Star Citizen's $48,000 DLC Sets A New Low For Predatory Monetization

The latest decision that takes Star Citizen slightly closer to the dreadful realization of it being a scam is the absurd $48,000 DLC.

[kenpachi]

This has been a scam game for years and charging this amount for dlc proves it any who buys it is an Idiot.

[RpgSama]

This is clearly a money laundering endeavor and should be investigated by the authorities.

[abstractel]

This is _not_ me endorsing or justifying these prices, just giving context that I thought might be interesting to some since I work in the industry (not meant as a brag).

Whatever your opinions are about the people who buy these items, I can definitely confirm that people do buy them. This isn't even a record high-cost for digital assets, I know of one other game that has sold assets for even higher sums. Don't know who these "whales" are, but if they are spending that much on game assets they are probably doing fine. Some think it has investment potential, whether that's true or not we'll find out in time.

DLC like this and live-service games wouldn't be a big deal if it hadn't shown publishers/developers that it's extremely lucrative. Gamers that don't support these practices are at the mercy of those who do by buying battle passes and celebrity skins in games like COD.

[RedDevils]

Sound to me, you're one of the idiot that bought the DLC.

[--Onilink--]

Does it?

Not that its not unbelievably idiotic that something like this exists, but its not exactly new, they have a pack like this every year (with a price that is constantly going up since it “has more stuff”), so its hard to call it a NEW low when its been going on for a while.

At this point I just have to think that while some part of the game does actually exist for regular people to play, this whole other part of it has to be some kind of money laundering scheme haha, the numbers just don’t make any sense otherwise…

[rlow1]

Color me surprised……ugh

[Name Last Name]

I’m not into conspiracies but there is no way people buy DLC for 48k. This only works as money laundering.

[contra157]

You have to be absolutely out of your mind and stupid to fall for this to actually go ahead with the purchase

[EvertonFC]

Even if I was a billionaire I wouldn't buy this out of sheer common sense.
This 100% needs investigating.and I imagine they are paying themselves nice yearly salaries and bonuses and walk away rich as when they cancel the game and say "sorry it was too ambitious" or some BS like that.

[Demetrius]

Mfs basically paying half of a games development cost lol I can see folks that are legends in their own minds tryna make payments on this shhi that boast about sending unnecessary amounts of money trying to prove something to folks that dont give af about ya 🤣🤦🏽, I haven't played starfield but damn atleast that game had a RELEASE lmao

[Chocoburger]

On one hand this is a disgusting business practice.
On the other hand, can you really blame any company that has idiotic consumers just begging you to con them out of $48,000+? If you were running a company and some rich dumbass was willing to pay you for digital junk, wouldn't you let them?

But still, its such a shame what our society is turning into.

[EvertonFC]

Agreed, this bundle clearly isn't for the likes of us, but they must have the data that shows the extremely rich are willing to buy them for bragging rights between three other rich idiotic friends.
Maybe it sells to celebrities or other famous people too.with there egos.
We have to remember they live a very different life and always find they are alittle me**ed up.

[fsfsxii]

ah yes, pc gaming the pioneer of DLCs and microtransaction reaches a new low.

[KeeseToast]

You can hardly blame pc gaming as pioneers. It was Oblivion the first had a controversy about additional horse armor. The thing that really broke the dam though was 100% mobile games

[EvertonFC]

You can ONlY get the 48,000 bundle if you've bought the 10,000 one.
They've basically looked at data and thought we will sell about 50 of these bundles to stupid rich kids and/or YouTube creators getting patrons to chip in and buy it for them.

[Knightofelemia]

And in 2024 suckers are still feeding this blackhole simulator mountains of cash. This game is such a scam I wouldn't even call it a game anymore. But this expensive DLC thing is mediocre at most according to an article a month or two ago.