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.
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.
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:
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.
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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.
Jesus that's even greedier than the gacha games that I play lol
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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:
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