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Derek Smart @dsmart
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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.

imgur.com/N7zrISx.jpg

dereksmart.com/2018/12/star-c…
Another thing that came up in the interview, were his public statements back in the day, saying that I was basically clueless.

First up, this Aug 2016 interview by @PCGamesN

It's all so surreal to me, now that I look back.

pcgamesn.com/what-chris-rob…
That very same month, which btw was barely one year after I wrote that famous July Blog which caused all this furor, he was on a roll saying I was clueless. Because, you know, Star Citizen and SQ42 were totally finished and coming YE 2016.

All that time, we've collected and collated a MASSIVE amount of information that shows a CLEAR pattern of lies designed to bilk backers and investors, even as Chris continued on his unjust enrichment quest under the guise of making two games. With ZERO accountability.
ICYMI, seriously, watch the latest video from an ex-investor which chronicles this SAME EXACT fiasco that got Chris kicked out of the industry over a decade ago.

Except this time, SQ42 is the tail end of his "Robbing Peter to pay Paul" Ponzi scheme because he's already tapped out on Star Citizen. The same crap that saw him lose his Digital Anvil studio after ejecting from EA, then got kicked out by Microsoft.
Meanwhile, back over at the mushroom cloud...

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I wasn't sure if I should be laughing as hard I was when I watched this.

THESE are the SAME guys who were supposed to be holding Chris accountable all these years; instead they kept attacking us for blowing the alarm.

They have petition to go with it. They can't even get the dates right.

Guys, Oct 2012 to Oct 2018, is SIX years.

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Who remembers back in 2015 when I said the project was doomed unless they got rid of Chris Roberts? These same guys were all attacking me over it. Now here we are, 3.5 yrs later. It's almost as if they weren't paying attention.

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If this is anything as good as the one (from Fox and Kesmai) we played back in the day online on a 2400 bps modem, I'm in! But these days, it's too much to hope for.
For those of you not old enough to have played it, this is Aliens Online. It was THE game back in the day. Scary as hell. Most of us had to choose Ramen noodles vs paying the online bills when playing this.

Good times.

Who else remembers this?

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Back then, we learned to swear in several foreign languages. Usenet kinda helped with that. Primarily because you'd fire a shot, think you killed the other guy - only to be declared dead seconds later due to lag and such.

So much fun. They don't make them like they used to.
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