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:

  • booty [he/him]
    ·
    2 years ago

    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.

    • Dawn_Beveridge [she/her, comrade/them]
      ·
      2 years ago

      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.

      • Mardoniush [she/her]
        ·
        2 years ago

        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.

      • Mardoniush [she/her]
        ·
        2 years ago

        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.

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
        hexagon
        ·
        edit-2
        2 years ago

        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.

    • jizzong [he/him]
      ·
      edit-2
      2 years ago

      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.

      • booty [he/him]
        ·
        2 years ago

        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:

        • UlyssesT [he/him]
          hexagon
          ·
          2 years ago

          When does a microtransaction stop being micro? :cap-think: