Jesus Christ console exclusivity has little to do with it. There’s ALWAYS been prominent console exclusives with video games.

The only one to blame is GameStop. I mean its a store that sells games and game related toys, it should be my favorite store. But it isn’t and its because of their terrible treatment of customers, where they see them as potential subscription and warrantee purchasers, not people.

Oh yeah no it’s 100% a grift. 

Star Citizen, the original NFT exchange.

I crowd-funded this game with a $60 ship and have the member card sitting in my desk. This game is all grift. I built a custom computer in anticipation of this game, and have refreshed it twice-over since.  I’m not interested in an endless stream of modular content.  I just wanted a good campaign featuring Gary Oldman…

It’s not an accident that there’s no-one saying “finish it”. If Chris Roberts wanted it finished, it’d be finished. The dude has had over half a billion dollars.

There’s a fascinating crossover between Soviet-style useless building and US capitalist pork barrel stuff. So it’s not as strange as you might think. Both systems can and do enter a similar failure mode.

Callisto’s does, yes. Most budgets we see do not.

Absolute bollocks. Callisto was also severely mismanaged, and even things like GTAV only cost $150m to develop.

Yeah the guy claiming it’s not a grift is a moron, frankly.

In all honesty I think what they SHOULD have done is something like the No Man’s Sky model, release a simple basic, but functional game, and then expand on it over time.  Had they gone that route I think you would see a lot less, this is a grift, and more of wow look how far they came.  Star Citizen is the poster…

Callistos budget probably also includes things like marketing, distribution, licensing fees etc. while SC doesn’t (at least not on the same scale) yet. Callisto also has some rather big actors involved for motion capture and VO, which do cost quite a bit, and I’m not familiar enough with SC to know if they have…

It is a scam.

Well, time to get angry at me.

I think you are... it’s called bait-and-switch. You’re told one thing (one of a set number), but what you are given is something else (one of many). If you were told you could buy a limited-edition print, comic, collectible, etc., you’d expect it to be just that. And you’ve have a right to be upset if it wasn’t.

Fortunately, they are not suing for breach of contract.

How often are cars sold right off the showroom floor? If they don’t get sold all that often, an easy solution would be to disconnect the fuel pump on showroom cars. It’s something that could get hooked back up again if the car gets sold, it still lets you turn the car on to demonstrate the car’s electronics, and it…

This reminds me of the team of thieves who meticulously plan a $million jewelry heist and get away scot free, only to be caught the next day trying to sell diamond rings to strangers on the street.

On the whole, collecting things seems like a weird glitch in the human brain. It would be cool to have a mini version of my actual car, or of my dream car, but I *really* do not need to add to the giant box of cars that were collected by myself and then my son over a few years of our early childhoods!

The Dodge Challenger Hellcat theft from last week showed the drawbacks of selling very fast vehicles.