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Blunderstorm
Mar 1, 2016

my grandfather just posts and all i got was this lousy joke, so what

SomethingJones posted:

Nobody has ever said, not even once on this forum, that this was the intention from the beginning.

If they know NOW that they cannot deliver, and they continue to take money, that makes it a scam.

he's responded to my post which had nothing to do about it being a scam from the beginning. trying to make a point when there's none to be made so he can give himself a win.

if he expands on any of the points he's been posting about (substantial gameplay and open development) he'll realize it's an argument he cannot win. he's using the same points CIG customer service is using to deny refunds, which we all know is not working. lmao.

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Blunderstorm
Mar 1, 2016

my grandfather just posts and all i got was this lousy joke, so what
someone post the list of features promised in star citizen vs what has actually been fulfilled so lazrin can stfu about a substantial part of the game being released.

Jobbo_Fett
Mar 7, 2014

Slava Ukrayini

Clapping Larry

Jobbo_Fett posted:

Lazrin, how do you know the inner workings of government- or consumer-based agencies?

no_recall
Aug 17, 2015

Lipstick Apathy
It still amazes me how CIG can declare backer money as revenue earned when there is no product :v:

Libluini
May 18, 2012

I gravitated towards the Greens, eventually even joining the party itself.

The Linke is a party I grudgingly accept exists, but I've learned enough about DDR-history I can't bring myself to trust a party that was once the SED, a party leading the corrupt state apparatus ...
Grimey Drawer

Tippis posted:

So what you think about Star Citizen?

Lots of people are. FDev, Infinity Ward, Electronic Arts, Hello Games. Hell, even CCP games in their quaint and fumbling way. Really, the only one trying to cash in on the craze without going forwards is Chris Roberts, who's stuck in the outmoded design sensibilities of the 1990s; who thinks that progress is the same thing as cramming as much junk as possible into a single unit without any consideration to how it will all fit together.

Because of Tim Schafer.

It's the guy who was shunned by SA and Derek for making too much noise, and who did it all on his own and who's famous around the world for the way he demonstrated the incompetence of the CIG legal team.

Don't forget Daedalic and a Long Journey Home. The game is supposed to play like Star Control II and Star Flight, just with modern graphics. Basically one more space sim for the pile of games that are not Star Citizen and will be out long before Star Citizen shudders into release, Duke-Nukem-Forever-Style.

Also sorry for posting across the void of time, but I've been failing to keep up with this thread for a week now and today I just gave up.

MilesK
Nov 5, 2015

Did anyone tell lowtax about how Lazrin scammed him out of $10?

Jobbo_Fett
Mar 7, 2014

Slava Ukrayini

Clapping Larry

Libluini posted:

Don't forget Daedalic and a Long Journey Home. The game is supposed to play like Star Control II and Star Flight, just with modern graphics. Basically one more space sim for the pile of games that are not Star Citizen and will be out long before Star Citizen shudders into release, Duke-Nukem-Forever-Style.

Also sorry for posting across the void of time, but I've been failing to keep up with this thread for a week now and today I just gave up.

:mediocre:

Blunderstorm
Mar 1, 2016

my grandfather just posts and all i got was this lousy joke, so what

no_recall posted:

It still amazes me how CIG can declare backer money as revenue earned when there is no product :v:

you sure? cig will provide tracking numbers for their released products and prove that you received it.

(not a scam).

Gradis
Feb 27, 2016

GAPE APE

Lazrin posted:



thanks for the opportunity for a quote war!


quote 'suck my oval office'

AP
Jul 12, 2004

One Ring to fool them all
One Ring to find them
One Ring to milk them all
and pockets fully line them
Grimey Drawer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-WWhYL1GXk&t=17s

Quavers
Feb 26, 2016

You clearly don't understand game development
Star Citizen's planet size compared:

  • Diameter of Moon = 3474km
  • Diameter of Delamar = ~417km
  • ....Similar in size to Proteus (420km), the second-largest moon of Neptune
  • Circumference of Delamar = ~1,310km
  • ....Similar to distance between Chicago and Dallas (1,295km), or London and Porto (1,322km)
  • Surface area of Delamar = ~546,000km²
  • ....Similar size to Yemen (528,000km²), and 5.5% of USA (9,827,000km²).
Revolutionary.

