Coming out of the closet.

Bellomo

Seriously if you are a true fan and believe in the project please share how much you have spent  and what you believe will happen.

Share your concerns and hype. I see a lot of people defending this game so I imagine they will have no problem sharing how much they have   invested loud and proud.

I am just about to spend money on this game and then I see what the skeptics have posted and I stop myself so please tell me how much you have spent and why I should as well. 

jcrg99

Wait for Squadron 42 release and buy it then. I expect Squadron 42 to be a "average to good" game, IF, they manage to survive to 2016 (I don't doubt since all that they need are just those few whales that they have, with unconditional love by whatever Roberts do) but nothing that would justify crazy levels of personal donation or the level of hype.

The PU as pitched, dreamed, is going to be vaporware. Something will come, but nothing to justify more than 10 dollars of investiment.

If you buy now, you are been a fool in my opinion. Good luck.

marcjt20

I dropped 250 when the game announced the Constellation. I am currently waiting to buy the Vanguard Warden and/or the Retaliatory and the Redeemer. I may end up with all three but who knows at this point. I do have hopes for the game, I love the direction CR is going and I enjoy what has been accomplished so far. I see this game replacing my EVE sub, and I look forward to a long time in this game. 

Kyleran

My mother always taught me it is impolite to ask someone how much they spent on a big ticket item.

PottedPlant22

no good can come from this thread.

laserit

jcrg99 said:

Wait for Squadron 42 release and buy it then. I expect Squadron 42 to be a "average to good" game, IF, they manage to survive to 2016 (I don't doubt since all that they need are just those few whales that they have, with unconditional love by whatever Roberts do) but nothing that would justify crazy levels of personal donation or the level of hype.

The PU as pitched, dreamed, is going to be vaporware. Something will come, but nothing to justify more than 10 dollars of investiment.

If you buy now, you are been a fool in my opinion. Good luck.

Wow almost a 180 degree round a bout.

I'm impressed.

Anyways:

 I put $60 into the kickstarter. It's the only game I've done this sort of thing for. I want to see what crowd funding is capable of achieving and SC seemed to be something big that was also achievable.

The current business model is a turnoff for me, I just don't like it or anything similar for any kind of product.

Just hoping for a good entertaining game. I love all the little details and I love for things in game to be as realistic as possible even if I have to run 1 km through a space station to get to my ship. I love realism.

rpmcmurphy

Bought the Aurora LN game package for $45 or whatever it was. Always maintained that I would never pay more towards the project than the price of your typical game.
Can't say I'm at all interested in the PTU, I have Elite for that and I'm only interested in Squadron 42 for the single player story driven game, although 30% of it being FPS has put a bit of a downer on things.

ste2000

I don't have any problem to admit I support Star Citizen.
Spent $45 and I can wait another couple of years for the final product.
Design is just too good and it takes years to make a decent game even if you have $ 100 Million to invest.
Having said that I don't believe they can deliver what they promised, but I hope they can do enough to make it a nice experience.

I support games that major publishers don't want to do anymore, it is a risk but I am willing to take it.
But I have to say I am worried for people who spent $ 1000 for a ship, I believe that kind of level of support is stretching it a bit too far.

Stormsone

If you divide the amount of funding the game has gotten by the number of backers people spent on average 90ish dollars. Personally I see no reason to buy the game right now because the early backer rewards are gone and its still awhile before even the single player campaign is out. Why not wait and see how the development goes over the next few months before backing?

marcjt20

ste2000 said:

I don't have any problem to admit I support Star Citizen.
Spent $45 and I can wait another couple of years for the final product.
Design is just too good and it takes years to make a decent game even if you have $ 100 Million to invest.
Having said that I don't believe they can deliver what they promised, but I hope they can do enough to make it a nice experience.

I support games that major publishers don't want to do anymore, it is a risk but I am willing to take it.
But I have to say I am worried for people who spent $ 1000 for a ship, I believe that kind of level of support is stretching it a bit too far.

Here is the thing, Just to make a point about the level of support and how you find 1000 dollars to be crazy. 

Lets say for arguments sake you make 50k a year. 45 dollars is only 0.09% of your income.

Now lets say you make 100k a year and drop 1000 dollars, that is only 1%. so the level of investment to both party's isnt truly crazy in difference. its more yes, in terms of the percent and the amount but not like its 10% of your gross.

Erillion

Rear Admiral Package (ship: Constellation Andromeda, includes docked Merlin snub fighter ), 250 $

I am a Centurion Subscriber (which means I voluntarily pay 12 $ per month) to help make all those extra video blogs and the "Jump Point" magazine possible. For me and all the other backers.

I hope that this game will open up new ways in game development (large project crowdfunding) and introduce new high end technology and storytelling in a game industry that IMHO is currently stagnating due to voluntary self-censure to ensure multi-platform compatibility and maximum milking of existing IP's.

I expected (and still expect)  this development to take at least 5 years (with the start in Nov 2012 at the end of the Kickstarter campaign) due to the technological high-risk nature of this project.

