
Originally Posted by
Malibutomi
Completely agree.
I backed this game with the intention to help create the game i've been waiting since Wing Commander / X-Wing / SWG.
I backed with an amount i'm ready to lose ( as i think every reasonable adult should) as there's no guarantee for success at any crowdfunded project. So i'm not the slightest impatient, or angry if they miss a date.
Also i can see they are making constant progress from the weekly videos, and they showed many times that they are working on much more things simultaneously than we think. Also i have my life outside of SC, i just check the forums and news, and happy if i see progress.
I can understand that they are gearing up with tools, because they need to populate a universe, and that simply cannot be done by handcrafting all the things, and to work out these tools takes time, but as it seems they are getting close to the end on every aspect, and after 3.0 hits i think they can quickly start to expand the universe.
Also one more thing: Yes they missed the schedules many times, but how does anyone knows how many times other games missed internal dates? Noone knows because this is the first time we see development from the start. Just look at ME:A, it's release was pushed back by a year, and still it was a mess in many aspects.
From one point of view yes SC indeed missed their own dates, from the other point of view they are realistically not late by dev times, as a game with this scope should take more than 5 years. If they haven't released SQ42, and not nearing beta with SC in late 2018 then i will say they are in trouble.