Beexoffel
Oct 4, 2015

Herald of the Stimpire
Today, I suddenly had 'The Refund' stuck in my head.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDnNF5cHCdo

Colostomy Bag
Jan 11, 2016

:lesnick: C-Bangin' it :lesnick:

Mr Fronts posted:

Do I have the monthly patch schedule right?

2.4 : April
2.5 : May
2.6 : June
2.7 : July

Yeah! I can hardly wait for July!

You got it. Thanks to their refined patch schedule with content locking they are exceeding all of our expectations.

Wrecked Angle
May 12, 2012

"JURASSIC PARK!"

Mr Fronts posted:

Do I have the monthly patch schedule right?

2.4 : April
2.5 : May
2.6 : June
2.7 : July

Yeah! I can hardly wait for July!

Oh come on! I don't think anyone can deny that the scope of the patches has vastly increased since that schedule was put out there. That was back when each patch was just going to have 1 new outfit or a minor door-related bug fix. Besides the community voted overwhelmingly for the longer gaps between patches to allow them to fully absorb everything that is on display and fully playtest each build.

SomethingJones
Mar 6, 2016

<3

Turd Burglar posted:

someone post the list of features promised in star citizen vs what has actually been fulfilled so lazrin can stfu about a substantial part of the game being released.

Promised:
NPC Generation
Docking and Undocking Tech
Realistic Audio Options
Personally Owned NPCs
Farming
Procedural Tech
Tri-Monitor Support
Hangar and Planet Side Module
Your Name in the Game
Carriers
Getting Everyone into the Same Instance
Lowering Your Wanted Level
More Economical or Versatile Corvettes
Planetary Ship Entry
Repair and Items System Capability
Lowering Your Wanted Level
Manned Turrets
Character Customization
Ship connected to User Online/Offline Status
Picking Up Objects On Planets
Multi-Monitor HUD
Large Ship Damage Control Lockers
Dogfights Through Space Stations
Ship Persistence 
Stealth Game Play 
Ability for Privateers/Corsairs/Buccaneers
Landing on Planets
Procedurally-Generated Environments
Starfarer's Refueling Mechanic
Additional Star Systems 
Rigging 
Anchoring to an Asteroid
Kill Boards
NPC ranks 
Thruster Trails 
Non-Leathal Combat Modules 
Raid Supply Shipments
Owning an Alien Ship
Hidden Ship Compartments
Catapulting Through Space
Locking Ships
Jury Rig Repairing
Dynamic Weather
Starting in the Stanton System
Automatic Battle Flight Pattern
Living Spaces
Insurance for Pilots
Future Mining
Escape Pods Functionality in Alpha 2.0
Personal Armor (FPS)  
Extreme Ship Maneuvers
Your Inventory When The PU Goes Live. 
Start up Sequence for Large Multi-Crew Ships
Voice Commands
Remotely Hacking Ships
Pacing NPC's
Incentives to keep your orginal Ship's Hull 
Game Generated Missions
Communication Between Two Ships
Ship Armor
Controlled and Uncontrolled Space
NPC Crews
Guild Wars
Trading in Star Citizen
Inflation and Deflation
Hiring NPC's for missions
Travelling in Fleets
Tactical Game modes in FPS
Trading weapon in the FPS
Bounty Hunting
Player Generated Content
Loaner Multicrew Ships
Alien Language 
Transiting Between Systems 
Road to Developing Star Systems
Assigning Ships to Landing Zones
UI Customization
Radar features
Future Playable Maps
Ships Developed by the Community
Multicrew Ship Tech
Warning NPC's of Attack
NPC crew AI
Clothing Damage
Character Creator 
Interior Damage System
Roaming Floating Structures 
Ship Parking in the PU
Currency Usage
Hiring Programmers
Vehicles for Planetside
NPC dialogue
Electronic Warfare in the PU
Player Owned Cargo Space
NPC population in the PU
Salvaging in the 'Verse
Ships in my Hangar aging?
A Linux client?
In game Banking
VR in the 'Verse
Medic and Surgeon Skill progression
Mining and resource gathering
Fabricate weapons/armor/ship parts
FPS Armor Types
NPC control in FPS
Join in-progress free flight games.
Hangar parties & instancing.
Heavy personal armor. 
Physical grappling beam.
Multicrew keycards.
Repairing Gold Horizon Space Stations
Taxation
Natural areas in the 'Verse
FPS environmental hazards
Store ore in your hangar
Organic ships
Ship spoofing
Non-combat ships relevancy
Search players for weapons
Flying a ship without a hud
Starting wars between the different races.
Using tractor beams defensively.
Flying while docked to another ship.
NPCs reaction to weapons.
Drop pods for soldiers.
Flying ships while limbs are damaged.
Using characters as crewmen.
Bounty Hunters and known associates.
Org recruiting NPCs.
NPCs using different loadouts.
Resources respawn in the PU.
NPC & Human scanning.


