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Derek Smart
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Derek Smart writes Smart Speak, a personal blog at dereksmart.com about games and culture. Since 2016, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Star Citizen, year six (2018)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-07, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Derek Smart's blog for its long-running criticism of Star Citizen, covering its funding, scope, refunds and staffing, and his 2015 dispute with CIG.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Star Citizen, year six (2018)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-08-12
What Hacker News says?
Their recently released financial accounting is all the evidence needed to show that not only was Derek Smart right when he claimed in July 2015 that the game could never be made for $150M (they had raised $85M at the time), but also that it could never been made as has been pitched by Chris Roberts. https://cloudimperiumgames.com/blog/corporate/cfo-comment-20... Right now Star Citizen is barely a proof-of-concept t…
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on “Star Citizen: The Road to Release, Financials and New Partners”Submitted Star Citizen (2015) as a story · 41 points
HN discussionHe was an original backer of the project in 2012. In Summer 2015 he wrote a highly publicized blog in which he claimed that because Chris Roberts increased the scope of the game, that it was doomed. In response, CIG refunded his $250 and kicked him off the project. Then they made the grave mistake of issuing a press release lying about it. It's all documented here: http://www.dereksmart.org/2015/08/star-citizen-how-…
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on “Star Citizen: The Road to Release, Financials and New Partners”Submitted Star Citizen, year six (2018) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSources in case people are interested: About the ToS change blocking refunds: http://dereksmart.com/2016/07/star-citizen-this-war-of-mine/... About the staffing issues: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/video-games/fe...
Comment linking /2016/07/star-citizen-this-war-of-mine/comment-page-1/
on “Star Citizen and Squadron 42 are using Amazon’s Lumberyard game engine”I've been following SC since the beginning, first in the hope that it truly would give us the next big leap in space games (a genre i'm obsessed with), but quickly turning into it being me following it just for the drama and entertainment. Star Citizen is without a doubt a total scam, with development pushing out the absolute mimimum[0] to keep more sucke^H^H^H^H^Hpeople investing more money. They're pulling in more…
Comment linking /2018/11/star-citizen-year-six/
on “Star Citizen Alpha 3.10”You would be highly amused to know that the game's creator, Derek Smart, has written extensively against Star Citizen: http://dereksmart.com/2018/11/star-citizen-year-six/ A con man knows better than anyone how to spot a fellow con man, as they say.
Comment linking /2018/11/star-citizen-year-six/
on “Star Citizen Alpha 3.10”