• Why has Derek Smart picked a fight with Star Citizen?
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[url]http://www.pcgamesn.com/derek-smart-on-star-citizen[/url]
This article seems to be almost defending him, or at least making it seem like he might be somewhat right. Most of the things he's said about Star Citizen are wrong or not entirely true and it seems he doesn't know much about the game at all - he keeps calling the developer RSI (they are not the developer) and saying things like the FPS gameplay isn't important. He's even said something about how the multi-crew demo shown recently somehow supports what he's saying about how the game is never going to be made. I think CiG has also said he hasn't even downloaded the game for a long time. Star Citizen has missed deadlines, but they developers are clearly showing their progress and have explained why they missed those deadlines. There is no problem at all. Besides, he got the refund he wanted. If it has been years with no updates or there was no playable game right now then it would be more understandable, but there's plenty that's been shown and significant parts of the game are either playable now (social, hangar and space) or are going to be very soon (FPS and multi-crew ships). He's clearly doing it for attention and just to cause trouble, while at the same time trying to promote his own game. He's claimed his own game has the gameplay features Star Citizen is going to have. This game: [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlYGgju1R2o[/media] There's even this quote from on his wikipedia page: [quote] "Sometimes when I get online, and it's quiet, and I see something that attracts my attention, I'll post just to piss these guys off. That's why I do it. Because I'm in a good mood that day, I go in there and I start trouble."[/quote]
Hes the Internets biggest troll, he probably doesn't even give two shits about Star Citizen.
[QUOTE=nightlord;48754678]I think CiG has also said he hasn't even downloaded the game for a long time.[/QUOTE] He hasn't downloaded it ever. CR said his account never downloaded the game, much less logged in. Which explains why his claims are so off the mark -- he's basing them on second-hand accounts of shit he's read from critical sites. He [I]claims[/I] to have played the social module after being banned/refunded, but I suspect that was more trolling in an attempt to get a rise from CIG (because that's violating the TOS). [QUOTE]In June, the FTC negotiated a settlement between the creators of a Cthulhu-themed board game and their backers. The project’s manufacturer had failed to ship the game, and were ordered to repay the $111,793.71 they had acquired through crowdfunding. ... The FTC advised creators to keep their word when crowdfunding, and to use the money raised from crowdfunding only for the purpose represented. But Smart believes that until their stipulations are challenged in court, “they’re not worth the paper they’re written on”. Star Citizen, he maintains, is the most deserving case for the challenge. “With this amount of money and exposure - $90 million dollars pledged and missed dates - all the original promises have been broken,” he says. “This isn’t hyperbole.”[/QUOTE] DS doesn't even understand Star Citizen's development much less have any ground to stand on to make criticisms about development delays. Line of Defense has shamelessly slipped deadlines since 2011 and frankly is a hilarious mockery of Planetside 2 and Steam more than anything worth calling a "game". [URL="http://wayback.archive.org/web/20090504003155/http://mediaramas.com/ds"]DS also has screwed his employees in the past.[/URL] He's projecting harder than an IMAX. He accuses CIG of trolling him and making things personal after having spent weeks trolling CIG and getting deeply personal about Chris Roberts, Sandi Gardiner (who he effectively calls an incompetent bimbo who's only in her position via nepotism -- and this man claims to be pro-gamergate), and Ben Lesnick (aka three of the primary personalities at the top of the project). [QUOTE]Earlier in our chat, Smart had said that he didn’t believe that Chris Roberts or anybody at his company had “set out to commit fraud” (“What I think is that mistakes were made”). Yet he also thinks Cloud Imperium could fall foul of Fraud in the inducement - which would imply backers were persuaded into an agreement because of false information.[/QUOTE] DS Tweeted that Star Citizen was a ponzi scheme, which is an operational definition of fraud, back in early 2014, and he's outright called Chris Roberts a fraudulent asshole. He has been very insistently definite on his feelings that SC is a scam and CR is pulling the wool over ~300 employees, ~200 contractors and freelancers, and almost 1 million backers. I think DS is also jealous about all of those numbers, because they're things he will never see. PCGamesN, you can stop listening to his lies any day now.
if anyone wants an update on dork's escapades, here's the end-all legal letter regarding things he's been claiming. [url]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4497650/15-09-03_rsi-response-to-demand-letter.pdf[/url] base summary without legal jargon - he backed SC for $250 - [i]never installed the game[/i] - unsubscribed from SC's newsletter not too long after backing - came out of the blue this summer with tons of claims about the state of the game still without having played an inch of it - his entire anti-SC article was written with a blatant focus on drawing attention to his own game with constant referencing and links to his own content - by his own demands for people to seek refunds, CIG contacted him for an address to send him a full refund by check. [b]the address turned out to be intentionally wrong[/b] so the check was never cashed, so he never technically received it - he demanded some kind of 'forensic investigation' of CIG (actually of RSI, a fictional company within SC), of which he nor his lawyers have no authority to demand, but CIG is hilariously transparent about the development cycle with all of the content they produce and you really have to question if he's legitimately that much of a troll that he'd research things and claim the exact opposites of everything just to get more of a rise - CIG is ice cold [img]http://i.imgur.com/CylNOmV.png[/img]
[QUOTE=dai;48755195]if anyone wants an update on dork's escapades, here's the end-all legal letter regarding things he's been claiming. [url]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4497650/15-09-03_rsi-response-to-demand-letter.pdf[/url] base summary without legal jargon - he backed SC for $250 - [i]never installed the game[/i] - unsubscribed from SC's newsletter not too long after backing - came out of the blue this summer with tons of claims about the state of the game still without having played an inch of it - his entire anti-SC article was written with a blatant focus on drawing attention to his own game with constant referencing and links to his own content - by his own demands for people to seek refunds, CIG contacted him for an address to send him a full refund by check. [b]the address turned out to be intentionally wrong[/b] so the check was never cashed, so he never technically received it - he demanded some kind of 'forensic investigation' of CIG (actually of RSI, a fictional company within SC), of which he nor his lawyers have no authority to demand, but CIG is hilariously transparent about the development cycle with all of the content they produce and you really have to question if he's legitimately that much of a troll that he'd research things and claim the exact opposites of everything just to get more of a rise - CIG is ice cold [img]http://i.imgur.com/CylNOmV.png[/img][/QUOTE] Good point.. Unrelated, Just had a big fucking deja vu moment while reading your post...
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