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Chris had to have known that he was on borrowed time. He’s allowed ego to write checks that talent can’t cash. It’s going to all come crashing down on everyone soon enough. As painful as it is going to be to watch, at least those who are going to get buried in the loss, can’t say they weren’t warned. Had they held him accountable all this time – instead of just giving him more and more money – they’d probably have some sort of game by now.
Of course, those nutjobs keep bringing up game dev times, completely forgetting that all of these games had seasoned devs and publishers at the helm. Yet, they are quick to compare them to Star Citizen. Let alone Line Of Defense; which always makes me laugh.
Hey man, sorry to hear that. Most of us knew this was going to start happening soon; which is why I sounded the alarm last year.
Right now, no class action is in the works, but I do know for a fact that the Feds are aware of the project already. But nobody knows thus far what they are going to do – if anything – and when.
At this point, you have no options but to take a wait and see approach. đ
I have numerous doubts the crowdfunding cash is going to keep rolling in. In order to do that you would need something to hype, and effective hype usually comes from the gaming press. While the gaming press are notoriously corrupt, even they are starting to distance themselves from the mess. The most positive SC articles out there these days seem to be solidly in the âneutralâ camp, without all the optimistic fluff from previous articles. Perhaps that is because the CIG checks arenât coming in anymore, or perhaps even they see the writing on the wall and are distancing themselves.
No objective observer who is still fence-sitting is going to dump money into this. What would convince them to? Some
buggy tech demototally awesome, feature-rich game play footage? Sometoxic mudslingingpleasant conversation in the forums? Updates and videos on a website that look like more money was put in to them than the actual game? Nothing short of a PewDiePie level of hype will get people to ignore the numerous other options out there that are LIVE and PLAYABLE at this point.The only thing that bothers me is that goon leak posted at the top (currently) stating that the warchest has far more than 7mil still in it. Were they able to save a large sum from all the recent layoffs/closures?
I agree 100% with those sentiments. In fact, go look at their funding page right now; it’s completely flatlined. Which means that once the spike from the split happened, that was all over.
The reason they have more than $7M in their coffers – if true – is due to the layoffs, the spike they got from the CitizenCon and anniversary sales from Q4/15. Then going into the new year, they got a spike as well.
The on-going bad PR isn’t doing them any favors and right now, as we have seen with the sales, only the existing whales will continue giving them money. And even they are appearing to be tapped out and fed up.
I can’t wait to see what they pull off next.
He gets away with it because most of the media simply cannot be trusted. You know this. And that’s why you are seeing other smaller media outlets, calling everything into question.
The issue is not if this going to crash and burn. It’s about when is it going to crash and burn.
Wow. Now he’s shilling to make money.
Just gonna leave this right here.
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/star-citizen-creator-wishes-hed-explained-games-de/1100-6434856/
Well so much for that. Another missed deadline.
“Going forward we will be changing our patch release strategy to be less feature driven and more date driven. Our goal is to release a new update every month (so Januaryâs would be SC Alpha 2.2). We have many features in development separate to the release stream, and the idea is that we assess which features are ready for prime time a few weeks out from the release and then greenlight them for inclusion in that monthâs release. We would then have a good PTU test, make sure the features really are ready for primetime, fixing up the issues we see and in the case of a feature needing more work, we would pull it out of the release. Physicalized EVA is an example of this. After testing in PTU we felt we needed to do some more work in order to polish it for better usability in certain circumstances.”
I agree. The thing is that some of them are completely oblivious to the fact that they were the ones that gave all this bad press traction. And the more they attacked people, the more word spread.
We’re all gamers. We’re part of the drama collective. It’s in our gaming DNA. However, in my decades of being in this industry, this is the first time that I’ve experienced anything like this from the “supporters” of this project. The sad thing is that for every one Shitizen, there are thousands of true gamers who just want to see the game they backed, completed and delivered. And even they dare not voice any dissent or they will be attacked and vilified non-stop. Even right there on the official game forums.
Never in my wildest dreams did I think that writing a blog on July 2015, would amount to this fiasco. And once Shitizens and some of the RSI people started attacking me, I knew that I had to go digging because that’s just normal behavior.
Then The Escapist article hit.
Then Chris wrote his diatribe.
The ball just kept rolling faster downhill from there.
