SJ Parkinson
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I am asking you because for the life of me I can’t understand why you and Derek and the others in here who have such a negative view of the development of the game circle like vultures, fabricate false truths based on nothing but pure conjecture ? [/quote]
If you truly are asking sincerely, you should read the rest of this page to see why people feel the way they do. The links, the videos and posts are hardly conjecture. CIG is still to release the promised financials stated in the ToS. CIG has repeatedly changed the terms of the ToS to their advantage and extended the deadlines for delivery. CIG has repeatedly cancelled promised content after months of promotion. CIG has not hit a single release estimate yet. Three senior producers (and numerous worker bees) have left the company, leaving no one who knows how to develop a game. CIG staff are subject to private investigators looking into their lives. CIG bans people from their forums who make critical comments on the CIG forums and/or other forums they do not control. Certain execs at CIG have lied about their professional qualifications and changed public information sources multiple times on discovery. Millions have been wasted on repeated redo’s of code, mocap and modification to a game engine that should never have been used. The constant ship sales and asking for more money when we have been told they don’t need any more cash to finish the game as promised. There’s more, much more, but I’ll let you discover that for yourself.
There are more abuses and financial chicanery with multiple shell corporations being set up. Why? If none of that raises a red flag with you, then go buy another SC ship and have fun playing the tech demo.
A thin glass top, that they cut into two halves, but only delivered 10% of one with a promise that the rest will be magnificent.
You’ll know the end is near when the principles buy property in Florida. Florida has protections on having your main residence seized after bankruptcy. Several celebrities and notable people of dubious backgrounds have done it in the past.
http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/florida-bankruptcy-homestead-exemption.html
Of course, they may go one better and move to a different country without an extradition treaty with the US.
Has anyone noticed how vanilla the Star Citizen Wikipedia page is? No mention of delays, cancellations (even official cancellations like Star Marine), ToS changes, issues with the game, etc. Absolutely zero controversy.
Meanwhile, over on the Elite: Dangerous wiki page there are mentions of refunds, some of the controversies through development, etc. You have to wonder why?
I’d love to test this out, but can’t remember my wiki login creds.
I’ve been following the Star Citizen debate for almost a year now. I’m not a backer, I missed the KS and never signed up after. When I went to the CIG web site to do so, the hairs on the back of my neck stood up when I saw the amounts of money that were being collected (after wildly exceeding their Kickstarter expectations).
Yet, I was tempted to buy into SC after reading the glowing press and universal user enthusiasm. I hadn’t seen a single negative press column until WIRED posted one entitled, “Fans Have Dropped $77M on This Guy’s Buggy, Half-Built Game.” That was enough for me to hold off. My attitude was “deeds, not words” and all I saw was pretty commercials, videos and graphics. WIRED was wrong, the game wasn’t even half done. If they’d produced something tangible, I would have bought into it, but they never did.
I saw it as a, ‘We can do this project through KS for $500K, we collected $2.1M and now we have $60.2M, but still need more’ situation. Meanwhile, Chris Roberts is saying he could do the game with the money already collected, but didn’t stop the fund raising. Huh? Elite: Dangerous (Frontier Developments), in the meantime, asked for £1.2M on KS, got £1.5M, released a finished game a year ago and will be releasing their V2.0 version in time for this Christmas without additional fund raising.
I’d heard of ‘Derek Smart’ referenced in several hate filled forums on a few discussion sites. I’m a former game designer/producer myself and always try to make up my own mind so I looked him up. Instead of the horrific bile spitting monster I’d been told about, I found someone asking the same reasonable questions I was. His subsequent treatment (as described in blog posts here) for being inquisitive was way over the top and another indicator that something was wrong.
I’m convinced Star Citizen is going to crash horribly. The TOS changes resetting refund conditions and minimizing CIG obligations tells any intelligent person there is trouble afoot. I can’t stop thinking that Chris Roberts and John Romero have a lot in common at this point.
Now, if I’m wrong and Star Citizen comes out, I’ll happily change the above opinion and offer a sincere apology to all involved. However, Derek you’ve been asking the right questions to date and I applaud you for that. Keep it up. The need for transparency, stated delivery dates and financial responsibility in projects of this scale is a necessity. There are over a million investors in Star Citizen today and having reliable information about the state of the project is valuable.
Keep asking those questions and thank you.
Have a great weekend.
