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Now for something different.

Star Citizen is having a week-long free fly event. It's been a complete disaster since Fri.

Here's one very lengthy report from an experienced gamer, but Star Citizen n00b trying it for the first time.

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He didn't provide screen shot examples of cities in games. But since he mentioned Ace Combat, I dug up some shots of the upcoming AC7 game. They put Star Citizen's Lorville city to shame. And you can fly over it.
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This is hands down the funniest post about the free-fly experience from a newbie

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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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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.

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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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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.

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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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