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…

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    10 months ago

    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.

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      10 months ago

      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.