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Star Citizen Introducing a $48,000 Ship Bundle, but Only for Players Who Have Already Spent $10,000::Star Citizen developer Cloud Imperium Games is releasing a ship bundle for its controversial space simulator that costs an eye-watering $48,000.

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[-] dustyData@lemmy.world 47 points 10 months ago

Some poor fuckers are getting fleeced.

[-] RiikkaTheIcePrincess@pawb.social 30 points 10 months ago

Kinda hard to consider them poor if they can afford the $10k it costs to whale out $48k more :-\

[-] erwan@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago

Apparently they only pay the difference to 48k for the missing items.

Meaning they're getting fleeced continually.

They might not be poor, but they could be middle class sinking all their savings and getting credit to fuel their addiction.

[-] sebinspace@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Kinda hard to even feel sorry for them

[-] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 7 points 10 months ago

If you can afford to spend $48,000 on a video game, how is that getting fleeced?

Like, OK, maybe some idiot mortgages their house for this. Bad spending decision. More likely, anyone who looks at that ticket price and thinks "fair deal" is already a millionaire, and quite welcome to do whatever the fuck they want with their money.

Virtual ships certainly cost a lot less to operate than a Lambo or a boat.

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 24 points 10 months ago

It's like any amount, there's people that can properly afford it, and others that will beg, borrow and steal to buy it for the prestige and hurt themselves and others to do it. It's the latter where the harm lies.

[-] downhomechunk@midwest.social 10 points 10 months ago

Just like leasing a fancy Mercedes to keep up with the Joneses when you're already approaching six figures of credit card debt.

[-] dustyData@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

They're being scammed. They are getting next to nothing for inordinate amounts of money. They might not be financially poor, but they're being taken advantage of. Like NFTs, just because the fraud is mainly being bought by millionaires you don't stop calling it a fraud. And just like NFTs and gambling there will be a percentage of people who can't afford it who will hurt themselves and their innocent loved ones because con men are willing to abuse their addictive personalities to make them fall into debt and have them pay for nothing.

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