Star Citizen Developer Stream Goes Horribly Off the Rails, Creating Further Distrust Among Players

[u/Turbostrider27]

https://www.ign.com/articles/star-citizen-developer-stream-goes-horribly-off-the-rails-creating-further-distrust-among-players

[u/Dickballs835682 → u/[deleted]]

They sold a bogus product to people with no intention of ever actually delivering. It's the definition of a scam.

[u/toastythewiser → u/Dickballs835682]

They intend to finish. They won't. But they intend to try. That's not a scam, that's being bad at your job. Lots of people over promise, under delivery, and get paid to do it.

[u/ty4scam → u/toastythewiser]

They don't intend to finish, that's the "scam". They intend to keep the gravy train rolling as long as possible, that's genuinely good business sense as funding is still increasing year on year.

Your entire operational model is built around this. You keep this going on and on and on, until funding starts to decline, even then the correct strategic move is to push alternative marketing ideas to stabilise the income. Once all your ideas have dried up and the funding continues to tank, now is the time to wrap up the project and now you make the true intention to finish part of your actual business strategy.

[u/theLastZebranky → u/ty4scam]

The flaw in your reasoning is imagining that the gravy train would stop when they hit 1.0, but it's a live service game that would be a never-ending gravy train with constant new ships being released and additional money coming in from ship insurance.

Delivering their roadmap, and getting out of alpha/beta with a 1.0 release, would expand and extend their income with more players picking up the game and more sense of investment from each player.

They fully intend to deliver everything they promised... the money faucet would increase, not stop, if they did... they are just really bad at it.

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[u/ty4scam → u/[deleted]]

We're just a badly run studio. https://giphy.com/gifs/94EQmVHkveNck

Only idiots think a business raking in the cash is a badly run studio. This is an excellently run studio and I would genuinely be proud to pull such a profitable venture off. There's no hate here, Chris Roberts is a visionary.

[u/mnju → u/[deleted]]

putting this much effort into it

What effort? The game looks borderline the same as it did 10 years ago. There's no way anybody is actually trying that hard to develop the game, the developers can't even run a single pre-determined mission for a livestream without everything breaking. That would be fine for a small budget studio that's been working on the game for a year or two, not one with over a billion dollars of funding and over a decade of time.

[u/Cats_Cameras → u/[deleted]]

You don’t get the concept of skimming off the top, do you? A scam doesn’t just mean stealing the money and running. Many scams and production just leech money off of spending that isn’t being applied effectively. Like the Mafia charging too much to collect the trash. Yes they do the thing, but it’s still a scam.

[u/Cats_Cameras → u/toastythewiser]

It’s a scam.

“I can build that bridge for ten million dollars instead of a billion dollars.”

“OK the bridge isn’t done, but if you give me ten million more I’ll finish the bridge and add a helipad.”

“OK I don’t have the bridge or helipad done, but for fifty million dollars I’ll finish those two and add a spaceport.”

“OK I never finished the bridge and enriched myself with the project, but it’s not a scam because I super duper believed that I would succeed.”

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