Current Events > Star Citizen is one of the best scams ever

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They've raised $200,000,000 and have nothing resembling a finished product out yet

And even with the game having not released they have people buying in game spaceships worth hundreds or thousands of dollars

It's amazing
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Every now and then I check on the progress and just kinda laugh.
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codey posted...

Every now and then I check on the progress and just kinda laugh.

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gamers are the easiest people to con
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I've never really paid attention to this game. I thought it was released years ago
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I really don't understand why people keep throwing money at them.
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I made this mistake once in my life with Mighty No 9.

Never again will I confide in these kickstarter/fund scam bull shit.
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does it actually matter at that point though, if people are already enjoying the game and they are providing updates?
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Does that number include all the refunds they've given?
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Kombucha posted...

does it actually matter at that point though, if people are already enjoying the game and they are providing updates?

It's not out yet. It was originally scheduled to be released August of 2016. There's a free trial next week, but it's for 8 days.
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Hayame Zero posted...

Kombucha posted...

does it actually matter at that point though, if people are already enjoying the game and they are providing updates?

It's not out yet. It was originally scheduled to be released August of 2016. There's a free trial next week, but it's for 8 days.

Oh, for some reason I thought people that paid were allowed in a beta or something.

Yeah that's a scam.
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Yeah I won't even get early access games on steam if I don't see a history of updates from the dev.
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I mean what they do have looks pretty good, and you can see a shape forming but it is certainly way too long in the making.
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Master_Bass posted...

I really don't understand why people keep throwing money at them.

Because people have never heard of the sunk cost fallacy.
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It's got to be the same people paying over and over again, right? Surely there's no new investors at this point.
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Remember when they released a ship pack that costs $27,000... and you had to have already spent $1,000 on in-game purchases just to view its contents?
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It's a marketing experiment.
I thought we all knew this.

I'm being 100% serious.

It's the same thing that Zuckerberg did in college and then used it to create Facebook

Metua posted...

Remember when they released a ship pack that costs $27,000... and you had to have already spent $1,000 on in-game purchases just to view its contents?

Wut. Details please, because that sounds outrageous, even for this scam.
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They don't even allow backers to play the Alpha anymore?

evilpresident posted...

Metua posted...

Remember when they released a ship pack that costs $27,000... and you had to have already spent $1,000 on in-game purchases just to view its contents?

Wut. Details please, because that sounds outrageous, even for this scam.

https://www.pcgamer.com/new-star-citizen-ship-pack-unlocks-nearly-every-vessel-in-the-game-for-dollar27000/
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FIFA Ultimate Team makes $800m a year selling player packs, that's people paying extra money to use players they already have access to in the game they already bought.

Also, none of that ultimate team progress rolls over to the next years edition.

Dry bums Star Citizen into a bloody pulp when it comes to taking kids pocket money off them for nothing in return.

DemonBuffet posted...

I made this mistake once in my life with Mighty No 9.

Never again will I confide in these kickstarter/fund scam bull shit.

Its great for $7. Digitial+phys+dlc+poster. Amazing despite mediocre game.
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I don't believe it was meant to be a scam. A few people had this idea for a game that got a lot of money so they felt they had to keep adding more goals which then became a loop of people throwing more money to hit the new goals causing more goals to be added.

Of course now they are clearly milking it, but at least originally I just think it was a bunch of people who had no idea what they were doing.
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Metua posted...

evilpresident posted...

Metua posted...

Remember when they released a ship pack that costs $27,000... and you had to have already spent $1,000 on in-game purchases just to view its contents?

Wut. Details please, because that sounds outrageous, even for this scam.

https://www.pcgamer.com/new-star-citizen-ship-pack-unlocks-nearly-every-vessel-in-the-game-for-dollar27000/

Sweet Jesus.
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GaryGaryGary posted...

FIFA Ultimate Team makes $800m a year selling player packs, that's people paying extra money to use players they already have access to in the game they already bought.

Also, none of that ultimate team progress rolls over to the next years edition.

Dry bums Star Citizen into a bloody pulp when it comes to taking kids pocket money off them for nothing in return.

Yeah, Ultimate Team in sports games is the biggest fucking scam ever

Also has a huge negative impact on the development of the actual game itself too
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Wtf
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*cough*digitalgacha*cough*
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What kind of game is it supposed to be anyway? like a space sim or what?
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MakoReizei posted...

What kind of game is it supposed to be anyway? like a space sim or what?

Yeah.

No Man's Sky crossed with Second Life plus Elite Dangerous.

$200,000,000??? PC gamers amirite? Money doesn't buy smarts.
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slipknirvana posted...

MakoReizei posted...

What kind of game is it supposed to be anyway? like a space sim or what?

Yeah.

No Man's Sky crossed with Second Life plus Elite Dangerous.

That sounds like a project that's too ambitious. No wonder it isn't even out yet...and with them being able to make money off of an unreleased product they probably won't ever release it.
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