Edit: Oh my god, it's actually a real thing, and it costs $575. I promise I don't play Star Citizen and have never seen this before. I genuinely just wanted to make up some stupid bullshit (I literally just ripped the class name off of one of the ranks from the game Ratchet: Deadlocked and gave a type of ship that sounded expensive), but Chris beat me to the punch. Bravo.
Want to get disappointed in them even more? Google "concierge" status. Tldr is if you spend $1000 you get access to a second "store" that has more expensive packages, some going for $40000 or more. Some of the more expensive packages are only available if you spend $10000 or more already and get the "wing commander" level.
It's literally a "I'm a whale" sticker that unlocks shit to buy for ridiculous amounts of money. Gaming journalists don't know about it because you need to spend a ridiculous amount of money on it already, so nobody covers that bullshit.
Over 640€even, I am sure that’s not proper conversion but ok, it’s flying fucking expensive in any case. Jesus. Who the heck buys these overpriced dead pixels?
Dude is living the greedy capitalist dream almost to a T. Never have to deliver a final product, players buy up digital ships more expensive than six years worth of games, and thats it thats the business model.
I made up a class name and assigned it to an expensive-sounding ship because I've never played Star Citizen and have never even been on the website; in trying to make up some dumb bullshit, I accidentally came up with something that approximates the Anvil Liberator.
And, you know, gestures wildly at the $48,000 ship pack; the fact this in-game asset I basically just made up by accident is real and sold officially for $575; the lack of any release timeline and the way it's been in early access for over a decade despite raising over $1 billion, amounting to a never-ending whalefishing expedition...
Yeah when you look from the outside without actually following the development, it sure looks like a whale fishing expedition. But I can assure you that it's not.