Plus plenty of people will feel compelled to attack ships bought for large amounts of real world money just on general principle which should level the playing field.
The developers have been clear that there will be no particular advantage to having paid for a bigger ship at this point you might have a head start in the game when it launches, but it is likely that dedicated players will catch up very quickly. You can pay the minimum and get the game when it comes out, and this is reasonable value if you had planned to buy the game anyway, or you can pay more, get less value in terms of tangible benefits, but more of a sense of wellbeing from being a patron of the arts, so to speak. This is evident with the sales of the bigger more expensive ships in Star Citizen. Some people put in more than others, in the belief that more money will make more good things happen, and that sense of supporting the greater good can feel like a reward in itself. In some ways this sort of support it is akin to putting money in a church collection plate, a belief that the money will be used to make good things happen, things that you approve of. To an extent it is a measure of faith, even if the actual expectations might be somewhat lacking. The simplest reason in most cases for people to pay more is a combination of impatience, hope and also a sense of wanting to encourage and patronise developers who are doing good work.
Information and Communications Technology.HR, Training and Organisational Development.Health - Medical and Nursing Management.Facility / Grounds Management and Maintenance.Looking at the money being thrown at Star Citizen it isn’t hard to imagine a less than scrupulous developer putting out the bare minimum product to meet requirements then doing a runner with a big bag of cash. From the sly little tricks like preview footage that doesn’t match the actual game, as with Aliens: Colonial Marines, to the likes of Battlefield 4, Sim City and Rome 2: Total War, games which the developers cannot possibly have thought finished, ready and fit for purpose, yet which they released anyway. The video games industry has a long history of grifting players. It would be nice if this wasn’t the first answer that springs to mind, but let’s not kid ourselves that the video games industry is an entirely honest one. The easy answer, the cheap, cynical and mean spirited answer, is that a fool and his money are soon parted. So what’s the secret? Why are people seemingly throwing large sums of money at a game before they, or anybody else for that matter, has even had a chance to play it? In games development terms that is not a huge budget, but for a crowd funded project it is a record. Star Citizen has raised well over $35m and shows no sign of slowing down. They are paying out money hand over fist. The first is the amount of money that potential players are able to invest in the game, for example one of the spaceships you can buy costs a rather meaty $275 but the second thing, the really surprising thing, is that people are paying that money. However there are two things are very odd about this particular development. This shouldn’t raise too many eyebrows in this day and age of course, thanks to Kickstarter and other crowd funding measures this sort of project is fairly common. It is a game set in space about combat and trading and it is being made by, among others, Chris Roberts, who made the very successful Wing Commander series. Star Citizen is a game being developed that should be released in some form this year.
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