• Kaldo@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Well this article is kinda saying that they are barely keeping their head above water as it is, and CIG is vastly mismanaging money and driving development heavily on how many ships they can sell in that year.

    So if anything I’d say that this strategy doesn’t seem to be working out for them anymore

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      1 year ago

      Look at it another way.

      If they’re keeping their head above water, even barely, it means they are keeping their head above water. Without delivering a product. For YEARS.

      They’re earning money by selling empty promises year after year. Not a lot of money. They’ll never become billionaires from this game. But there are lots of people in there (mainly executives and CEO and whatever) earning a decent salary. On empty promises! It’s as close to a scam that it can be without being illegal.

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        I guess, but the fact they are now laying people off is for sure a sign that things aren’t going well enough. CR might live the rest of his life in a mansion but his legacy is in a crapper and he’s not gonna get another chance at this (at least I hope people wouldn’t fall for it twice).

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          Their laying people off mean that the honest workers are losing something. But the actual scammers, the people at the top, they’re still there.

          They lay people off because they don’t want to reduce their own salaries.

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            Dwarf fortress is a finished game and the original version, which is awesome as is, was always free. Not at all comparable to star citizen or eve online

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          The only part I believed they might actually deliver on since it isn’t boggled down by network issues, but I guess even that was too much to hope for. I still remember the 2018 lie of “it’s weeks away from being shown” only for them to not show anything or the next 5 years. If it weren’t that troublesome to get it (and it’s a small sum anyway) I’d probably fight for a refund out of principle alone.