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Okay....so............when can we try it out?
You can play it now. They even offer a free weekend every now and then. I tried it a few years back but never got very far into it..
Who knows, the game might release by 2030 at this rate.
They had a free week recently. But it ended up taking almost the entire week to actually successfully install and launch it. So I played it for maybe 5min
You can also pay for it and get a refund, which is what I did. It isn't anywhere close to being finished.
I'm just super curious at to what $600m would get me. Maybe suckering people into paying for it out of curiousity was their genius business plan along though.
That's the cost of about three typical AAA games. Genshin Impact's costs up to around its second year of development is also about that much.
The average cost of a AAA game is $80m.
"AAA games are the big-budget games that large studios and publishers typically make. The average AAA game takes about four years to develop, with an average cost of about $80 million and higher. But this amount can vary significantly depending on the type of game and its level of complexity."
-https://rocketbrush.com/blog/how-much-does-it-cost-to-develop-a-game
AAA games also tend to do esoteric things like "release" and "become profitable" and "spawn sequels."
Whenever you want...provided you spent like 50 dollars on a starter ship in 2014
It's $45 right now..
They have sales, I grabbed it a few years ago for like $20. Yeah it's got bugs but I've got a good bit of time playing it. It's got plenty to do, people in here didn't really play it and are on the hate train. Don't be a whale and you'll get your money out of it.