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Derek Smart has taken to his personal blog and launched a long piece about Star Citizen, how it has taken vast sums of money from backers who appear to, as Smart alleges, be willing in all that is spoken about the game without much actually being shown. It is Smart's contention that fans will never see a product that will approach its actual cost. With $85M in the coffers, Smart feels that dollars are being burned through very quickly with a staff of 300+.
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BUT…For some really good laughs check out Steam forums of his own game “Line of Defense MMO” almost every thread is locked and he vigorously deletes post/comment even entire threads and bans ppl for any criticism or proof of his game being a long-con, and blames all negative comments on steam flame bombed by Star Citizen backers, he has even deleted ppl’s screenshots of his game because he didn’t like the comments someone gave them
He hates on it because he makes money from it, name recognition = his god awful game sales.
I'm confused, where's the relevancy and how does it affect his right to say what he wants about Star Citizen?
Edit: Way to necro a post and make Mr Smart relevant, no doubt he'll be personally thanking you for that.
It is the same thing as when persons spout off Roberts history to attempt correlation to current development.
Another D-Smart thread?
Really?
I'm not seeing that at all. Thats seems a strange twist of logic in my eyes.
Roberts' past has some relevancy because he's making a game in the present. Smart's gaming achievements don't have any bearing on his right to an opinion.
Common friend, you cannot be that daft.
Informing oneself of both should let us better understand the opinions he presents.
Simpley put; Consider the source, requires a background to examine.
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Auto-Necro ...thats a new one ;-)
Have fun
Just because Roberts doesn't go out of his way to question other developers does not mean a single thing other than he doesn't.It doesn't make his operation or game any more credible.
DEREK's main concern was that people SHOULD use their own brains,question what was going on ,what success he has had in the industry is 100% irrelevant.
IMO all that ever happened were fanbois were using Derek as a crutch or scapegoat for Chris Robert's poor handling and management of the game.
Bottom line is Chris needs to stand up for his own actions without using Derek as a crutch to change the topic or change the fact it is all about Chris and NOT about Derek.Even more important is people should use their own brains to see what is going on and of course have SOME knowledge about game design,money and how systems and management should operate.
Instead what i see a lot of are fanbois who know very little so found it easy to just toss Derek's name in there to make Chris's bad management seem justified.
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.
Therefore what? He should stop feeling the project is being mishandled? We should reject his position based on "who he is"?
https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/43b9bk/squadron_42_interview_gillian_anderson/czhiphf
Well, I know who he is. I know what he's said. I'm not comfortable with the methods he uses in continuing to "say it", but also I feel, alot, the same way he does. I personally feel contributors should be shocked and disturbed by the progress and practices, and every inch people are allowing is turning into miles. Every, "well that's ok you're late", is turning into "well, that's ok you stomp naysayers", is turning into "well, that's ok you're not doing what you said", is turning into.. what's next?
"Well, that's ok you're charging contributors for SQ42 DLC"
"Well, that's ok the game crashes every 5 minutes"
"Well, that's ok to use Oculus Rift I need to buy $1100 worth of summer 2016 hardware"
"Well, that's ok your lack of optimization melted my gpu"
"Well, that's ok the persistent universe is a massive complex of instances"
"Well, that's ok I have 20 people on my server to lord over with my $2000 jpeg"
"Well, that's ok we finally got something close to what you described in 2018"
D ) Kick the messenger in a hole.
E ) ????????, F ) Profit!!11!one!!1! .... o wait....
Let's start over. A ) Profit!!11!one!!1! B ) You'll get what we give you and you'll like it. C ) Kick people who complain in a hole D ) Retcon E ) Profit soem moar!!!! F ) Grow old G ) something something H ) Profit!!! I ) Deliver something, sometime.
Crazy. people. to. think. this. is. all. somehow. ok.
But his motives don't need to be questioned, they're as plain as day. And likewise, bringing up his history or examples of his trolling don't add anything to discussions, they just serve to muddy things up even more.
It's similar to the diversionary tactic children use when they are in trouble, ie "Yeah I know I did but Luke did this..."
I must say it's interesting how some of us have such opposing views about these things.
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An old thread necro'd out of no where. On a topic that is pretty heated.
Oh this is going to be good.
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“Microtransactions? In a single player role-playing game? Are you nuts?”
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On that note, I have to completely agree with him on this. You have to be living in denial to think otherwise. This is just another 38 studios waiting to happen. Chris Roberts can't manage 30 staff, let alone 300. At least 38 studios got one product out the door, I don't even know if that will be the result with Star Citizen.
Best thing to do if you invested in this boondoggle is to write it off and move on. Your chances of seeing a game with half the features they promised are nil and if they ever do release something it will probably not look like anything you expected.
Brenics ~ Just to point out I do believe Chris Roberts is going down as the man who cheated backers and took down crowdfunding for gaming.