• @Daxtron2
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    -341 month ago

    How dare people spend their own money supporting a project they enjoy 😡

    • @Blackmist@feddit.uk
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      281 month ago

      Oh don’t worry, I’ll pour the exact same scorn on people who pour money into EA’s yearly sports games, Activision’s yearly shooting games, every fucking mobile game ever, and all the nicotine stained gamblers propping up their local bookies.

      But lets not pretend it’s “supporting a project” or fundraising in any way, shape or form. It’s throwing money at greedy cunts because they have an addiction problem.

      And while gambling becomes ever more heavily regulated, gaming seems to avoid it. It won’t manage it forever, and $1000 pretend spaceships are pushing boundaries that will bring regulations down on the whole industry.

      • @drislands@lemmy.world
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        21 month ago

        every fucking mobile game ever

        Hey now, there are some (very few, but some) mobile games that are quite good. Dawncaster is an excellent deck builder for example.

      • @Daxtron2
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        01 month ago

        There’s no gambling involved in star citizen?

          • @Daxtron2
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            128 days ago

            Haha fair, they’re absolutely trending towards a release though. I don’t think most people truly understand the scope of Dev work that’s gone into this game in the past decade.

    • @Allero@lemmy.today
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      1 month ago

      Oh, if it’s pure “people support”, let’s remove the pledge store and just have donation button. One that doesn’t give you anything in game, but supports the project.

      Star Citizen uses clever psychology and social engineering to make people spend obscene amounts of money on in-game ships. I know people who are so catches and addicted to this shit they spend their family savings on the new ships. And that is by design.

      They also regularly wipe the Persistent Universe for a reason, and the reason is not this bullshit aUEC farming, but the fact that ships bought for real money do not get wiped, stimulating purchases for your very real cash.

      By going to release and having equal persistence for ships bought by all means, they’ll immediately slash their profits so, so bad, and they know it. They don’t want to go release.

      • @lightnsfw@reddthat.com
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        21 month ago

        One of my friends was trying to talk me into playing it because I like space games. When I found out about the wipes I was no longer interested. I don’t want to put a bunch of time into a game if I’m just going to lose everything periodically.