Wife just walked past my screen and saw the this; "If you ever spend that much on a ship in that stupid game I don't think I can stay with you"
She didn't say she would leave me if I spent that much on SEVERAL ships that I'd accumulated over 9 months though so I think we're ok
But wait there's more!
https://twitter.com/pico_sc/status/1595575341300740096
https://twitter.com/SomeDude82SC/status/1595476442070257664
https://twitter.com/TheNekoDen1/status/1595702688703987714
:freeze-gamer: >Dunno seems like a red flag, especially when she likely spends thousands on dresses, shoes and make up most of which she'll never use.
:so-true: >oh man.... That would basically force me to buy it. I don't handle threats well lol.
(fucking Dwight Schrute meme with it) :cringe:
"ha ha I am dishonest with my partner but its cheeky for some stupid reason" posts will always piss me off. Like goddamnit you can't even respect your intimate partner, the one you are supposedly going to pair with for life? What the fuck is wrong with you. This isn't cute behavior.
Star Citizen might be the most successful gaming grift of all time. Imagine convincing people that it's acceptable to put a $750 price tag on a single in-game item lmao. That's more money than I've spent on games all year and I buy a lot of fucking games.
And all of it done without NFT infrastructure. Seems like the game industry got away with scamming gamers pretty well without some weird, energy-consuming, ownership verification scheme.
Given how much the servers groan under the weight of their 10 years of tech debt they just might be as bad as an NFT game.
The most expensive is like...2500 I think...i dont fuckin know.
The really expensive shit is only available once or twice a year though so they get you with FOMO.
They go up to 2500 so far for a single (not in the game after YEARS of being on sale) ship and up to 25,000 last I checked for a "Legatus Pack."
EDIT: They go up to 3000. For an internet spaceship that has been for sale but not playable for over eight years.
A $750 price tag for an in-game item that doesn't even exist yet and might be the better part of a decade away from existing.
I was talking to a guy on reddit who spend like 500 bucks on a ship (Banu Merchantman) that at the time wasn't even out. He was arguing that the ship was coming out before the end of the year. When I told him I didn't even think it would come out before the end of the next year he called me a hater and blocked me. Well, that was in 2016 and as far as I can tell the ship still isn't out to this day!
People have been saying the game is 2 years away from release for a decade now. Every patch you have motherfuckers claiming that this was the last road block before production can finally speed up and deliver a complete game. The cope is absolutely unreal.
EDIT: The timing seems almost too convinient but someone posted a list on the SC subreddit of unreleased ships and how long they've been in "production". The BMM I was just talking about has apparently been on sale for 9 years! For the $1000 Idris it's been even longer. The Javelin which costs a whopping $3000 according to this list has been in use for almost 8 years to scam idiots out of their money and still no release date anywhere to be found.
I need some kind of psychological analysis of how an adult human gets taken in by such an obvious scam. This doesn't even make any sense to me. I deliberate and do tons of research before I spend more than like $30, how are there people exchanging thousands of dollars for a microtransaction with no release date :agony-shivering:
Imagine a game that will never be released being responsible for destroying a marriage.
if an unfinished spaceship game destroys your marriage it wasnt the spaceship game
Blowing a few thousand dollars on an internet grift could push things over the edge.
A very similar argument could be said about casinos and gambling in general: that people that have a destructive addiction were predisposed to it. Does that mean it's fine to screw them to make a buck?
I wasn't.
Generally, though, "other things are bad too" arguments are often used in the internet wild to imply the conclusion that "so change nothing lol."
Imagine having a partner without also having open finances with each other. It's the damn 2020s, there shouldn't be a power imbalance as huge as "controlling the money" in your relationship.
oh man… That would basically force me to buy it. I don’t handle threats well lol.
if you're at this stage of a relationship, it's fucking over. you're doing fucking mind games to spite your partner. just fucking leave because you clearly cannot work this out in the open, and everything past that breach of trust will just be further and further of a rift. you will be happier in the long term if you do. option two is that you turn into a hate my wife guy.
Dwight Schrute fanboys that missed the point of the character are probably not a good choice for anyone to have a relationship with.
:doubt: on that guy ever having lasted long enough in a relationship to get married.
I love my weekly post shitting on star citizen :party-parrot-popcorn:
As society and community crumble further people are going to keep using bad decision fandoms like these as mental crutches for their loneliness and bad decisions in life.
Love to belittle the supposed person I love the most to internet strangers :grillman:
Did his wife really divorce him or is it epic nerd humor?
Maybe a divorce that has epic nerd humor as part of why it happened. :kombucha-disgust:
If she exist she should absolutely leave him, but the money would be low down the list of reasons why.
Also, none of those people in the replies have ever had a conversation with the opposite sex.
at this point, hundreds of thousands of creators have made millions of dollars creating "The TRUTH about Star Citizen" videos which are all completely excusatory and don't dwell on the fact there are no gameplay loops (FPS combat less exciting than aimlabs, resource gathering that's less thrilling than farming Runescape) and about 2 minutes in turns to them walking around a fictional ship fawning over opening doors and seat animations when you get into a pilot seat.
i'm convinced star citizen bros and crypto/techbros are all in the same venn diagram circle
They have very similar overlapping fantasies of unlimited treats provided by the Great Men of History.
This "character" in the cryptofascist lore is directly named for the head grifter of Star Citizen, Chris Roberts.
https://starcitizen.tools/Chris_Roberts_(lore)
