Bravo. You (at last) understand the concept of crowdfunding. There's always a risk. It's a bet; People understand that, and spend money they can afford to lose. If that sort of money seems outlandish to you, sucks to be poor but I can garantee you that what I spent on Star Citizen isn't big money to me.
The whole point of this is to allow someone to go crazy with his ideas, rather than being limited by shitty publishers who claim to know exactly what people need to play. Most so-called "AAA" games these days are huge piles of crap. Rehash after rehash, stale ideas, zero risks taken. I'm part of the people ready to give Chris Roberts what 10 of those shitty games would cost to let him give life to his dream project. And guess what? I like where this is going. Alpha 2.1 , while only a fragment of the game, is already more fun than so many "AAA" games. You don't like it? Too bad for you. I (and many others) will continue voting with my money. If it infuriates people like you, so much the better. The fact that you spend so much time commenting on projects you hate says a lot about you ;)
Try to get your facts right. There's no discount involved here. The reason this "sale" (as in "you can buy it", not "we're cutting the price in half") is interesting is that in january, CIG will apply the real dollar-to-euro conversion rate.
Also, come next year, Squadron 42 (single player, Wing COmmander-style game) will become a separate purchase from the MMOish part (Star Citizen, the persistent universe).
Though given your tone, I doubt you'll let these facts get in the way of your bias.
Or you know, people who don't want to help fund the game can wait for the release, or just buy the cheapest package (45€) which will allow you to then get all the other ships in game. Amazing the amount of people who don't understand how this works, and still come here to comment on it.
You wrote : "You'd have to be a nutcase. Paying the price of a full game for the cheapest P.O.S. ship. The people who pay for that don't deserve money."
What people are trying to tell you, is that you actually get the full game with the cheapest P.O.S ship (and btw, this game isn't just an arena shooter. The cheapest POS ship can carry more cargo than the expensive fighters, so a player wishing to earn some money by trading goods would actually be wise to start with a 45€ Aurora).
So your post made you look quite ignorant. You should actually try to understand how this game is being funded, and what people can get with just the basic game packages before making statements like these.
Unless of course those people perfectly understand what crowdfunding means. The whole point of these ship "sales" is to fund the game (which has no publisher). But if you don't want to contribute, and only want to get the game once it's finished, you can just wait. You should be glad to see so many people ready to fund a game that you will then be able to enjoy for a normal price.
Since I find most games coming out nowadays rubbish anyway, I decided 3 years ago to stop buying them for a year and to dump all that money saved on Star Citizen. I have 8 ships, and yet my intention is to start playing in the Persistent Universe with the least expensive one, because I love the feeling of progression. And most of the backers I talk to also perfectly understand that paying for expensive ships won't bring them anything else than the satisfaction of helping this game get made, and that they could get all those ships for free just by playing.
Then he posts a wall of text, full of biased BS based on Derek Smart's sources. Thats what I love with people like him; they shoot themselves in the foot so fast.
The backers are getting what they asked for. The people who waited on the sideline for others to take risks, or pointed fingers and laughed, will get to pay more to get both the MMO AND the single player campaign. I find that both fitting, and satisfying.
Well here's the thing : if you tried to do the same thing, you'd fail miserably. The reason for his success is his credibility : he's responsible for Wing Commander, Starlancer, Strike Commander, Privateer and Freelancer. It's not like some random nobody showed up, promised the moon and suddenly got money thrown at him. Also, his company (CIG) has been showing what they were working on all along. They have a few studios and hundreds of employees, so it's quite obvious he is using that money on development.
You can get the whole game, with ZERO restrictions, for 45 bucks. EA executives would never allow that. Bravo for getting your facts wrong; amazing the amount of ignorance that surrounds this game and feeds trolls.
Yeah. They sound like a broken record at this point, but apparently facts won't get in the way of their conspiracy theories.
Deal with it guys. There IS a game in the making, what's already available is like nothing else I've ever played, and it will only get better from here on.
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