Ah, it recently announced a $48,000 spaceship bundle, the latest in an ongoing line, which contains every ship in the game and is apparently only accessible to those who’ve already spent $1,000…
Is this suppose to be an article? Or is posting tweets linked on a website a new fad?
I know SC is a game many people like to dunk on (sometimes for completely right reasons) but let’s not pretend like there’s absolutely nothing there and CIG somehow scammed millions of players.
If anyone is actually interested in the game, I’d like to stress that you can buy the cheapest package and have access to everything using in-game money. There are also free flight events, available multiple times a year, so you can try the game out and decide for yourself if you like what’s there. So far, despite horrible technical difficulties that often happen due to stress on the servers during those times the number of players keeps growing. Take that as you wish…
As for the package… Is it ridiculous? Yes, absolutely. It’s 100% worth dunking on.
I was also expecting something more from the article. This is 100% posting tweets on your website so you can drive engagement there by linking your article in a tweet on Mastodon.
The top comment has it right (for me that’s getting internal leaks). Getting a disaffected employee would be rad. I turned down CGI during the pandemic because, while I was really interested in seeing just how fucked it was on the inside, I could not justify wasting six+ months of my life siphoning money off whales making something going absolutely nowhere.
Reminder that Elite:Dangerous is a game that has all that star citizen has ever promised, today. You can get it on steam.
Elite: Dangerous doesn’t hold a candle to Star Citizen in depth, immersion and fidelity.
The only thing Elite: Dangerous has Star Citizen beat on is sound design which is absolutely phenomenal.
Strongly disagree, except the sound design which is incredible.
My dreams of exploring the galaxy were fully realised in Elite: Dangerous.
I had more awe inspiring and mind blowing moments in ~100 hours of SC than in my 2000+ hours of ED. The role playing and shenanigans with other players, the diverse locations, the scale of everything… It’s just so much more interesting and immersive compared to ED and continuing to get better. ED is what I expect to actually be out in our galaxy, a whole lot of nothing. 400 billion star systems with the depth of a puddle.
You’re both nuts…that’s too much.
What is too much? The entirely optional package for whales?
Yea… for us but there are probably a few wealthy individuals out there who are time poor and would like to buy it.
Doesn’t harm me at all so why would I care
Elite dangerous exists as a playable released game.
Case closed.
I like to dunk on SC as much as the next guy but how can you say this at all with a straight face? For starters, can I walk around my ship? Is there a story-based campaign I can play through? Are there capital ships with dozens of players with different roles working on them?
SC will never get finished or live up to the promises it made but ED barely even tries to do anything beyond being a space truck simulator.
Yes (since the latest DLC), yes (the thargoids mystery), and yes (carriers have been here for a few years).
Of course it’s not exactly what you would get in SC because they’re ultimately different games. But you do have all of that and more, E:D has massively improved since it came out.
DId you ever actually play ED Odyssey and SC?
You can’t walk around on ships in E:D so you’re either mistaken or outright lying at this point. I’m not even going to get into talking about thargoids like it’s a story campaign, or how co-op works in ED.
all that star citizen has ever promised
not before the heat death of the universe
Imagine a sandbox. But you have to buy the box and then fill it with sand. The sand costs 48,000 dollars per granule. That’s Star Citizen.
Grifting idiots, I would imagine.
Its a predatory mobile game in disguise.
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Star Citizen is clunky dog shit.