggies oink out in rage because they feel obligated to buy it for a multiplayer that isn't even properly finished yet

do I have this all right?
nope your ships have no resale value and they're not unique. You can trade in your ships/game packages and use their store to upgrade them by fronting the cost of the original package. However, they will apparently introduce a crafting system in game that lets you manufacture, buy and sell things to players and NPCs, and one of those is making ships and making tiers of quality for those ships (and any craftable item).

They intend that you can buy land with ingame currency

Ingame currency is purchasable with real currency

If you get your ship blown up, you lose it for good, meaning you have to do non-ship jobs to make money

When (If) the game launches, whales are going to snipe every ship they find, to put the players on literal plantations as they own entire planet surfaces.

45 DOLLARS TO HAVE AN NPC WANDER AROUND

THIS GAME IS A SCAM HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

When (If) the game launches, whales are going to snipe every ship they find, to put the players on literal plantations as they own entire planet surfaces.

Oh, so it'll be like in real life where the ultra super mega rich run everything space related and just nuke the peasants from orbit whenever the taxes are late.

toilet

$500

You can't be fucking serious? Post the source

Oh, so it'll be like in real life where the ultra super mega rich run everything space related and just nuke the peasants from orbit whenever the taxes are late.

Pretty much, imagine paying 45 bucks for the default ship, and some giga-nigger in their 3000 dollar frigate 1 hit KO's you from outside scanner range lmao.

"If" is doing a lot of heavy lifting.
Star Citizen will never release, because they'd have to own up to the mountains of shit they've left unfinished for over a decade while they chased new monetization opportunities.
It's not about selling a game, it's about selling the possibility of what the game could be if you just gave them a few more dollars.

Is this real?

APOLOGIZE

There's no source because it's a shoop
Which is dumb because there's much worse stuff in the store

Star Citizen will never release, because they'd have to own up to the mountains of shit they've left unfinished for over a decade while they chased new monetization opportunities.

Didn't they promise over a hundred starsystems, and currently they're up to two? With both being highly barebones?

2025

salvage still isn't fully implemented

and yet the people defending this shit are still hanging on

I've just realised that this game is the DSP of video games.

Elaborate, please

Scam Citizen finally went too far. $1,800 ships? No problem. $12 buffs? It's over.
Come on guys, Chris Roberts needs a bigger yacht!

it's so far past a scam at this point that a whole new category of fuckery will have to be invented just to classify whatever the fuck it is.

"A hundred star systems" is legal speak for the fact that 98 of them are just wiki pages with half a paragraph of text.
Calling Pyro "barebones" is a compliment. They rolled that piece of shit out and then immediately abandoned it for their fifth attempt at reinventing the wheel for instancing.

Pretty easy, it's the biggest display of sunk cost fallacy in history, it will be added to the history books and dictionaries.

Adds a system where there's no law and order

Everyone just PvP's each other endlessly

If the game was actually released, everyone would be going back to default ships every fucking hour because of how many PvP incidents there are

Game is fucked, if you can't live for a week in DayZ servers what makes people think they'd last any longer in Starcitizen?
And worse, people can just PAY to win in Starcitizen.

IN STOCK

uh oh better hurry up and buy, this digital item might run out of stock!!

They already broke their golden rule of having to start with nothing if you die, they now let you keep your equipped tools if you die. So there goes the hardcore space sim aspect.

another stealth star citizen hate thread made by salty starfield saars

Fuck off. Just because your village can't afford one flight blade doesn't mean you can shit up the internet with your hate.

$45 for a kitchen

$500 for a toilet

It's all been downhill since Chris Roberts was caught on To Catch A Predator.

cuck uprising

What a time to be alive.

'equipped tools'.
What use is a fucking handgun if your spaceship blows up?

That’s ok you can spend several hundreds of USD to buy digital insurance for your ships too

I don't fucking know man, I don't play this giant fucking embodiment of sunk cost.