Star Citizen\u2019s latest VIP bundle costs as much as a real boat Cloud Imperium GamesStar Citizen just dropped their \u2018Legatus\u2019 bundle at a total cost of $48,000 USD \u2014 that\u2019s enough to buy a real boat. Star Citizen, the open-world space MMO by Cloud Imperium Games, has already earned a bit of a reputation for its price structures. The game\u2019s VIP system, the Chairman\u2019s Club, has an entry point of $1,000 USD \u2018pledged\u2019 or spent on the game and caps out at $25,000 USD. But their latest bundle comes in at almost double that cost, a whopping $48,000 USD. The \u2018Legatus 2953\u2019 bundle comes complete with every ship and skin available in Star Citizen to date, it also features some upcoming ships still under development too. This latest version isn\u2019t even the first time a Legatus bundle has been released either. CGI has been selling the Legatus bundle in some form since 2018, with the first version costing players $27,000 USD. If these prices sound crazy, it\u2019s worth noting just how long things have been this way in Star Citizen. Still, a new bundle like this wasn\u2019t just cooked up by CGI marketers at random. Back in 2018 when CGI was first called out over the pricing structure, studio head Eric Kieron Davis said the community itself called for the creation of the bundle: \u201cIt wasn\u2019t created in a vacuum.\u201d Going on to explain Star Citizen had many passionate players who saw the game as a \u201cdream project\u201d they\u2019re helping to make happen, rather than a \u201ctypical game purchase\u201d. Users on the Star Citizen subreddit shared their thoughts with one another about how options like the Legatus bundle are received by those outside the game\u2019s community. \u201cCome on though, Star Citizen deserved to get memed on for having a package for nearly $50,000. That\u2019s just ridiculous,\u201d said one user. \u201cThis is really hard to explain to people when you tell them they can get the game for $40,\u201d said another. Other users debated the wisdom of these kinds of bundles in general. And how exorbitant prices like these could eventually affect the gaming economy as a whole. \u201cThe principle is what people are upset at. Not necessarily the fact that others are spending their money,\u201d one user explained. Another user provided additional context about Star Citizen\u2019s purchase system which offered a slightly different perspective too, \u201cCIG has a system where ships can be \u2018melted\u2019 for store credit and that credit can be spent on other things in the store, including this pack\u2026 it doesn\u2019t have to be a standalone purchase, nor a cash purchase.\u201d Still, even if Star Citizen\u2019s whales want a bundle like the Legatus, a price point that\u2019s equal to a new car, or a house deposit, is no doubt hard to justify for most gamers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Star Citizen\u2019s latest VIP bundle costs as much as a real boat Cloud Imperium GamesStar Citizen just dropped their \u2018Legatus\u2019 bundle at a total cost of $48,000 USD \u2014 that\u2019s enough to buy a real boat. Star Citizen, the open-world space MMO by Cloud Imperium Games, has already earned a bit of a reputation for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}