Just have to wait and see what the game is like for playing? Pretty graphics and more in-depth game-play doesn't mean much if the game is bad for playing. Egosoft space games proved that, never got seen as a FreeLancer replacement.
If the question is meant to mean - what will happen to FreeLancer if Star Citizen does turn out to be a good replacement for it. Hmm.. think FreeLancer would struggle really to continue on, there's only really the official DISCO server getting the numbers on-line nowadays. Plus, if Star Citizen can be hosted by servers (which I believe that option will be there) to do, your going to get new servers popping up running it, so tend to think DISCO may have to follow suit, depends how many player numbers they lose because of people switching games - if SC ends up being hosted on servers like DISCO?