And in order to see this offer, you need to be a player already registered in the system who has spent about $ 1000 of real money in the game itself. As for the package priced at $ 27,000, this is not a joke at all. The developers of the space simulator Star Citizen really offer to exchange so much money for certain features and a number of game objects.
The package itself was named The Legatus Pack. It includes 117 aircraft and more than 160 different kinds of items. Among others - fuel, equipment, appearance design options and much more.
$ 27 thousand - the amount is very substantial, even for the United States. An employee of
DualShockers , who decided to discuss the novelty, says that you can buy an average pool in the US for this money.
It is also interesting that the aircraft within the game can only be obtained for real money. At the beginning of the year, one of the employees of the company that develops Star Citizen stated that stolen vehicles can only be used for entertainment flights, piracy and sales for spare parts. It is simply not possible to supplement their collection with them.
Developers have long been trying to attract additional funds with the help of players. Recently, in the game universe, plots of virtual land were sold at a price of $ 50 to $ 100, depending on the size of the plot itself. And this is despite the fact that about $ 186 million was collected for the development of the game. More than 2 million people became contributors. Last year, fans of the title donated about $ 35 million to the creators - this is twice as much as they collected all the video games on Kickstarter for the whole 2017. The development of the game has been going on for several years.
The development of
Detroit: Become Human cost $ 37 million, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain - twice as much for each, so for $ 186 million you could create 2.5 games of equivalent quality.
But money for the participants of the Star Citizen game universe is not the main thing. The universe is growing and evolving. Not so long ago, developers have provided access to the game (version 3.1.4) for all contributors. It is reported that in this version the levitational gravity became better, the ships accelerated better, there were fewer bugs (although, as we know, new ones probably appeared).
Yes, you all understood correctly - so far only an alpha version is available to the players, the transition to beta has not yet been announced and it is unlikely that this will happen soon.