His latest missive is no different from similar ones which he penned back in the day when he was - again - facing a backer backlash. If you want a refresher on that, @nichegamer just did one.
It's not odd that he showed up - out of the Blue - even as backer posts asking where he was kept being deleted and backers banned for daring to ask where the grifter they gave $300M+ disappeared to. And it wasn't to explain wtf is going on with the project or the money.
No, it was to address some inconsequential bs that he - once again - littered with the same lies culled directly from the well curated dreams.txt and then just regurgitated it in a bid to "prove" that he was still around - or something.
And if you had any doubts that this was a freaking cult of madness, this response to his latest bs could never exist on the game's official forums. This writer was kind in his response, because if I wrote a response to his drivel, it would be worse.
His forum missive gives you a quick understanding of how the official forums are moderated whereby you can't even ASK where the creator is without being attacked, banned or your post deleted. So once that tone was set years ago, it remained. His latest bs just reinforces it.
Without going too much into it, all I am going to say is what comes next should have happened long time ago; then this farce wouldn't be $400M in + 0 games. All that was needed was accountability. And those who kept giving him money are going to see why they should have stopped.
The fact that almost NINE (!) years + over $400M later Chris is still calling Star Citizen "early alpha" should tell you all that you need to know about the on-going scam being passed off as a project of two games.
Don't miss the irony of the him suddenly reappearing at the time when the backer numbers (which we knew were bs to begin with) have been revealed to be superficial.
The fact that a project bringing in and spending over $30M a year, yet still needing investor bailout should have been the huge Red flag that maybe the backer numbers aren't there; and it's just a bunch of sunk cost fallacy whales propping up an obvious scam.
April 2013. Well, they're now $400M in. Do the math if you will.
"Chris Roberts: I can be more profitable than AAA games on a fifth of sales"
I just came here to amend this thread to say that of the 3 people I know currently working on the project, not a SINGLE one them has a farking clue wtf Chris was going on about in his post about atmospheric rooms.
Oh apparently more key people are on the way out.
That is all.
Yes, I know the link was broken due to copy and paste, so here's a better one.
I am back to writing aggregated blogs again because I have found a new worthy cause that's filled with intrigue, corruption, abuse, racism, and plundering of a Web3 DAO that went from a $1b cap to $300M in less than 1yr amid a cratered token.
Once again, I have the receipts.
As with the Star Citizen (that's still not a finished game btw - 11 yrs + $600M later) blog series that hit all the headlines and which sparked a media frenzy, including from Forbes and others, my series on @apecoin DAO will take the same periodic format.
@apecoin This time around, instead of starting from the beginning and rolling down to the last blog where I was proven beyond a reasonable doubt that the project was FUBAR, I am going to start from present, roll through the history, identify all the players involved, and connect all dots.
Days ago, the Special Council decided to - against procedures and in a blatant conflict of interest, decided to create an interdependent set of AIPS involving the creation of ApeChain via Polygon.
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The Special Council is never allowed to do this. Ever. Instead, not only did they author a bidzdev AIP to fund the Polygon AIP, but they're literally pretending that they aren't connected - despite irrefutable evidence.
Here is the first AIP, the Polygon one authored by @sandeepnailwal
Always amuses me that, almost 30 yrs since my first game, Battlecruiser 3000AD (aka BC3K), was released by Take Two, that it's still the go-to comparison for any team making an all-encompassing massive scope space game. Graphics aside, they ALL hit the same wall that I did.
When you build a massive space game, your #2 problem (with #1 being the tech to power it) is going to be how to populate it; and not just because you can, but because of what the game requires. And content repetition is the primary problem.
Every single massive scope space game that has attempted anything of the sort, has run into the same problem with content creation. No Man's Sky, Elite Dangerous, X series etc. all ran into the same thing because procgen can only go so far.
Well don't look now, but SQ42 no longer has a release date. Wait till you see Chris's response in an AMA on the game's 8th (it's actually 9, but whose counting?) anniversary.
So there's a new Star Citizen controversy brewing and which various parties are diving into. I haven't done much digging, so I will just provide some of my own thoughts.
First of all, I want to make this clear - again...
Star Citizen devolved into an absolute scam years ago. The basis for the scam is that the creators and primaries were busy focused on unjust enrichment by taking money out of the project, rather than putting money into it. This has gone on for years now.
To the extent that not only have they done shady financial things like building a corp with backer money, then selling back that corp to themselves, but also taking out large sums from the venture, even as they run out of money year after year.
For context, you'd have to do some catching up on my tweets since this fiasco started. To be clear, as a veteran game dev for 30+ yrs, as I see it, this battle was a long-time in the making, and needed to be waged.
Though some of my peers & colleagues in the biz are hesitant to publicly opine given the parties involved, my view is that with all the confusion as to the merits of the matter and what it means to gamers and game devs, this discussion is worth having cuz feelz aren't relevant.
To get started, this is what I said on 08/13 when news of the lawsuit went public, and which goes back to what I just stated in the first tweet of this thread.