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Star Citizen Pushes Through the $700 Million Raised Mark and No, There Still Isn’t a Release Date (www.ign.com)
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[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The buyers remorse game. Just give them a tiny bit more money and then a bit more and another, then the game will release, eventually, maybe, hopefully. Please release the game, we spend so much money on it. Here, take more money, we hope that helps. What, you need more? Okay, next quarter. We can't stop spending now guys or the money was all wasted.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Sunken cost fallacy: the game.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

True, sunken cost is the correct terminology. That's what I mean.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Uh-huh, and devs are incentivised to keep that fallacy up, because the release would mean that ships bought for in-game currency will not be wiped every something update.

Yes, right - the only ships that currently persist are the ones bought for real money. And the devs have 0 incentive to change that, because players really end up buying the ships for cash (easily $300, $400, $1000 for a ship) instead of leaving such bullshit for good.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Jeez, I've spent less than that on cars in real life before.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Wait until you hear of $8000, $21000, and $54000 ship packages.

They are all real.