ENDERANDREW'S PROFILE

author=Sailerius
Am I the only one who finds it weird that someone has been supposedly lurking on an RPG Maker forum for ages, but it was a post about a scammer that made him want to register and post here, and has posted nowhere except some extremely long and very defensive posts defending the scammer? It sure is weird how this seems to happen everywhere people start suggesting that something's fishy about Star Citizen...

I'm pedantic. Honesty, integrity and facts really matter to me.

You're taking the word of a known pathological liar and holding it up as truth while slandering a good developer.

I was at a LARP event last year down in Austin hosted on Richard Garriott's property ( https://www.hearthofbritannia.com/events.php ) and I was listening to stories from old Origin developers and executives talk about Chris Roberts. They considered it quite the coup and a brilliant stroke of luck that one of their artists (Dennis Loubet) brought him in. The same artist was praising Chris Roberts up and down on an anniversary live stream.

It bothers me to see someone called a liar and a scammer with no evidence to support those claims.

If you can present even a single piece of evidence to suggest it is a scam, that they don't really have hundreds of paid employees working hard at a game and that he is stealing your money, I will apologize, call you correct and gladly take my leave.

If you're calling someone a scammer, and attacking me with no grounds, then I'll be waiting your apology.

Edit: As for the shill conspiracy theories, I'm about as transparent as a person can be on the internet. I use a unique name that literally no one else on the internet uses, and a picture of my real face. Take two seconds and Google "Enderandrew" and every single hit is me. You'll find my employer (PayPal, not a PR firm), my LinkedIn profile, Facebook, Google+, every forum I'm on, etc.

Yep, Chris Roberts gave us Wing Commander and Privateer.

Star Citizen/Squadron 42 is effectively the spiritual successor to both of those.

Derek Smart's Battlecruiser 3000AD is considered by some the worst PC game of all time.

http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/battlecruiser-3000-ad
http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-6-worst-video-game-launch-disasters/

If anyone is interested in Star Citizen, I encourage you to research it and check it out. I initially backed it during the Kickstarter just for the single player campaign, hoping for a new Wing Commander. Now I'm excited for Star Citizen (the online MMO-like) as well.

PC Gamer just did a preview of Squadron 42. It looks even better than I anticipated.

http://www.pcgamer.com/inside-squadron-42-star-citizens-ambitious-singleplayer-campaign/

Backing the game now gets you both Star Citizen, Squadron 42 and a ship for $45.

Eventually they'll be sold as separate games, though they are linked. Playing Squadron 42 makes you a "Citizen" in Star Citizen and unlocks things for you. Prices are supposed to go up in January.

If you are interested in backing, they do have a referral system so I certainly wouldn't mind if anyone used my link. Using a referral link gets you in game currency for ships, weapons, etc. I can get bonuses from getting X number of recruits.

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/enlist?referral=STAR-FH6N-TWPY

I'm a lurker but I had to register for this thread. Someone should clear the air.

The author of that Escapist piece is friends with Derek Smart, and they had collaborated on an article before. Derek Smart is a documented pathological liar with decades of trolling and lies. Don't take my word for it. Do some Googling and find out for yourself. He has claimed to have multiple PHDs and of course lied about it. He is responsible for one of the worst game releases of all time. His games are usually vaporware. And he has been on a Star Citizen crusade from day 1.

The Escapist claims they had multiple CIG employees all come forward separately with the same claims. They verified they are real CIG employees with employee badges, except CIG has no employee badges. These employees all called the author of the article directly and unsolicited, getting her phone number from a third party.

Derek Smart had been recently asking for any ex-CIG employees to contact him to get a story out in the media, and he had the author's phone number.

While it may be possible some actual pissed off ex-employees were involved, that isn't even certain and none of the claims add up.

All the claims in the article were all posted at the same time by anonymous sources to Glass Door first, before the article. That happened right after someone suggested to Derek Smart that anyone can post anything at Glass Door, claiming to be an employee of a company. As an anonymous site, there is no checking.

The article claims they were going to lay everyone off. Derek Smart went a step further, saying they'd be bankrupt and closed in 90 days. The article claims they refuse to hire anyone over 40, hire anyone black, and that all the money was stolen and no game is being made.

Immediately after the article was published, tons of CIG employees openly volunteered to be interviewed to refute these claims. People posted pictures of older employees and black employees. CIG offered to let media tour all 4 studios to see the hundreds of paid employees and the game in progress.

Since then, CIG announced the cast for the single player game which includes:

• Gary Oldman - Playing Admiral Ernst Bishop
• Mark Hamill
  
• Mark Strong
  
• Sophie Wu
  
• Sandi Gardiner
  
• Gillian Anderson - Playing Admiral Bishop's Daughter
  
• Craig Fairbrass
  
• Liam Cunningham - Playing Captain Noah White on the UEES Stanton
  
• Ben Mendelsohn
  
• Ian Duncan - Playing the Player (IT'S YOU!)
  
• Jack Huston - Playing "Sky Captain" Cal Mason
  
• John Rhys-Davies
  
• Rhona Mitra - Playing Executive Officer Kelly on the UEES Stanton
  
• Andy Serkis
  
• Gemma Whelan
  
• Harry Treadaway

If they're not making a game and Chris Roberts stole all the money, how and why did he pay all those actors? Many of those actors took to Twitter to defend the game and project. They've been raving about the filming. We saw behind the scenes of those actors filming.

Every week CIG posts to the forums, and Reddit answering people's questions and showing us new info.

There are several YouTube series with new videos weekly, showing us progress on the game in various ways such as Around the Verse, 10 for the Chairman, Bugsmashers, Reverse the Verse, Meet the Devs, The Next Great Starship, Wingman's Hangar, etc.

Despite the claims by The Escapist and Derek Smart, no studios closed their doors. No one went bankrupt. Total headcount went up. They have nearly 300 employees working for them. Funding went through the roof. They're up to 104 million and still growing.

And then they released the 2.0 module that Derek Smart said would never come out. Right now you can log on and play the first taste of the persistent universe/MMO side. You can walk around on land, enter a ship (even steal a ship from another player) fly around to different destinations, go on missions, enter space combat, and go EVA out of your space ship and enter FPS combat. It is all seemless and playable right this moment. There is of course the initial game-within-a-game of Arena Commander as the dogfighting module. There is racing in game right now. They keep adding new ships all the time.

Multi-crew ships are in. You can get together with other players and operate different roles on a single large/capital ship.

Derek Smart said he knew no one was making these ships. People were buying JPEGs of ships that would never be in game. They're in game and playable now.

It is a shame that people believe a guy who is a documented, repeated liar over the litany of evidence that suggests this is a legit project.

You can say "there is nothing to show", except we're all busy playing the game right now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cA7oKiR8h1U&t=2m50s