Star Citizen Employees "Speak Out" [Oct 01, 2015, 5:35 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
An
article on The Escapist talks anonymously with some purported current and
former employees of Cloud Imperium Games about Star Citizen, the
crowdfunded space combat and exploration game. Their sources express
doubts about the viability of the project, and guilt over the sale of virtual
ships to eager customers. The story was updated after it was posted to add some
responses from CIG's Chris Roberts, who suspects "these are the words of a few
bitter ex-employees trying to stir trouble," and the included quotes also
touch on a toxic work environment and issues with Roberts, his wife, and
other management, lending support to his contention. There is also a
Chairman's Response to The Escapist post on the Roberts Space Industries
website (thanks 88fingers). The article concludes with a quote from one of their sources, and Roberts'
contrasting statement of faith in his project and his 261 employees:
"Chris Roberts thinks he's George Lucas. He thinks he's a genius," CS2 asserted. "He's a fraud, pure and simple. If he was just a salesman, or he worked in marketing, or he was answering to a producer, he would do well. But the emperor wears no clothes. Anybody who has worked with him will tell you the same thing. The difference is that lots of people have a dream, but only some can communicate it. I don't think he's sinister, or a bad person. He's Donald Trump. He thinks that if he wants to do something, he can. Because he's Chris Roberts."
"I'll put my 261, their passion and energy against the complaints of a few disgruntled ex-employees any day," Roberts said. "We have backers visit the offices all the time, they all come away with the same impression - that the entire team is dedicated to making the best game possible."
theyarecomingforyou wrote on Oct 1, 2015, 21:00:
Their personal life is personal. She's responsible for the most successful crowdfunding campaign in history - she's obviously getting something right. Doxing his family is absolutely unacceptable and a serious privacy invasion, though sadly expected from Derek Smart given that he's a professional troll.
Chris makes his personal life public when he hires his wife into a senior level position at the company that I funded. I may not have stockholder rights, but I'm not going to sit idly by. She's an executive who claims to have a Masters from UCLA, but has since removed that reference from her LinkedIn page. How can you trust someone like that?
Also, notice how they refer to each other in the vid transcript as "Mr. Roberts" and "Ms. Gardiner." They've been married years, and this is how they address each other? Are you fucking kidding me? How else do you explain this other than a deliberate attempt at obfuscation.
I don't care about the drama. Nor do I care about the he said, she said. I didn't really pay attention to what CS1 thru CS7 said. What I did pay attention to is what CR said. And it failed to address the issues that everyone wants to know: how he's going to manage to get everything done on time and under budget. He can't answer that though, because he has no plan. And that's why I'm frustrated and losing my faith in this project.
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