Shock! Horror! He is the biggest whale of all!! Is this the twist in the tale that Derek alluded to?
I hope we all get complimentary 12K JPEG spaceships and armored death stars as thanks for being alumni of this thread!
Plot twist!
It’s the latest insider rumor making the rounds. Same as the 2018 investment which, like everything else, true believers didn’t believe me - until it was made public.
Ignore the fundraising chart for a bit, and ask yourself how it’s possible to be running a scam project for 10+ years, raised over $350M, and still don’t have a single game completed. That’s the story. Aside from the fact that year on year - according to their own financials - they lose money every single year. It beggars belief. Anyone who doesn’t think something fishy is going on with this, is an ignorant fool.
Can you spell “ponzi scheme”?
Hmm. Can it please be used in a sentence?
Yup. We’ve been saying this for years now. Use new money to fund previously promised tasks. Rinse. Repeat.
I think Derek covered it.
If you buy one of their jpegs, can you use it as “inspiration” for a vehicle in another space game?
Each jpeg comes with a family history of the ship(s) they used as inspiration to create it.
Thought this comic was posted upthread, but I don’t see it now:
ah yeah, good times…
Okay, what is Star Citizen really?
Star Citizen is an absolutely incredible grift that has been separating gullible dorks from their money since 2012 despite being run by a comically incompetent group of dreamers, scam artists, vampires, and recent Full Sail graduates. It has made headlines for everything from being the biggest crowdfunded video game of all time to being five years overdue to telling a backer with MS who wanted a refund to gently caress off in a court of law. It is defended by a militant group of nerds who threaten, and harass people for making jokes about their video game, and mocked by other nerds basically anywhere it is brought up. It would be impossible to fully list out the astonishing number of absolutely batshit things that have happened during Star Citizen’s development, not the least of which includes Derek Smart (of Derek Smart’s Desktop Commander fame) stirring from his eternal slumber to become Cloud Imperium’s immortal foe (he actually pissed them off so much they forcibly refunded him, something they won’t even do to actual literal nazis). All of these events play out over a sort of background radiation of immense financial waste, from $27,000 pledge packages to $250 a plate dinners, which are so common as to be unremarkable at this point.
Well, you know you’ve made it when someone refers to you as someone’s immortal foe, and describes your recent activity as an eternal slumber. Good on ya! Best I’ve been able to do is be called a twit.
Well, since Usenet I have always aspired to be the greatest immortal foe of men. So this is a small step :)
You can be my foe if you want. I promise to curse your name before bed every night.
Ph’nglui mglw’nafh D’r’ksma’rt F’lorida wgah’nagl fhtagn!
(I seem to recall he lives/d in Florida.)
That’s one of the better things I’ve seen on the Web today!
City in the clouds!
So pretty.
From the article:
“Alpha 3.16, which is tentatively set for Q4 2021, will improve Orison with more shops and expanded services around the city, CIG has indicated. The development roadmap extends to Q1 2022, when alpha 3.17 is meant to release. There are currently no target release windows beyond that.”
Wow, it strikes me at this point that the current development model is the game. Like, they have no intention of releasing a final version. Just continue to pull in 10+ million a month and gradually release alpha version tweaks and new ships ad infinitum.
“at this point” is a hell of an euphemism.