Star Citizen Discussions v7

Ian Skippy

Ian Skippy
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So Foundry 42 (that was created for SC, and is owned by CR brother) got money from CIG, who got money from backers. They then used that money, nearly 2 million, to purchase the rights to Squadron 42 from...It does not say but you can only assume it was from CR as he is the only one that could have owned it. So it looks like CR gave himself a nice little 2 million bonus. If that does not convince you of the scam I am not sure what will. Oh perhaps this will help, Foundry 42 was created for SC, was owned by CR's brother, but then it was purchased by CIG. So giving CR's brother a nice little bonus.
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If that is true then I really have no words for it. That is far beyond 'incompetent person tries to save face by lying'...
 

Cmdr Eagleboy

Cmdr Eagleboy
1500 said:
So Foundry 42 (that was created for SC, and is owned by CR brother) got money from CIG, who got money from backers. They then used that money, nearly 2 million, to purchase the rights to Squadron 42 from...It does not say but you can only assume it was from CR as he is the only one that could have owned it. So it looks like CR gave himself a nice little 2 million bonus. If that does not convince you of the scam I am not sure what will. Oh perhaps this will help, Foundry 42 was created for SC, was owned by CR's brother, but then it was purchased by CIG. So giving CR's brother a nice little bonus.
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I would say it is business as usual but then again I am not into scamming gamers from their money.

Agony_Aunt said:
Quite reasonable. In some companies i've seen staff salaries listed as being 1/3 of the cost per seat. There again, in others they have been closer to 2/3.

Also heard 10 thousand POUNDS per seat/employee in the UK, not dollars.
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UK will be more expensive due of all protections and taxes anyway. But yeah, 10k USD in total sounds very reasonable. Cost of persistent workforce is reason why freelancing is very popular lately - and not for right reasons.
 
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Winterwalker

Winterwalker
1500 said:
So Foundry 42 (that was created for SC, and is owned by CR brother) got money from CIG, who got money from backers. They then used that money, nearly 2 million, to purchase the rights to Squadron 42 from...It does not say but you can only assume it was from CR as he is the only one that could have owned it. So it looks like CR gave himself a nice little 2 million bonus. If that does not convince you of the scam I am not sure what will. Oh perhaps this will help, Foundry 42 was created for SC, was owned by CR's brother, but then it was purchased by CIG. So giving CR's brother a nice little bonus.
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Someone ought to ask Eurogamer, or some such industry magazine / journalist, to look into or comment on that imho. Fine if you want to pay yourself 100k annually, but 2 mill for a game that isn't out?? lol. Is this true??
 

milligna

milligna
As if game-related publications ever do serious investigative work. Maybe a post mortem, but this will take a real journalist with chops. Not a stenographer. It's a great story, tho -- an oozing pimple ready to burst.
 
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ianw

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Just had a layman's glance through the accounts - doesn't it say the rights were sold bothways from one company to another? Can anyone confirm this isn't just some accounting moneygoround thing as opposed to plooping large sums of cash into the personal accounts of the brothers Robertso?
 

K-NINE

K-NINE
Anyone else find it hysterically funny that their Companies House profile lists their "Nature of business" as the "Publishing of computer games"...?

:D:D:D
 

Memnoch

M
To be fair they have published a computer game of sorts. Several in fact but more properly they are independent pieces of an eventual whole. <removes optimistic hat>
 

Britney

B
The lovely dynamics of exploitation. Squeeze those workers out, let them work as long and as productive as possible, make the production of Star Citizen the economically most efficient production ever (you remember, 1 Dollar in SC equals 4 Dollars in regular software development), and double exploit your workers by selling their exploitation as passion or progress ('we are working hard') so people pump more money into the thing so you can exploit more workers etc.

https://twitter.com/SandiGardiner/status/923384258374156288


 
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ianw

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Britney said:
The lovely dynamics of exploitation. Squeeze those workers out, let them work as long and as productive as possible, make the production of Star Citizen the economically most efficient production ever (you remember, 1 Dollar in SC equals 4 Dollars in regular software development), and double exploit your workers by selling their exploitation as passion or progress ('we are working hard') so people pump more money into the thing so you can exploit more workers etc.

https://twitter.com/SandiGardiner/status/923384258374156288
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Regrettable timing for a tweet one day after this;

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/25/opinion/work-culture-video-games-crunch.html



ETA - Actually the same day on their time...
 
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Navigare Necesse Est

Navigare Necesse Est
1500 said:
So Foundry 42 (that was created for SC, and is owned by CR brother) got money from CIG, who got money from backers. They then used that money, nearly 2 million, to purchase the rights to Squadron 42 from...It does not say but you can only assume it was from CR as he is the only one that could have owned it. So it looks like CR gave himself a nice little 2 million bonus. If that does not convince you of the scam I am not sure what will. Oh perhaps this will help, Foundry 42 was created for SC, was owned by CR's brother, but then it was purchased by CIG. So giving CR's brother a nice little bonus.
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Dude, don't forget the fees for the legal counselling. Can only done by a proper specialist. A media specialist who has experience with this stuff. International experience. That's gonna cost.

And the marketing campaign. That needs specialists, too. Ones that have deep insight into the market. That's gonna cost. And the thrid-party contracts for animation. Actors!. We better take someone to oversee these tasks with proper industry background. Someone who knows how to do it with a straight face.

And then there's these pet projects like alien language invention. Some cousin left without a job? Got an ex-wife still to pay for? Here you go - you're Mr Top Hat now of the project.
 

Dooguk

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So this $1 towards SC is the equivalent to $4 dollars given to other developers means, as of a moment ago, in Robbers warped mind, they have had the grand sum of $645,433,377.

Deggsy was right. [haha]
 
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