![]() What we do know is that Star Citizen has a huge scope (And to be fair, it does sound like a lot of that scope is Chris Roberts brand scope creep) and lots of technical challenges, it could (probably will) take 10+ years go make.īasically my point is that Derek Smart is infamous in gaming circles and, given his history and behaviour, I am shocked anyone would consider him an authoritative, reliable, even vaguely unbiased source. If the makers of Star Citizen go bankcrupt without the game being made then at that point he will be correct. and Canadian rescue teams were searching Monday for a submersible carrying five people to the wreckage site of the Titanic after the submarine vanished deep in the Atlantic Ocean with four. We still don't know if it will be made or not, work is ongoing, dev is happening and patches are being released. On June 13, 2018, a judge ruled in favor of Star Citizen.According to Lordand the LA county court recordsthe judge dismissed the case without prejudice, saying an arbitration clause buried. Even with almost $100m in additional investor money. > It's not over $300 million and there is still no game. > Didn't he say five years ago in July 2015 (I don't have the blog link, but go to his website at said the game could never be made? This, to me, reduces his authority in regards to game development and how it should be done, to basically 0. You cannot help but notice that none of them are well recieved (with only BC Millenium approaching a rasonable score) and most of them are iterations on a similar/ same idea. You can see a list of the games made here: & So I don't quite know why you have a problem with that when he has made so many games for a very long time now. > You may not like him or his games, but at least he's still making games and he has people buying them. If we are considering games over-running and not deliverying then I think Derek Smart and LoD are in a very brittle glass house here. However this was 4 years ago based on those blog posts. > To be fair, they disabled the Steam store page when the game moved to closed Beta because they are porting it. 100 agree, Star Citizen isnt a scam, but it has a severe business ethics problem. It has been said that the amount of players who've unsuccessfully requested refunds from 2016 onwards, could've easily filed a class-action lawsuit, although CIG prepared for that with the. Įven in failure though, the case sets a useful precedent that will at least shine the way for other Star Citizen backers, preventing them from wasting more money in trying to get some of it back from CIG's vault. Some redditors have already offered their legal expertise for when the transcripts come, so if you're willing to help, you can. He did add that the entire ordeal was really unpleasant, making him feel "more like a hostage than a backer" of CIG's Star Citizen. Now Firefly212 may have lost a battle in court but he's still waging the war. CIG's lawyers somehow managed to make it mean the opposite, triggering the clause for arbitration court, where Firefly212 found himself way out of his league. That's all thanks to some seriously slick lawyer-work by CIG's legal team, since they defended their case loosely sticking to TOS when it fits them, altering it on the fly when it doesn't.Īpparently, the Court didn't find that the first sentence of the current Terms of Service document to be relevant, even though it stipulates that "transactions made before effective date" will not be affected. ![]() Once the case came to the Court on 13 July 2018 though, it was dismissed by the judge and sent to arbitration. A reddit post dated 11 June 2018 by user Firefly212 shows a photocopy of the lawsuit filed with the Superior Court of California against CIG, where he is asking for his money back via legal channels. Interestingly enough, one user has already managed to sue Star Citizen developer in court, although he ended up not having any success. ![]() The rest of the players, however, can kiss refunds goodbye as of now. Well, that's for all except for the most recent of Star Citizen backers, who have 14 days to change their minds before their donation is transformed into CIG's property. ![]()
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