DickTrickle
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Star Citizen Online - The search for more money
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CIG Charging $20 USD to Watch Citizencon This Year • r/pcgaming
It's good to see that snake oil salesmen have kept up with technology
Edit: Update: Citizencon Streaming Full Access Will Be Free With Account (Accounts are free) • r/pcgaming
It's good to see that snake oil salesmen have kept up with technology
Edit: Update: Citizencon Streaming Full Access Will Be Free With Account (Accounts are free) • r/pcgaming
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Reading this thread of people discussing how much the kraken is worth is an insight into insanity. Like a group of body dismorphia people discussing how many horns implanted in their skull would complete them.
r/starcitizen - How much do you think the Kraken is going to cost?
r/starcitizen - How much do you think the Kraken is going to cost?
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I have serious reservations about pre-ordering games because it might be pissing away money. I simply cannot fathom how people can put thousands or tens of thousands down on a promise of a game.
Like this reddit comment:
MTG is a physical card game that actually exists and the cards have resale value. This is going to (maybe) be a video game that could shut down without a moments notice if it even gets released at all. You could be banned from the game and lose access to all of it.
I really wish someone would do some professional research on the heavy backers for this game to find out what makes them tick.
Like this reddit comment:
MTG is a physical card game that actually exists and the cards have resale value. This is going to (maybe) be a video game that could shut down without a moments notice if it even gets released at all. You could be banned from the game and lose access to all of it.
I really wish someone would do some professional research on the heavy backers for this game to find out what makes them tick.
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DickTrickle
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I don't think that's it. People talking about saving up to buy ships or things like Pantheon access. Not all are rich. Probably most aren't, honestly.
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The idea of something is much more enticing than the reality. When you look over the idea it is perfect, no misshapen boobs, no nasally voice. No energy flow problems to shields. No mismatched skins. No shitty pathing so that you need a death touch. No cloth caps. Reality and facing the flaws is hard.
Finished games have things set in stone that you will disagree with, so are worth less due to these glaring, monstrous flaws.
The more things get nailed down into reality, the less worth it has. Bastards! Ruining the dreams!
Finished games have things set in stone that you will disagree with, so are worth less due to these glaring, monstrous flaws.
The more things get nailed down into reality, the less worth it has. Bastards! Ruining the dreams!
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I was talking mostly about the whales who have invested tens of thousands of dollars into this game. No one is investing that much money if they're broke, because they simply wouldn't have the money to invest. I'm sure there are a lot of people who skipped a vacation or a dental visit to buy a space ship in this game, but the people keeping the lights on for this sham of a company are these freaking lunatic whales who are buying every ship, base, and insurance policy that they create every several of months.
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sunk cost fallacy. I'd be willing to bet that the whales keeping the lights on are heavily populated by people choosing to eat ramen for weeks in order to attempt to get this to a dollar amount where their already ridiculous investments might turn into something tangible. People who have a ton of money can waste it like no other on inane shit like this but the real money is made from the guy that just knows the $5k he couldn't afford and dumped into this is going to pay off one day so he continues to throw good money after bad in both support and in futilely keeping his dream alive. People who don't have a ton of money and have no idea how to handle themselves do incredibly stupid shit like this and that seems to be their bread and butter
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I think you're spot on with this and developers have now caught on and monetized this game "model." Games like Star Citizen, Pantheon, dozens others are more valuable in the "idea" stage than they will be at any other point in their life cycle. Based on what I've seen, as long as developers can show any small amount of progress, no matter how unreasonably, laughably slow it is, people will keep throwing money at these games. It's a very dangerous concept in actuality.
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Yes, but what's tangible? It's not like you're buying stock in the company, or that you get a ROI when the game is launched. We're talking about people actually purchasing spaceships, insurance, and outposts for a game that doesn't even fucking exist so that they can P2W if the game ever launches.
DickTrickle
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Tuco
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100%.
I think anyone who went in with that as their rationality would've sold their goods long ago. Nobody is going to hold onto that stuff for the several years it takes for SC to release.
Besides that, I think the value of these p2w ships will absolutely plummet as soon as the game supports earning stuff in game and the game is either fun and you'll just want to earn shit, or it's lame and people won't want to play anyway.
Though if SC turns out to be some kind of Korean grind fest ala Archeage / Black Desert Online where whales rule space, that's fine with me too. Let them all bankrupt each other, lol.
