Cloud Imperium has launched a new pack for Star Citizen that costs $27,000. Yeap, you read that right. The Legatus Pack offers almost all craft in the game – 117 craft and 163 extra items and costs $27,000.
Not only that, but you can view its page only if you have already spent $1,000 on Star Citizen. Ridiculous? Exactly, especially since this game has been under development for so many years and has almost raised $200 million.
Now I’m pretty sure that some will say that this is optional but… well… shouldn’t players have access to all ships? I know Star Citizen is different than your casual games with its premium ships but a) this is a PC exclusive game that a lot of gamers have been waiting for and if that’s the direction of a PC-focused game… God save us all and b) its current state is laughable in terms of gameplay. But hey, at least we can pilot 117 ships and pay $27000 right? Right?
Star Citizen has been under development since 2012. Cloud Imperium promises to create a really special experience but at what cost? Obviously this pack is not meant for the ordinary PC gamer but when everyone is bashing Battlefield and Call of Duty for their loot boxes, I think it’s justified to also criticize an unfinished game that is heavily focusing on making more money by implementing the free-to-play model of other games (independently selling ships and packs). It would be completely different if Star Citizen was a free to play game but it’s not.
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“AAA” amounts of fund raising gets you “AAA” business practices apparently. And we all know Cult Citizens will lap up the Koolaid.
Great picture! I’m sure Zatara would agree!
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ah bro don’t get me started, every time I lash at Roberts and his fine scheme there’s at least one cult member trying to convert me. It’s insanity I tell ya!
Last time I was on their site they listed the membership as around 2 million. Now they raised almost 200 million dollars so far and the money just keeps pouring in. I have no way of knowing what the average Joe has invested in this game but there must be more than a few whales with hundreds and even thousands of dollars in this game. For Roberts to even put up a $27,000 package for sale means he knows some will buy it. It seems like a ridiculous amount of money even for a wealthy person but what do I know. I work for a living.
Yea they will buy it as it was BACKERS that have organizations (guilds) that REQUESTED this pack meaning CIG is honoring their customers by providing.
You, saying you would ignore your customer base if this was your project. Good to know, most likely why you are bad mouthing it.
I didn’t know that some backers requested this package.
I was curious about you though and I checked your commenting history. Every comment that you have made on your account at various sites is backing up Star Citizen. It’s like you created this account solely for the purpose of promoting Star Citizen.
So, correcting proven false information and intentional omissions is promoting now eh. Good to know.
It’s just odd that the only game you ever comment on is Star Citizen. It’s not unheard of for employees of a company to create accounts to promote their company’s product. Some even get paid to do it.
There is the speculative assumption, I was very much expecting.
Say anything that counters the FUD campaign, that person is a CIG employee, or a whale that has spent thousands.
Maybe, just maybe I am here to put the loudmouths that think they are a game development expert having never developed a 3d model, animation sequence, animation rigging, or game code that accesses those animations at the correct time and in the correct sequence with the game player’s actions to task for being hyperbolic, hypocritical, internet drama queens, spewing bullshit because they are to impatient to wait.
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I’m not one to be negative, but this game is just looking to be a massive financial sinkhole and a disappointment for launch.
From what I’ve read on the Starcitizen subreddit, there are a lot of missed releases of deadlines for various system in the game, and other things; and some of the community is pissed, while other’s believe in the development team will eventually release the game “but we just have to wait because games of this scope don’t come around quite often, and it’s slowly coming together”. Some are pissed about feature creep, some aren’t. Some are angry that Squadron 42 hasn’t been released, other’s don’t care. It’s sort of a back and forth in the community for the game.
Are they even allowed to be critical of SC on the subreddit?
Surprisingly they do allow some negativity. For instance, this story about the 27k package after spending 1k has a lot of negativity in it. People are sort of seeing it as being ridiculous, while others aren’t and see it as business as usual.
I’d just check it out for yourself, because trust me when I say it is a pretty hilarious subreddit to watch people willingly ignore stuff that the shouldn’t such as deadlines being missed and various other things.
There are ton of videos showign that there is a game and its good, but they didnt put a damn ceiling to it, they just add more stuff, STOP ADDING STUFF AND RELEASE IT.
Some people are emotionally invested in this game as well as financially. Kind of like when someone says something bad about AMD and some people over-react to that. AMD is the underdog and some people get defensive when someone says something bad about AMD even if they deserve it.
I understand why people defend Roberts. He’s trying to bring something to PC gaming that is in very short supply. His creativity and the vision he has for Star Citizen are admirable.
But having said that he is lacking in one way. He doesn’t seem to know that it isn’t possible to create the perfect game no matter how much money you have to spend or how much time you spend developing the game.
The finished game will be lacking in some way and after waiting so many years some players will be more apt to slam it anyway no matter how good the game is. Gamers don’t do “waiting” very well.
Kinda misleading clickbait title. For now the prices are what they are because you « fund » the project. Once game is gold everything is buyable with in-game currency. Now how manu hours will you need to achieve getting a 1kusd ship, we’ll know later.
I feel this information should’ve been part of this article or did i misread ?
You didn’t miss anything, it wasn’t mentioned because I’m not sure (By no fault of the writer) he was aware of that information. This is such a big game in constant development that it’s sometimes hard to keep up with everything. Clickbait is good bait by the way. =)
If John isn’t aware of that with all the star citizen coverage this site has done jesus…
Haha, he’s lost his mind to the void when it comes to Star Citizen.
It seems to be missing in almost any article that any site posts about SC.
