Star Citizen offers new DLC for the eye-watering price of £46,000-Kenneth Andersen-Entertainment – Metro

Star Citizen – almost as expensive as real space travel (Picture: CCU Games)

Space explorer Star Citizen has outdone itself with a virtual fleet of ships that costs more than the average UK salary.

Since development started in 2010, developer Cloud Imperium has received over £500 million in crowdfunding, to make its space combat simulator Star Citizen. Over 10 years later and there’s still no release date, even as the game becomes the most expensive video game ever made.

In that time the developer has released some playable modules, but also a lot of what is essentially DLC – with the ability to buy spaceships and plots of land for ridiculous amounts of real world money.

Now they’ve gone a step further and the controversial developer is asking for £46,080 if you want to buy every single spaceship in the game.

The DLC, called Legatus 2953, is a bundle that includes all 175 ships, but not everyone’s allowed to buy it.

If you have the £46,000 to spend, you still have to be in the Chairman’s Club, a level only granted to fans who’ve spent at least $1,000 (£790) on the game already.

Star Citizen is known for releasing expensive DLC, despite it not being a full game yet, such as the Legatus Pack from 2018, which would have set you back $27,000 (£21,000) and included over 100 vessels.

In fact, there are more bundles for sale than most games that are actually out, with DLC ranging from £40 for individual ships to other fleet bundles reaching $15,000 (£11,800).

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To add insult to injury the game isn’t free-to-play either and costs $43 (£34) for the basic version, so all these ‘macrotransactions’ are on top of that.

It seems inconceivable to pay that kind of money for items in a video game, but the game has been selling DLC like this for a long time and fans always seem willing to pay.

Maybe the game’s business plan relies on Elon Musk being a fan but whoever is buying all this DLC it’s not ordinary gamers.

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