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Sappo569 posted:How about this Yes. I would think that may be happening in a portion of these "sales."
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hot balls man no homo posted:But the primary market gives you option to refund, even if it is past the new ironclad TOS date. Are people really risking losing everything just to save a bit of cash on a ship? Is the faith strong enough to buy without a refund option but still not strong enough to give the full amount to CIG? I defer to those with more knowledge. But I didn't think that new purchases were particularly refundable under the new TOS? Again, I am just spitballing here.
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Feb 27, 2017 20:11
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Also check out his new conversation stopper that he is sure to be getting a lot of mileage out of. THAT IS ALL! AS U WERE! END OF LINE! Do these people actually sit around and spend time coming up with this poo poo or is there a list that they copy it from somewhere?
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Feb 27, 2017 20:12
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The Titanic posted:What if the "employees" are in on the scam. They don't really have many programmers or artists, but 250 con men and a small handful of people who kinda know how to make a FTFY.
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Feb 27, 2017 20:16
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Sappo569 posted:How about this poo poo, that's so diabolical in its construction that, this being CIG, it's totally a possibility.
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Feb 27, 2017 20:17
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Sappo569 posted:How about this That's where I'm running into trouble with even circumstantial evidence for that claim. In this example you've got probably hundreds of people trying to sell on the grey market simultaneously. What sites are the biggest for SC grey sales? The subreddit gets about 600 unique page views a day. I have to imagine there is a lot carryover from day to day in who is buying and selling. Could you unload 900 ships in that environment? 500? That seems like a lot, and would probably mean most of the seller activity on the subreddit are employees. I easily found either an employee or a whale if this scam is real. https://www.reddit.com/r/Starcitizen_trades/comments/5kf3is/storenbys_mall_third_edition_original_concepts/?st=izojtkoj&sh=ea9629a0
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Feb 27, 2017 20:22
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Nicholas posted:Question... If renowned film writer and director, Chris Roberts, died, would he show up in the Oscars "celebrity death" compilation the following year?
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Feb 27, 2017 20:23
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MinorInconvenience posted:Yes. I would think that may be happening in a portion of these "sales." The key point here is the brown sea is always filled with people saying Oh of that ship was only a little cheaper I'd buy 1. Heck I'd buy 5 (although that makes zero sense) So by CIG cutting the price down via the multi marketing level scam. More people would buy them , just not via the normal channels
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Feb 27, 2017 20:28
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The Titanic posted:I used to work for a manufacturing company and they scored places like eBay for employees selling gifted/discount stuff from their jobs. They were fired if discovered. Is that why you said "used to work"? <hides under desk>
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Achamp posted:That's where I'm running into trouble with even circumstantial evidence for that claim. In this example you've got probably hundreds of people trying to sell on the grey market simultaneously. What sites are the biggest for SC grey sales? The subreddit gets about 600 unique page views a day. I have to imagine there is a lot carryover from day to day in who is buying and selling. Could you unload 900 ships in that environment? 500? That seems like a lot, and would probably mean most of the seller activity on the subreddit are employees. I mean , this guy appears to be holding at least a hundred jpegs or more himself , assuming he makes actual sales and has to 'restock' And I just made up the numbers obviously , but even if they did my scam tactic idea for 50% of the ships it would still help surge the funding charts Instead of the ships sitting unsold in the jpeg warehouse next to lesnicks wing commander porn
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Feb 27, 2017 20:32
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Ghostlight posted:He's never written a film and his one directed movie has 10% on Rotten Tomatoes. Alan Smithee has a better chance of a retrospective. If they only had a category for "best waving hands"...
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D_Smart posted:What I predict will be the fate of CIG/RSI/F42 over in the UK That they'll hide their content behind a paywall? Bold prediction I guess.
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Feb 27, 2017 20:35
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MinorInconvenience posted:I defer to those with more knowledge. But I didn't think that new purchases were particularly refundable under the new TOS? Again, I am just spitballing here. The new TOS says no refunds but European and Australian consumer protection laws allow for a refund up to 14 days AFTER delivery. No ship or game means that refunds have to go through. I don't know if refunding ships that were bought after the TOS change was tested at all overseas or in the US but I haven't yet heard of somebody being flat out denied a refund since Streetroller got the government involved. Refund requests tend to get escalated, then you get a plea to watch a video, then after a few emails the refund goes through.