Once, and if this happens when the game goes Gold, we’ll have an article. Because, like it or not, developers lie. Remember the PC-exclusive LawBreakers that also came to consoles, or that the PC version of Kingdom Come Deliverance would not be affected by its console release (different studios but still)? So, when this happens with the in-game currency at reasonable levels (otherwise it will be a pay-to-win situation), we’ll post it.
Thanks for the article John, I do enjoy reading them and sharing my opinions. Having said that, I’d just like to add that this open forum of discussion your website provides is a monument to everything that makes the internet great. he community here really is just that, a community and I have enjoyed getting to know all their quirks and opinions. Thanks again for all the hard work you do to make it all happen bro!
I love that everybody can basically bicker and fight, and in the long run we’re all still pretty much civil with each other no matter how much flak and s*** is thrown around. I love the community of this place, it’s so tightly knit and great.
Antonym of the principles described above: The modern, neomarxist political-left
Good that you are aware. A simple mention of the fact in this rather negative but realistic post would’ve done the trick.
No one on the Internet has ever lied. You take that back right now, young man.
Well John you’re convinced the game has microtransations, that’s why you posted an article that SC has them. Why don’t you educate yourself like game journalists should and realise that all money making things in it’s current state is FUNDING, Microstransations are NOT FUNDING, Funding is NOT Microtransations, they’re extras you can buy in a game on top of the price of a finished game.
Star Citizen will never get close to gold. The fact that Roberts is expecting people to buy expensive pictures of space ships that don’t exist yet (the designs aren’t final, there are no 3D models) is really insane.
You should check out the series of videos called Sunk Cost Galaxy by a guy who threw more than 10K into that scam.
They lied so many times already, anyone believing their spin doctors is a moron.
Why the f*** does every article about SC on this site conveniently forget that this is only while development is going on.
Following launch, all items will be buyable with in game currency.
It will never launch.
It will launch, even if it’s not finished by CIG like with what happened with Freelancer at this point, but trust me when I say nobody is going to miss the opportunity to buy up the title if they go belly up.
I highly doubt it will “launch”. In my eyes the game has already launched as a kind of early access. They are earning so much money this way that they will never make the ships buyable with reasonable prices even if they will be buyable.
Hopefully they will launch Squadron 42 next year, I am not interested in the “universe” anymore.
But that is meaningless unless we have some idea what it would take to earn the in game currency necessary to buy one of those expensive ships. How much grinding would it take? If Roberts is willing to offer this package for $27,000 then I’m sure he’s smart enough to make it very difficult to earn the in game currency for those ships.
Yes sure, i bet you also believed the game will release in 2014, 2015, 2016, it’s only 2 weeks away in 2018. SQ42 is almost done… They have lied so many times and mislead backers at this point anyone trusting anything they say must be mentally challenged.
When it comes to Star Citizen USD is an in-game currency
He’s my little plaything.
Maybe when I win the lottery, then I’ll buy it and put it in my backlog of games.
real pc gaming sites need to stop covering scam shittyzen!
They need to stop posting deliberately misleading titles too. Since you dont have to pay any more than $45, the rest of the ships can be earned and bought with in game currency.
What did my bae say?
WTF?!?!
I’m buying all the ships in Star Citizen so none of you jerks can have any.
In all honesty, if this ends like Digital Anvil and Chris Roberts has to sell the company and game to another development team it wouldn’t really surprise me; but I just think it’s odd that they’re clearly trying to milk their “whales” from potentially buying a twenty seven thousand dollar package at this point of the development after having raised so much money.
Why now after all these years and not a years ago? This seems like something that the Kickstarter should have had.
Consoles are available for the peasants.
I’m not going to call this project a scam but I lost faith in Chris Roberts back in 2015 when in an interview he said he didn’t believe in “Feature Creep” and this wasn’t what was happening with Star Citizen.
You can’t fix something if it doesn’t seem broken.
You still support this scam? ????
You still proclaiming it is a scam with no evidence.
Well, you may be the Master Bater, but I’m the Master Triggerer ^^
It got ridiculous to me last year when Roberts was selling virtual plots of land to the backers. They took in around 35 million dollars last year so I guess people bought those too.
Nice clickbait and misinformation. Surprised that it’s coming from you.
The only money you “have” to spend is 45$. that gives you a basic ship and full access to the MMO.
Every ship in the game will be able to be earned by playing the game.
Ships are not the only nor the main way of progressing in the universe, they are not the end game.
When you pledge beyond the basic 45/60$ packages, you are essentially donating money for the development of the game, you get digital items as a reward. There is no other way they would have been able to raise as much money, you can’t ask people to simply donate and get nothing in return.
As a so called PC gaming journalist he doesn’t even get this, can’t even do proper research, yet plays PUBG that has microtransations and probably makes millions from skins alone in profit.
“as a business decision – it makes perfect sense”
He’s ok for them to make millions on skins “as a bussiness decision” as a player but not ok for SC to get funding that is not profit. LOL.
Enjoy the show baby =]
Que b***hing from broke gamers, smh.
John, I don’t see anything wrong with this. Cloud Imperium isn’t forcing anyone to buy this pack so I don’t see why you said it’s ok to criticize them. There’s also nothing wrong with game studios trying to make as much money as they can either. Designing and publishing video games is a business not a charitable act.
Yes because it’s FUNDING THE GAME, they don’t have to if they don’t want to, another unlettered article on SC because John is either biased or simply doesn’t understand the funding system. SC is great, not only do you get a the full game but you also get to test fly ships while in alpha that you have brought to fund the game, very complex ships.
prefer to buy winrar then give it all to people in my city..
You know…this package is NOT intended to individual (even if
anyone could get one) but to Org. It was created on an Org Leader
request.To be split between members.