Delivered


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8zvNOe5n04

Beer4TheBeerGod
Aug 23, 2004
Exciting Lemon

darkarchon posted:

Quoting with the full translated article for clarity:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/12trdfZ7KKkCxnfqtCP3S3hC60BBkfgBznvx5xaP4UlE/edit

someone please validate my existence :qq:

Thanks for this.

Blunderstorm
Mar 1, 2016

my grandfather just posts and all i got was this lousy joke, so what

SomethingJones posted:

Promised:
NPC Generation
Docking and Undocking Tech
Realistic Audio Options
Personally Owned NPCs
Farming
Procedural Tech
Tri-Monitor Support
Hangar and Planet Side Module
Your Name in the Game
Carriers
Getting Everyone into the Same Instance
Lowering Your Wanted Level
More Economical or Versatile Corvettes
Planetary Ship Entry
Repair and Items System Capability
Lowering Your Wanted Level
Manned Turrets
Character Customization
Ship connected to User Online/Offline Status
Picking Up Objects On Planets
Multi-Monitor HUD
Large Ship Damage Control Lockers
Dogfights Through Space Stations
Ship Persistence 
Stealth Game Play 
Ability for Privateers/Corsairs/Buccaneers
Landing on Planets
Procedurally-Generated Environments
Starfarer's Refueling Mechanic
Additional Star Systems 
Rigging 
Anchoring to an Asteroid
Kill Boards
NPC ranks 
Thruster Trails 
Non-Leathal Combat Modules 
Raid Supply Shipments
Owning an Alien Ship
Hidden Ship Compartments
Catapulting Through Space
Locking Ships
Jury Rig Repairing
Dynamic Weather
Starting in the Stanton System
Automatic Battle Flight Pattern
Living Spaces
Insurance for Pilots
Future Mining
Escape Pods Functionality in Alpha 2.0
Personal Armor (FPS)  
Extreme Ship Maneuvers
Your Inventory When The PU Goes Live. 
Start up Sequence for Large Multi-Crew Ships
Voice Commands
Remotely Hacking Ships
Pacing NPC's
Incentives to keep your orginal Ship's Hull 
Game Generated Missions
Communication Between Two Ships
Ship Armor
Controlled and Uncontrolled Space
NPC Crews
Guild Wars
Trading in Star Citizen
Inflation and Deflation
Hiring NPC's for missions
Travelling in Fleets
Tactical Game modes in FPS
Trading weapon in the FPS
Bounty Hunting
Player Generated Content
Loaner Multicrew Ships
Alien Language 
Transiting Between Systems 
Road to Developing Star Systems
Assigning Ships to Landing Zones
UI Customization
Radar features
Future Playable Maps
Ships Developed by the Community
Multicrew Ship Tech
Warning NPC's of Attack
NPC crew AI
Clothing Damage
Character Creator 
Interior Damage System
Roaming Floating Structures 
Ship Parking in the PU
Currency Usage
Hiring Programmers
Vehicles for Planetside
NPC dialogue
Electronic Warfare in the PU
Player Owned Cargo Space
NPC population in the PU
Salvaging in the 'Verse
Ships in my Hangar aging?
A Linux client?
In game Banking
VR in the 'Verse
Medic and Surgeon Skill progression
Mining and resource gathering
Fabricate weapons/armor/ship parts
FPS Armor Types
NPC control in FPS
Join in-progress free flight games.
Hangar parties & instancing.
Heavy personal armor. 
Physical grappling beam.
Multicrew keycards.
Repairing Gold Horizon Space Stations
Taxation
Natural areas in the 'Verse
FPS environmental hazards
Store ore in your hangar
Organic ships
Ship spoofing
Non-combat ships relevancy
Search players for weapons
Flying a ship without a hud
Starting wars between the different races.
Using tractor beams defensively.
Flying while docked to another ship.
NPCs reaction to weapons.
Drop pods for soldiers.
Flying ships while limbs are damaged.
Using characters as crewmen.
Bounty Hunters and known associates.
Org recruiting NPCs.
NPCs using different loadouts.
Resources respawn in the PU.
NPC & Human scanning.


