It's hilarious that people like Zambayoshi will masquerade themselves as impartial observers, the bastions of rational thought, who conduct thought experiments on where SC will be 6 years from now. People like him, who have spent years of their lives dedicated to talking shit about a game they don't like, who have coordinated together to spread their nonsense across multiple forums, have doxxed developers and once harassed Chris Roberts' wife so much that she had to leave twitter, will try and paint people just excited for a game to come out and watch it be developed as irrational. Now I'm not saying Zambayoshi himself has done any of that, but certainly there is a group of people who love to paint themselves as impartial while trying to do everything they can to discourage both backers and developers, and even spouses I suppose from enjoying a game.
Zambayoshi will say he's an impartial observer. but if you look he's done nothing but post FUD that has been disproved everytime he's posted. He just posted that funding is "TANKING" when there is no evidence to support that, year over year, there's a slight drop of less than 5%, and the CitizenCon drop is explained by them not opening up the very anticipated capital ship "The Kraken" up for sale to the backers yet, while last year they sold an $750 ship without wait. As I wrote before, CIG brought in numerous very well known companies as sponsors during CitizenCon. And last but not least, funding isn't an issue because CIG operates as a live company, meaning they plan based on how much money they're bringing in per month, per year, and plan based off that. If funding was really "tanking" and once again, it's not, with CIG having one very consistent thing very well that everyone can agree upon, which is raising money, one can assume they're prepared for it.
As for release dates, CIG has hit their quarterly patch dates this year for the most part. They delivered OCS and bind-culling on time, Hurston is delayed by a few weeks but the release dates have stuck, their putting new content into the game every 3 months and the community is enjoying it, playing the game a lot more regularly.
Now about Zambayoshi saying CIG produces mundane tech, I mean, I think
Durante would disagree about the quality of work they've put into the game so far. And if Durante is impressed by the work they're doing, I think most people would take his word over someone who just posted something ridiculously off-base in his last post and now again has just posted a clear lie.
You can see that Zambayoshi is
clearly lying when he says that fans say CIG "invented" OCS, when we posted an extensive interview by CIG developers in our
own OT saying they didn't invent the technology that OCS is, they're expanding on the tech that OCS is based on, by delivering a universe over a network and the complexity comes within the scale, nesting and having to transmit this all over the network with persistence working for all players.
An IMPARTIAL OBSERVER would probably know something about that, but Zambayoshi is not impartial at all. He wants to see this game's demise, just as much as this community wants its to succeed.
Also, some people are excited about realistic horse testicle simulation in RDR2, all the power to them, maybe I think that's quite a mundane detail ;). People who follow Star Citizen will naturally be more interested in the technology side of things based on the deep dives we get into the development and all the technical hurdles they've had to overcome, and continue to overcome.
I don't paint myself to be an impartial observer, I don't have to lie to anyone. I want to see this game succeed, my friends play this game, some of my friends work on this game, this is the only game I see having the potential to be the dream game that we as a community and even the development team always wanted. I don't think this is a scam, I don't think progress is too slow, I don't think that CIG is milking me or the community, I don't think there's feature creep. I don't encourage anyone to back the game unless they're willing to lose the money they put into it, to try and support the game, wait until it's done. Nobody is perfect, they've made mistakes in the past and will do so in the future just like any video game company will, there will be more missteps. I'm disappointed deeply with the lack of diversity in Squadron 42, I would love for both games to be magically finished up and delivered today, and everyone would love the development to go faster ~ especially CIG.
But I'll quote Zambayoshi here : "Desperation can lead to delusion and defensiveness." and I think based off the money that CIG is raising and the things they're accomplishing, only one side here is getting desperate. Probably the one that posts misleading graphs about funding taking, but I'll leave that up to whoever's reading this to decide. All the while, please do feel bad for us poor, vulnerable, manipulated backers who will continue to plough money into this game even 10 years from now or something like that.
