Star Citizen is free this week, if you'd like to try it

I've spent a total of $5 on the game and FWIW, I think I got my money's worth. The game's development is severely mismanaged and I don't think it'll ever realize its vision, but I think it's worth checking it out even if it's just for looking at some of its technological achievements.
- Im spent a good bit of money in the game for better or for worse I think this is the way it should be tried Dont spend the money on the ships. Buy a basic package and purchase ships with in game money.
I’m confused how you think the insurance will work, as it seems you believe the 6 months in your example couldn’t be extended or renewed?
I doubt players following the ToS will ever lose ships bought with real money permanently as it would generate extremely negative press.
Though EVE online allows essentially the same thing and you can absolutely lose those ships and equipment.

Most pyramid schemes are free to enter into too.

As someone that has played a fuck ton of Star Citizen and bought a few ships... Don't. It used to be a game. Now it's a marketplace without the game. Every time they update it they make things worse and break everything else. Nowadays I can't even get into it for more than an hour before I realize it's the same game as it's ever been or worse. I'd rather just go play something else. But don't worry, they're more than happy to sell you a ship for $2,000 that's been "in development" since you were in highschool.

Explain to me the difference between Star Citizen and a scam at this point.

They have a very impressive tech demo. Sadly it's about as wide as an ocean and shallow as a puddle because they keep expanding the scope but not fleshing anything out, all the while releasing "pledge" shit for hundreds or even thousands of dollars.
A scheme designed to milk players for as much as possible? Sure. Outright scam? No. For as negative as I am on the subject, the "game" does exist and there are in fact people who enjoy it while understanding what it truly is.
Idk, i bought a ship for 45 dollars like 8 years ago and so far i played probably around 400 or so hours. I played it more than most 60 dollar games i own. I get why people hate it, but no one forces anyone to buy thousands of dollars worth of ships. I don't think the game will ever be done, but they do put some work in, every time i play it again there is new and different stuff. And so far i have never played a prettier space game. I guess i got scammed.
It's always felt like the world's fanciest microtransaction fueled cell phone app to me but just on a PC. There is something there, but it's not what the ads make it look like and you'll have to pay a lot to even get close.

Bt this point, it is reasonable to assume that Star Citizen is a self-enrichment scheme for the founder's, Chris Roberts, family.

Every time I see some SC news I look up to see if there’s any release date announced for SQ42 yet.

It was originally supposed to release in 2014 and it still doesn’t have a release date!

Their business model is developing a game. Not completing a game and releasing it, just eternal development. And honestly it's working really well for them. Why change when people keep handing them money?

Last time I tried it, I wasn't impressed by what I saw. Besides the ridiculous system requirements, it just felt so weird. They spent all this money on this game and the NPC's just stood there, on chairs, on tables etc. not doing anything.

Nice tech demo tho.

Nahh

Free, sure, as long as you don't want a ship

Last time I played in the free week, they gave you a light combat ship, The Arrow.
Or you know you could join a crew and man a turret until you can afford your own ship bought with in game credits.
- Ah great, space labor for when my earth labor day is over and I really need to unwind.
You get ten ships to fly for the free fly event.

Is it still free if I wouldn't like to try it?

Around when I first heard of Star Citizen, I remember writing a paper on the Mt. Gox data breach and the bitcoin crash. A bitcoin was around $250.

Nah

Fuck , off , scam

More like ScamCitizen, what they are doing is plain old fraud and deception.

I gave up on that LONG ago.

I'm not going to play a game that wants me to pay more for a ship than my actual house.

Amazingly, I can't even get their website to work long enough to sign up. Bodes well for playing the game...

I still can't even get into the elevator from my 'room' without the game crashing. This is on 2 unique PC builds and over like 4+ years trying every now and then to play the game.

It also runs like crap, even on a 4070 super and 3700x the FPS in the city is barely 20-25 most of the time.

I’ve seen this issue on my friends PC where he was using a hdd and had 16gb of ram but have never experienced it myself.
For comparison I ran the game fine for years on an 8700k 32gb ram with a 1080ti and an ssd.
Im surprised by some of the negativity here too… I have genuinely played hundreds of hours and yes, experienced bugs, but also had some extremely memorable experiences and lots of fun.
- Yeah I'll have to try again soon, I have quite a big group on a discord that plays it regularly and it does look fun.

Last time I tried to play this game I had to use a 7+ year old fix on their forums for memory management and change the page file to a stupidly massive size to keep it from crashing. Of course the neckbeard star citizen fanboys in game told me to "just buy more ram". Bitch, I already have 16GB of fucking fast ram I'm not trying to build a quantum computer for my star citizen fix!