He's spent over 7k for his dream -- unbiased objective observers of SCO and its progress made so far do not spend 7k. I don't mean it as an insult, really -- people spend thousands of dollars on things that don't pan out... but Variise represents an ultra-niche demographic. Unless he makes like 400k a year and doesn't give a shit. Could be that.
Sure I'm biased. Everyone is biased and has opinions. If you are looking for an unbiased source forget it. That doesn't exist in news or gaming news. Period.
I have tried pretty hard to ensure that when I say something that is my opinion it's obvious that it's just an opinion. But it's an informed opinion. I have also tried as best I could to provide actual knowledge on the subject and not made up knowledge or half truths. That is what separates me from the tall poppy cutters like a_skeleton_03.
If anything I have been pretty critical of CIG's time frames that they have officially released. I was the one that pegged their final release as Q1 2017 at the earliest with Q4 2017 being more realistic... in 2015. If I'm somehow a raging fanboy I have managed to fail virtually every test in that department. The one time I actually made a statement mirroring CIG I ended up being wrong. One fucking time in this entire thread and I was the one who pointed it out a couple of pages back.
Also I was 10k in at one point and have sold my ships long since then. I'm still a couple of Gs in but not 7k. lol In fact I made a fair amount of money selling those ships. I didn't break even but I'm happy where I'm at.
As for the core of these peoples argument you shouldn't give it a red cent in value. Let me explain.
What a_skeleton_03 neglects to mention, shocking I know, is the fact that CIG made it public on their website, front page letter to the community, that they have changed directions for the game and asked people to support it if they wished. They did this years ago. A small number of backers were upset with the change and have since exited SC via refunds. I explained this before in even more detail even linking to the letter. They have made numerous statements since then at conventions, weekly videos etc. It's been years. People have had plenty of opportunity to understand the game's direction and exit. People like a_skeleton_03 knows all this. They just don't give a shit. When facts get in the way of their tall poppy cutting syndrome they have a way of just dismissing facts out of hand as invalid. As if some 300,000 people who continued to feed the game money after that change or the nearly 700,000 since were somehow all had blinders on, all were duped and all were going off on the original design direction of the game from 2012 that you have to go out of your way to even find.
An entirely different direction was taken and this is where the refund debate, funding and legal argument comes in championed by people like Derek Smart and the SA forum kiddies all circle jerking over a daisy cutter waiting for it to go off. Spent a few hours following them and I want that time of my life back. This is what I mean when people like this use half truths. It's the worst type of lie because there's enough truth to it to muddy the waters and make people think your opinion is a fact. CIG does make mistakes and some really fucking stupid ones but I virtually never see that brought up as an issue in and of itself. It's always tacked on as if that proves some bullshit argument as opposed to trying to address specific issues. The most current one however is not a valid argument not just for CIG but for the industry in general. It's not fact based. Having said that if the industry doesn't police itself it opens the door for the government to do it for them. I already explained how dumb that can be and how it will just further ruin gaming but it is a trade off. You hold companies to account, they stop taking any chances and we spend the next decade playing shit games that make everyone quit buying them and a several dozen billion dollar industry implodes where everyone points at each other to try and pass blame.
