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I’ve been on the Battlefront forums since probably the second year of Combat Mission: Beyond Overlord and in addition to being utterly appalled and more than a little distressed by the direction BFC as a whole has taken, I can’t help but see some striking similarities to Steve’s behavior and product and an infamous man known as Derek Smart.
For those of you in the dark, Derek Smart was a particularly slimy fellow in the business of promising grand spaceship sims and delivering half-baked nonsense, with a double specialization in abusing people on his forum and gathering a cult of beta testers and lackeys. More info on him can be found here
This connection has been on my mind for some time, so I figured I would put it out there for some other long time fans of the CM series: Are there significant parallels between Steve and Mr. Smart’s bad behavior, and does the misstep that is CM:SF speak to a larger malfunction within BFC and a future of further missteps due to the fundamentalist nature of the leadership and their modest following?
For those of you in the dark, Derek Smart was a particularly slimy fellow in the business of promising grand spaceship sims and delivering half-baked nonsense, with a double specialization in abusing people on his forum and gathering a cult of beta testers and lackeys. More info on him can be found here
This connection has been on my mind for some time, so I figured I would put it out there for some other long time fans of the CM series: Are there significant parallels between Steve and Mr. Smart’s bad behavior, and does the misstep that is CM:SF speak to a larger malfunction within BFC and a future of further missteps due to the fundamentalist nature of the leadership and their modest following?