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And once again, I have to remind people what an ALPHA (1, 2) is in software development. As it stands, Star Citizen doesn’t even have 10% of it’s features in place.
Star Citizen, in its current state, is NOT an alpha. It is a glorified proof-of-concept (aka tech demo).
You nailed it in your question… They’re obsessed. He’s their ultimate go-to scape-goat for everything. He is the answer to every and any problem that arises, or will arise, with SC. They can’t not bring him up, even when the subject has absolutely zero to do with DS.
The position of SC fans is this crazy paradox when it comes to Smart.
On one hand, they say Smart’s a know-nothing, has-been developer who doesn’t know what he’s talking about, etc.
Until some bad news crops up with SC. Then suddenly, the SC faithful somehow find a way to attribute it to Derek.
Hell, I’ve read articles about SC where Smart isn’t even *mentioned*, nor even referred to. Somehow, within the first 2 or 3 comments, people are bringing his name up to dismiss the entire article anyway.
They are absolutely obsessed with the guy.
Here’s something else to consider.
Both LoD and SC are described, by their respective developers, to be in Alpha stage at this point.
Yet, ever notice how, when you point out problems in SC – a game with a budget of over 100 million in backer funding, a huge team, spread across multiple offices encompassing multiple companies… they’ll immediately argue “It’s Alpha! It’s not finished yet! Of course there’s going to be bugs! Be patient!” Doesn’t matter how big the problem may be… simply saying “It’s Alpha!” explains away everything.
Yet, let those same people see even a *slight* bug or glitch in LoD – a game developed by a far smaller team (IIRC, no more than 23 people at most at one point), and self-funded (no backers, no investors, no time-limited sales of jpeg ships) on a small fraction of the budget, and suddenly, saying “it’s Alpha” doesn’t matter. Those same people will say “No. That doesn’t excuse it. There’s no excuse why this game is still in this condition”.
Go look at any of a number of YT vids where people are playing SC and running into some crazy bugs. SC fans will immediately fall all over themselves trying to excuse it away, in some cases, blaming the poster for it. And, of course, it’s almost guaranteed some of them are going to invariably bring up Derek Smart.
The hypocrisy, the double-standards, the spin, the deflections, the denial, the cognitive dissonance, the sheer nonsense that comes from many of the SC faithful is amazing to witness.
Another case in point, if there’s one thing you could never accuse Derek of being, it’s shy with his opinions, or not saying exactly what he thinks, loudly, un-apologetically, and typically, at length. Derek has explained his whole deal with SC numerous times, in articles, in blogs, in interviews, etc. He’s explained *exactly* what his issues are with SC, and *exactly* what bothers him about it, and *exactly* what he’s wanted to see from the start. He’s stated it, re-stated it and then stated it again.
But, will you ever hear any of his *actual* position accurately represented by any of the SC fans? Nope. Not even close. I don’t even think most of them know what his actual position is. They’re too busy making up their own version of it to be bothered. Intellectual honesty doesn’t seem very important to many of them.
If you are at all interested in hearing Derek’s take on this, and you genuinely and honestly want to know, then go hear it from Derek himself. Don’t go on what the SC fans tell you. Anything they tell you, just ignore it. Don’t listen to it. Whether you’re on one side, the other side, completely neutral, or just purely curious… if you want to know the actual reasons, go to the source.
Someone earlier in the suggested, or asked, if should everything come crashing down with SC, will they all blame Derek for it. That one’s easy… Of course they will. 100% guaranteed. Count on it. And all the while, they’ll be simultaneously calling him a know-nothing, nobody, has-been who doesn’t know what he’s talking about… but was somehow responsible for destroying a game he didn’t have even a single line of code in.
I’m now going to sit here and see how long it takes for someone to accuse me of being Derek Smart on a fake account. That’s another thing. So open are the minds of many SC fans, and so developed are their critical thinking skills, that if you so much as post anything that isn’t bashing DS, you are automatically accused of being him. It’s happened to me 5 times now across various sites, etc. All because someone said something about DS or LoD, and *dared* to say ‘Umm.. no that’s not correct. This is how it is”.
An amazing slice of humanity those SC fans, I’ll tell ya.
Which makes this even more worthy of posting.
Because of the SA paywall, that’s why I post the juicy stuff here as well. @lowtax takes the paywall down once in awhile. The site runs very few ads, so the $10 is what has kept it going over the years. And just a few months ago, it was completely upgraded to cloud servers due to the volume of page views it’s now getting.
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