A personnel change at Star Citizen causes mockery and excitement. A designer from No Man’s Sky is now working for them.
It’s actually no big deal: developers, even those in important positions, regularly switch jobs when a project is completed. Gareth Bourn, according to his LinkedIn page, has done just that. He previously spent five and a half years at Hello Games, where he worked as a designer on “No Man’s Sky” – now he is joining Star Citizen as a Live Designer.
Interestingly, No Man’s Sky is a controversial project, which many accuse of having promised things that it then did not deliver. Some ominously suggest that such a thing could also happen with the mammoth project Star Citizen.
Switching from a sinking canoe to a sinking luxury liner
Chris Roberts has an online adversary, the game designer and passionate Twitter artist “Derek Smart”, a provocateur – as one could hardly imagine worse. In his opinion, Star Citizen is a huge scam, Roberts and his wife are morally corrupt, and the whole endeavor is just a trick to line their pockets. The whole project, according to Smart, will soon evaporate.
Smart seizes the opportunity to once again get a jab at his opponent. He mockingly comments on the No Man’s Sky designer’s switch:
In other news @GjBourn of Hello Games (No Mans Sky) quit quietly from one sinking canoe to a sinking luxury cruise liner. Because reasons.
Someone is quietly switching from a sinking canoe to a sinking luxury liner.
Sort of a “Perfect Storm” of video game discussion and hatred
A heated discussion is ignited on Reddit regarding the change, which has already reached 1200 comments. It’s a kind of “Perfect Storm” in the world of video games, as both games are typically discussed passionately and at length: articles about Star Citizen often achieve record comment values (but not necessarily record clicks). No Man’s Sky has caused quite a stir in recent months.
Are these strokes of genius or is there a threat of huge flops, even deceit against paying customers? Opinions differ on both games. There are enthusiastic admirers and bitter mockers, and they clash once again.
Where the court has already rendered its verdict on No Man’s Sky, the jury for Star Citizen is still out and searching for a verdict. Recently, things looked relatively good for the title: a presentation at Gamescom elicited many “Ooohs” and “Aaahs.”
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