My Stupid Journey Buying the $48k Space Jpeg Pack
So yesterday I was scrolling through Spectrum like always when I saw the big flashy banner screaming LEGATUS 2953 BUNDLE NOW AVAILABLE. Clicked it thinking maybe some cool ship sale, right? My jaw literally dropped. Forty-eight thousand US dollars. I choked on my coffee. “That can’t be real,” I muttered, rubbing my eyes. Did they accidentally add an extra zero? Nope. $48k. Cold hard cash. Felt like my heart stopped for a second.
My dumb brain went into research mode. I needed to understand what kind of crazy thing CIG was selling for the price of a Tesla. Dug around the store page. You gotta be a “Concierge” first – meaning you already blew at least a grand on this game before they even let you see this monster bundle. Fine, I crossed that bridge ages ago with starter ships. Then the reality hit: 221 ships. Two hundred freaking twenty-one. Plus all the ground vehicles, skins, furniture items for your hangar, even Squadron 42 when it eventually happens. It’s like someone threw every pixel they ever made into a blender. The 2021 pack was $40k, the 2022 jumped to $42k… now this. $6k more than last year just piled on top. Felt ridiculous.
Then came the stupid itch. My fingers hovered over the Add to Cart button. “Just see what happens,” the little demon in my head whispered. I clicked. Cart icon looked innocent. Went to checkout. That checkout screen… entering shipping info for a virtual item? Felt surreal. Typing in payment details felt like committing a crime. Hit the Confirm Purchase button. The page loaded slowly. That spinning wheel felt like forever. Boom. Confirmation email landed in my inbox. 48,000 dollars. Poof. Gone. My gut twisted. Immediate regret washed over me, cold and heavy. Visions of paying off my car or buying gourmet pizza for life flashed before my eyes. Pure panic.
Logging In & The “Unpacking”
The download was the least painful part, honestly. Launched the game, logged into my shiny new account with the Legatus pack. Went straight to My Hangar. And there it was… a colossal wall of text listing everything. Scrolling down felt like reading a grocery list for a spaceship armada. It wasn’t exciting. It was overwhelming. Nauseating. Ships I recognize, ships I’ve never heard of, ships still just jpegs on a website claiming they’ll fly someday. Dozens of vehicle names blurring together. Hundreds of items. My actual Hangar view was just a massive pile-up of ship icons. Couldn’t even see the floor. Tried summoning a few ships to actually spawn them – loading times felt longer, server seemed to groan under the weight of spawning a fleet.
Trying to “use” any of this was a joke. Insurance claims took ages because the game is processing requests for dozens of ships at once. Managing inventory was a nightmare trying to shuffle gear between all these hulls. Just equipping a mining laser felt like rocket science. Couldn’t do anything meaningful because I was drowning in options. Felt like opening a warehouse instead of playing a game. Utter chaos.
So, Worth It?
Expert verdict? Absolute highway robbery disguised as pixels. 48k buys you:
- A migraine-inducing collection list.
- The crushing weight of instant buyer’s remorse.
- An unplayable mess in your virtual hangar.
- The grim realization you just financed Chris Roberts’ next yacht.
- A permanent spot in the “Biggest Whale in the Verse” hall of shame.
That initial coffee I choked on? Probably the most valuable thing I interacted with today. Save your cash. Buy a real spaceship lesson. Or, you know, literally anything else that actually exists and doesn’t make your soul hurt. Seriously, don’t be me.