They're flailing, which to me is pretty telling.
'You didn't give us time to respond!'
'You didn't verify your sources!'
'They are disgruntled employees! Who are they anyway?'
'Your journalist is an unethical child'
'We actually have 2 black employees! Look!'
'Apologize to my wife or else we duel at sunrise!'
Lol I pissed myself laughing at that last sentence. Well done.
I think this is all pretty obvious. Derek Smart is definitely an idiot and he definitely has an axe to grind, but that doesn't make what he's saying not true. Roberts is definitely a visionary, but that doesn't mean he isn't also running SC into the ground and generally fucking things up. Usually, when you are presented with two extremes, the truth is in the middle.
Look, I want to believe in this game as much as anyone. I've followed it since inception and I've always fantasized about a game like what Roberts has said SC will be (it won't, it definitely is impossible right now, not without an Avatar sized budget/crew for several years). But it's just a dream, that's all this is, a massive dream, and people are so desperate for that dream that they will clutch onto that fantasy as hard as they can, as long as they can. This is indeed definitely a lot like the Japanese tulip craze, it wasn't actually about the tulips and they weren't actually intrinsically worth anything, it was about what they represented.
I can't wait till a game like what SC is sposed to be comes out and we all get to play it. It's the game to end all games, forget about genres, it is the alpha and omega and it encompasses everything. I can see it and play it in my head. But we won't be doing that for at least another 15 years imo.
