[Anthony Garner]

Ok
So I know some of the principles here and certainly in my professional life have worked with them in some form or another. I can only add to the discussion what I actually know as real.
These guys are NOT crooks and this is NOT a scam; allow me to elaborate:

Chris and Eric when they started the ball rolling with this, genuinely wanted to make a follow up to WC , in fact it’s no secret that Chris has being trying to do this for years. After the initial KS funding went insane (Thanks mainly to Wingman in my opinion) the goal posts moved and the scope changed. This is typical Chris, if he had stuck to the original pitch the game would be out now and probably doing really well considering the talent he had working on it.But we are talking about something unprecedented here , 94 million dollars !!! and he is being treated like a genuine Cult leader. If a load of fan boys gave me a small countries deficit and treated me like David Koresh with no questions asked Im pretty sure I would lose touch with reality as well.
There is no scam here or crookedness I know this, I know these guys. I too worked at Gizmondo so you may as well accuse me of working for the Swedish mafia. That whole thing was a bail out to save nearly 300 jobs and every man jack of them was hoodwinked by the sheer amount of cash that Tiger telematics had. I was one of the last out of the door with the people you are ‘insinuating ‘ are crooks.(yes I know you haven’t stated it) and there were only really 4 genuine crooks involved and Simon Elms was definitely not one of them. I admit that it looks very bad when seen in pure black and white but it really wasn’t like that .
I am a game dev and have been for as long as you Derek, in my opinion this project is in a bad state and I cannot see how they will pull off what they have promised.Ignore mad fanboy cultists who have overspent and know fck all about actually making a game,I agree with a lot of what you have stated from a tech POV etc. The additional info about the cash being used for filming personal projects for Sandi and 20 k coffee machines I can well believe BUT as I originally stated we are talking about something unprecedented . Chris will just be seeing it as a stack of cash to make his dream game and so what if some comes off the top to fund an extravagant lifestyle. This is where they have gone wrong because this is not private or publisher money it is public donations. He has failed to factor in accountability and should this fail then that will be the underlying reason.
I know that there are over 200 people working their asses off across the world and while this is a tragedy of epic Greek proportions in the making for the whole game industry, we have to remember that these guys have families and lives.
Ultimately the blame will fall with Chris, but NOT because he is a crook or is trying to create a ponzi scheme etc but became he genuinely had a dream and massively over reached with little understanding of what he was promising after a huge amount of time out of the industry. 12 years may as well be 100 years with the way tech and gaming has jumped. CIG is obviously in trouble but they certainly will not be making escape plans to a private south seas island volcano carved into an effigy of Chris’s head !! they will be literally working round the clock to get something , anything out there for the backers.

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