On June 24th, Derek Smart posted...
"THE STAR CITIZEN PROJECT IS IN FINANCIAL TROUBLE After raising over $150 million in crowd-funding, plus unknown investor amounts and bank loans, on June 13th, 2017, CIG/RSI took out a high-risk loan secured by all the assets backers had poured money into..."
and
"As I have reported in the past, for some time now sources have informed me that the project was in financial dire straits."
So his inside sources would know far more than fans or people watching the game, and know even more than the haters themselves. It is true, and signs point to mass money loss and vast management issues.
Not only that, but Chris Roberts is well known for mismanagement and wasting money, sort of like the guy behind Black and White god game series and Fable. So it should be no surprise about this.
On top of that, they keep adding shit to the game that isn't needed...why in the hell waste time literally adding shit? Like literal shit they added. That is the biggest waste of resources ever, and I do NOT want to play a game where I have to worry about going to the bathroom and also at the same time have to use the bathroom in real life. This is a great example of resources and feature creep taking over the game, and wasting so much money on NEW features and not enough on existing projects.
On top of that, while that large refund WAS a scam and lie, the game is still being refunded at a large rate according to Derek Smart and they took advantage of the lie, but do not tell the truth of how many are refunding the game. Even if the company refuses a refund, you can call a bank and get them to do a charge back...easy as that.
But the biggest worry and sign of a game being mismanaged, as seen in many games of mismanaged projects (like remember Kingdoms of Amalur?), is just so many unneeded features being added.
On top of that, taking out loans is NOT a good sign after making so much money from crowdfunding. What happened to all that crowd funded money that required to take out a loan?
Just this morning I did a charge back on Star Citizen (called my bank), only put in 50 dollars, but I can't support a company that is so badly mismanaged. And I don't want to play Sims in space, MMO edition where I have to worry about stupid bathrooms...no thanks lol
What are your guys thoughts on all this and what Derek Smart has said and discovered about the game?
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As for my thoughts on DS, he's a failed game dev.. thats pretty much it. He has about as much relevance as the crap i scooped out of the litter box this morning.
If SC ever gets finished I'll give it a try, just like I do with any game that interests me regardless what some randoms on the internet are saying about it.
With my favorite quote : "CIG will collapse in 90 days" 6 October 2015
Have fun
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If you want a new idea, go read an old book.
In order to be insulted, I must first value your opinion.
He is just copy/pasting the same crap for the past 2 years claiming the "end is near" like it's news, just move on from being that obsessed with him.
Hmmm...You might be on to something here. Instead of facial recognition we need poop recognition. So my RL bathroom trips will count in game! Genius! Someone get on the horn to CR stat!
I'd rather use the 50 dollars to a different game, like I can get a bunch of games on sale on Steam for 50 dollars during the Winter sales
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His ENTIRE narrative was spun just 1 hour ago, he edited all his posts to reflect his new narrative and made a post about DS claiming he did a charge-back.
Is he looking for approval from the "critics"? Trolling? What the...
edit: Okay he just became a fan of Derek Smart (his words).
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Ya don't make sense to me, but whatever.
That is actually the legit truth of it, I wanted a refund because I'm dirt poor and 50 dollars is a lot of money for me. The 2nd time just this morning, I skipped dealing with the company and went to the bank.
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You were, minutes ago, aggressively defensive of the game, you made a post about DS and his group wanted to destroy star citizen then you edit it MINUTES after saying "you're a fan of DS".
That just does not happen, you don't make a post like that, change your heart, refund the game, and edit all your posts to reflect you are no longer a fan... In just a few minutes.
Derek has been predicting the financial collapse of CIG for years. I think goons feed him this information just to watch him get an O-Face and then come and post another prediction of CIG collapsing.
Chris Roberts is really just like Derek, if you gave Derek 150 million to build a game we would be looking at the same degree of mismanagement and the forever addition of useless features like we are now.
If both of them were hanging from a building and I had to pick one to save I honestly dont know which one I would lend a hand to. They would probably both die as I mulled the decision over in my head.
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I actually played CR's games when I was younger before I even knew who he was, only after backing SC I realized he created those games lol
Maybe it's just someone who can feel strongly about something in a moment and easily change opinion to feel strongly about the polar opposite.
http://forums.mmorpg.com/discussion/468197/does-star-citizen-deserve-its-hate/p1
"Am I right in being so suspicious of the game? I DO want the game to succeed, but its pretty suspicious with how its been managed and the huge amount of feature creep that keeps getting added to the game. Many features can be added post-release I feel, makes more sense to finish the game and THEN add more features"
So pretty in the middle, though still leaning slightly on the suspicious side. But I tried to make the thread more neutral instead of one or the other.
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Yes, but he is basing himself on what Derek Smart claims, and obviously (for anyone who is here long enough), he will use anything to sustain his narrative that "the end is near".
CIG's official explanation is that it was just a smart money management move, but we could have a 10 page debate as to whether CIG gave their real reason in that statement, or just carefully obfuscated the situation.