Star Citizen Is Free to Play for a Limited Time, Including a $600 Ship
Star Citizen‘s newest free fly occasion makes the sport free-to-play for a restricted time, showcasing a number of eight ships featured in the neighborhood’s Ship Showdown 2022 occasion. The ongoing occasion has gamers voting on their favourite Star Citizen ships, with the eight featured within the free fly occasion being the winners of the primary spherical.
Star Citizen hosts free-fly occasions considerably usually to have fun sure milestones, neighborhood occasions, or simply as a method to give new gamers an opportunity to check out the sport earlier than making the choice to again the undertaking. This present free-fly occasion will run till September 16, whereas a few of the sport’s starter packs are additionally accessible at a reduction ought to gamers determine to tug the set off on a purchase order. Star Citizen foregoes the same old up-front buy choices of most video games and as an alternative has gamers shopping for particular person ships as a way to entry the sport, and a few of these ships include a hefty price ticket.
While all of Star Citizen’s ships might be earned with in-game foreign money via gameplay, the eight ships featured in Ship Showdown free-fly occasion are utterly free to redeem on the sport’s spaceports at some point of the occasion. These ships embrace the $600 Carrack, the $475 Origin 600i, the $325 Aegis Redeemer, the $260 Crusader Mercury, the $240 RSI Scorpius, the $125 Argo RAFT, the $70 Aegis Avenger Titan, and the $60 Anvil C8X Pisces Expedition. In whole, these eight ships quantity to a whopping $2,155 price, a considerable money funding for digital spaceships.
Star Citizen has confronted controversy over its exorbitant pricing mannequin that appears to focus on rich “whale” gamers prepared to shell out a whole lot of {dollars} for entry to ships, whilst the sport remains to be in an incomplete early alpha state. Despite or maybe due to this, Star Citizen is essentially the most crowdfunded undertaking in historical past, elevating over $400 million in funding over the course of its now 11-year growth. Thankfully for players on a price range, there are nonetheless some fairly priced packages such because the $45 Aurora MR Starter Pack.
Star Citizen is accessible on PC.