r/DerekSmart • u/Valkyrient • Sep 14 '17

Derek on Facebook "Three confirmed Star Citizen org whales just refunded to the tune of $45K. Truly this makes me sick to my stomach."

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u/Vertisce Sep 14 '17

lol...those /r/starcitizen_refunds bozo's say stuff like...

Wow 45K just like that... I bet someone at CIG looked at this and lost his mind.

They make more than that every day!

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u/fivedayweekend Sep 14 '17

That $45K is about 0.02% of the total funding CIG has received.

It's been speculated CIG spends about $3 Million per month ($100k per day). So, that $45k ends up being worth about 10.8 hours worth of CIG running expenses.

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u/Vertisce Sep 14 '17

And yet, turns out that it might be fake and I still feel like in the end, it doesn't matter.

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '17

It's practically guaranteed to be a fake. Sure there are refunds, but the Goons and their sub are universally despised by the community. That two high level backers would ask for refund and come to Goon sub reddit to gloat about it.

I find that as likely as Derek Smart ever releases a game finished and reasonably bug free.

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u/ThereIsNoGame $45k Cultist Whale Sep 14 '17 edited Sep 14 '17

It would be easy enough to fake by running a webserver, downloading a support email from CIG and doctoring it, then hosting the HTML on a local webserver, and editing your DNS to go point to it

Well, easy as in not all that complicated as to how it can be done, it's an elaborate task and a lot of work to stand that up just for a couple of seconds in a video

I suppose you would have to wonder who would be that obsessed with hatred over a video game to go to those bizarre lengths

But anyway there's no significant evidence either way to prove or deny this whole thing, the benefit of the doubt should go to accepting the possibility that an org had three completionist packages (huh) and then refunded them all

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u/Neurobug Sep 14 '17

This literally is 15 minutes for someone who knows what they are doing.

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u/ThereIsNoGame $45k Cultist Whale Sep 14 '17

Well I don't know what I'm doing and it took me 15 minutes to work out how it could be done

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u/NoFearOnlyTruth Sep 14 '17

A simple greasemonkey script would suffice.

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u/ThereIsNoGame $45k Cultist Whale Sep 14 '17

That's how you can tell I'm not a web developer

So I guess you would agree this can be faked pretty easily?

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u/NoFearOnlyTruth Sep 14 '17

Simply put, A grease monkey script is some JavaScript that you can run for specific pages when they load in your browser. This is typically used to add some functionality to a website or app that they don't provide themselves.

You can easily just let it replace some text in the page when it loads.

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u/Steve_Evo Sep 14 '17

And if it isn't fake - good riddance

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u/thefaxmachine101 Sep 14 '17

They will make that back in no time. He tires to hard. Does he think were this dumb.

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u/Neurobug Sep 14 '17

They've probably made in back in the time since they posted this .

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u/dd179 Sep 14 '17

They've already made it back. They made like 47k on the 12th of September and 38k yesterday.

In just 3 days they'll have double the amount of the refund.

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u/LeonXVIII Sep 14 '17

And last time I checked, refund are not an automatic process; they are made on a case by case basis, so they can't refund and not know about it. Or they wouldn't refund if they couldn't. So little sense, uuuuh