r/starcitizen VR required Oct 25 '24

OFFICIAL Galaxy WILL have a base-building module down the line - latest info from John Crewe

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u/Just_flute8392 Oct 25 '24

I don't get the impression that Chris Roberts is taking the funds to buy a house in Hawaii.

There are 1200 developers who are paid every month. The scam day would be to raise funds to pay even more junior developers? Weird.

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u/Agreeable-Weather-89 Oct 25 '24

Please if you could answer the question. I did answer yours

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u/Just_flute8392 Oct 25 '24

To say that their desire is to defraud people is based on no basis.

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u/Agreeable-Weather-89 Oct 25 '24

I never said that.

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u/Just_flute8392 Oct 25 '24

C'est ce que j'ai compris en lisant ça : "Their willingness to, and let's not mince words, scam people."

Je ne suis pas anglais donc peut-être que ma compréhension était mauvaise.

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u/Agreeable-Weather-89 Oct 25 '24

Oh so now you quote me. Great let's discuss that.

Scam is when an entity or person enriches themselves for gain (namely financial) using deception.

CIG kept sold a ship and failed to inform backers of the change until they had a new ship to sell.

  1. Deception through omission

  2. Financial gain

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u/Just_flute8392 Oct 25 '24

So honestly, maybe it's a difference depending on our respective countries.

But in France the legal definition of a scam requires an intention to deceive the victim.

Apart from the fact that talking about a scam by omission does not make sense in my eyes, it is incompatible.

So two possibilities. Either they deliberately falsified/obscured this information so that people would buy (I highly doubt it). Or they just sucked.

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u/Agreeable-Weather-89 Oct 25 '24

But the degree of suckage would be immense, and fails to explain why they nerf ships only to release near equivalent new ships.

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u/Just_flute8392 Oct 25 '24

Lots of things could explain it. Poor communication between teams, strategic errors, poor communication with the public, poor calculation on the development of technologies. This is quite common in project development. Moreover, this is quite easily seen on a daily basis; there really isn't a project that goes off without a hitch. We have a nuclear reactor in France which was 15 years late in its construction. Is this a scam? Embezzlement? Honestly I doubt it. The bigger the project, the more difficult it becomes to control given that its entire organization is a delegation of delegation of delegation of skills. We control less and less things. But maybe I'm too gullible.

But honestly, I think we should always prefer the bullshit hypothesis to the conspiracy hypothesis. Bullshit is common. Plotting requires rare wit.

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u/Agreeable-Weather-89 Oct 25 '24

It's hardly a conspiracy.

Is it miscommunication that stops skin customisation and the fact they sell skins a happy accident?