Star Citizen - Did you pledge & what do you expect?

[Omi]

I guess I ticked everything applicable there.

I've already pledged for some dirt-tier pack (I remember it including alpha and beta access, and maybe an RSI Hornet or something? I dunno, it was only like £25) and I, of course, plan to play the thing when it's out. I haven't touched any of these 'early release' modules, though.

Having seen the colossal mess that Elite: Dangerous turned into, my already-waning hope for Star Citizen isn't recovering any time soon. I hope it will live up to the hype train (who doesn't?), but in all honesty I can't see that happening.

Best case realistic scenario, IMO, is that we get an extremely solid, enjoyable, multiplayer-focused space shooter - with support for roleplay, god forbid - which acts as a spiritual successor to Freelancer/Disco/some sort of pseudo-Freelancer 2. That's about all I can ask for. Expecting them to build a game that's utter light years ahead of anything else is, I think, a bit much - but with the amount of money and passion they're dumping in, I do have hopes that something that is at least reasonable will pop out the other end.

Then again, it's entirely possible that the devs could self-destruct an otherwise incredible game (cough cough Frontier Developments cough cough). We'll just have to wait and see.

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