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."
NasWulf wrote on Oct 1, 2015, 20:43:
you guys are fuxing idiots, your arguing over a product/stories that may or may not be true, hearsay at best, and from sources who no one gives two squirrel fuxs about. Its a GAME people, who the fux cares who DS is, who care who CR is. CR is making entertainment, he's employing 261 people with a job, and he's doing something he loves to do. Get over your social justice internet saggy ball sacks and move on to real lives.
Yes, it is a game, one whose scope and design promises have changed repeatedly. This is worrisome to people who invested in the product when you consider that Chris Roberts has been down this path before, with a game called Freelancer.
If you read some of the history on that game, you will have an odd sense of Deja Vu. Eventually, due to feature creep and poor design decisions, Chris Roberts was forced to sell his company and game to Microsoft so that it could be completed. Microsoft forced the game out, but much of the promised game-play was missing or incomplete.
So it's quite easy to understand why people are freaking out. Is this Freelancer Redux, or can he pull it off this time? If he can't, I am sure a game company will step in and buy the incomplete product, but it isn't going to be anything like what he promised in the end.
As far as him making entertainment and employing people, that is all fine and well if he releases his product as promised. If he doesn't, then it really doesn't matter to the poor saps who spent hundreds or thousands of dollars to play vaporware.
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