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The latest Star Citizen article and subsequent meltdowns by skip 10/03/2015, 12:49pm PDT
Fuck the GG/Smart angle. Let's talk some more about what a disaster this is going to be. The Escapist is providing the latest fuel to the crowdfunded fire. Since these are all ex-employees, there's bound to be some resentment laced into whatever truth there is. But Roberts' response is very telling for some of these.

It was also alleged that Roberts' wife and Cloud Imperium Games Vice President of Marketing Sandi Gardiner enforced discriminatory hiring practices....Sources indicate that multiple complaints have been taken to the Human Resource department against Gardiner, with little assistance on the matter - HR, after all, ultimately answers to Roberts and Gardiner.

In response, Roberts wrote "All personnel and HR matters are obviously completely private and we can't comment on this as a matter of principle. As always, there are two sides to each story."


That's your comeback Roberts? Not "No. My wife was qualified for this job and has always been a complete professional". This is the canned response all PR people give when their client has acted like an asshole. Who would be a worse boss, Wardell or Roberts?

I also find the continued attack on Sandi fairly alarming. Why is she being singled out? Because she's my wife? A woman? Yes, she's also an actress and there's nothing wrong with her also engaging in one of her passions after hours or outside of work. We let employees play games of D&D in our conference room in the evenings or weekends."


She's being singled out because there's concerns that this game is being mishandled and having it pay the salary of you, your wife, and your brother (all in high positions) doesn't help your cause. At least your brother may be qualified for his job. He was so touchy about this that he claimed posting her IMDB picture was "doxxing". Truth hurts, dude.

An all-star Hollywood cast has also been slated for the game itself, a claim that has been confirmed in a recent interview Develop had with Roberts. "We have a top-level movie cast more than any game that's been out there, period, by a long way," he said. "So I cast it like I did my movies. It's acted like the movies. We have the full performance capture, we're pushing the tech as much as possible." Roberts also indicated that four months were spent filming performance capture with this all-star Hollywood cast, at a cost that several employees anticipate being astronomical.

"Where does this come from? Has anyone given you examples of "big name" actors or numbers? It's completely incorrect - we paid appropriate rates for normal VO work for the commercials," Roberts says. "Now for Squadron 42 we do have a really great cast, which we will announce in a week from Saturday, but that was one of our stretch goals so it would be a bit rich to accuse us of mismanagement there!


It's good that you're working on stretch goals before the base game is remotely usable.

Fans would come into the studio, and I wanted to be like 'Dude, run. Take your money and run.' I felt like I was part of a con," CS2 added. "This could really severely damage crowdfunding, at least for games. Who's going to want to do that again? People will look at everything and think 'but what if it's another Star Citizen?'"

"This is the statement that really makes my blood boil," Roberts says of the comment 'I felt like I was part of a con.' "If any current employee feels this way they should not be working on Star Citizen or at CIG!


They're not anymore.

The number most often received from people has indicated that, currently, the company has less than $8 million of what was raised from the crowdfunding efforts left - a number that several employees have stated is "common knowledge" within the company - although it is important to note that pledges are still being accepted for Star Citizen through the RSI website, with game packages and merchandise available to purchase.

"Anybody even with minimal knowledge about game development can assess the significant progress by looking at the released modules and the detailed monthly reports from each development studio," Roberts said. "We have a massive team, working flat out to build something special for everybody. We feel like we've made huge strides and have completed a good portion of the underlying technology that will enable us to make Star Citizen the game that your sources say can't be made."


Nothing in his response indicates that they're wrong. Nothing along the lines of "we always keep at least X% of funds as a backup". This project is doomed. For once it's not the fault of the Boomers. This is the stupidity of Gen X.
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The latest Star Citizen article and subsequent meltdowns by skip 10/03/2015, 12:49pm PDT NEW
    Re: The latest Star Citizen article and subsequent meltdowns by Ice Cream Jonsey 10/03/2015, 12:58pm PDT NEW
        Fair point by skip 10/03/2015, 1:49pm PDT NEW
    I can't wait until this creates a crowdfunded class action lawsuit NT by fabio 10/03/2015, 3:54pm PDT NEW
        But you've been able to walk around your hangar since August 2013! NT by Chris Roberts 10/03/2015, 6:24pm PDT NEW
    Holy shit. There's a possible lawsuit from these idiots by skip 10/04/2015, 7:40am PDT NEW
        Re: Holy shit. There's a possible lawsuit from these idiots by J. Jonah Jameson 10/04/2015, 10:04am PDT NEW
        The Escapist is holding firm. All right, Roberts. Lawsuit time, right? by skip 10/05/2015, 7:13pm PDT NEW
            Do they even have many dissenting backers? Would it just be a million toadies? by Worm 10/05/2015, 9:18pm PDT NEW
    Here's the Forbes recap for those who can't be arsed to dig through this shit by WITTGENSTEIN 10/05/2015, 7:40pm PDT NEW
 
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