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Star Citizen claims to have raised $200M as of today.

Still no games. Of any kind.

We're entering year 8.

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The Chairman sent out one of his cringe-worthy letters yesterday about the $200M (unverified claim btw) milestone. A copy is also on the website now.

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I have absolutely no idea what Chris is going on about other companies following their formula. Last I checked, there was no trademark or copyright on running an active scam. 🤔
"And it’s more than just the funding, it’s been six years of ground breaking open development.."

So it's six years now.

Over time, it's hard to keep up with the lies. Chris Roberts, Oct 19, 2012

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In his own words.

So yeah, this is year 7 ending now, and we're entering year 8

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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

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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.

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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.

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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) .

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@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.

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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.

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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...

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@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.

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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.

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