The business model may be the most space-y feature of the mess: as "orbiting is just falling at the ground and missing", making the BDSSE is just shooting at the moon and making sure to miss any form of release.
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Valve shuts down money laundering via CS:GO game
Counter Strike was being targeted by fraudsters to clean up stolen cash says US game maker.
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In the case of Star Citizen, this would never be an issue of course because CIG has a much more strict and extremely proactive control of the grey market than Valve. Valve supports scum AAA publishers. All funding in SC is just coming from backers that hope for the best even when the releases are probably among the worst stuff put in the hands of players for a long while! Right?
Also, 3000!
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Wow... thread 12, page 3000, and approaching 60,000 posts.
Seems like only yesterday that I started posting on these threads, after finally getting fed up with the perpetual delays on CIG's end. It was 2017 IIRC. And still no game in sight...
....all with more gameplay within than the whole of Skyrim, where the lifts work flawlessly and the sandworms roam free... where seldom is heard a discouraging word... and the jpegs are on sale today...
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Happy Year 3000 everyone
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It irritates me that they're making excuses for why it isn't going well rather than asking if there should be a ship sale at all.
I'm hoping they go bust soon, I want to take advantage of high end PC being auctioned off to pay debt. At the very least I want a few monitors.
They shot for the idea of a moon when there was none and are now drifting aimlessly in space and getting further and further from being grounded.
That was an interesting read.Valve shuts down money laundering via CS:GO game
Counter Strike was being targeted by fraudsters to clean up stolen cash says US game maker.How do criminals launder their money using video games?
How do criminals launder their dirty money? Discover how loot boxes, carding, and hacking is used to launder money in popular games like Fortnite, Counter-Strike, and Second LifeVideo Games: A Gateway To Online Money Laundering
With the continuing rise of technology, it comes as no surprise that video games are an expanding source of profit – or online money laundering. Video
In the case of Star Citizen, this would never be an issue of course because CIG has a much more strict and extremely proactive control of the grey market than Valve. Valve supports scum AAA publishers. All funding in SC is just coming from backers that hope for the best even when the releases are probably among the worst stuff put in the hands of players for a long while! Right?
Also, 3000!
My initial thought was CIG might be using the funding tracker to launder money themselves.
While not wishing unemployment for those devs on the coalface in CIG, I do think CRobber should announce the studio shutting down via YouTube saying the technology wasn't there for his ambition while wearing a "Derek Smart was right" t-shirt.
You wouldn't be the only one with that thought.
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Well, they themselves do not need to launder the money they get from ship sales etc. Unless you suggest they are onto other more nefarious activities, which would be indeed a bit too far fetched.
How is this even still a thing.
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@Ed02349 Or maybe you were referring to round tripping as a way to boost fake sales in the tracker? I mean, I think CIG has all it needs to certainly make it possible with so many shell companies and what not. But it would be really daring, not sure even CIG would go that way. That way be dragons.
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They don't need to. Hollywood Accounting is a perfectly legal way of obtaining individual profit out of a creative project which, on paper at least, is "losing money." One has only to look at the UK shell company's financials to realize that the Roberts Clan has been siphoning off at least 10% of backers funds for years, and has been getting increasingly brazen about doing so.