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12 Years and $700 Million Later, What's Going on With Star Citizen's Development?
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It only just occurred to me, but Chris really reminds me of George Broussard. Anyone old enough might remember the Duke Nukem Forever saga. Same kind of obsession where they think everything revolves around them and their perfect world they made up in their heads. Seems to be a common thing with 'rockstar' '90s game developers who's had too much smoke blown up their asses.
I hate Molyneux so much and he keeps showing up to ride the next grift dragon and his masturbatory "vision" keeps getting rubes to buy in.
Remember the infamous Project Natal "Milo" demo and its groundbreaking AI technology that allowed you to interact naturally with a virtual character, but was all made up nonsense? Peter Molyneux was way ahead of his time in the techbro snake oil lube department.
I sure do.
The "Curiosity" grift was damning for that paid into it: "there's a prize under all of this, pay me to chip away at what's obstructing the prize, rubes!"
And now he's been peddling both NFT and "AI" trash.
Apologists that say he just overcommits to "the vision" and falls short ignore what a fucking grifter he is.
I’d hate to come across as a Molyneux apologist, but at least Fable 1 was fun. SC can’t claim anything close to that.
This probably isn’t due to any good intentions from Peter himself though, he was tied to a studio that demanded a complete game be released, SC is just on a money treadmill and their “visionary” is free to just grift away.
Some of his older games were quite good like Syndicate and Dungeon Keeper, but the grifting became unbearable over time.
The Fable sequel that had the enlightened centrist bullshit where you had to come up with enough money to stop the apocalypse and attempts to do it in a not-evil way caused the amount needed to go up to force the issue like a typical fucking liberal that there must be a balance of so many war crimes and acts of cruelty to "get shit done."
At least Kojima is interesting