Comments on: Star Citizen Developers Respond To Recent Reports About Toxic Work Environment

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By: Psionicinversion

Psionicinversion — Sat, 03 Oct 2015 17:03:00 +0000

Its good Roberts wrote this e-mail because theres only so much you can ignore before it just goes to far and you can tell by the end hes just about had enough. I can imagine Smart going on a rampage to try give Roberts a mental breakdown.

Btw LODMMO is nothing like Star Citizen absolutely nothing like it not to mention his game is 4 YEARS behind schedule AND major features cut but he doesnt like people knowing this

By: Gdom

Gdom — Sat, 03 Oct 2015 13:10:00 +0000

The Escapist claims they have 9 sources, 3 completely anonymous. They have yet to produce any documentation to prove any of their claims. In fact, the previous article that author did quoted Derek Smart directly, as if he was a credible source for this information.

In their recent podcast, they claimed that certain employees had been called out in very public emails shaming them IN ALL CAPS. If they really had 9 legitimate sources, it would be VERY easy to procure copies of these emails. They have not produced any documentation outside of quotes that were verbatim on Glassdoor.

I’m not saying everything they’ve said is false, but they have not produced any actual evidence outside of hearsay. If they are a legitimate news site, then they NEED to have proof of their claims.

By: Stan

Stan — Sat, 03 Oct 2015 13:05:00 +0000

This seems like a good account of whats been going and certainly one of the better articles on the matter. However, I am not sure how you know “Star Citizen will launch”. Clearly, like any game in development, it may not.

Escapist have responded.

Unfortunately it looks like they are ignoring the fact that their article reports verbatum that which is on Glassdoor and are trying to convince us their reporter wrote what she wrote after interviewing the sources.

Interviewers don’t spend an hour on the phone with a source and then quote produce exactly the same quotes from that interview that the source then goes on to post elsewhere verbatim.

You’d expect a consistent picture to emerge but not the same issues expressed in the same way from two different people with two different agendas.

There is also the issue of running it by legal. Someone purporting to be a career journalist has waded in with their view on how a legal dept would be used in such matters and seems to be saying Escapist are incorrect in how they are trying to portray that process.

“Legal gets involved for one reason: sources that aren’t in-person, and aren’t verifiable. Let me be clear: legal doesn’t get involved in editorial decisions of publications, and doesn’t vet sources for writers. That’s not their job. If legal was involved, it’s because the author had no contact with the sources that could allow for independent confirmation, and wanted to know if they could be sued. Legal is involved because they’re not able to confirm or reveal the source(s), and are purely attempting to see if it’s sketchy enough to be seen as “malicious” to print, were a libel suit to be filed.
Combine the legal bit with Update 21, which allows them to, say, copy/paste an angry review or five from glassdoor… and my bullshit detector is going off.”

https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/3n6lum/escapist_anonymous_sources_uncovered