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Star Citizen Made a $27,000 DLC Bundle Exclusively for the $1,000+ Concierge Community
Flabberghasted is probably the proper word to use? There now is a $27,000 DLC bundle only available to premium Concierge backers of Star Citizen. I'll repeat that again, $27,000 (!)
So what is the deal with this premium-priced bundle? Titled the Legatus Pack - likely drawing the name from the similarly-titled high ranking Roman military rank. Documented by publication MMO Pulse in the images below, the pack includes nearly every ship you can get in the game. A grand total of 117. On top of that, the Legatus Pack also includes an additional 163 extra items and skins. The noteworthy party about the bundle is that it’s only available to Concierge members of the Star Citizen community. In other words, people who have spent more than $1,000 supporting the game.
Star Citizen gets a lot of flack for their crowd-funding initiatives as they work towards a full release. In late March, the game passed the 2M registered user mark. Meanwhile, the game picked passed the $184M crowdfunding mark within the month.
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#5551304 Posted on: 05/29/2018 04:33 PM
The difference? With EA you spend 200$ on a game and get something, with SC you spend over 100 times the ammount. Please help me understand what's the better thing to do. EA makes it's money over many small abuses, SC seems to make much money with few people. The difference is that not everybody is able to even buy such a large package, when EA offers it to everybody. Yes, please help me understand, as I can't see why this is better than EA.
$27,000 dollars for over 100 digital ships and extra items that go towards the creation of a game or what about the Ethereal Pink War Dog from DOTA 2 that was sold for £38,000 USD or what about the Echoing Fury mace from Diablo 3 that sold for $14,000 USD. All of these items have 1 certain thing in common, you didn't and don't have to buy them to enjoy the game. The difference is the $27,000 helps CIG. The other 2 didn't. My point? You don't have to spend the money but if you've already spent above $1000 and would like to support the game further (of which you'll get a tonne load of digital ships etc) then feel free. (FREE being the important part of that sentence) If your a person has only every purchased just the game package, which is all you should do, or you've spent below the $1000 then you don't even see a lot of there more expensive packages. Basically it boils down to this, FREE choice to buy and support or not. Its good business and I see nothing wrong with it. Could be worse? They could be doing an EA.
The difference? With EA you spend 200$ on a game and get something, with SC you spend over 100 times the ammount. Please help me understand what's the better thing to do. EA makes it's money over many small abuses, SC seems to make much money with few people. The difference is that not everybody is able to even buy such a large package, when EA offers it to everybody. Yes, please help me understand, as I can't see why this is better than EA.
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#5551307 Posted on: 05/29/2018 04:35 PM
Here's how I see it:
A donation is money you gift to someone to do as they will with it. There is no legal obligation to respond to a donation.
An investment, meanwhile, tends to be paying someone in the hopes that you get a little more than what you paid (such as interest).
I would consider crowdfunding to be a grant, where you're basically paying someone in advance to get something in return, but not necessarily something of equal value. So, the people who donated $1000 probably aren't actually getting their money's worth (whether the game is released or not) but they are expecting something and to my understanding, they are allowed to take legal action if they don't get the agreed upon result.
If they'd give it to some charity or cancer research or MS research or whatever I'd call it a donation, not expecting anything in return to yourself. But trying to sell a bit of digital content for that sum...
Here's how I see it:
A donation is money you gift to someone to do as they will with it. There is no legal obligation to respond to a donation.
An investment, meanwhile, tends to be paying someone in the hopes that you get a little more than what you paid (such as interest).
I would consider crowdfunding to be a grant, where you're basically paying someone in advance to get something in return, but not necessarily something of equal value. So, the people who donated $1000 probably aren't actually getting their money's worth (whether the game is released or not) but they are expecting something and to my understanding, they are allowed to take legal action if they don't get the agreed upon result.
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#5551308 Posted on: 05/29/2018 04:38 PM
Not sure about DOTA2 but the Echoing Fury wasn't sold directly by Blizzard to "fund" their game or to make profit from by any means. It was a drop in game and if someone is willing to buy it on a 3rd party website for a billion, I don't care. We're talking about something completely different in this case, I think you'll eventually get to realise.
Or do you think Blizzard would get away with selling a piece of gear from their store for that amount of money?
$27,000 dollars for over 100 digital ships and extra items that go towards the creation of a game or what about the Ethereal Pink War Dog from DOTA 2 that was sold for £38,000 USD or what about the Echoing Fury mace from Diablo 3 that sold for $14,000 USD.
Not sure about DOTA2 but the Echoing Fury wasn't sold directly by Blizzard to "fund" their game or to make profit from by any means. It was a drop in game and if someone is willing to buy it on a 3rd party website for a billion, I don't care. We're talking about something completely different in this case, I think you'll eventually get to realise.
Or do you think Blizzard would get away with selling a piece of gear from their store for that amount of money?
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#5551309 Posted on: 05/29/2018 04:42 PM
I've been playing the game for over 3 years and all I had to spend was $60. With EA, if you want the full game you HAVE to spend $200 and even then it still has lots missing. With Star Citizen you spend $60 and get the game with everything obtainable with in the game. We are all giving companies like EA $200 dollars each year so they can give us the same crap in a new wrapper for another $200 a year later and then the same again. At least with Star Citizen I know that once I've spent $60 that's it. If I want to spend more then I can.
I've been playing the game for over 3 years and all I had to spend was $60. With EA, if you want the full game you HAVE to spend $200 and even then it still has lots missing. With Star Citizen you spend $60 and get the game with everything obtainable with in the game. We are all giving companies like EA $200 dollars each year so they can give us the same crap in a new wrapper for another $200 a year later and then the same again. At least with Star Citizen I know that once I've spent $60 that's it. If I want to spend more then I can.
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$27,000 dollars for over 100 digital ships and extra items that go towards the creation of a game or what about the Ethereal Pink War Dog from DOTA 2 that was sold for £38,000 USD or what about the Echoing Fury mace from Diablo 3 that sold for $14,000 USD. All of these items have 1 certain thing in common, you didn't and don't have to buy them to enjoy the game. The difference is the $27,000 helps CIG. The other 2 didn't. My point? You don't have to spend the money but if you've already spent above $1000 and would like to support the game further (of which you'll get a tonne load of digital ships etc) then feel free. (FREE being the important part of that sentence) If your a person has only every purchased just the game package, which is all you should do, or you've spent below the $1000 then you don't even see a lot of there more expensive packages. Basically it boils down to this, FREE choice to buy and support or not. Its good business and I see nothing wrong with it. Could be worse? They could be doing an EA.