Delivered


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8zvNOe5n04

lmao

good stuff commando

Colostomy Bag
Jan 11, 2016

:lesnick: C-Bangin' it :lesnick:

SomethingJones posted:

Promised:
words

Goon. They are making progress.

HycoCam
Jul 14, 2016

You should have backed Transverse!

Mr Fronts posted:

Do I have the monthly patch schedule right?

2.4 : April
2.5 : May
2.6 : June
2.7 : July

Yeah! I can hardly wait for July!


2.4 : April 2016
2.5 : May 2017
2.6 : June 2018
2.7 : July 2019

Fixed the release dates for you...

HycoCam
Jul 14, 2016

You should have backed Transverse!

Lazrin posted:

consumer agencies and law enforcement are not going to look at details like mining, ai, or what have you.

they are going examine things for the presence of fraud, and it is remedially easy to document the game development process and inherent delays with feature creep, technology investment, and so on. there are a billion precedents for delayed games.

they may find some loopholes in what cig says is or isn't 'earned income' but not to the point of being fraudulent. and for the minor amount of backers that may effect, they can then get their money back.

for the most part though, my bet is backers are staying in regardless.
Ahh who remembers 2013--good times! Chattiong about MetaCritic and figuring because Star Citizne is an MMO, might be hard to get above an 85.

2016--who cares about MetaCritic?! The big question--will there be enough to show so no one goes to jail!

Who doesn't love open development?

CubicalSucrose
Jan 1, 2013

Phantom my Opera and call me South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut

SomethingJones posted:

Nobody has ever said, not even once on this forum, that this was the intention from the beginning.

If they know NOW that they cannot deliver, and they continue to take money, that makes it a scam.

Now now, hold on a second. I'd like to believe, in my wildest dreams, that it's at least plausible that at least one person set out at the beginning with the intention to run this as a scam.

But no, they probably thought they could actually do it at first. Some of them might actually still think they can do it. Bewildering.

Blunderstorm
Mar 1, 2016

my grandfather just posts and all i got was this lousy joke, so what

CubicalSucrose posted:

Now now, hold on a second. I'd like to believe, in my wildest dreams, that it's at least plausible that at least one person set out at the beginning with the intention to run this as a scam.

But no, they probably thought they could actually do it at first. Some of them might actually still think they can do it. Bewildering.

probably sandi

she's been a lying piece of poo poo since cig was founded. CR probably told her he can get this funded with a few million and she threw herself at it to fleece nerds out of their disability money.

Foo Diddley
Oct 29, 2011

cat

Turd Burglar posted:

she's been a lying piece of poo poo since cig was founded

Yeah but I'm sure she was fine before that

Wrecked Angle
May 12, 2012

"JURASSIC PARK!"
I think spending customers money on sliding doors and spaceship wall wrap instead of making a game like you promised them means you should go to jail.

