ModernSociety posted:

But it's whether it's intentional by CIG, is it an elaborate set-up, specifically designed to generate this cult mentality, with Derek and Goons as the clear 'villains'? If that's the case, It's clearly a scam and everyone has been taken for a ride (including goons to a degree). It also means that there's someone in that company who is far, far smarter than they are letting on.

It cant be Cribblets
Sandi is clearly not the marketer she claims to be, so I can't see that either.

...Creepy Ortwin?

Ash1138 posted:

i remember some blog post or tweet or whatever about someone being convinced to stay with a fat sack of cash

was a name ever dropped? i think erin was the rumored party, but i could see lando earning that cash with his blatant "no fucks given" mode

Enchanted Hat posted:

Of course it's all set up. You think anyone posts in this thread for free? lol

ModernSociety posted:

But it's whether it's intentional by CIG, is it an elaborate set-up, specifically designed to generate this cult mentality, with Derek and Goons as the clear 'villains'? If that's the case, It's clearly a scam and everyone has been taken for a ride (including goons to a degree). It also means that there's someone in that company who is far, far smarter than they are letting on.

It cant be Cribblets
Sandi is clearly not the marketer she claims to be, so I can't see that either.

...Creepy Ortwin?

runsamok posted:

My cat pictures are actually invoices for my reverse-anti-shilling, cunningly hidden using stenography.

AP posted:

https://twitter.com/SC_Facts/status/906250819124781060

AP posted:

https://twitter.com/SC_Facts/status/906250819124781060

Scruffpuff posted:

The continued push to pretend that Star Citizen is an established and widely beloved IP.

The actual reaction of 99.99999% of the population when you mention Chris Roberts' name:

AP posted:

https://twitter.com/SC_Facts/status/906250819124781060

AP posted:

https://twitter.com/SC_Facts/status/906250819124781060

Thoatse posted:

Nah, you made a decent effort post that summed up the way I saw sc go off the rails and where it left me in relation to the project, the win is yours friend.

Lladre posted:

Why does Central park need to be domed to protect it? It's a freaking park.

AP posted:

https://twitter.com/SC_Facts/status/906250819124781060

MilesK posted:

Where's the Twin Towers?

happyhippy posted:

Wasn't there a AtV showing some guy creating this city?
And that each building was like a kerbillion polys.
Could be shrooming this though, not sure.

Rabelais D posted:

The cake that reads "Robert need more gold" should get some more love, as the Chinese either side is a qiyan (seven syllable per line) rhyming couplet:

人间自有真情在，能骗一快是一块

which goes something like this:

"As true devotion exists in the world of man, [Chris Roberts] will scam every dollar that he can."

Of course, "Robert need more gold" is a more effective and accurate translation in a lot of ways.

AP posted:

https://twitter.com/RobertsSpaceInd/status/906262122342092800

D1E posted:

Pretty sure Beet Wagon is going to probate or try to ban me for saying this, but Derek is just as full of poo poo as Croberts, just in a different insane way.

You guys can pick on MoMA all you want for being a giant nerd who believes against all evidence to the contrary that Star Citizen will be the game he has always dreamed of, but honestly that describes Beer and most of us back in the early days of this shitshow.

MoMA and the other true believers are just sad, but Derek is utterly pathetic.

ModernSociety posted:

But it's whether it's intentional by CIG, is it an elaborate set-up, specifically designed to generate this cult mentality, with Derek and Goons as the clear 'villains'? If that's the case, It's clearly a scam and everyone has been taken for a ride (including goons to a degree). It also means that there's someone in that company who is far, far smarter than they are letting on.

It cant be Cribblets
Sandi is clearly not the marketer she claims to be, so I can't see that either.

...Creepy Ortwin?

Hobold posted:

I made a thing.

Thoatse posted:

Hobold posted:

I made a thing.

Wing Commander designer talks about his departure from Digital Anvil as the company is bought out by Microsoft posted:

In the wake of the collapse of Digital Anvil, co-founder and soon-to-be-former CEO Chris Roberts has spoken about his decision to leave the company he founded just four years ago. As we suspected, the company's troubles were down to "wanting to develop not only hugely ambitious games, but too many hugely ambitious games", leaving the company's finances stretched after four years without a single game being released - the sole title to emerge with the Digital Anvil name on it was actually mostly developed by a small British company.

Having left the monolithic corporate world that is Electronic Arts almost five years ago to found Digital Anvil in the first place, it is somewhat ironic that his dream development studio is now being taken over by the monolithic corporate world that is Microsoft, and Roberts has confirmed that his decision to leave the company is simply because he has no desire to find himself in the same situation again.

We also have confirmation on the status of Digital Anvil's various games, with Chris Roberts apparently "spending a fair amount of time talking to other publishers" at the moment, trying to find a home for real-time strategy game "Conquest", which was dropped by Microsoft a few weeks ago, triggering the crisis that has lead to the company's demise. "Loose Cannon" will also be looking for a new publisher, with project lead Tony Zurovec leaving the company to complete the game elsewhere. Erin Roberts will be staying on at Digital Anvil though, continuing his work on an as-yet unannounced Xbox title.

But what next for Chris Roberts, the man who brought us the groundbreaking Wing Commander series? "I just want to see Freelancer out the door, and then I want to take some time to reassess everything. Taking three and a half to four years to build a massive title just seems like a huge amount of effort. There needs to be a better way to do it."

Rather worryingly though, according to GameSpot "he has expressed his interest to work in film and exploit broadband technology to us recently". Oh please god, no! Anybody who has had the misfortune to see the truly appalling Wing Commander movie will be praying that Chris has a sudden change of heart. Although he has produced some impressive games in his time, his debut movie was something of an unmitigated disaster, flopping at the box office and featuring some hilariously bad acting and dialogue which would be perfectly at home in a computer game cutscene, but just looks plain ridiculous on the big screen. We can but hope...