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A few weeks ago, I mentioned that something Star Citizen big was going down. It’s started to leak already. Not by me.Nope, I have nothing to do with this; since legal have told me that each time I write a blog with details, I give them an idea of what we know – then they can plan, prepare etc.This project is completely and utterly FUBAR. In fact, recently a credible source tells me that they KNOW there is no way this game – as pitched – is ever getting done before 2021. But they need to keep raising money nonetheless. They’re currently at $110M, five years and over 500 people later; still a tech demo that for all intent an purposes could very well be a CryEngine4 mod.Since they’re running on fumes, their latest sales attempts at getting people to buy JPEGS, has been a complete bust because even the whales are waking up.“The industry is a very small place….despite it employing thousands of people world wide , there is only really a small amount that control it and have any real clout. Someone on here , I know who , but no hard feelings whatsoever, pasted some of my more predictive posts on Chaos engine, in an industry only forum where there is much speculation and hilarity from people that really do know what they are talking about. The whole industry is laughing their collective sexual organs off at the whole thing. But there are exceptions. Most noticeably one Evangelical young man who is so brainwashed that he will not hear a word said against CIG, the project or the management.Because of this , much of what is discussed here has circulated among the dev staff. I would say 60% think it hilarious, stick it to them etc. 20% Im sure are shitting themselves in case they have any connection to me and 10% are determined to track me and any other dissenters down like wild beast’s, and present our pelt’s before the Stimporer and his consort.Thing is they are now running on fumes both figuratively and ideologically. People realize that this is doomed including the press who are contacting people left right and center. I still maintain that this is NOT a scam and even now in the dying days of Rome the brains-trust still really and truly believe that if they show enough shiny JPEGS and trailers for SQ42 then they will get over this and still produce the BDSSE.Things to look for soon ……There are 3 trailers . Best one has Craig Fairbrass in he is pretty awesome..one will be released soon. The Stimporer is being selectiveApparently one of the A listers is not happy at all about being associated with this Fuck up and is currently seeking distance. ……..a lot of distance …….off grid physics distance.The animation system is so fucked they have to reshoot mo cap……The budget set aside for this element of the game has over run by 12 times the initial estimate !!Chris is really pissed about ED I mean really pissed. Its everyone fault but his of courseThis forum and any forum that has any SC content is read by paid peons CONFIRMED. To be fair , they do adjust policy (with regards public facing issues ) in response. So…..No more of that fake news report bollocks, more dev interviews etc. This in itself is amazingBen is actually in a really bad way. I am not taking the piss here but please remember he is a human being and is clearly in a lot of trouble .3 ! Yes 3 high profile ship jumpers in the foreseeable.There have also been some rather explosive conversations behind the scenes with some very disgruntled top tier Wales. there is a genuine concern that these people band together ……..Other than that its business as usual: The Vanduul are up for a rethink by the looks of it as they didn’t go across as impressively as was required. Slight concerns about scale/ships are now becoming real panic blockers and the blame game has begun. SQ42 Ep 1 or 10000 will be here next year , late next year .For anyone that still has money in this, if what they want is a visually impressive but really boring first person dog fighting game running at 3 fps with loads or terrible and I mean fucking terrible cutscenes then sit tight it may still happen and you will be very happy.Anyone that bought into this for an open world alternate reality where you can roam the verse and be who you want to be, farming and raping and grieifng and parkouring etc . I suggest that you rethink your investment….. and be fucking quick about itAt ease commandos”
To imply that it will be a $300M game, implies that it will be around by the end of 2016. It’s end of March 2016, and they are currently at $110M. And given past performance, if funding continues to decline, not only will they not hit $150M by year end, but they will be struggling by then.
As I’ve said before, if they survive long enough see the end of 2016, I will be very surprised.
I personally don’t believe that it will go the way of DNF because it has gained far too much publicity and notoriety. In the case of DNF, it only popped up in the news every now and again because it was taking so long in dev; and not because of all the drama that was playing out in public.
One thing is certain, once this project collapses, Chris is finished in the industry; this time for good. There is no coming back from this.
This is hilarious. And sad.
In today’s AtV, they confirmed yet another JPEG concept ship sale. This time the Vanduul Blade.
A ship that was first “Revealed” over a year ago.
Desperate times.
Interestingly, someone put this together
Here is something neat.
I wrote down last night at 3:10 am EST, the counts for money funded, and players entering the game. In the span of 8.5 hours, star citizen gained 5513 dollars and gained 384 subscribers.
1,319,054 user
110,108,920 money 3:10 am thursday march 17 2016
Now its at,
1,319,438 user
110,114,433 money 11:41 am thursday march 17 2016
That averages to 14 dollars spent each “new user” joining. I bet they have dummy accounts set up to funnel in money, without actual spending any money at all. It is a neat trick to scam investors. Inflate the numbers without breaking the books. One neat trick THEY DON’T want you to know.
More bad news for Star Citizen backers. Yet another feature, Pirate Swarm, has been canceled.
Here is a statement from one of the modders who had a better version going awhile back.
“Pirate Swarm” is canceled. Partly because:
1) as CR said you can spawn a few pirates at a time once by doing a “mission” in the Crusader map
2) They don’t want to waste development time/resources on it (I’ll get back to that)
3) What he doesn’t say, is that two modders (I’m one lol) released a playable version of Pirate Swarm early last summer that was MUCH more advanced than what has ever been released by CIG to this time.
I threw a fit with Ben Lesnik and Disco Jadredo in general chat last summer after they “did not receive” PM’s. They spent TWO MONTHS claiming to be “working with us(modders)” on Pirate Swarm so they look good to the community when that was at no point true. (Which really pissed me off because the next god damned day from cornering DiscoBigO in public general chat telling him to STOP claiming that; he and Ben stare 3-eyed into the camera on their RTV webstream & continued their claim to be working with us on it…)
The sad thing? I didn’t even set it up… People legitimately LIKED the mod we built… Because it was better than anything CIG had done as far as AI strengths, weapon balancing & having non-flyable ships some-what included as much as we could fix them.
So strange that video mysteriously is deleted after 56 minutes now… The INN transcript survives tho.
http://imperialnews.network/2015/09/reverse-verse-episode-63/
“q-Pirate Swarm? Still in the works. They sat down with people who did the fan-based one.”
Hell half of CIG was playing our modified version and giving us props for it. Even Christ Roberts himself!
“cause right now it’s really the people that kind of know CryEngine and they know how to strip the assets out of our builds and they use it, and there was a group of modders already built their own version of Pirate Swarm, which was pretty cool.”
Back to #2) It would only take me maybe 3 minutes of light mending to fix their broken Pirate Swarm rule-set offset of Vanduul Swarm to get it working in Single Player.
Just so we’re clear… Christ Robert’s himself is saying they don’t want to waste a handful of minutes of a single developer’s time to give the community a fresh game type to tide them over.
