Derek Smart certainly has his own history but his remarks are spot on. Scope creep went out of control fairly early on, I backed this game expecting a spiritual

Derek Smart certainly has his own history but his remarks are spot on. Scope creep went out of control fairly early on, I backed this game expecting a spiritual sequel to Freelancer which I felt was a realistic goal. At the time, I was not aware of Robert's history of being removed from the Freelancer project due to delays. However, even in the case of Freelancer I was sold on Freelancer due to some of Robert's promises and quite surprised when the released version was missing many of the promised features. CIG wanting to build and rent out their own motion capture studio to third parties and selling ships for exorbitant pricing left a bad taste in my mouth early on. I will be happy if Star Citizen ends up being a modern Freelancer but I fear many will be sorely disappointed.