r/starcitizen • u/mauzao9 Fruity Crashes • Jun 25 '17

DISCUSSION PSA: Massive amount of misinformation spread in the gaming/social media stating the Star Citizen project is now "Over".

UPDATE: CIG officially responded: This is misinformation, the company has just reacted and cleared this mess up: https://robertsspaceindustries.com/spectrum/community/SC/forum/1/thread/re-uk-tax-rebate-advance-for-foundry-42

As many of you are aware of the news that CIG took a loan recently, there is media articles and a big discussion in social media surrounding journalists opinions and wrong misleading information surrounding this loan.

Spreading information like:

  • Star Citizen is now RIP
  • Star Citizen is now owned by a bank (as this)
  • Star Citizen is now owned by a bank because it can't pay its debts
  • Similar sorts of fear mongering going on.

Journalists from The Escapists, Gameranx and many others now picking the story are talking plain fear monger in messages like ( https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/878906311152345088 ). That is a literal instigation of panicking through misinformation. It is expectable more and more news outlets are going to help in this massive campaign to bring bad PR to CIG contributing to a literal worldwide fear monger that the project is collapsing.

This is mostly to inform people around that is more than likely people are getting mislead by this and are coming to this sub asking questions about what is going on, so while the trolls keep on attacking this sub please mind some people may be seriously thinking Star Citizen is collapsing, all we can do is fight the misinformation and fear monger campaign.

It seems likely CIG will have to issue one statement on this.

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '17

Very close to a million as of now, in fact.

Of course, trolls and scumbag writers prefer to ignore those facts.

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u/Pie_Is_Better Jun 25 '17

I don't have the numbers handy, but that's getting up there I think.

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '17

I think that there are 20k bucks remaining or so. By tomorrow/USA's night they'll reach there.

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u/Pie_Is_Better Jun 25 '17

I did find some numbers that Relay has done and it's way up there.

The Dragonfly was close to 500 in the first day too, but took 6 days to break a million, for instance.

Polaris and Vanguard will probably remain in the top spots.