It’s not really a simple distinction that “multiplayer games cost more to make than single-player games”. It’s also that multiplayer games have much more potential for explosive revenue than single-player games, since they’re designed to keep people engaged for far longer, with many more potential sources of revenue.
It’s not guaranteed of course, there’s a ton of risk involved around whether people will actually care about and play and pay for stuff in your multiplayer game. But if you hit the right mixture of quality and luck, you can see massive exponential increases in revenue for a successful multiplayer game compared to a successful single-player game.
Meanwhile, over on eBay (it’s real), there are Star Citizen packages going for $12K
Why does one have $35 of shipping added? Are they delivering an actual spaceship?
No clue. But it probably comes with a ship model or something like that.
What if Star Citizen ships are the new Bitcoins?
Shit, I better get in on the ground floor…
Maybe you pay $35 to be a subscriber for who’s selling…? ;)
Maybe. And it’s hard to imagine which one will crash harder.
You gotta print all those jpegs out, and paper weight can really add up.
That is interesting - is it a new branch for gold sellers? Are is it all fake? Does not seem to be the disenfranchised Star Citizens…Very hard to tell how legit these are. I see one threatens fraudsters with an RSI account ban - that smells really fishy.
Money laundering.
One more similarity between Star Citizen and Bitcoin.
Heh, this just passed my desk:
$18K whale. Read the thread.
I guess I must be a commie libtard or something, but it absolutely amazes me that we live in a world where some can’t manage to eat or find a place to sleep yet others are searching for somewhere, anywhere, to dump 18K. But I guess that has very little to do with Star Citizen.
You may have been had.
Unlikely. If you read his feed, you will see why. Also, how could that possibly affect me? It’s not like I asked him, let alone have anything to gain or lose. if it’s false, he p0wned himself because my comments to him are no less relevant or pertinent.
From today’s newsletter:
Next week, we will send out our inaugural Squadron 42 newsletter, which will be a monthly installment containing exclusive news on our single-player campaign. Join us on Thursday, December 21st at 12 PM PST for our Holiday ATV Special focused on Squadron 42.
It will be interesting to see what the Squadron 42 news are.
I Tweeted about that a few days ago. It’s a trailer; not a live gameplay walk-through.
In a rather hilarious turn of events…
Before that Tweet, spinlocks never appeared in their patch notes. I think the devs are trying to send me a sort of “…we hear you, man!” message :)