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LOL!! That opening paragraph.😂

Anyway, Star Citizen is having a free-fly event starting next week.

If you didn't before, now is your chance to check it out for yourself and experience the "savior of PC gaming" in all it's glory.

pcinvasion.com/star-citizen-f… via @pcinvasion
@pcinvasion If you decide to make the leap, use this referral code generator BEFORE you create your account, and you will get 5000 uEC (in-game currency). It won't buy you anything in the game, but hey free money!

gorefer.me/randomizer/STAR
After 7 yrs + $200M, it's still in early access alpha and literally unplayable (for the most part). Every SINGLE aspect of it is flat-out broken. But hey, it does make for nice screen shots.

By all means, please check it out. There will be a quiz later.
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I just wrapped an interview over the latest Star Citizen funding fiasco which broke just before Christmas.

A bunch of these haven't aged well over the years.

Chris Roberts, 2013

imgur.com/uarM3JJ.jpg

gamesindustry.biz/articles/2013-…
HIlariously, instead of, you know, profiting on 1/5th of the sales, financials now show that he was burning through more money than he was making, essentially bankrupting the project. Hence a $46M investor bailout.

cloudimperiumgames.com/uploads/691565…
It was already a foregone conclusion (I totally called it back in 2015) that the funding chart was bs.

In fact, as I wrote in my latest blog, they burned through $32M MORE than the chart showed.

imgur.com/N7zrISx.jpg

dereksmart.com/2018/12/star-c…
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The legal battle between @draginol and P&F over Star Control, took a very interesting (tip: litigating your case in public is NEVER a good idea. EVER) .

gamesindustry.biz/articles/2019-…
@draginol P&F, in what I can only attribute to a serious lapse in judgment, wrote a blog (some of it is a rather dubious take on what constitutes copyright infringement) explaining their view of what is going on. It's quite the read.

dogarandkazon.com/blog/2019/1/2/…
Naturally, Brad published his response to that blog, which at this point, you have to wonder if they are actually listening to their attorneys - at all.

forums.starcontrol.com/492870/at-long…
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Just putting this here for posterity. That time when Chris Roberts again blatantly LIED to Dean over @GamesBeat

Except context to follow...

venturebeat.com/2018/12/20/sta…
@GamesBeat Aside from the fact where their financial "brochure" showed NO SUCH THING. No cash basis. No liabilities. No line item tangible expenses. No balance sheet. No audit claims.

imgur.com/LyeCvzD.jpg

cloudimperiumgames.com/blog/corporate…
Except that if you were "open" the US financials would have been made public, and then nobody would need to be doing back-of-the-napkin math.

Aside from the fact that the financials CLEARLY show that you're spending MORE than you're raising.

imgur.com/Sj7EM8K.jpg
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