I don't feel bad for any of these people. The scam has been so obvious for so long at this point that they just wanted someone to relieve them of their money
Imagine inheriting a video game fleet in your parents will when they die.
Okay, I'm going to prophecy here. Let me huff some sulphur fumes and put on my prophecy hat.
Okay.
Till CIG is fallen and the heart of Roberts fails, no mortal blade or harm shall befall @UlyssesT@hexbear.net
I am proud to say I haven't seen that eposide and stopped watching it during the first season.
Enjoy media? Me? I would never
Jokes aside that is a very powerful line when separated from the context of the show.
We're in a race to see if Star Citizen hits release, or Joseph Kony is arrested.
Any day now!
IRL people wait for clarification answers. When you did that as well you would not have been anger posting
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at play here. This is a calm individual, completely tolerant of dissent among followers of Cult Imperium.Individual in question
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Check this one, aware and proud of being grifted:
But it always was like this, nothing has changed. I learned my lesson in 2013. How can anyone be so blind for 12 years?
Meanwhile I dumped grands after grands in this game fully knowingly how they market it. I don't like cig marketing but it works and I like their game.
The problem for some people who are upset now seems to be that they see things now that others saw and pointed out for years. Like removing blindfolds.Pure
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Silly paypigs, you can play Escape Velocity for free, it's been abandonware forever.
Is it actually that financially successful? The problem with this "model of development" is that you can't make a huge profit because you're compelled to keep the gravy train going until it implodes
If I was Chris Roberts I would be bleeding the company dry at possible turn
Run all the employee salaries through your payroll processing firm, lend yourself money to buy the building to rent back to CIG, lease the IP (I think he did actually sell it), etc.
Not only is it a scam at this point, but it's a deeply inefficient one - you don't need to hire 500 staff to produce what looks like a couple million in content to keep the grift going
I think it's rumoured him and his relatives take about 10 percent of revenue, which is actually pretty small for a conman from Hollywood
Revenue is very high but I don't think Roberts has the intelligence to skim the amount of profits you'd expect from a commercially successful game
The only thing I have seen that is remarkable about this game is the ship designs and the fact that they have full interiors. I know the X series is more economy sim but I hope X5 takes a look at the ship design of Star Citizen a bit. I love what they did with interiors in X4 from X3 but it all starts to feel same-y after a bit. Seemless navigating around a ship would be great.
I mean, what kind of functionality do you expect from interiors? Most ships give you access to ship components, like quantum drive, shields, etc. which you will need for the engineering update. You usually also get weapon racks and shower/toilet rooms (thought tbf those don't really server any purpose).
I was a day one backer and regret spending the minimum 30 dollars for this grift. We don't take kindly to defending grifters here.
I was supposed to get squadron 42 6 fucking years ago and they haven't even got a demo of the original Kickstart promise.
After 10 years and not even the original promise of a single player/coop campaign and Roberts' adoration of fascists like Elon Musk and his general narcissism if you still defend him you need to fuck all the way off.
Selling things you can't realistically make is exactly the same idea as a pyramid scheme.
They're so close.
