Well for me I just backed the Kickstarter over ten years ago because it was Chris Robert pitching a modern FreeLancer. Here we are a decade later and no release.
I was in a sim phase, the game seemed to have been progressing well, and I liked the concept of being able to seamlessly go from walking around to jumping in a ship, leaving the planet, fighting or doing something purposeful, and landing to complete the loop.
It sounded neat since sims are generally limited to the cockpit experience.
What a strange question. I suppose you knew way back then how it was going to turn out?
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For me the greatest appeal was the sort of seamless grandeur of the setting. Taking off from the surface of a planet, heading through atmosphere, getting to space and just getting out and looking at the planet below is in itself pretty spectacular. I did that in a free flight and it was pretty easy after that to buy into the rest. I think that part is still unlike any game available.
edit: yeah pretty much what Redglyph said.
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There were a couple of clear warning signs in the pledges that made me think they didn't know what they were doing.
First one was lifetime insurance, which they eventually removed. I imagined all these players who could just kamikaze their ship into you over and over and it would never cost them anything. PVP would be broken from the start.
But, if that wasn't enough, you could also buy and start with end-game ships. Some of these ships literally cost thousands of dollars and they also thought they'd slap some FOMO on there and make them limited to a few thousand units.
I didn't know way back then that it wouldn't ever come out but I didn't think you could make a good MMO with broken starting conditions like that so I never pledged.
Still looking forward to playing it after I see the release reviews!
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Sure. I fell victim to the name involved, since I'd great memories of playing the Wing Commander days at launch, among other games he'd be involved with. Of course, I'd high hopes in October of 2012 (at least that's when I think the kick starter launched, I could be wrong) which have all since crashed and burned. After supporting over seven hundred projects, I guess I was bound to get burned a time or three. This ranks highly among those.
Ah ok. I thought those things that came later.
You didn't? For some reason I thought you were one of the backers here. Well at least you dodged a bullet. I remember thinking it looked really cool, but I'm not a big fan of the genre so I didn't back it either.
I kept a close eye on it for years and had a friend who was a backer so I got to see him "play" it way back when all that was in the game was a garage for your ships you could walk around in.
Last I heard they did a patch to add persistent entity streaming and broke the game again. The idea was apparently whatever anyone dropped would be there forever. I thought that sounded like a stupid idea since what's stopping me buying a billion medkits and dropping them all on the floor to lag everyone up. But maybe that's the point of adding all these cool but impractical ideas that can only delay release while they try to get it working.
I'm not really paying any attention to the game now. Maybe if there's a press release I'll see the headline. Free fly events seem pretty common. There's a CitizenCON coming up.
Last I heard they did a patch to add persistent entity streaming and broke the game again. The idea was apparently whatever anyone dropped would be there forever. I thought that sounded like a stupid idea since what's stopping me buying a billion medkits and dropping them all on the floor to lag everyone up. But maybe that's the point of adding all these cool but impractical ideas that can only delay release while they try to get it working.
I'm not really paying any attention to the game now. Maybe if there's a press release I'll see the headline. Free fly events seem pretty common. There's a CitizenCON coming up.
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