When we reach a point where the ability to shop at ArcCorp is enabled, will the Voyager Direct store be closing down?asked by Shrike

So as far as the Voyager Direct store...we'll definitely transfer across the buying and selling of in game stuff that you would normally buy with in game UEC as much as possible. There may be some level of stuff that for a short period of time we keep on Voyager Direct it depends on which shops come online sooner or later. As soon as we have proper shops in the Star Citizen alpha that are connected to the persistent database and the transactions are safe and what not and we don't have any worries about them being breached, abused. Then we would get rid of the online Voyager Direct UEC store because the UEC should really be currency you use in the game and then you would real cash currency on the normal pledge store on the site where you first buy your package to come and enter the game or where you would buy some additional UEC if you didn't want to be earning it inside the game. One aspect that we haven't one hundred percent decided on is in the case of the SC alpha you're running around and we're still testing stuff, we've been toying with the idea that you're earning money during that time so you can buy things with the in game shop so that will be one thing that we do maybe not at the beginning but we'll bring that in but we'll probably make all that stuff that you do during that alpha phase be money that once we go commercial ok that will go away. obviously the money you've earned with your package or bought with real dollars would be permanent for you but any money you earned during the alpha stage would only be around for as long as the alpha stage is around or when we wipe it, there may even be a couple of times when we wipe it where we have our large test map SC alpha 1.3 that we have right now that goes on for a while and at some point we will go we're going to shift to the proper system is inside the SC universe we'll start with one system and then open to another and so on and at that point we may even do a temporary stuff that you've earned to a new temporary UEC until the final this is Star Citizen for everybody and then its fresh start. So that's kind of how we are thinking about the Voyager Direct store and all the rest of the stuff.