It's not "a story I came up with". It's something I saw myself. When I saw one of the videos he posted, first thing that spawned was a 15 second ad.
This is exactly the **** I've seen Star Citizen fans pull, accusing anyone critical of the game of just being a cynical pundit only in it for the multi-dollar profits they stand to get off the YouTube views. It's ridiculous coming from them and it's ridiculous coming from you.
.... and we're done. I have no patience for continuous unjustified douchebaggery. You're the one trying to reach for conclusions based on leaked shenanigans. I will justify why I'm treating No Man's Sky differently and then I'll shut up because I really am not in the mood for this.
Star Citizen releases their own substandard pile of goo while demanding fans to continue to "fund the dream". To me, this is not about a game in a bad shape, it's about a practice of con artistry akin to a cultish religion who demands ever more money from the believers, all the while feeding them with jpegs and really horrible alphas, adding "dreams" on top of "dreams", always cutting back on promises and deadlines. If Star Citizen was developing
exactly the way it is but without the horrible fleecing of their fanbase I would perhaps smugly smile at their failures but I'd still hope they'd do good and be hopeful at the end product. As it is, it's more than unethical, it's patently a horror show, with the potential to wipe out a lot of good will from many gamers into the industry and new "dreamful" projects that might come.
NMS is something a small team of developers came up with, a lot of third party hype was built and now everyone's expecting this godlike gameplay from the developers of... Joe Danger. It's ridiculous. I've always been a fan of this concept and the promise of the game but even I never thought this would be something on par with any AAA game (thus why I think 60 bucks for it is an insane price tag). They barely made any marketing for the game (unlike SC), they merely promised a really small amount of things to be in there (unlike SC), and, more importantly than everything else,
they spent their own ****ing money to build it. Yes, they aren't fleecing anyone to do this. It's their project. They will either skyrocket into stardom or they will flop massively. On their own. I have tremendous
more respect for this approach, as it should be obvious to anyone with a functioning brain.
So when I'm being skeptical about *ANY* claims (be them ultra mega positive or negative) regarding NMS before the release and a calm thoughtful review, when I even make the obvious claim that I'm not putting any money into this before it comes down a notch and the game has been deemed worthy by some common standards in the critic scene, you then compare me with the religious nutcases of Star Citizen who are defending the horrible practices that they are making despite any evidence we show them to the contrary.
If this is not douchebaggery I really wonder what constitutes it. I'm done discussing this with you.