Op Ed

Derek Smart - Interstellar Justice.
"Give backers the opportunity to hire an independent forensics accountant, and an executive producer, to audit the company records, and give an accurate picture of the financial health of the company, and it’s ability to complete, and deliver this project in a timely fashion. I hereby offer to foot the entire costs of this effort. And I will put up to $1m of my own money, in an escrow account of an attorney’s choosing, to be used as-needed for this exercise. I will pay this price to prove that I had every right to seek these answers. So this money can either go toward a good cause (righting this ship), or to attorneys who are most likely to burn it all down anyway."

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Until now most people have been ethical about the donations they receive on Kickstarter. I believe even Chris Roberts is ethical in that he didn’t start it to defraud people. I believe he's had a history of undisciplined projects that balloon out of budget and Kickstarter (and people starving for a real first-person space game that doesn’t suck) gave him the keys to the candy store.

History repeats itself:

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/article_29857 Published 06/12/2000
"In the wake of the collapse of Digital Anvil, co-founder and soon-to-be-former CEO Chris Roberts has spoken about his decision to leave the company he founded just four years ago. As we suspected, the company's troubles were down to "wanting to develop not only hugely ambitious games, but too many hugely ambitious games", leaving the company's finances stretched after four years without a single game being released - the sole title to emerge with the Digital Anvil name on it was actually mostly developed by a small British company."

http://www.wcnews.com/articles/art23.shtml
We ignored, of course, the rumors that he'd been fired by EA because Wing Commander IV had gone over-budget.

When Digital Anvil signed a publishing contract with Microsoft, our jaws dropped -- but only momentarily. This is the best thing that could happen, we were told! Microsoft would provide Digital Anvil with unlimited capital, and they don't care about how long it takes to develop a game! We ignored, of course, the fact that this made absolutely no sense. We were kids, and we didn't realize that the reason Microsoft has lots and lots of money is because they invest it wisely -- not because they throw away randomly.

When Digital Anvil president Martin Davies left, this was the best thing that could happen! Chris Roberts would get more responsibilty! We ignored, of course, the fact that Davies specifically stated that his departure was because the company had lost their original vision.

These are the conditions Chris left the video game industry to pursue a film career. I was so blinded to believe someone like Chris Roberts, well known for his past performance, would not repeat that same performance a second time around. The difference between Microsoft and Backers is if Microsoft backed Digital Anvil for 150 million and the studio closed it wasn't a huge loss. The same cannot be said for the hundred of thousands of real people who gave real money, some in the hundreds and thousands, to fund this project.

Chris was never truthful. He may have wanted to make the game he pitched on Kickstarter, but we'll never know. And even if he said today "I still want to make that game for you Citizens!" I won't believe it.
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