(My opinion only)
Derek Smart's name gets thrown around by CIG like a cheap magicians smoke bomb. It distracts the audience temporarily while unseen manipulation goes on behind the slowly rising haze. Derek Smart! *poof*
Take every single Tweet, post, comment, video and blog from Derek Smart and delete them, as if they never existed. That takes away a lot of noise. Then what are you left with?
The best comparison
I can compare Star Citizen to is a new housing project on a grass field. There’s a lovely model home that’s been there for years. It’s full of glossy color brochures and large maps showing how wonderful things will look like at some point in the future. Streets, schools, parks, bus stops, etc. Yet when you look around the field, you see nothing but a series of lots marked off in flag tape with “SOLD” signs. Pipes and electrical cables stick out of the ground in odd places and many utility trenches have been dug, then refilled, then re-dug. In adjoining fields, more lots are being prepared to be placed on the market. There’s lots of sales people and advertising everywhere. Promise and anticipation are in the air, but no actual houses. When you ask when the houses will be ready to move in, the sales people say “soon.”
How is DS responsible for this? If he isn't, who is? I'll leave that question here.
People who say DS is the cause of all of CIG's troubles are naive at best. He has nothing to do with the project in any capacity. It's like blaming me for the NMS delay.
The deadline concerning refunds for non-delivery has passed as of midnight last night.
https://forums.robertsspaceindustri...n-if-star-citizen-is-not-released-by-may-2016
We'll see how CIG handles that. Will they give the backer's money back, or change their ToS, delaying it yet again?
