Enlarge / There aren’t many on-line sport shops the place you may spend $48,000 on a single “Add to Cart.” (credit score: RSI)
At this level, over 11 years after we first wrote about Star Citizen, the still-in-alpha sport is fascinating much less as one thing which may ultimately be “completed” and extra as an interesting story of characteristic creep and fundraising success. To that final level, we have been suitably boggled on the latest information that Roberts House Industries is now providing a $48,000 “Legatus Pack” as a “excellent assortment” of “all ships launched and concepted by means of [in-universe year] 2953.”
The gathering of 187 ships (and a whole lot of equipment like paint colours, skins, armor, and in-game posters) is now roughly two-thirds of the median annual family earnings within the US (circa 2022). However that value is not even obtainable to lookie-loos such as you and me; so as to add the package deal to a web based purchasing cart, it’s essential to first spend at the very least $1,000 to turn into a member of the sport’s Chairman’s Membership.
What a discount!
Whereas the most recent Legatus Pack launched in late December, the providing is not a brand new idea for developer Roberts House Industries. The primary Legatus Pack launched in Could 2018 for a comparatively cheap $27,000. Earlier than that, related “Completionist” packs of all in-game content material launched as much as that time would run gamers as much as $15,000.
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