I must admit that I've become quite interested in how CIG are managing the Star Citizen project and how it compares to ED.
When I first found out about both games - the first thing that struck me is that I very quickly had a clear idea of what ED is all about, whereas I'm still a bit unclear as to what lies at the core of SC.
And nowhere is this more obvious than the SC forums. Any discussion of any facet of gameplay there breaks down almost immediately into a war of diametrically opposing view-points. By the time the SC beta rolls around there will be a lot of angry and unhappy members in the community, and that rarely ends well.
There is a very vocal group of EVE players who are dedicated to turning SC into "EVE with cockpits" and who will attack anything which doesn't slavishly follow the EVE ruleset. If they get their way, I expect that the bulk of SC's community will abandon the game pretty quickly. If they don't get their way, I anticipate that they will try to tarnish SC's name as far and wide of possible out of spite.