Wrecked Angle
May 12, 2012

"JURASSIC PARK!"
nevermind all the cocaine

Wrecked Angle
May 12, 2012

"JURASSIC PARK!"
Trying to kill off love rivals with donuts could be considered attempted murder

Wrecked Angle
May 12, 2012

"JURASSIC PARK!"
If you lie to a district attorney to defend your companies earnings you are probably complicit in a scam

Wrecked Angle
May 12, 2012

"JURASSIC PARK!"
I wish Lazrin would get sent to jail too

Wrecked Angle
May 12, 2012

"JURASSIC PARK!"
But I guess being wrong isn't acrime

Xaerael
Aug 25, 2010

Marching Powder is objectively the worst poster known. He also needs to learn how a keyboard works.

I can imagine any court case involving CIG would Start with the judge saying "Mr Roberts, is this man your lawyer? He looks like a sharkperson! YOU'RE GUILTY, TRIAL ENDS NOW. LIFE SENTENCES FOR ALL. Including you, Sharky Freywhatevs your name is."

AP
Jul 12, 2004

One Ring to fool them all
One Ring to find them
One Ring to milk them all
and pockets fully line them
Grimey Drawer
https://twitter.com/nickmon1112/status/757226770437373952

Foo Diddley
Oct 29, 2011

cat

Wrecked Angle posted:

I wish Lazrin would get sent to jail too

Or the hospital. He is morbidly obtuse after all

Jobbo_Fett
Mar 7, 2014

Slava Ukrayini

Clapping Larry

Wrecked Angle posted:

I think spending customers money on sliding doors and spaceship wall wrap instead of making a game like you promised them means you should go to jail.


Wrecked Angle posted:

nevermind all the cocaine


Wrecked Angle posted:

Trying to kill off love rivals with donuts could be considered attempted murder


Wrecked Angle posted:

If you lie to a district attorney to defend your companies earnings you are probably complicit in a scam


Wrecked Angle posted:

I wish Lazrin would get sent to jail too


Wrecked Angle posted:

But I guess being wrong isn't acrime

This guy gets it

Jobbo_Fett
Mar 7, 2014

Slava Ukrayini

Clapping Larry

Xaerael posted:

I can imagine any court case involving CIG would Start with the judge saying "Mr Roberts, is this man your lawyer? He looks like a sharkperson! YOU'RE GUILTY, TRIAL ENDS NOW. LIFE SENTENCES FOR ALL. Including you, Sharky Freywhatevs your name is."

Frothingmouth

Xaerael
Aug 25, 2010

Marching Powder is objectively the worst poster known. He also needs to learn how a keyboard works.

I thought that maybe Lazrin's sudden silence was due to him being banned, but I just checked and he's still not banned, so we have more of his fecal expulsions to look forward to THANKS DERPIT SCHMURP.

Blunderstorm
Mar 1, 2016

my grandfather just posts and all i got was this lousy joke, so what
more like ort-lose

Jobbo_Fett
Mar 7, 2014

Slava Ukrayini

Clapping Larry

Xaerael posted:

I thought that maybe Lazrin's sudden silence was due to him being banned, but I just checked and he's still not banned, so we have more of his fecal expulsions to look forward to THANKS DERPIT SCHMURP.

Maybe he just can't respond to stuff that critically examines his responses in a way where he can't just handwave it and claim Derek had something to do with it?

AP
Jul 12, 2004

One Ring to fool them all
One Ring to find them
One Ring to milk them all
and pockets fully line them
Grimey Drawer
The dynamics spawned by German magazine piece are interesting, Citizens are excited at some level because they believe CIG wouldn't lie to a magazine. While at the same time the CIG media shows are changing because it's obvious that lying directly to the backers is no longer as effective as it was.

All this is good for Star Citizen entertainment because without it moma wouldn't come into the thread all :smug:, as if something of significance had actually happened.

Blunderstorm
Mar 1, 2016

my grandfather just posts and all i got was this lousy joke, so what
fluff pieces about star citizen backfire hard months down the road, eg. star marine being a cod killer. i cant wait until we start referencing the article to say, "this is what cig said, what happened? lol"

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Blunderstorm
Mar 1, 2016

my grandfather just posts and all i got was this lousy joke, so what
i like how in the german article chris explains they need more money because of his own scope creep.

and also criticizing elite dangerous for making their game the wrong way compared to star citizen.

what a gently caress head.

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