success comes in the form of technical solutions to problems, not appeals to our emotional side
how is a subsciption comparion been nulified, your spending money just to access the game, you can buy the basic package on SC and play for 10 years and not spend anymore bar possible expansions, but if your paying a sub your paying for access and buying expansions so your spending thousands in that sub game in comparison to a few hundred at most on SC.
People choose to spend money how they like, and if SC didnt sell these ships the game would not be made period.
Question you need to ask yourself is do you want to play star citizen when its complete.
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Because $900 buys you almost 6 years worth of game time. In a game that's finished and has an overwhelming amount of content which is expanded every couple of months.
The comparison is utterly idiotic and I'm not the first person who's brought this to your attention.
You don't need to keep regurgitating your same, ill-placed argument; yes, people spend money however they like. No one is denying that, nor is anyone saying they shouldn't.
As for your question: That depends; what will it have to offer? I'm not seeing anything compelling at this moment and how long has this game been in production again?
success comes in the form of technical solutions to problems, not appeals to our emotional side
How is spending 2k plus on one game idiotic and even if you were spending the same SC any different, as long as you get an appropriate amount of gametime out of it the end result is the same, doesnt matter is SC is still in active development.
In SC at least that money buys you something useful ingame and not primarily access.
SC main income is from ship sales, do you really think cosmetics alone could make SC and no other game companies are even trying anything similar, you may love or hate SC but its taking a step forward in gaming and pushing those limits, and in terms of development its not been that long considering the size of the project.
Last edited by kenn9530; 2019-09-04 at 09:07 PM.
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No idea what you're referring to here.
What?
If you're getting an "appropriate amount of gametime" worth $900 out of SC's current state, you have extremely low standards.
Lord have mercy.
Buddy, it's quite obvious you can't look at the subject at hand through objective eyes.
We don't agree, we never will. You find a $900 bunch of pixels plausible, I think you should have your sanity thoroughly checked.
The end; no need for further discussion.
success comes in the form of technical solutions to problems, not appeals to our emotional side
10 years playtime plus all expansion only buying basic no collectors or anything is pretty much 2 thousand dollars with collectors editions your spending at least 400 plus more and thats not even counting store stuff or realm transfers or anything.
Would you consider getting 900 hours of gameplay for 900 bucks low standards, for the few hundred bucks on D3 i got over 1000 hours so SC can easily get more than that.
Would you rather have a sparkly mount for your money or something a little more usefull.
at the end of the day your spending money on entertainment, having a bigger ships isnt neccesarily going to be any advatange especially in the start, higher running costs needing more crew and longer wait times to get another one when it gets blown up, just as many disadvantages than advantages.
Blizz milk because they can not because they need to, certain services should be free at least once every few months like server transfers and such, and reskinned mounts which cant be earnt ingame, SC milking will mainly be what keeps the game running after launch are getting sufficiant rewards for thier money so far.
Last edited by kenn9530; 2019-09-05 at 12:11 AM.
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There is going to be a limit on npcs you can hire so no you cant just fully crew any ship you want, there are over 100 ships and play different roles so you have plenty ships to earn in game and ovetime there will be even more ships, purchase of ingame credits wont really matter at all once you start earning them ingame, plus to even buy 1 million credits that will cost you 1200 bucks so most people are not going to buy credits in the first place.
You cant earn everything just by farming ingame gold, if your a mount or pet collector you have to spend real money buying the store mounts also, and token time isnt free either as someone has to pay pretty much double a sub price for it.
There was always going to be a single player campaign and an MMO from the origional kickstarter it just wasnt as big as it is now, if they didnt increase the scope of the game it would just be another run of the mill game like ED with a little more depth, i would rather wait longer for something more instead of getting less of a game than everyone wants.
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First of all, I kindly ask you to mind your English; it's become quite difficult to understand what message you're attempting to convey because you stopped caring about writing properly.
You're blinded by sunk-cost, buddy. Your arguments aren't even weak, they're utterly invalid. You claim that paying an inordinate amount of money to buy one ship in an incomplete game you already paid for, is as valuable as a decade worth of play time.
Game subscription: You pay a monthly fee to play a game you enjoy.
Expensive ship: You pay an inordinate amount of money to buy a ship you could've earned by playing the game. Ergo, you paid real money to buy a game, only to pay more real money to avoid playing the game.
Do we really need to point out how utterly flawed your point of view is?
Last edited by nocturnus; 2019-09-05 at 08:02 AM.
success comes in the form of technical solutions to problems, not appeals to our emotional side
Why is it ok to spend thousands on WoW when all you get is the same content redone every expansion but it's not ok to buy a ship that supports game development, while at the same time giving that player something as a reward?
Both games can give that player as much entertainment value as they want, but your not ok with players supporting active development in larger sums of money. The endgame in SC is what you want it to be and having a ship or two is only going to speed things up slightly.
The playerbase who have spent more than 1k on a ship is going to be rather small, so players with extra money can if they wish waste money how they like, just like players in WoW can buy gold to buy current raid mounts and achievments.
Star Citizens endgame goal is whatever you want it to be.
Having a big fancy ship may even make things harder for you since your going to be more of a target for pirates and such.
Last edited by kenn9530; 2019-09-05 at 06:08 PM.
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Because one game has been providing content for 15 years and the other isn't even released as a full game yet. Also 15 dollars spread month to month is a lot more palatable to people than overpaying for a freaking space ship. Give me a damn break. I love how you also bash wow for redone content, at least they have a released game to rehash content unlike the black hole that is Star Citizen with how many years of development and no end in sight for the game being actually released as a full game?
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Hey if you are fine with funding incompetence and delays then back SC. I'd rather play an established game with a track record.
