Game Discussions Star Citizen Discussion Thread v12
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I'm just waiting for the end of the year to see the outcome of your Pyro/server meshing prediction.
At which point their account will stop posting and a new faithful will appear with grand predictions of what is coming in the next year.
Year after year the pattern has been repeated.
I do miss Mr. Nowak, he was always great for failed predictions.
Using the phrase "Hollywood accounting scheme" to describe a Hollywood accounting scheme seems pretty normal tbh? What would you want Hollywood accounting schemes renamed as? The shell companies to move the money around to make the books say what they want, being able to cook the books to say different things to different people, the use of Delaware mailboxes as HQ etc. It's all standard stuff, its been nearly 2 decades since I first heard an explainer on NPR's Planet Money. Ortwin and Chris both have used this stuff in their previous work to the point they were summonsed to court over a perfectly legal milking of the German government.
In the UK its not standard to pay dividends out if you still have debt you can't cover and are going into an expansion phase. Its something companies generally only do when they are settled and secure. I can't think of any non-scam companies that pay out dividends at all in years when they have big expansions planned.
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Seems that poster is all talk and no action.
I've been a SC backer since '16 - not as early as many but for still long enough to see the game grow from the mini-PU during the 2.X days until now. The game is considerably more complex and vaster than it was then, and I still have fun playing it with org mates:
My frustration often manifests itself in humor or snark, so I share it here and over on Spectrum. Others seem to like it, though the resident white knights often waste no time rage-pecking that report button on me.
Look, I want to see SC successful, or I'd have not poured over ten grand into it. But my track record on backing stuff ain't great. I was a huge proponent of the Timex Sinclair home computers, which went defunct, the Handspring handset series - which was bought out and then went defunct, and the Blackberry handsets - which went defunct. But don't let that get you down - I'm sure Star Citizen will be different.
In a strange coincidence the last three loudest backers have all admitted to doing this. Weird.
Yeah, they've spent some of the money on google adsense.
To be fair, its a tricky situation.
Too little investment, they don't have the same faith in the project their words would imply.
Too much investment, they are a stupid whale who is suffering from sunk cost.
I suggest the next one to come in says they are in for a couple of hundred.
A bit like the Goldilocks story.
The first pledger invested too little, and was ridiculed.
The second pledger invested too much, and was ridicued.
But the third pledger invest just the right amount, and was accepted... but then ridiculed for the cow manure they were spouting.
Look, I want to see SC successful, or I'd have not poured over ten grand into it. But my track record on backing stuff ain't great. I was a huge proponent of the Timex Sinclair home computers, which went defunct, the Handspring handset series - which was bought out and then went defunct, and the Blackberry handsets - which went defunct. But don't let that get you down - I'm sure Star Citizen will be different.
Remind me to never ask you for investment advice!
Investors usually make profit after company they have invested in, has made profit. Usually by selling services or stuff to consumers. CIG does not sell anything.
Do I need to invest more?
You are the Lethality of this here forum.I've been a SC backer since '16 - not as early as many but for still long enough to see the game grow from the mini-PU during the 2.X days until now. The game is considerably more complex and vaster than it was then, and I still have fun playing it with org mates:
My issue is CIG's management, which is driven by Chris himself - he's a visionary and a perfectionist, which is a combination that often clashes with effective leadership and management skills. Furthermore, we've seen his management in-play in the past - with dubious results. Couple that with wildly optimistic projections of what CIG can accomplish within given amounts of time pushed by CIG's PR folks (and then pushed hard to the right), and backers like me who began really optimistic have become either hostile or jaded.
My frustration often manifests itself in humor or snark, so I share it here and over on Spectrum. Others seem to like it, though the resident white knights often waste no time rage-pecking that report button on me.
Look, I want to see SC successful, or I'd have not poured over ten grand into it. But my track record on backing stuff ain't great. I was a huge proponent of the Timex Sinclair home computers, which went defunct, the Handspring handset series - which was bought out and then went defunct, and the Blackberry handsets - which went defunct. But don't let that get you down - I'm sure Star Citizen will be different.
Yeah, but what can you do about it? Nothing.
It's not an investment though is it really?
Well, pledge more then, I guess?It's not an investment though is it really?
So far as i can work out Star Citizen appeals mainly to Space Kids of the 1970's and 1980's, people whose childhood was in that time frame which was an explosion of space themed tv and movies, a decade later as young adults they played Chris Roberts games, which were very good games for the time.
I was born in 1976, i never played any of CR's games in the 1990's, but I am a space kid and Star Citizen appeals to that space kid in me, i don't know if that colours my perception of it, but who cares, i get a lot of joy from it, despite all its faults it is an awesome game.
I was born in 1976, i never played any of CR's games in the 1990's, but I am a space kid and Star Citizen appeals to that space kid in me, i don't know if that colours my perception of it, but who cares, i get a lot of joy from it, despite all its faults it is an awesome game.
ITS ALPHA! No, wait, its a released game!!!!
