As someone that played star citizen and enjoyed the gameplay very much, this game has been basically ruined by greed for years now. They basically discourage playing the actual game with these practices. Sure, you can work your ass off and make a butt load of money to buy a bunch of cool guns, armor, and ships, but as soon as they do a server wipe, which they do fairly regularly, most if not all of it will get wiped clean. But if you give them real money you get to keep everything after a server wipe.

I even had a friend where his ship, bought with in game currency, glitched and he was able to keep it several updates later with no issue while mine disappeared. We both bought them with in game currencies at about the same time. Mine disappeared as soon as the update came out and he had it for almost two years! To me that sounds like it's intentional and they could totally get away with letting you keep your stuff but they choose not to.

[–] carlossurf@lemmy.ca 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Holly shit thats despicable, you mean people who actually earn shit the hard way lose there ships!

[–] TommySoda@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago

And look, I've played early access games before and I'm used to playing games that do a server wipe every once in a while or saves being incompatible with the new version, but I'm talking every update and multiple times a year. It makes it so the only sense of progress you feel is when you buy a ship with real money so you can still have it on the next update. It's a very exhausting game.