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And how far away is this 'endgame'? 7 years? Don't talk about an end game. Worry about having a full game first..
how have i been proven wrong once and you can buy whatever you want with gold, people buy current 100% drop end boss raid mounts and just afk/die in a corner somewhere, you can buy anything available ingame with gold in WoW and dont have to do anything to get it.
Large expensive ship means higher value target, starter ships almost a pointless target, a true pirate will go after profit and couldnt care less about killing, while you may be able to defend yourself better your not always going to win against a coordinated attack, stealing expensive ships will also be a highly profitable job, that expensive ship is not going to somehow make you a god that noone can defeat.
and you still prove that you don't have any idea what you are talking about, its easy to talk about incompetence when your not the one developing a game never been done before, 8 years is still a more than reasonable time in development for a game on the scale of Star Citizen, yet again you come to bump up your post count and provide nothing constructive.
Last edited by kenn9530; 2019-09-05 at 10:02 PM.
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It's pay to access content, for sure. Which is such a stupid way to do it. Even if it is expensive to operate and you won't be able to use it, since RSI has made it clear that they aren't dumping credits that people have paid for and earned when the game goes from alpha/beta into full release so by the time that happens, players could have racked up tons of cash to pay for those big ships right out of the gate. I think that's the biggest failure in the sunk cost fallacy, it wouldn't be a problem if the game starts at absolute zero for every player in Star Citizen, but it's clear that is not what RSI is going to do.
you do realise that the current raid mounts from last boss mythic kills are 100% and can be traded, and if your getting boosted then being dead/afk is not actually doing the content.
Im giving a scenario on where having that ship can be a disadvantage, if you stay in safe space then chance of pirates should be low but it shouldnt really matter what ship your flying most of the time.
Ships take resources and time to make, the more complex the ship the more expensive it is, main reason to sell ships at certain prices is so that not everyone will buy one, not to mention it probably costs thousands in real money for a ship to be completed, most of the time someone having a certain ship is going to have no impact on your expereince at all.
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Good lord you sound more and more like those ToA shills every day. Of course you ignore all of the points I made to make a personal attack. The fact is SC has had a ton of money given to them and has taken many years and not delivered a fully playable game, just parts of one. No one gives a flying fuck if this game has 'never been done before'. Those are buzzwords, they mean nothing. They said they would make X game with X money in X time and have failed all over the place. You can keep giving them money, but to think it is comparable to something like WoW which delivers a playable game year after year is fucking insane.
Game has been playable since 2014 and getting updates ever since, maybe some gamers realy like what they've been playing and the general direction the game is going and have spare money to spare on something they realy like. Maybe knowing your helping the game get made is part of the fun, maybe they really like sci-fi and walking inside and around pretty space ships, maybe they think they are buying power. Who knows... Anyone trying to put himself in a position to judge is only trying with their own struggle of the "why".
Just because you dont understand it or agree with it doesnt make it wrong.
Im in for 250$ since I backed with a starter package (about 35$) before ther was anything yo play at all. As they showed more of the game updates I liked what I saw and gave them a bit more$ here and there as an apreciation while getting a ship better suitable to my playstyle to go along.
To be fair, what you consider an "inordinate" amount of money isn't considered that by all People. So whilst you think spending that much is a "flawed" point of view, To some People with disposable income just outright buying something they know they will enjoy isn't flawed at all.
Why are you even talking about crap dungeon mounts when everyone has access to that with little or no skill required, i said raid mounts primarily mythic raid mounts and acheivements which the average player will only have access to 1-2 expansions down the line, main point is you can throw money at WoW also and get stuff that other players may never even get.
you can currently play the game now and earn the available ships in game so you can have as much fun as you want, its not any different as you have still spent thousands on WoW. Say that 1000 is the only purchase you ever make in SC and play it for 10 years which would be considered well worth the money spent.
All you do is come in here and hate on every aspect of the game and can't see what the game is even developing into, the game was changed at the kickstarter so origional release dates very irrelevant back in 2012, the game was probably going to be similar to freelancer with ship interiors and planets but have grown multiple times over.
We can clearly see how development is coming along and development time is more than suitable for a game of this scale, traditional sandbox games take 4-5 years with around 1000 staff to create and you expect SC to do it the same with half the staff and still have to develop the technology for the game.
Last edited by kenn9530; 2019-09-06 at 03:25 PM.
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You can handwave the "original release dates" all you like but the fact is the game has been in development for what, 7 years now? Hell let's be generous and say they didn't "start" until 2014, that's still 5 years. They have blew past 'release dates' and are getting into the territory of some of the longest game developments without a completed release.
Remember this graphic? https://imgur.com/a/Q6zK29k
That was posted back in 2015. Fun fact, it is now 2019 and when exactly is this game fully releasing? You don't know do you. 2021? They wish. 2022? When does it come out?
Im talking about something actually relevant of which is Mythic raid boosts/achievements/End raid boss mounts, your the one mentioning dungeons of which noone pays to get boosted in.
Its not perfect but at least that money you pay for in SC gives you something useful, the ship is a reward for supporting the game in active development, as noone is going to donate a reasonable size of money for something purely cosmetic.
The game is much more complex than GTA5 and thats a 200 million dollar game that had 1000 staff and 5 years to be made with a fully established studio and relevant tech already existing.
It seems you dont understand anything about development, they have had an income of 20-30 million a year to completely build up a company from nothing along with building suitable tech to make the game work and you expect it to be made in less than 5-6 years.
They have also had a playable version of the game since 2014 and released everything they said they were going to do, and what relevance does a development graphic hold at all.
If you hate SC that much why are you wasting your time here anyway apart from bringing up the same irrelevant stuff over and over.
Last edited by kenn9530; 2019-09-06 at 08:33 PM.
STAR-J4R9-YYK4 use this for 5000 credits in star citizen