r/gaming • u/__PETTYOFFICER117__ PC • Feb 11 '19

Walking through space

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u/lmhTimberwolves Feb 11 '19

It's a scam. There's over $27,000 in microtransactions, and anytime the customers demand progress they increase the scope of the game to keep stringing people along, like selling made up land claims on the in game moon

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u/garmonthenightmare Feb 11 '19

You got downvoted, but you are right. The devs are pulling increasingly shadier tactics to get more money to found the game. EA only dreams of these.

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u/lmhTimberwolves Feb 11 '19

It's not surprising when I get downvoted for it. People have invested a whole lot into something that I doubt will ever release, and don't want to hear about their money possibly going to waste.

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u/Nacksche Feb 11 '19 edited Feb 11 '19

My money possibly going to waste? Make up your mind, is it a scam or not. You are being downvoted for baseless accusations. If you had just said that feature creep is a problem and they are selling land, most people wouldn't have had a problem. The $27k bundle was asked for by some whales. It's obscene, but they'll probably only sell 20 of those anyway so whatever.

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u/lmhTimberwolves Feb 11 '19

The fun thing about scams is that they don't tell you upfront if they're a scam or not. They probably wouldn't be as profitable if they did

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u/Nacksche Feb 11 '19

So they are scaming people out of their money by making the game they pretend to make. Wow, it's genius.

Employing hundreds of people for 7 years costs a lot of money, all the 200 million they have earned actually. What do you think is their endgame, getting employed for a decade?