If you have second thoughts, i recommend you stay with the basic package (Aurora, was 30 $ a few days ago) or wait until the solo game Squadron 42 is finished.  Even with the Aurora, you can participate in the playtesting, earn some in game currency called REC and use it to test out any other ship chassis that is available at that time.


Have fun

Charlie.Cheswick

DMKano said:

Big fat zero for me.

My zero is slim & athletic but still knows the tangled web of excess.

DXSins

http://i.imgur.com/9Rps3pd.jpg

I put money down once they started taking pre-orders... none of this BS donations/pledge kickstarter crap. Pre-order shows they intend to release a product and if they don't... well there is refund policies for digital pre-ordered products and shouldn't be to hard to get the money back if they don't deliver the single player game and i see the online stuff is a bonus extra tacked onto my pre-order.

Im no more invested in this than any other pre-order single player title (hell less than some of the recent upwards of £50 pre-orders) but this has a lot of future perks should they be the successful in releasing what they intent too.

CrazKanuk

I only dropped $20 in it as an early bird. I didn't even check my package or anything and then a couple months back I realized I had a merchant ship, lol. So I'll probably throw more money at it when it's released and I can actually see how different ships perform in-game. For now, though, I think I'll be able to find value in my $20 quite easily. Because of the size and uncertainty of the project, I'd have a tough time putting more money in up-front. However, if it was in it's current state, as it is now, when they launched their KS, I'd probably have put in $100ish. As it stands, I'm in no rush to throw more money at it. 

laxie

I've put in 270$ about 2 years ago.

I loved the idea of a sandbox space sim - EVE was always appealing to be, but never really managed to get into it. Star Citizen seems to be close, but more open to casual players. I also like the attention to graphics.

I'm hoping they keep adding features on a regular basis from now on. Last year was a little lackluster in terms of visible progress. I'd love to see item/currency presistence too. I like to earn stuff.  

Nanfoodle

DMKano said:

Big fat zero for me.

Ya this. Fool and his money... If you got money to burn and you dont care what happens to it. I can think of 10 things off the top of my head that you should do with it before throwing away your money this way. You gain nothing by spending now. 

Kefo

Stormsone said:

If you divide the amount of funding the game has gotten by the number of backers people spent on average 90ish dollars. 

Incorrect info since UEE # does not equal backers.

on topic I have put in nada

Talonsin

I dropped $120 in the original kickstarter because I loved the original wing commander games.  I dont expect anything "launch ready" in 2016 but I do expect them to launch some bug ridden modules.  I also expect the game to be heavily pay 2 win at this point.  I have been contemplating asking for a refund since I fully expect lifetime insurance to continue being offered even after the game launches.  I am holding out for hope that the game is more like Eve in the fact that having a bigger ship does not always mean you will win but I'll have to wait and see more game information before I finally decide.
 

Minsc

Talonsin said:

I dropped $120 in the original kickstarter because I loved the original wing commander games.  I dont expect anything "launch ready" in 2016 but I do expect them to launch some bug ridden modules.  I also expect the game to be heavily pay 2 win at this point.  I have been contemplating asking for a refund since I fully expect lifetime insurance to continue being offered even after the game launches.  I am holding out for hope that the game is more like Eve in the fact that having a bigger ship does not always mean you will win but I'll have to wait and see more game information before I finally decide.
 

Maybe this will answer that queston

Jump to 7:30 seconds for the action.

Kefo

Minsc said:

Talonsin said:

I dropped $120 in the original kickstarter because I loved the original wing commander games.  I dont expect anything "launch ready" in 2016 but I do expect them to launch some bug ridden modules.  I also expect the game to be heavily pay 2 win at this point.  I have been contemplating asking for a refund since I fully expect lifetime insurance to continue being offered even after the game launches.  I am holding out for hope that the game is more like Eve in the fact that having a bigger ship does not always mean you will win but I'll have to wait and see more game information before I finally decide.
 

Maybe this will answer that queston

Jump to 7:30 seconds for the action.

Does the pilot have night at the Roxbury playing? The camera keeps twitching back and forth like they are moving their head to some internal beat.

Maurgrim

I'll buy it when its released NOT before.

Elsabolts

$ 1,000.00 plus on a slow simmer for now.

filmoret

Game looks good and I will one day spend money on it.  If the business model doesn't look the way it does right now.

CrazKanuk

filmoret said:

Game looks good and I will one day spend money on it.  If the business model doesn't look the way it does right now.

The current pre-launch model could be nullified if they have in-game marketplaces where you can buy ships using in-game currency. At that point, even if they were still selling ships for cash, there would be an open market for it as well. I'd have to assume this would be the case.

Erillion

As the economy model allows players to create ships and sub-systems, i think it is safe to assume that there will be in-game marketplaces where you can buy ships and equipment using in-game currency from other players.


Have fun

Athisar

You'd be mad to put any money into it now given all the delays, changes to T&Cs, changes in what they promised, etc. If it does ever come out as a full game, then sure.