Thread by @dsmart

The last Star Citizen blog I wrote was in Summer 2019. I had stopped writing them because quite honestly it became far too depressing - even for lols. Plus I still have friends & peers who are (some gone now) still feverishly working on Chris's pipe dream, and I just felt bad.

As an OG backer of the project, and it's most famous critic (they started it!), I have always had to draw the line between being a critic while deriding someone else's project that they're slaving over. Thing is, Chris is a liar, grifter, cheat - and a complete fraud.

That's what money does to you. Back when I started sounding the alarm bells that this was shaping up to be another Freelancer, Strike Commander, I took a LOT of flak for it. It's now FIVE years + $400M later and we're still having this discussion.

Having disappeared for over a year, without a single word to backers, Chris came out of "hiding" to address a complete NOBODY on the forums about an INCONSEQUENTIAL game feature in game where EVERY DAMN THING IS EITHER FLAT BROKEN OR BUGGY AS HELL.

In case you missed his follow-up derision at the very backers who gave him money, you can read all its glory below. If ANY other dev had written this, we'd be buying Gold nails on eBay for the cross he'd be nailed to. Read it.

robertsspaceindustries.com/spectrum/commu…

It's clear that Chris has completely checked out of the project because what we're seeing is EXACTLY what happened the last time, back when Microsoft kicked him off a project and right of his own company having blown through MILLIONS of Dollars and never shipping ANY project.

And it's not as if he went silent in order to focus on the project. No, that would be weird. The project has been in steady decline this past year during which both him, his ex-wife Sandi, brother Erin et all have just ghosted off the project. It's the classic sinking ship adage.