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

[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.