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Feb 27, 2017 20:36
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Hav posted:No, gently caress her. She's destroyed confidence in anyone else that actually comes up with a decent prototype. It is the same reason people still fall for 419 scams. A combination of Dunning-Kruger and basic greed. Couple that with a relatively corporation friendly legal environment and there you go.
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Feb 27, 2017 20:37
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The Titanic posted:You would at least assume that the guys whose only job is "write fake poo poo" and produce nothing of value towards the game itself could actually check over their dates and plans. Seriously? Those incompetents get paid to badly do what I do pretty much as a hobby?  Talk about evil!
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Feb 27, 2017 20:43
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Colostomy Bag posted:If they only had a category for "best waving hands"... He'd still lose, because of other previous winners.
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Feb 27, 2017 20:47
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Jonny Nox posted:That they'll hide their content behind a paywall? Bold prediction I guess. LOL!! archive link: https://archive.is/tixLw
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Feb 27, 2017 20:54
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The Titanic posted:Alright you guys got me to play in Citizen land a little. This is amazing. The one part of this debacle that they could have gotten done right was the lore - nobody cares about it, so they can write whatever they want. It's a literal blank slate that they can say and do nearly anything they want with, and they can't even get that right. Is anyone at CIG competent? Or at minimum not blindingly incompetent?
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Feb 27, 2017 20:58
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Scruffpuff posted:This is amazing. The one part of this debacle that they could have gotten done right was the lore - nobody cares about it, so they can write whatever they want. It's a literal blank slate that they can say and do nearly anything they want with, and they can't even get that right. I wonder how many employees are left. They look like they have a lot of open job postings.
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Feb 27, 2017 21:02
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Feb 27, 2017 21:03
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Hav posted:It's all good, brah. Which is pretty much my current bone of contention over on Reddit right now. The boundaries CIG are pushing are light years away, and, no insult to any coders in our august company here, but there is only so much code can work around. And that is assuming GOOD coders, not CIG coders.
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Feb 27, 2017 21:05
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Streetroller posted:How do you gently caress up a Zendesk canned response? Put Chris Roberts in charge. On another note, you should email Red Bull about their facts, unless I'm misremembering Ortwin's letter from your case but didn't he state to the DA or GA there were something like 500k 'backers' at a time there were ~1.2million accounts? Red Bull states in bold text that "1,750,211 players have backed the game so far", clearly conflating registered accounts with actual backers. 
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Feb 27, 2017 21:06
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Sappo569 posted:I mean , this guy appears to be holding at least a hundred jpegs or more himself , assuming he makes actual sales and has to 'restock' 5 minutes more of thought made something else clear. If you were handed ships for pennies on the dollar, the options CIG provides for melting and rebuying allows for the secondary "sale of RSI dollars". https://www.reddit.com/r/Starcitizen_trades/comments/4ajh3f/discuss_how_does_one_sell_rsi_store_credit/?st=izok9om3&sh=869096b7 Get free ships, skins, etc. Melt everything. Sell credit on markdown basis or "rebuy" any popular ship to resell. I don't deny that it could contribute significantly to the counter, but it's too bad there really isn't any evidence of this happening. I just took a quick look at the traffic stats for Trades and the main subreddit. The traffic patterns clearly match except for two months in the past year. Last July, and last December. Both had slumps in the main subreddit traffic, while simultaneous jumps in the trades subreddit. Something else that caught my eye is that periods in the last year had the trade sub with almost 10% of the traffic of the main sub. It would be interesting to compare grey market community size for SC compared to other games.
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MinorInconvenience posted:Nothing dramatic, I'm afraid. Backed the Kickstarter many, many moons ago at a low level ($37). Basically forgot about it until I saw the Hellion game go into early access and got curious about the state of Star Citizen. I googled and found so much insanity. So like in response to any good car accident, I have pumped my breaks and started rubbernecking. Welcome to the UEC's wretched hive of scum and villainy! Happy to have you!
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Feb 27, 2017 21:13
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hot balls man no homo posted:But the primary market gives you option to refund, even if it is past the new ironclad TOS date. Are people really risking losing everything just to save a bit of cash on a ship? Is the faith strong enough to buy without a refund option but still not strong enough to give the full amount to CIG? Of course. Because a Citizen is canny, first and foremost. Because otherwise they wouldn't be a Citizen. They know how to get the biggest bang for their expendable dollar, amirite? And if they doubted, they would have noped right out of there by this point.
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What if the reason Chris said that $1 they receive is equivalent to 4 publisher dollars because for every $4 in funding CIG reports, they really only have $1? 
