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.