CDWarden wrote on Jul 17, 2015, 21:03:
I'm not a backer of SC, nor a supporter so I don't think I qualify as a SC "white knight". Even still, this tirade of Smart's is just baffling. He's upset because it is "vaporware"? Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't SC only been in active development for about 2 years, maybe 3? and doesn't your average AAA level title take ... around 4-5? am I wrong?

If Smart thinks that a game of this magnitude can be done in 2 years, and any longer is "vaporware" maybe that explains why all of his projects have been colossal and legendary turds.

Smart has a few different irons in the fire.

1. A lot of people backed a KS which was pitched to us as a spiritual successor to Wing Commander, with an online persistent component and a bunch of other stuff in addition to SQ42. This has kind of gone down the toilet. Very quickly SQ42 took a back seat to SC post-kickstarter. Now we're promised some weird hybrid space sim/BF4/Counterstrike thing.

2. Feature creep/bloat was insane. Even SC is not even the creature it once was. Hence the joking around here about the Space Burrito Shack Franchise Simulator, since the game has assured itself to be basically every genre *except* the match 3 jewels puzzle game, and I'm sure they'll shorehorn that in somewhere. Even on 85 million it seems like a long shot that the game will ever be finished to the specs and fidelity that SC is still boasting it'll have.

3. In voicing his complaints (and pimping his own work by measuring stick/advertisement) on his own personal blog and on Facebook, somehow he's "violated the TOS" of RSI even though as far as anyone can tell he really hasn't. And that means they banhammered him and gave him a refund. They have also in multiple publications very vocally announced that DS violated the TOS multiple times by basically being toxic on their forums and/or chats, which when pressed they admitted wasn't the case. I suspect he got the refund because banhammering him and accusing him of violating the TOS without giving him a refund would actually be a legally stupid move by RSI.

So this whole post is basically DS going HULK RAGE on RSI because they banned him because he spoke his mind on 3rd party websites (specifically his own), and used said trashing to pimp his game.

Now soak those three very reasonable points in a metric shit-ton of ego, glaze with hyperbole, and garnish with some theatricality, and you have the DS posts.

At the core of them are three basically relevant points. And point 3, that you can get banhammered for bitching about SC on your own site or on a 3rd party site, is kind of unsettling to me.