Star Citizen at $73M; Rental Equipment Credits Controversy [Feb 21, 2015, 10:43 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
A new
Letter from the Chairman on the Roberts Space Industries website talks more
about the future of Star Citizen now that they've stopped laying out
additional stretch goals and talks to backers about their support of the project
(for the record, the space combat game has
now surpassed the
$73 million mark). Chris Roberts also addresses a recent controversy within the
game's community over "Rental Equipment Credits," a complicated system of
equipment rentals for the game. There's an article criticizing this concept
on Ten Ton Hammer that helps an outsider understand what's up with this
system, and why this may raise concerns, saying: "you cannot earn REC and then
purchase any items or equipment in Arena Commander right now or in this upcoming
update permanently. You can, instead, earn REC to rent equipment and ships to
try before you buy or, if you are committed enough, to keep playing with as long
as you can continue to earn enough REC to pay the rental fee every 7
non-consecutive days of playing." In his post, Roberts acknowledges the
controversy, though it's not certain how it will be dealt with:
Finally, I know that everyone is expecting me to talk more about Rental Equipment Credits. I took part in the heated discussion over the weekend and one of our priorities this week was clarifying some of the confusion about the system. I don’t have much to add right now, but I do want to stress: we asked for your feedback because we genuinely wanted it. A sincere thank you to everyone who provided that feedback. I’ll stress: we’re going to create a system that’s fun, not one that hurts players. Like everything else in Star Citizen, we will balance and expand our system to that goal once it launches until it meets our vision, and we will not settle for less.
Re: Star Citizen at $73M; Rental Equipment Credits Controversy
Feb 22, 2015, 11:45
Feb 22, 2015, 11:45
Sugarman wrote on Feb 22, 2015, 05:33:
Actually I'm in for over $3200. As I've said before, I've spent far more over a weekend in Vegas. Spent twice that on modifications to my current BMW on just a few upgrades. If I tallied up all the money I've spent on fast cars I'd say it's somewhere near 40k right now, and that's only on the upgrades, none of that is for the purchase price of the car.
If it's ok with you I'll continue to spend money on my hobbies that are important to me. If I have it to spend/waste then what business is it of yours to say how I spend it?
Right. But then who are you to tell people that have red flags going up in their heads from past experiences over and over, that they are terrible miserable people that just want to see people fail? To me you go to the extreme on your end as well when you see fit.
To me reading at Blue's there are just a very few that are totally negative to the game and many things here. However the largest group to me seems to be the "fool me once crowd" however if asked they would be very happy to see the game a success. We comment on the news because that is what we do here, that is the MO for the site. Blue lines up, we knock up down, see what passes "the smell test". Then there is final group that takes offense for people speaking out against "their game". We have plenty of positive hands on comments, it seems the one's that work the best are just say it, what about it and let it stand on it's own. When you have to start defending it to the Xth level, that is where it goes south.
This game is fighting a series of sayings we've all learned over generations. "if it seems to good to be true", "sucker born every minute". You see that is what you get when you promise the world, people question that, "been there done it" (yes another saying, they just all fit), but secretly at worst they hope it can be delivered. Until then we "still haven't found what were looking for".
So go spend your $3200, if you got the jack where $3200 is simply discretionary spending, god bless yah. The only thing I'd fantasize about there is exactly how much money would I have to have to drop $3200 on virtual game stuff, but again each their own. Your spending $3200 to me equals no more and probably less than another person who's spent zero, as I have to weight your pro-game position with all that skin you have in it.
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