Current Events > Star Citizen ex-employee expose

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https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/163yyxh/prior_cig_employee_recently_released_something/

Some highlights are, they're earning less money than they projected, and the company is spending a shitload of money for their office, which has artworks and furnitures worth several people's salaries

They're also doing more money pushes, and they also jacked up prices of dumbass ships against recommendations, and people still bought it up

It's crazy how scammed people are

The whole situation is very funny

Sunk Cost Fallacy: The Game

What, is a money laundering scheme for cartels?

this is that game thats been in developement and crowdfunding for over a decade with out even a alpha build to show for it right?

AceMos posted...

this is that game thats been in developement and crowdfunding for over a decade with out even a alpha build to show for it right?

Oh no it has playable builds they're just not feature complete.

It isn't a scam anymore, people just like giving them money.

We see this with lewd games too. People are like oh this new lewd game is going to come out soon. Just get being a patreon. And people want that lewd game so much they keep paying. And if they wanted to stop..who can they cry too. Oh I lost 500 dollars on Sexy Catgirl in space 3.

https://youtu.be/iGOQTLkN_Ok?t=94

Is this the game where you can pay 30,000 real dollars to buy a digital space ship? >_>

Kim_Seong-a posted...

Is this the game where you can pay 30,000 real dollars to buy a digital space ship? >_>

The single most expensive ship is $10,000 or at least it was before they jacked up the prices. They had more expensive bundles that covered stuff including multiple ships. I think 100k gets you everything related to space ships.

Then you gotta buy land on the planets! That's extra!

Tyranthraxus posted...

The single most expensive ship is $10,000 or at least it was before they jacked up the prices. They had more expensive bundles that covered stuff including multiple ships. I think 100k gets you everything related to space ships.

Then you gotta buy land on the planets! That's extra!

I know the joke is that Random Furries have money to waste. These people should take that title away from them.

cjsdowg posted...

I know the joke is that Random Furries have money to waste. These people should take that title away from them.

Furries at least get tangible shit for their money lol

It's literally Feature Creep: The Game.

I think that's what annoys people so much about it, the game isn't a scam but at the same time it's never coming out of Alpha because the scope of the game just got impossibly huge and they can't really decrease the scope of the game at this point without just the biggest outcry you can possibly imagine.

i find it sad that so many ppl fall for the grift of THE BEST MMO EVER

look at dream world for another example

AceMos posted...

i find it sad that so many ppl fall for the grift of THE BEST MMO EVER

look at dream world for another example

People want to escape their horrible lives.

cjsdowg posted...

People want to escape their horrible lives.

Ok but like.... Do it in Elite: Dangerous for $50.

Or hell at this point wait a few more days for starfield.

i will never blame victims of a scam or a grift or anything like that

but scams like this are very odd as your not getting anything out of it your not even being sold some life changing product or get rich quick scheme or anything like that

you are paying for the privilege to pay for a game

and even a tiny bit of thought should tell you what these kinds of games promise is impossible

it would be like giving a person 50 bucks to buy some stuff to make hamburgers they when they do they sell you a hamburger

i dont blame the victims but i am confused by them

cjsdowg posted...

It isn't a scam anymore, people just like giving them money.

We see this with lewd games too. People are like oh this new lewd game is going to come out soon. Just get being a patreon. And people want that lewd game so much they keep paying. And if they wanted to stop..who can they cry too. Oh I lost 500 dollars on Sexy Catgirl in space 3.

I know a bit about the ero game sphere, and you're almost always better off funding JP devs. They get that shit done one way or another.

But rather than fund specific ones, you just kinda scour the net or pay for translation commissions for one of the thousands of JP games out there that'll fit your exact needs. Much cheaper and basically guaranteed a finish game much earlier too

Not much furry stuff though outside English games. Thank goodness