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Feb 27, 2017 21:18
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MinorInconvenience posted:Yes. I would think that may be happening in
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Here's my theory on how things are going: 1. CIG doesn't encourage its employees to buy ships, or do anything other than take a paycheck and work on the game. 2. CIG does gently caress around with the funding counter in order to fraudulently maintain the impression that the project is continuing to bring in money so that backers will feel confident enough to spend their own cash. The people responsible justify it through some convoluted explanation about how funding is received (such as tax breaks becoming income) or about the need to avoid controversy (such as by adding ten million in one day because a new loan was secured). 3. Chris does not believe for a second that the gross mismanagement and failure to deliver is his fault, and instead blames the backers for constantly pushing him to increase the scope of the game. In his mind the opportunity for refunds absolves him of any wrongdoing should CIG fail, as those who are left know that game development is risky. This is a similar attitude shared by Bernie Madoff (and I highly recommend listening to that episode of Radio Lab). 4. There are three groups of people who work at CIG. Those who live within a reality distortion field and believe that CIG will deliver, those who are too low on the food chain to know how things are going, and those who know things are hosed but have checked out and don't care so long as a paycheck is continuing. 5. "The backers will never know" is a central tenant of the company culture. 6. Development is more about avoiding Chris's attention, or about meeting whatever idiotic spontaneous demand he spouts in as timely a fashion as possible, than providing a game with mechanics. This translates to an almost pathological desire to avoid any kind of negative feedback due to Chris's inability to handle hearing the word "no" from anyone.
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Samizdata posted:Is that why you said "used to work"? No, I never decided to steal from any company I've worked at.
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:1. CIG doesn't encourage its employees to buy ships, or do anything other than take a paycheck and work on the game. They probably do as it shows commitment to the project and is an ego boost to CR. I don't think it's in any way significant though. Even if some were selling on the 2nd hand market the sales are so slow that's it's not a significant amount to CIG, employees might be making a few quid but then again they'll be out of work at some point.
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The Titanic posted:No, I never decided to steal from any company I've worked at. I was, of course, good naturedly teasing, you know. And I was rather thinking more the "gift/heavily discounted" angle, FWIW.
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cool new Polack jokes posted:What if the reason Chris said that $1 they receive is equivalent to 4 publisher dollars because for every $4 in funding CIG reports, they really only have $1? I'm taking from what he was say is that "He is the publisher for his game therefore for ever dollar 'pledged', he pays his development 'company' 20 cents and takes 80 cents for his 'publishing' company", the publishing company being just Him, Sandi and Ortwin. All though I joke, it was strange how refunds where coming from diffirent companies - has that stabilized yet to all refunds coming from the same place? p.s. Chris Roberts is a scummy oval office.
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Kosumo posted:I'm taking from what he was say is that "He is the publisher for his game therefore for ever dollar 'pledged', he pays his development 'company' 20 cents and takes 80 cents for his 'publishing' company", the publishing company being just Him, Sandi and Ortwin. There is also sources saying he is double and triple dipping for his salary, getting simultaneously paid as CEO of CIG, Director of SQ 42 and collecting royalty as author of SQ 42 script.
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The Titanic posted:No, I never decided to steal from any company I've worked at. Then what happened to the watertight compartments? 
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aleksendr posted:There is also sources saying he is double and triple dipping for his salary, getting simultaneously paid as CEO of CIG, Director of SQ 42 and collecting royalty as author of SQ 42 script. And sandi is getting paid for all her acting and other appearances on the various cig prosuced shows , while still collecting pay as marketing director Does any of this seem out of the realm of possibility ?
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I think it's funny that shitizens have been making like it's a big deal that Amazon is partnering with CIG, and it's some sort of really important development relationship for Amazon, while at the same time Amazon payments strictly disallows use by crowdfunded developers. https://pay.amazon.com/us/help/201457400 quote:Can I use Amazon Payments to crowd-fund my project directly from my website or application rather than using the above listed third-party provider? The only third-party provider they specifically mention permitting, Crowdrise, is a crowdfund site specifically for charitable causes only.
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Sappo569 posted:And sandi is getting paid for all her acting and other appearances on the various cig prosuced shows , while still collecting pay as marketing director Other than her lack off talent, vile manner and only getting the job through nepotism, I hope she is getting six pay checks, after all she does the work of six people and is the most qualified one in the company, so she wrote to Beer. (something like that right?)
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