Star Citizen by Chris Roberts (Freelancer, Wing Commander, Privateer, etc)

[Rainbow Dash]

Cool, but my package was completely free. No one paid for it, sorry for your lots.


Wrong.

I'm contributing $250 to help fund the game development, and they are gifting me a ship for my generosity.

you sound like a really jealous scrub

get good nerd

[=sw=warlord]

Wrong.

I'm contributing $250 to help fund the game development, and they are gifting me a ship for my generosity.

Which is effectively a round bout way of saying "I'm paying them XXX amount of currency and in return I receive X item.
Last I looked that was called a transaction, you are buying access to the game and access to the ship.

[Cortexian]

you sound like a really jealous scrub

get good nerd

I just checked, I have both the Idris-P and Idris-M in the package they credited me. Can't be jealous of someone who paid for them I guess...

Which is effectively a round bout way of saying "I'm paying them XXX amount of currency and in return I receive X item.
Last I looked that was called a transaction, you are buying access to the game and access to the ship.

Don't be absurd! The $250 Retaliator packages don't come with game access! You only get a ship.

Chris Roberts himself has said that you are NOT BUYING SHIPS with these pledges. You are donating money to the game development, and in turn for your support they are freely rewarding you with ships. He has said that unlike most crowdfunding campaigns which usually offer additional physical rewards as "perks", he would rather reward people with ships in the game because there's no cost (with the exception of ship development cost, which has easily been covered already). That means more money towards game development as a whole.

You guys can call them purchases and transactions all you want, but I don't see it that way. I'm donating the money to donate the money, not buy a ship that I could earn in-game or purchase with some kind of premium currency for probably 1/10th the cost of these pledges.

[Donut]

Good god, this thread is passive aggressive shit-post central.

[Tnnaas]

It's like every family reunion I've ever been too.

[Rainbow Dash]

I just checked, I have both the Idris-P and Idris-M in the package they credited me. Can't be jealous of someone who paid for them I guess...

aww that's cute you were so angry you went to the black market and bought two idrises just because i called you a scrub

that's just adorable

[Warsaw]

What's adorable is people fighting over e-peen size, in Q4 2013, for a game that's not supposed to come out until Q1 2015. Keep it going guys, your displays of inadequacy are great fap material.

[Cortexian]

aww that's cute you were so angry you went to the black market and bought two idrises just because i called you a scrub

that's just adorable

Still wrong sorry!

[=sw=warlord]

[Btcc22]

Chris Roberts himself has said that you are NOT BUYING SHIPS with these pledges. You are donating money to the game development, and in turn for your support they are freely rewarding you with ships.

Tomato, tomato. You wouldn't be 'donating' if you weren't receiving the ships in exchange.

Reminds me of a scandal that happened over in the UK a while back. Certainly wealthy individuals making 'donations' to a political party and coincidentally receiving honours. They weren't buying them though, you understand, merely donating to their preferential party.

Regardless, supporting the game's development and buying ships aren't mutally exclusive. You're doing both.