Star Citizen not only doesn't deserve a dispassionate approach, doing so benefits liars and cheats by giving them the appearance of respectability. Star Citizen, like Bitconnect or creationism, is a scam that deserves to be called out. Passionately
well getting too passionate is only enforcing ones view and prevents a change of opinion. Having an opinion because you think thats how it is is great. That involves SC being a scam or the next best thing since sliced bread. Whats problematic in SC discussions is that too often people stay by their opinion not out of conviction but because they feel under attack personally and think they need to uphold their opinion to not get "defeated".
Without moderation discussions degenerate too quickly into taunts and flames and the subject (is SC good or bad?) becomes secondary. The occasional voice of reason simply drowns in a sea of toxcicity. SC in a nutshell. This problem is appareant even here when people refuse to accept common sense or logical objections and continue as if on a mission.
I have for the longest time felt this constant barrage of attack on myself. In all kinds of places and can say that I occasionally lost my distanced stance and became involved to a degree where my goal was to crush my verbal opponent or "pay back" what has been done to me, often stepping down to his or her level in the process. Star Citizen and what it actually is became unimportant...merely a tool to trigger a response and make my opponent lose his cool.
Look wherever you want....thats mostly whats happening whenever Star Citizen becomes the topic. You are simply
not allowed to have a negative opinion or objections because if you do....you become a target. I d like to keep my right of free speech but oftentimes it does feel like a fight with the level of hostility that is directed at my person for simply saying "SC feels like a scam to me". The frontier forum is an easy place to "keep your cool" about it mostly because most people in here stay civil and respectful so different views/opinions can coexist.
And the other folks are on my ignore list ^^
If you invest more then the base package then you are passionate about it. Or better....I "hope" you are because with an investment of 5000+ dollars I dont know what else to call it. The same goes for time comittments. Passion isnt only expressed via money even tho I m sure CIG sees it that way. How many people give CIG their free time and nerves, endure bugs and idiotic designs, shoddy work. These people are passionate but it doesnt stop there. You will have people observing from the sidelines. They neither own the game nor have they put in any time in playing but they spend their free time trying to get information, watching videos and streams and participating in discussions. Pretty much everybody I know is passionate about SC one way or the other. Being passionate doesnt mean you are pro-SC only tho. It could involve seeing things that you dont agree with. Actions and directions that threaten Star Citizen success. And in most cases in the past CIG got under attack because they changed the formula, changed the result, deviated from the course. Understanding and patience wont help in that case. Ignore what you think is wrong and you allow the accident to happen.
So if people have worries or might be missing information that could clear up doubts the goal should be to
provide information to avoid a clash. Is that what you can observe most places? Star Citizen rather looks like a troll-pit to me. If the community is unable to come to a concensus because of different information levels or understandings it should be the companies job to clear up questions especially as this "war" is rampaging within their own backer community. I dont see CIG smoothing the uproar. I dont seem them coming out to address issues of concern. Instead I see them glossing over serious problems and continuing on their path of least resistence.
When I look at CIG I dont see integrity, honor, competence or honesty. Why should I give em the "benefit of the doubt" when their track record denies them that? And parts of the community has picked up on that and made it their own. Some people display levels of dishonesty that is mindbending and extremely aggrevating to watch. Do we really need to discuss the start of development anymore? At first there were excuses and you might or might not accept those as a reason for the delays. But thats not even on the table anymore. Today the modus operandus is to DENY a fact and go with some thought-up explanation and made-up date.
We ve had enough attempts at dispassionate evaluations in the past. Some were disguised shill pieces, some were disguised hit pieces. Some were actually neutral in their take but not accepted because of their message. I ve listened to Derek Smart and other people in discord channels where they were NOT under personal attack and tried to convey their honest opinion about the project. And most people have an insight and understanding of the matter that makes it hard to see them as "just haters" because what they say makes a lot of sense.
Now you can opt to disregard (not ignore) objections and stay with your own opinion. I constantly read through posts looking for something I dont know yet. Something that would require an update of my view. Unfortunately other people having "fun" doesnt help here nor does other people having fun means I m a disgruntled little sad man whos opinion can be ridiculed. But this requires constant effort on my part. I could as well just turn around and walk away and I m sure a certain demographic in the SC community would LOVE to see that happening. Call me stubborn if you like, personally I think that SC took so much of my time that I am entitled to see this through to the end. If you think you can disregard my view and objections on the basis that I am not invested financially then please allow me to disregard your input because you dont have anything that would help me in finding an answer.
Having said all that I d like to share that the topic Star Citizen has improved my life. For one it was and still is a constant provider of entertainment. It has enlarged my vocabulary as well as improved my written english (I think) and helped me speaking english more fuidly as well. It wasnt all tears of joy certainly. I have felt crushing frustration as I watched my hopes for the game wither away slowly being replaced with a monstrosity that doesnt resemble what SC was supposed to be. I had to defend my views and opinions against scrutiny, had to accept and allow objections and have shaped my final understanding of SC over time. And of course I had to stand up against pure hate, which is hysterical when you consider that people tried to portrait ME as a hater at the same time. Star Citizen has made me realize that the "trench war" we continue to uphold rages on everywhere on earth, regardless the topic. Politics, relationships, beer taste, religion....it doesnt matter. Whenever you have an opinion and stand by it you will most likely come under attack by people who think differently and refuse to allow you your own. Star Citizen thus isnt exceptional at all. It just is being allowed to ramp up because there is no answer, there is no final verdict and everybody is hanging in limbo finding equal amounts of "prove" and data that supports either side. Meanwhile SC continues to stay in "active development" without going anywhere anytime soon and the company responsible is playing grey mouse trying to get by.
Star Citizen after 8 years isnt a simple topic anymore. And its next to impossible to sum it up in a single sentence. We remind each other of things in the past and we all know them even if they slipped our minds. After that kind of journey writing long posts is the very least you can do (if you dont aim to simply make fun of it). Occasionally I still dabble in YT comment sections even tho I really should know better by now. And I even avoid trying to convince people of how bad SC really is because (from a technical and development point of view).....everybody is his/her own boss. But I play devils advocate or simply post a few factual tidbits when I see someone getting it really wrong and that goes for SC bashers just the same. At most its a fly-by post I dont really try to trigger a discussion or troll people. But regardless often enough my inbox simply explodes and replies try to shove lies and misinformation down my throat, drown me in vitriol and often enough there is that personal attack that is so out of line and drastic that I sometimes feel staring at my screen with an open mouth....shaken by the level of pure hatred that is directed against me for....what exactly? I am hiding behind an avatar because I feel threatened by some of these people and the thought of them knowing my RL name and adress names me anxious. I dont really know how Derek Smart lives the way he does. He certainly got more then 1 death threat.
You might want to try to to display both sides as "equally extreme and bad" and I would disagree. Only one side continously has overstepped behavior, etiquette and respect in such ways that all I can think of is "despicable" and if you reveal yourself as one of those people I will instantly ignore, ban and disregard you or what you have to say. I just wish people would do the same with me when they have a different view but it seems that the majority of the population with access to the internet is still living in caves.
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