Fwiw, you can get deep discounts CCU chaining ships. Ships can also be unofficially “sold” and “bought” after the fact. It’s done through gifting. For example, you can get the Hammerhead at the impound for less then half the price. The impound is also one of the higher priced sites to. There are also unofficial ships sales on reddit to that have even lower prices.
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Blackmist@feddit.uk 7 months agoSlippyCliff76@lemmy.world 7 months ago
root_beer@midwest.social 7 months ago
Wow, only $400 for a thing in a videogame? What a goddamn bargain, sign me right the fuck up!
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 7 months ago
For the cost of that Hammerhead it had better also come with an entire computer to play the damn game on.
At least in Elite: Dangerous the only cost for ships is your time and/or sanity.
root_beer@midwest.social 7 months ago
Right? That kind of money goes toward a component of a PC that would have multiple uses. Not just one part of a game (pronounced like a gun is in Wayne’s World)
sheogorath@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Ahh, reminds me of grinding for reputation so I can get the Cutter and Corvette. I still keep Elite installed and still waiting to get the will to start that game. Odyssey really left a bad taste on my mouth.
trslim@pawb.social 7 months ago
Man the grind is rough in Elite Dangerous if you want to participate in PvP. Material grinding is so painful, i wish they never added engineering, or only had 2 levels of it instead of 5. Im still waiting for ship interiors too.
Simon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Great way to tell everybody you have no money.
squid_slime@lemmy.world 7 months ago
way to say “im a prick” without saying it
root_beer@midwest.social 7 months ago
Ha, sure thing, turbo. More like great way to tell everyone I’m better at managing my money than some o’ y’all, doing the bare minimum of not spending hundreds of dollars on a pretend spaceship in an unfinished video game.
I really hope you forgot the /s there because, wow.
shea@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
Lol great way to tell everyone you think 400 bucks for a video game cosmetic is a reasonable thing to buy, and that everyone who can’t/won’t do that is broke. Its a bad look, this is cringe stuff that someone who’s never worked for their money would say. Real money, old money, doesn’t participate in this kind of behavior. Wastes of air like you usually live off daddy’s money raging on the internet because you never learned how to develop real social connections.
SlippyCliff76@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It’s dirt cheap compared to something like horseback riding, shooting sports, cars, or scuba diving.It’s just that this is easy to criticize as you can see the price tag easily vs looking at half a dozen receipts for the other hobbies.
LaserTurboShark69@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Absolutely swimming in the kool aid
Blackmist@feddit.uk 7 months ago
I mean sure, but at the end of the day it’s a pretend spaceship, that you don’t own in any meaningful way, in a videogame that could go offline forever at any point that they deem it unprofitable to continue.
I can’t be alone in finding even the “deeply discounted” prices to be somewhat unreasonable. This is horse armour with ideas above its station.
SlippyCliff76@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Fair enough. However, if you consider the entertainment value delivered over time, the costs can be very low. If you count it is as a 20$ a month movie ticket, you could pledge/buy a Hammerhead in around 2 years. The game and its users have been around much longer then that. It’s a game that can deliver hours and hours of entertainment each weekend. The price per hour would be low, and there are other hobbies much more expensive then this.
Even if the game were to shutter and you were to lose access to your ships, you’d still have that value delivered over time like a bunch of movie tickets. Also, you don’t buy ships. You pledge to support the development of the game. You can also buy a Hammerhead in game quickly if you know what game loops to target.
QuaternionsRock@lemmy.world 7 months ago
If you count it is as a 20$ a month movie ticket, you could pledge/buy a Hammerhead in around 2 years.
Jesus Christ lmao
Yeah man, I could enjoy a Blu-ray of my favorite movie for a comparable amount of time but that wouldn’t make me any less of a moron to buy a $400 Blu-ray.
ICastFist@programming.dev 7 months ago
Your comparison makes no sense. Watching a movie in a theater is much like watching a an actual play or a live concert, it’s a “group experience” that isn’t quite like watching a playback on your TV.
If you divide those 870 over 24 months (2 years), that’s 36 dollars a month. If you spent that money every month on games, you could get 1 or more each month and might luck out and get a HUGE “return of investment” if you calculate it entirely as
money / time played. Plus, it’d be hours and hours of entertainment any day of the week, not only “each weekend”. Buying on GOG would also mean you get to “own them forever”.You pledge to support the development of the game
Please act and reply like an investor instead of a fanboy, then. Just because you want to see the game come through doesn’t mean you have to defend everything RSI does to raise money.
squid_slime@lemmy.world 7 months ago
beyond the issue of the price, this isnt comparable to a trip to the pictures once a month as movies change… and if someone spent stupid money on a ingame ship you dont think theyll buy another? these companies dont offer consumer friendly deals they instead hunt wales.
morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Semi interestingly to me, I literally created my reddit account to sell my ships nearly a decade ago. Do not regret that…
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Whoa, false scarcity, virtual goods tied to an online service, and nosebleed prices? What’s not to like?
Simon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
It’s not false, it’s artificial. Some ships are indeed only buyable for a limited time. Or for certain periods.