Chris Roberts Back in your wallet - STAR CITIZEN

[WayAbvPar]

But...he has a TESLA!

Do the doors open like this ^|^ or like this /|\ ? If not, then fuck him.

[Shannow]

He's going for 3 commas!

[Merusk]

If I am reading this right, he issued an ultimatum to Chris Roberts, with a deadline. Failing to meet his requests will unleash to the media an open letter with the dirty secret truth about Star Citizen, which according to Smart should interest the US Federal Trade Commission.

EDIT: He claims it's worse than 38 Studios.

If he has info relevant to the FTC I think he runs afoul of some laws by NOT disclosing it. So playing with fire to get his own name and attention. Yeah, seems like a typical move from his bag of tricks.

[Margalis]

Star Citizen is doing the Double Fine thing of consistently expanding the scope of the game such that the money they have only covers half the budget.

[Draegan]

Count how many links to his own product are in those posts of his and then decide what he's really doing.

[tmp]

Count how many links to his own product are in those posts of his and then decide what he's really doing.

He's hired himself as VP of marketing?

[schild]

What a weirdo.

( http://imgur.com/a/xhT0c )

[Trippy]

See what you guys did!

[Merusk]

The other guy was weird for asking

[Falconeer]

Didn't you read the OP? He would have been sued if he didn't!  

[Paelos]

Welp, he found us. Batten down the hatches.

[schild]

No one remind him he's a morally bankrupt weasel who is only mad because he didn't think of this first!

[Malakili]

 

[Pennilenko]

I feel icky that my posts are in those screen grabs.

[Kail]

If I am reading this right, he issued an ultimatum to Chris Roberts, with a deadline. Failing to meet his requests will unleash to the media an open letter with the dirty secret truth about Star Citizen, which according to Smart should interest the US Federal Trade Commission.

Well, shit, now I'm curious.  What kind of big scoop could he possibly be sitting on that would surprise anybody?  It's like the asteroid is going to strike the Earth and wipe out all life and we're all standing outside looking up at it when some scientist runs up and says "guys, I've got some bad news..."

[schild]

he doesn't have shit

[Lucas]

Here's some "damage control" done by Community Manager Ben Lesnick:

https://forums.robertsspaceindustries.com/discussion/271173/some-thoughts-on-concerns

It's a long post (multiple ones in sequence, actually), aimed to reply to whatever drama cropped up in the last few weeks/days. Not as glamorous as wondering about how much coke and hookers they got and if Gardiner cheats on Roberts with other members of the Dev Team, but maybe interesting enough, I don't know  

[schild]

what a turd

[rattran]

This game needs more Serek Dmart shenanigans just to keep the entertainment value up.

[Khaldun]

This is masterful:

"We’re at a point in the process where we believe we know exactly what to do. We’ve already let you know what that is, we’re going to continue sharing the progress… and when that work pays off (or if it doesn’t) you’ll hear about it.)"

[Margalis]

‘Feature creep!’

I don’t have much to say to this, beyond that it’s not accurate.

This may be the single most feature-creeped game in history. FFS, now they're talking about adding an entire space taxi system where players can pilot taxis to ferry other players around whose ships have been destroyed. Every week someone has some new half-baked idea that they announce as a major feature.

[Malakili]

Nah, don't worry, this was all part of the original design doc.

[HaemishM]

The Bible has had less feature creep than this thing.

[rk47]

I'm Serek Dmart. Nice to meet you. I'm sorry for lying for so long. *wipes tears and smile goofily*

[schild]

I'm Serek Dmart. Nice to meet you. I'm sorry for lying for so long. *wipes tears and smile goofily*

[jakonovski]

What a weirdo.

This thread is the best.

[MahrinSkel]

Did they really raise over $80M selling vaporware virtual spaceships? I...just don't think I can process that if it is true.

--Dave

[Falconeer]

Of course it's true. Where have you been? This has been the whole Star Citizen thing since 2012 and why some of us have been pretty "annoyed" the whole time.

Also, it is important to say $85M.... and counting.

[Jeff Kelly]

Did they really raise over $80M selling vaporware virtual spaceships? I...just don't think I can process that if it is true.

You forgot to put this in green text, did you?

[Ironwood]

In fairness, every time that little fact comes up, my brain has real trouble processing it.

It's hugely unbelievable.  I just can't fathom it.

[IainC]

I've spent a good part of the last three years interviewing for positions at various companies making free to play games in the browser or mobile space. Some of the biggest whales on free to play browser games have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars each. One company told me that their biggest spender was in for about $300k on a single title. To be fair those are all games that actually exist so the people who are paying that money are actually getting something in a game that they can play but still, $18k is small potatoes in the grand scheme of things.

[palmer_eldritch]

This is just taking advantage of people with emotional issues. There's no way that any well-adjusted person would pay this much for internet spaceships even if the game actually existed. You could buy a decent new car for this.

[Paelos]

Of course it's taking advantage. He should be sued to hell and back, but probably won't because he can prove he had every intention of releasing a product, and under no circumstances did these users buy anything.

[Malakili]

You have to wonder what the meetings where they decided pricing were like. "So, what do you think, 18k for the whole lot of them?"

[Pennilenko]

This little bit right here is the part that really gets to me.



It's like they studied every single predatory psychological angle they could in order to extract cash from people.