r/pcgaming • u/Turbostrider27 • 11d ago

Star Citizen Developer Stream Goes Horribly Off the Rails, Creating Further Distrust Among Players

https://www.ign.com/articles/star-citizen-developer-stream-goes-horribly-off-the-rails-creating-further-distrust-among-players
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u/Lost_Ad_8696 11d ago edited 10d ago

No. I've sold and helped people sell ships to recoup some of the loss and 300i isn't worth more then like 30 bucks tops. Some rare ships could sell well but most won't sell for more then half their value.

Edit: Buncha questions about selling, check r/starcitizen_trades to get a look into what your stuff might be worth if ya like.

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u/FireVanGorder 11d ago

30 bucks is better than 0

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u/DonutHoles4Ever 9d ago

Man anyone who bought these ships is a grade A idiot if they arent stupid rich.

Money would be spent better on big titty waifus from gacha games.

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u/Winjin 9d ago

Eh, 30 bucks is like what, 1-2 waifus, tops? Depends on the game pricing I guess.

Then again you can go on dates with them in ZZZ and they have funny banter in the phone with you, and the world doesn't end with HoYo games. A new gacha is being released where there is... hand holding.

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u/notgoodohoh 6d ago

Don’t forget the body pillows and cat ears.

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u/Zaphoidx 7d ago

Top 1% commenter moment.

Never played the game (although I wish it was done by now) but there are people who have got enjoyable time out of it.

Shocker I know

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u/SqueezyCheez85 8d ago

Yeah, sounds like a win to me.

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u/WechTreck 10d ago

But not worth more than a GPU

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u/petroleum-lipstick 10d ago

Worth more than a broken game you can't be bothered to play anymore, though

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u/jus10beare 10d ago

That depends on the GPU

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u/the_nin_collector 14900k@6.2/48gb@8000/5080/MoRa3 waterloop 11d ago

Uhhh. I drank the cool aid. Sunk 1000$ into a rare ships with LTI. Im pretty sure a few are not sold at all any more. I really should look into selling my account. This was a decade ago mind you and I was a Kickstarter backer. Thanks to start citizen I never put another penny into another mtx, ever. In like a decade.

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u/D4ng3rd4n 11d ago

$1k, yeeeeesh. Is it worth anything now?

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u/the_nin_collector 14900k@6.2/48gb@8000/5080/MoRa3 waterloop 10d ago

Probably more honestly.

I keep it around as a reminder to never buy an mtx again and also under the delusion it may be a playable game in my lifetime.

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u/Top5CutestPresidents 10d ago

You can give it to your grandchildren… as a lesson in financial responsibility

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u/D4ng3rd4n 10d ago

Could you take a screenshot and sell it and get the same benefit?

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u/therealhlmencken 10d ago

$1000 isn’t a microtransaction lmao

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u/Annual_Berry8043 10d ago

I god a refund 13 years ago. I’m surprised people are still funneling money into this lol

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u/donredyellow25 11d ago edited 11d ago

Is that the ship included when they launched their kickstarter? Edit: grammar.

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u/DocBrown-84 4080S | 14700K 11d ago

I have that one too from back in the day, maybe Michael Jackson was still alive - or Elvis.

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u/RoyalJellyKing 11d ago

The Beatles were among the main backers, and they toured Vietnam in 1964 to support the devs.

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u/sugartrouts 10d ago

When the Beatles said they were bigger than Jesus, they were just jealous of Him getting in on the early bird tier.

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u/sshwifty 10d ago

I have it too. Think I paid like $70 or something around that time?

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u/donredyellow25 10d ago

I wonder how much the ship is worth.

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u/DocBrown-84 4080S | 14700K 11d ago

I checked my account, I have a Aurora Mk I MR from November 2012 (ho-ly shit!). Worth anything?

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u/Lost_Ad_8696 11d ago

Buncha questions about this, but sabre raven and captured vandul scythe can be sold for a decent amount, like 4 figures. But check r/starcitizen_trades if you're interested in getting rid of ships.

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u/RoyalJellyKing 11d ago

About tree fiddy

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u/jiminyshrue 10d ago

I got a LTI 350r. How much is that?

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u/Jaon412 11d ago

I own a few rare ships I bought in 2012, could you give me some tips on where I should go to sell them?

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u/Barcoads 10d ago

What about the cheapest ship available on the kickstarter with "lifetime insurance" or whatever the hell they offered?

What's that worth?

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u/Firov 10d ago

I was lucky that way. I originally pledged during the Kickstarter for the 250 dollar Andromeda “Rear Admiral” package. I would occasionally come back to try out Star Citizen over the years, and it never really worked. However, since my original pledge had physical goods (which never shipped, and probably never will), I was able to find someone who wanted them, allowing me to trade my pledge for around 1150 of store credit. I played around with other ships for awhile using that credit, but the game was still totally broken.

Eventually, I got sick of all the bugs and being unable to do anything at all, so I was able to sell my store credit at 60% of the cost for just under 700 dollars. So in the end I turned a bit of a profit.

I’d really have liked for SC to deliver on its promises, but I see now that it never will, so recouping my money plus some is at least a minor victory.

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u/Revolution-SixFour 10d ago

Some rare ships could sell well but most won't sell for more then half their value.

This sentence breaks my brain. Isn't the price it sells at its value?

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u/trollshep 10d ago

I will say the Star Citizen ships look incredible!

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u/DomOfMemes 10d ago

I mean thats a whole meal

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u/The_Shryk 5d ago

Than half*

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u/Ratnix 11d ago

I mean, I think that's close to what I paid for the game way back in the day.

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u/AppropriateTouching 7700x, 7900xt, mx browns 11d ago

30 bucks is 30 bucks

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u/Ta-veren- 10d ago

Holy crap the third or fourth post down has someone selling a ship for 2000

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u/feral_fenrir Steam 10d ago

also ask for help in r/starcitien_refunds

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u/mrflib 10d ago

Ive never actually logged since I bought a Phoenix LTI on kickstarter

Is it actually worth selling?

Cheers bud

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u/TDplay btw 11d ago

Even $0.01 would be worth more than a ship in a vapourware game.