I don't think you know what a promise is or how you can apply that to a crowdfunded project. CIG is amazing, but they are not perfect, nobody is so maybe stop judging them based on unreal premises. Plenty of supporters are happily giving them money because they like what they see. That should count for something.
If you don't like don't give them your money, it's perfectly fine. Just don't judge others for liking it and happily showing their support. Besides, people should be happy that other's are willing to give them more money because the game quality and scope increase means you will get a better value for your money because if you have a basic package you will get everything else they keep adding for no additional cost. That is FPS component, Planetary Landings, More Professions, More and better quality Ships etc etc
They are amazing, you are right. THEIR MARKETING is amazing nothing else so far that i have seen.
Publishers must stand in awe, seeing people paying a subscription for a better newsletter,other REAL games have to deliver a entire MMO and crunch out updates nearly every 3 months to give people a reason to pay that money every month.
Its amazing how people talk about "Open development" but nothing about it is really open only the marketing is open. The most things you hear is marketing talk, their entire shows are build on "what if, cool to have, amazing if" they are dream talkers, absolutly out of reality, telling you what you want to hear, not what you should see next. And if they tell you "its close" or "around the corner and its amazing what we have here", its just to prep up a next big sale to ge t the money in.
"But you dont follow the entire development closely! Didnt you see their last show what they showed its absolutly amazing!" Let me tell you something, BECAUSE i am out of the marketing loop i am able to look at this mess objectively.
I am interested in hard facts, its nice to hype everything up in your own mind and look at the possiblitys or the "future"or being hyped up in that regards...but in the end what comes out of it is what matters.
What i actually see, and can actually "play" doesnt hype me in the slightest.
New ships being announced and sold as concept for the future "game" doesnt hype me in the slightest it shows me something is VERY wrong.
Seeing how subscribers now getting more and more benefits even INGAME or testing makes me wonder where the "no pay to win" is going.
We didnt get ANY value for our money so far, people DREAM the value for their money in.
For gods sake we are at 117 million! 117,000,000 and it grows, but interest outside the hardcore fans is diminishing. Their are no more "new" backers...only old ones that are heavly invested in it. The TOS tells you about their situations, the facts they dont say "Hey we have at this point enough to get the game to a good point, so we stop taking money" ITS the only former kickstarter that still takes money, and outright SELLS stuff that doesnt even exist yet, the worst part they still declare it as "donations" the first donations that require TAXING.
Its not about hating people loving SC and the game it could have become.
Its about disliking people for their blindness to step back and see the overall picture and be more "carefull" and logical rather then emotionell invested into this mess.
To be clear, its not the SC community that needs to prove me wrong, its for RSI/CIG or whatever company is now legally hold accountable to prove that i am wrong. The last years they didnt and i dont see this be any different.
FD proved me wrong when they pushed out a alpha version of ED in what? 6 months after kickstarter ended? with a nearly rock solid flight mechanic and solid progress into beta stage, to the point where i put money on the table for the Premium Beta. Never regreted it so far.
A week after that Arena Commader came out...5 minutes and i putted it away, deeming it unplayable, no fun, wait for them to flesh it out before i look again at it. Now i look at several streamers and youtubers...how "awesome" and "fun" it is...i can seriously only facepalm how enthusiastic they are restarting the game several times because it doesnt even load up. Having to patch always 20gbs for every minor patch they put in...after promising for YEARS getting a reall patching progress done without players downloading the entire game over and over again.
Dont get me started on the patches they throw out..."fixing a fishtank, orientation of npc"... while people becoming hentai tentacle monsters in the game
females characters coming next, or die because of NO reason...
Run through walls and horrendous others bugs.
Yes CIG/RSI or whatever is amazing...
