Star Citizen - Did you pledge & what do you expect?

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Howdy gents. Spotted Narcotic posting on the SC forum so I thought I'd follow him here to poke fun and I spotted this thread as a result.

Uhm, he did not. I'll always remain loyal to Discovery. *cough*

If you missed out on an alpha pass you will need to pay $5 to access each of the modules. Arena Commander. FPS. Social and so on. Each module will cost an additional $5 when it's released.

I've pledged right before the VAT changes, and yet I have access to the AC without purchasing the pass. Or is the "alpha pass" thing dependant on joint date? Whatever, the 'slideshow' is nice to watch... once.

Though, I like how they've done the engine optimization. I've never run a game/program, that used 100% of my CPU, GPU & RAM constantly. Pretty impressed. #pcmasterrace?

I believe that the Beta will be pretty sick and, based on the pace of the game, either at the end of this year or sometime in the next. Being said if they meet their goal of a gold release by 2016 I'll volunteer to gently lather my unmentionables in the boiling magma flow of a volcano that we can select through community vote. My personal prediction is commercial release in 2018 (or when the money runs out).

If they'll really release the SP campaign & PU this year (end) already, I'll probably have to save some moneyz for a new rig yet already...

Being said I believe that simply buying an Aurora level pledge with beta access is a really sweet deal if your mindset is "don't care until it's done". It'll be cheaper than the game on release and you can walk away without spending thousands of dollars on a lifetime of horrific attempts at justifying your life choices.

I've taken the Freelancer+ package with all them (unneeded) physical goods, and still thought I've made a nice deal. Unfortunately, it's not available anymore now. Actually I've sworn to not spend any cash on it, until the release, but... IT'S AWESOME! SPACESHIPS! NEED MORE!

No, I'm mature.

P.S. Star Citizen is very, very Freelancer 2.0

I can confirm. I like everything about it so far. Looks really like a spiritual successor to me.

Except for the community. They sometimes seem to be so naive. Maybe it's because they've never played a space sim before (or haven't even been born to play one). Half of them coming from Call Of Duty, and being all "SC is all about the AC scoreboard (and graphics lol)", and the other half from EVE "We're the true space sim vets and know everything & better than you!". However, if you're not annoyed by the hype and dumb discussions about "OMG PIRATES WILL SUCK QQ" and people being all "Yeah, I've spent 10.000$, have 5k posts and thus am better than you.", you might get along with them. Actually not very different from Disco forums, just a few more people (who however wouldn't play an "graphically outdated" game like Freelancer).

Or maybe it's just me, having this "nostalgic-veteran-elitism-sickness" and don't feel others worthy of being part of Roberts new space sim. Or I simply envy their LTI swag, Super Hornet REKT & "I can buy everything"-attitude.

I mean, I don't show off with my...

...either. Oh, now I did. I'm soo special!!! I have something you cannot have. Nananana na!

Look what a few days on these forums have done to me...

Halp.