The seemingly endless crowd-funding money pit that is, Star Citizen, has a brand new bundle for anyone who doesn't want to bother buying all of the game's ships individually for tens or hundreds of dollars. If you'd rather just buy the whole lot and have access to everything when the game does one day (probably) release as promised, it'll cost you $27,000.
Star Citizen is a unique game in many respects. A beautiful to look at title, it's been in development for seven years, and was originally slated to debut in full in 2014. Several isolated experiences have been released over the years and they have been reasonably well received, but the most striking element of Star Citizen's entire development has been its crowdfunding effort. While it picked up a couple of million dollars in its original Kickstarter run, it has continued to sell access to game modes, pre-orders and in-game ships ever since and so far has brought in more than $180 million, raking in tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars extra every single day.
For anyone who doesn't want to buy things piecemeal, there's now an option to buy it all. For $27,000 you get 117 ships and 163 extra items, including a novella based on the game's universe, a copy of the game and a digital soundtrack.
However, as PCGamesN points out, in order to be eligible for this 'offer' you'll need to be a Star Citizen Concierge, that is, have spent at least $1,000 on the game already.
There are plenty of people defending this pack, suggesting that it supports the developers, or is a cost that can be split between players and organizations, but if any other company were doing this, it would be beaten into the ground with derision. With more than $180 million already harvested from hopeful players, how much money does Cloud Imperium Games need to finish Star Citizen? Continuing to sell in game items that have no real purpose yet is completely ridiculous.
