/vr/ - Retro Games

Battlecruiser 3000ad sparked one of the most legendary flame wars in internet history. It was Star Citizen before Star Citizen, and Derek Smart was Molyneaux 3.0.

>hyped as the second coming of Christ by not just the press but also the developer
>lead dev, Derek Smart, is an insane narcissist who endlessly goes on about how he’s the programmer and designer version of Da Vinci
>launches 70,000+ post flame war on Usenet, writing novel length replies to detractors and threatening to sue everyone who questioned his power
>game takes a decade to get released
>advertised with porn models posing with the game, telling the player that they’re about to get their fucking mind blown when they play this
>Take-2, the publisher, decides fuck this and releases a beta version
>Smart goes insane and destroys a vending machine in the T2 lobo because of it
>game is unplayable and riddled with bugs and crashes
>game is a titanic flop and loses millions
>years of patches try to make the game function
>Smart keeps posting on Usenet, continuing the flame war
>game gets totally forgotten about a week after it comes out