A Star Citizen backer sued CIG/RSI for $4,500 in small claims court. Now has 07/13/18 court date.
Case 18SMSC01860
https://www.lacourt.org/casesummary/ui/
While I have no confidence that he will prevail, if CIG doesn’t defend (they will) this, and they lose by default, it will cause them serious problems down the road because it will just set a precedent and open the flood gates for similar action.
My guess is that they are going to answer, then file a motion to dismiss due to the arbitration clause in the TOS. If that happens, then he will have to re-file an arbitration case where they are likely to win since it tends to favor corporations. If he goes that far, it will be very interesting to see their arguments. They’re going to have to convince the arbitrator that they have somehow satisfied their obligations to him, and delivered a product. Aside from them having to make that whole “it’s crowd-funding” argument. It’s going to be several shades of hilarious - and I can’t wait.
Since 2015 as I was tracking their various TOS changes, I had said that they were doing it in order to rip backers off by walking back various promises (refunds, financial accountability etc).
Here we are.
Streetroller, the guy was the subject of my refund debacle blog from 2016, also had filed a defective lawsuit in NJ earlier this year. That one was so defective, it didn’t survive a motion to dismiss this past April.