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Star Citizen Introducing a $48,000 Ship Bundle, but Only for Players Who Have Already Spent $10,000::Star Citizen developer Cloud Imperium Games is releasing a ship bundle for its controversial space simulator that costs an eye-watering $48,000.

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[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 23 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's like any amount, there's people that can properly afford it, and others that will beg, borrow and steal to buy it for the prestige and hurt themselves and others to do it. It's the latter where the harm lies.

[–] downhomechunk@midwest.social 10 points 10 months ago

Just like leasing a fancy Mercedes to keep up with the Joneses when you're already approaching six figures of credit card debt.