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"Cloud Imperium spokesperson Dave Swofford tells Ars that "a lot of the information was fabricated" in the Reddit post discussed the below. Swofford says the account in question was issued an individual refund of $330, not the $45,000 claimed in posted screenshots and videos which Swofford says do not reflect actual complaints requests logged by the company. What's more, Swofford says the refund was handled "in a timely fashion" with "no extended debate over whether we should."edit. And this article on PC Gamer:
The Reddit post contains a number of screenshots of correspondence between the poster and CIG's customer service department detailing the refund process, however: "The screenshots do not represent the actual communications which were shared to and from our support department," the CIG representative wrote. "So no…there’s nothing to it at all. There is no story."edit. Right after CIG's reaction and the media intent to contact who claimed the refund, the poster deleted account.
...a refund was issued recently to one customer, but in the amount of $330. I asked if it appeared this was the same customer, and if this customer had perhaps doctored the correspondence to make it appear as if the amount refunded was $45,000. The response I got was: "Yes to the first. Yes to the second…as best as we can tell."
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P.S One employee who is director of PR, not really a developer or multiple developers
It's not one individual, this has been ongoing and that's only the KNOWN ones that were proven fake, how much of it is real and how much of it is fabricated, impossible to tell.
Who has this sort of time to devote to this sort of thing and to what gain?
"True friends stab you in the front." | Oscar Wilde
"I need to finish" - Christian Wolff: The Accountant
Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
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Grr.
Either they are getting paid to slander the game (which should be jail time or/and a huge fine), are Derek Smart fans (and if so, they need mental help) or they have a severe mental disorder.
I have never seen a game get this much hate and slander against it, its borderline criminal and definitely if not criminal there is severe mental issues at play.
Look at the star citizen forums for MMORPG.com, you get the same posters every day hating on the game...that is all they do...all day...post how much they hate star citizen and how its dead and vaporware. That is how they spend their day. Either they live the saddest lives imaginable, or they need severe mental treatment right away.
I don't like EVE Online, but I don't waste all day or any time of my life posting how much it sucks and how much I hate it. That is useless and a waste of time, and anyone who does that needs severe mental treatment
My Skyrim, Fallout 4, Starbound and WoW + other game mods at MODDB:
https://www.moddb.com/mods/skyrim-anime-overhaul
Then again, that is how shit gets written off on this game all the time. It really comes down to whether you completely and blindly believe CR/CIG or question anything. If you completely believe them, then whatever they say is deemed proof enough. If you question, you need a verified, independent, third party source with undeniable and triple verified information.
Otherwise, the baby is thrown out with the bathwater and you are DS's alt. It's every argument here. "Your assumptions are completely wrong, but here is the absolute truth based on other assumptions that I like better".
I want to like this game; however, it is just like a sports team that you want to like, but can't really stand their obnoxious, all knowing fans so you half hope they fail.
The guy now deleted his account, the damage was done, this is harmful because of how widely it got reported, the media didn't even care to reach the guy to ensure legitimacy before reporting.
He deleted his account right after CIG made the statement, speaks for itself. I myself believed that refund was real.
What are your team colors, by the way?
(still WIP on the org flag)
Whatever you want to believe, google will help you find people that agree with you !
refund guy claims he got a refund for x amount, shows evidence.
sc guy claims the refund amount is false, evidence given is fake, but does not/can not show any evidence to back it up.
SC fans will believe SC guy, SC doubters will believe refund guy.
Rest of world will laugh and carry on.
A creative person is motivated by the desire to achieve, not the desire to beat others.
If people are really going this far to fabricate Star Citizen looking shaky (when there's more than enough real info available) then they're 10x worse than the people I refer to as Citizentologists. All a stunt like this does is substantiate the claims of conspiracy from the fringe backers.
Now I need a funny name to classify the dummies who did this. Stay tuned.
P.S. To the people who say folks like this are paid to slander Star Citizen, who benefits the most from the slander? Is there some rival kickstarter space game coming out? Makes for a great movie though...
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What's the benefit you ask? Do they want to feel important for unmasking some great conspiracy that doesn't exist? Whatever it is, it shows no lack of motivation.
A video showing the user refreshing the page in an attempt to prove that the documents were genuine: https://gfycat.com/complicatedopenleonberger
Sorry but their words are hollow.
Simply with a media outlet supervising a review of the tickets, even if CIG deleted them the emails would still exist and be able to prove it.
And that was their intention
But right after he just deletes his account... Coincidence? I think not.
I have had my doubts about SC and I have my dreams, you help keep the dreams CIG promised alive, since you make it easy to find such great details during such despicable times where people go as far to create fraudulent refund conspiracies. I look forward to reading your future posts where you obviously obliterate the pessimistic hopeful bunch that will grab any thread they can to cause SC to lose funding in hopes of the game never completing.
Who can waste their lives trolling SC?
"True friends stab you in the front." | Oscar Wilde
"I need to finish" - Christian Wolff: The Accountant
Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions. Pvbs 18:2, NIV
Don't just play games, inhabit virtual worlds™
"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon