How to craft a Wooden Pickaxe in Survival Mode 1. CIG has effectively given then until Monday, October 5 at the end of business hours to respond.TIP: You can use any type of wood plank! You don't have to gather them all. It remains to be seen how The Escapist responds. It's clear that Cloud Imperium Games isn't taking these accusations lightly. Sadly, I think is only the beginning of this drama. All sides become impacted by this now - gamers included - and despite any personal doubts I have about Star Citizen getting completed in any reasonable amount of time, all of these questions warrant further investigation. Would funds obtained by Cloud Imperium Games from their ongoing Star Citizen crowdfunding campaigns be used to finance the lawsuit? Is involvement with GamerGate really fueling any of this, as so many of my comments on my previous article claim?Īll of these questions deserve answers, because we've reached a point in this.I can't think of any word more fitting than scandal.where enthusiastic backers of the game stand to lose faith, development of the game itself is potentially affected, and a press outlet is facing a lawsuit for allegedly not doing their job. Could a defamation suit like this actually even make it to court? If it did, it's almost certain that extensive financial documents would be subpoenaed, easily proving or disproving the claims made by these anonymous sources at The Escapist. Games actually deliver on their threat and pursue a libel lawsuit? That only leads to further questions. So is this demand letter merely a strong-arm tactic to bully The Escapist into retracting the article, or will Cloud Imperium See, the author claims she used employee ID cards to verify identity, but Cloud Imperium Games claims in their response that CIG "does not issue any company ID cards at any of its studios." The plot thickens when you see this exchange of tweets suggesting that the ID card the author saw was nothing more than a generic RFID card like this. Interestingly, the letter refutes the validity of The Escapist's vetting process. The conclusion of the letter effectively gave The Escapist a 24 hour period - in which to apologize personally to the developer's HR manager as well as Sandi Gardiner (who is accused of saying "We aren't hiring a black girl"), initiate an independent investigation into the production of the original article, and issue a public apology and retraction. The letter in question addresses the majority of the claims reported on by The Escapist, and hurls some accusations right back, calling the allegations "ridiculous, highly slanderous, and easily disproved." Furthermore, the letter accuses The Escapist of participating in a conspiracy between the author and third parties with the "deliberate intention of inflicting emotional distress and financial harm on the individuals and entities concerned." If you thought this wasn't serious, think again. The letter says that Cloud Imperium Games intends to "turn this matter over to our litigators to prepare legal action in the US and the UK against the individuals and entities involved " if The Escapist doesn't meet their demands by end of business hours on October 5. Cloud Imperium Games sent the letter we're about to discuss to The Escapist, which is dated October 2.Keefer also insisted that none of the sources were Derek Smart, and that a couple of their sources posted on Glassdoor only after speaking to author Lizzy Finnegan.