Here's the thing that you seem to forget. Star Citizen fans and Chris Roberts bad mouthed the entire game industry at the begin and along this crowdfunding campaign. They all, basically, generalized the entire industry and the publisher business, as bad, evil and just "one more Call of Duty".
That was totally unfair and disrespectful with many many developers, even with the Call of Duty ones, which actually, are much better than any that Roberts produced so far, even the worst game of such franchise. Guess what, with all the inovation, new franchises, rebooted franchises, etc. that came from the hands of publishers and many developers to PC and consoles... all good to great material.
Still, you all compared that as pure garbage and even went beyond to claim that they just care with money and what they produce are not worthy of the money that you spend, because they rush their games to sell DCL's , etc.
Ok! We all agreed that the industry was not perfet and some greedy existed. STILL, what was the solution for that?
Roberts just brought speech and made something that never the worst of the publisher did. Directly false advertising their products at the same time that selling it for THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS, and not just the product as a whole, but individual in-game assets of such non-existent product. And then, after fully funded and according with their own speech, with no SERIOUS reason to continue, they continued... and for that, promised things without having any care with the feasibility, with promises made to consumers, suddenly throwing all that to the window and obligating people to swallow all that, because some drunk people were all ok to continue to be drunk (by the Roberts promises and eternal theorycrafting and no funny/bad shows).
And THEN, 2014, the first estimated passed, 2015/16/17 and even 18 already passed (As we already know looking to the features promised until there, still not accomplishing even in the best case scenario with the game-as-promised... for 2014). Roberts ALWAYS promised that ANY of its module releases ALL delayed, would "worth the wait", and that people should have patience because would be worthy... they were all empty promises.. they were all rushed, bugged, unfinished, incomplete and over-hyped (At a level that is much superior to any other false advertiser of the history of the game industry, making people to spend thousands and thousands of dollars between those waits, hyped by their hype-machine).
So, Roberts was arrogant from the start. Provoked, challenged, and said that was better than anyone else, again, directly and indirectly. And he was not even average in results. He delivered true GARBAGE! A non-game. A tech demo. With 0.5% of the features promised and these 0.5% are even far to be considered finished. The rest of 99.5% of features promised and that should be a guarantee when people gave them 6 million dollars has been vaporware, since the end of 2014, when was promised the "FINISHED" product, or worst case scenario end of 2015.
And then, you guys come now and play the VICTIM CARD????
! You were the haters of the game industry from the start. Were ashamed by your lack of results, and now, want a free pass and acceptance? Any game developer who make 1% of bad things that Roberts did and have been doing, were destroyed by press and public criticism. Even worst when in some point they were arrogant. And Roberts broke the Guinness Book of Records of arrogance and disrespect to the entire industry!
He deserves to be destroyed by critics, yes. If there is one developer who deserves that, that is Roberts. If there is one arrogant community that deserve that, its yours.
But nobody hates your project, regardless all the arrogance demonstrated. We all wanted that to be true. The problem that it's not. And what people involved wants or make "campaigns", is to inform other people that giving money to this project is a waste and probably the person will end disappointed (or lying to itself and ashaming itself when trying to defend something that cannot be defended). And that giving more money to the SC cause only makes the things worst for the cause itself. And that has a serious negative impact to the game industry that probably will be felt for years, while Roberts and Sandi laugh in their trips to Monaco, with their pockets with more money that they could dream to have, when started all this show.
