Eonwe posted:

remember how just recently they talked about 'database schmutz' and how insane that sounded

i wouldn't have guessed things would get progressively crazier than that, lmfao

Potato Salad posted:

There's a lot of talk about Ben. Ben's an idiot. He doesn't matter.

To the community, sure, he matters. To development, yeah, he enables a lot of terrible things by way of proxy and example. The community is full of idiots, however, and they don't matter. Other employees don't get to express themselves in any way as Croberts trusts only himself at each design turn, each piece of artwork, etc and don't really matter beyond the toil they provide.

Nothing matters.

Eonwe posted:

remember how just recently they talked about 'database schmutz' and how insane that sounded

i wouldn't have guessed things would get progressively crazier than that, lmfao

A Neurotic Jew posted:

SA Exclusive: the new ship has recently been renamed the "TwatNiggerFuck"

AP posted:

Derek Smart said somebody posted these on his blog.

Wafflz posted:

He matters cause he is the pope of the church of croberts and the pied piper of space whales.

Wafflz posted:

He matters cause he is the pope of the church of croberts and the pied piper of space whales.

AP posted:

Derek Smart said somebody posted these on his blog.

Goredema posted:

Don't pity him, because Ben Lesnick is not the little fat kid who gets picked on in school. Ben Lesnick is the little fat kid who makes "friends" with the bullies by helping them victimize the other little fat kids. He's a follower and a sycophant and on some level, he knows it, and ever day he tries to smother that grim knowledge with high-fructose corn syrup.

AP posted:

Derek Smart said somebody posted these on his blog.

Levantine posted:

I want to give the guy who made FS2 90 million dollars. Not to make anything now, just because he made FS2.

wdarkk posted:

Freespace 2 is still cool and people still make things for it (including massive-rear end engine upgrades).

Also many of the people who made it also made the Saint's Row series so I think they were in fact given 90 million (before the publisher took most of it ofc).

alphabettitouretti posted:

http://www.visionsespresso.com/spirit-triplette-3-group/

Money well spent.

If that's the thing they bought then they gonna need someone who knows what the gently caress they are doing around an espresso machine to get decent results.

Maybe Croberts got rid of his personal chef so he could get a personal barista.

Eonwe posted:

remember how just recently they talked about 'database schmutz' and how insane that sounded

i wouldn't have guessed things would get progressively crazier than that, lmfao

wdarkk posted:

Freespace 2 is still cool and people still make things for it (including massive-rear end engine upgrades).

Also many of the people who made it also made the Saint's Row series so I think they were in fact given 90 million (before the publisher took most of it ofc).

Some rear end in a top hat posted:

Goons convinced him SC was going to fail - I liked him too - but he's too passionate and too close.
He should have remained on Reddit but had to keep going to the forums and chatroll and poking the bear.

Some other rear end in a top hat posted:

Beer went off the deep end. One only has to read his ridiculous post history praising DS to see why this happened. Even before that, he often acted incredibly entitled.

Yet another rear end in a top hat posted:

He's been tiptoeing the line ever since the Goons on SA forums convinced him to try getting a refund which I am guessing got denied to him - citing numerous times he had ridiculed people in the past for wanting to claim them.
Beer really did bring this on himself - just because he finally got convinced of buyers remorse doesn't give him freedom to make mods lives miserable.

Levantine posted:

Oh ok I'll keep my 90 mil then.

FS2 is still great though.

SelenicMartian posted:

Their servers mysteriously accumulate sticky residue from sleepwalking Ben coming in every night to lick the drives where his dream game lives and to sniff out the traitors.

Maldoror posted:

peter gabriel posted:

Ben heard hard drives have platters so him turning up at midnight to try and eat them was inevitable

G0RF posted:

Beer's removal inspires ironic insights about Stockholm syndrome and other bullcrap.

/StarCitizen really did become an extension of the Brown Sea- and faster than I thought it could.

quote:

:/ I like the guy, but I worry something else might be happening in his personal life. I can't help but notice that, even for someone who is known for being a plain speaker, he's been unusually irascible and mean spirited of late.
I hope, whatever personal tragedy is currently playing out in his life, that he finds a way through it and the inner peace he deserves.

alphabettitouretti posted:

Also I hope more CIG employees will start directly posting to Smart's web site.

Alchenar posted:

Saying it again, Wing Commander Saga is probably the best actual Wing Commander game.

madcow posted:

Or I am not a gullible cynic and have more experience with real investigative journalism than you?

If there had been or ends up being some legitimate evidence presented as to bad happenings in CIG, like say 40% of the company getting axed within a two week (which I have experienced irl) or a verifiable audio/video clip/document that contained some racist rantings or mentions of misappropriations of funds/fraudulent activity, I might be more inclined to hop on the hate wagon and get a refund. But so far, I have seen none of that. I have just seen one shoddily written "article" with poo poo sources, likely fabrications, and bunch of rantings and empty promise from Derek Smart, a known charlatan, one of which was to release a name at 4am EST, two days ago, to help lend some credence to his claims. Yeah, he never did that, just like he never had two PhDs, never had a good game, and will never have a successful lawsuit against CIG.

I knew pretty much right after the kickstarter ended and CR kept adding more and more strech goals that there was no way in hell that SC was going to meet its original deadline, just call it a hunch. So, release dates being pushed back? Yeah, I don't care, I have seen it countless times with other games with much smaller scopes and scales. I can watch a AtV episode or what not every now and see what they are doing or aren't doing. People leaving or being fired? Welcome to running a business, it doesn't always work out for a variety of reasons, personality conflicts are one of them, and if two people really were fired for releasing information to DS, then they deserved it. For being idiots and violating an NDA, which you can be pretty much certain CIG has.

When CIG starts to layoff significant portions of the staff and starts closing down studios that is when I will start to worry. If the game development starts to bleed into late 2016 and they still haven't released anything significant, say like the first episode of SQ42, which I suspect will come out sooner than that, then I will start thinking about getting my money back/filing a chargeback.

And lets say, for the sake of argument, CIG goes under and I don't get my money back. Oh well, I have spent more on alcohol and women in my lifetime, so losing out on the pittance I gave CIG really doesn't matter to me.

Unfunny Poster posted:

Why are the Escapists sources "poo poo" in your opinion? What qualifies you to make such a judgement?

Levantine posted:

Just look at his experience in it.

Unfunny Poster posted:

Why are the Escapists sources "poo poo" in your opinion? What qualifies you to make such a judgement?