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Star Citizen Online - The search for more money
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The anonymous source was useful when we had journalists that were household names and could be trusted. If they had their name on the article and said you could trust this anonymous source you did.
Nowadays .... journalist is a loose term especially for websites.
Nowadays .... journalist is a loose term especially for websites.
Tuco
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Look, don't engage in this kind of logical argument unless you want to risk Hodj coming in here and shitting in this thread with overly verbose descriptions of whynegative proofsare annoying.
Here's what we know about IDCardGate:
1. The author of the article identified an image of these blank looking HID cards as being the card used for proving they were a former employee of CiG.
The Escapist Explains Its Star Citizen Sources, Vetting and Response | Video Games | The Escapist
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2. It's very uncommon for a company to not confiscate those HiD cards when they are part ways.
3. CiG claims that they don't have company ID cards with personal information.
4. CiG showed an example of one of their alleged cards that showed it has no identifiable information.
Disc-O-Lantern on Twitter:
You can decide based on this whether the anonymous source was legitimate. Personally I don't pay attention to anonymous sources except in rare cases. When the Escapist has verifiable and on-the-record sources, they'll have something useful.
hodj
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Lol.
I'm sure that would get me shawed quickly and, while that is always entertaining, particularly when I can get a_skeleton_03 in there with me to talk about his vicodin proclivities, I won't demolish this thread with the logic stuff.
I hope the game comes out for my own personal enjoyment interests in playing it.
I also won't shed many tears if it bombs.
Let come what may. The story is just getting interesting imo.
Escapist better hope they have held back some better cards in this battle, or they might find themselves in a legal battle over some of these claims, I suspect.
I'm sure that would get me shawed quickly and, while that is always entertaining, particularly when I can get a_skeleton_03 in there with me to talk about his vicodin proclivities, I won't demolish this thread with the logic stuff.
I hope the game comes out for my own personal enjoyment interests in playing it.
I also won't shed many tears if it bombs.
Let come what may. The story is just getting interesting imo.
Escapist better hope they have held back some better cards in this battle, or they might find themselves in a legal battle over some of these claims, I suspect.
As someone who ran shitty gaming news site and met a lot of other news site and YouTube channel people; they're all shit with zero formal training and about half of them ever played a video game.
They're all shit just trying to get more views.
They're all shit just trying to get more views.
Quaid
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Skimmed the article again. The source (CS7) who was 'verified' by the scan card in question was only mentioned in this single excerpt from what I saw:
CS7 indicated that Cloud Imperium Games Montreal entered into a joint venture partnership with Turbulent to continue to develop and sell the crowdfunding platform that was built for Star Citizen to other companies - and that backer money was being used for this project. HEAP C3MS is described as "the first platform to combine content, community, and commerce within one integrated platform," and was used for the design of the RSI website.
All the really juicy stuff came from sources who were identified visually, or so they claim.
CS7 indicated that Cloud Imperium Games Montreal entered into a joint venture partnership with Turbulent to continue to develop and sell the crowdfunding platform that was built for Star Citizen to other companies - and that backer money was being used for this project. HEAP C3MS is described as "the first platform to combine content, community, and commerce within one integrated platform," and was used for the design of the RSI website.
All the really juicy stuff came from sources who were identified visually, or so they claim.
Big Phoenix
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I gave vicodin to nobody. I did throw some out though
I probably have like 50 pills right now I should flush, had some bad kidney stones.
Tuco
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Awanka
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You should always keep some Vicodin handy. You never know when you might need it in an emergency.
On the topic at hand. I read through the article, and it's not setting off my bullshit detectors. Sadly, I think it's mostly true. I hope it turns out being baseless rumors, because this is the sort of kickstarter I would have fallen for if I had known about it. I was a big fan of Chris Roberts' games growing up. Wing Commander and Privateer; god, I wish someone would bring them back today. I would have willingly backed the project on the name and nostalgic memories.
Which is folly, because the truth is I don't know anything about Chris Roberts. He could be a petulant self-aggrandizing prick. He kind of comes across that way in his responses to the Escapist article.
Well, let's see how this plays out...
On the topic at hand. I read through the article, and it's not setting off my bullshit detectors. Sadly, I think it's mostly true. I hope it turns out being baseless rumors, because this is the sort of kickstarter I would have fallen for if I had known about it. I was a big fan of Chris Roberts' games growing up. Wing Commander and Privateer; god, I wish someone would bring them back today. I would have willingly backed the project on the name and nostalgic memories.
Which is folly, because the truth is I don't know anything about Chris Roberts. He could be a petulant self-aggrandizing prick. He kind of comes across that way in his responses to the Escapist article.
Well, let's see how this plays out...
Yeah I just don't like Chris Roberts every time I have seen him in a video on top of that I just don't like it when people hire family members in elevated positions. I don't like it at all. Add to that the "hopium" they are peddling and I don't like the entire game.
Mist
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Like I said before, he very likely is. That is not a disqualifier for running a successful company or shipping a successful product.
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