Wow even TPU couldn't resist this.
Frankly, all the media is a bunch of freaken morons. This isn't news. This is the "Lets pick on Star Citizen" time of the year. But this time, it is a Concierge only item that has been known about for weeks in the Star Citizen community that someone in the media finally realized existed and figured to run it as a piece to get fork up their butt gamers riled up.
So freaken what? Really, even in that community it's kind of a joke package. Outside of Celebs, no backer in their right mind would buy it. Why? Because most who have a lick of sense, realize the packages are trash. You can't trade them nor break them apart and gift to others. They also do not grow with time. You can get better deals via playing the upgrade system on individual sales. Why is this important? Because a large percent of the Concierge community is resellers! They make quite a bit of money buying concept ships and selling them on ebay. Packages to these people, are foolishness. For the rest that have gotten there either in big purchases or over time, if someone has gotten up to that much in store credit, then by all means, let them buy that package with their credit. It'll definitely slow down their desire to purchase when they realize how much they limited themselves with it.
Where was the media when CIG outright lied to the SC community about Squadron 42's progress and release 2 years ago at LA Citizen con? Where was the media when CIG blatantly lied about 3.0 ship price increases in order to boost sales? Where was the media when <insert CIG blunder here>? No where to be found.
But CIG releases a closed $27k package that the general public can't even get...oh here comes the self righteous brigade in full force to condemn them! Disgusting.
When I see this I'm sorry that I spent that 49$ on that aurora starter pack... Game is uterly unplayable (30FPS max) no matter what machine you have because of their servers. Don't know how are they going to fix that. Just adding some contetnt but not resolving REAL issues... It takes forever to load and my 16GB (full all the time) of RAM is not enough to avoid huge stuttering....
Run it off an SSD, problem solved. Read the SC forums more. You'll learn something about why you need one not just for SC but for future games, and also about game development.
