It would be nice if we could, just for a change, stop ganging up on people who just happen to
gasp enjoy a computer game just because we perceive that to be a threat to our Gospel of the Evil Roberts. Because as stupid as this entire charade is, becoming the mirror image of Joe Blobbers isn't much of an achievement anyone here should be proud of. Oh no! Someone had fun for thirty minutes! Quick, to the barricades!
Personally, it isn't people having fun in Star Citizen that invites criticism. People enjoy No Man's Sky. I don't, but I don't spend my time complaining about Sean Murray... anymore. Because despite failing to deliver on his promises initially, he eventually made good... and he did it
without begging his existing customer base for more money in order to do so.
What invites criticism is generally two things:
1) Highly curated videos that present a false impression of Star Citizen. Every so often, I tune in to a livestream while playing something else, so I can see for myself what the game is actually like. These kinds of videos come across as disingenuous at best, downright deceptive at worst. They feel like marketing advertisements, not genuine impressions of people playing the game. Given that we've had three(?) Star Citizen cheerleaders over the years that eventually slipped up and admitted to being CIG community managers, I start getting suspicious of posters who follow similar patterns.
2) Its just money posts. Star Citizen is still being marketed as a crowd sourced game, not a released one. As such, I expect the person in charge, Chris Roberts, to be a good steward of
other people's money. Chris Roberts is not only an extremely poor steward, and a bad manager to boot, but all the evidence points to the Roberts Clan enriching themselves through a Hollywood Accounting scheme, which IMO is as close to outright embezzlement as you can get and still keep things legal.
The Star Citizen that was pitched back in 2012 is very much a game I still want to play, which is why I still follow this thread. I want to see something,
anything, that indicates that this game is worth my limited gaming time and money (I can follow this thread while on break at work, thanks to the magic of mobile devices). I sincerely doubt that I'll ever have a "Hurry up and take my money" moment, like I did with the ED alpha, Empyrion: Galactic Survival, Surviving Mars, and a few other games over the last eight years... but stranger things have happened.
