Completely agreed with this assessment, and I'm also a SC backer. I've been keeping close tabs on development of SC, and the biggest concern I have so far is the same as most, which is the tremendous amount of development time and financial resources they've had and still not managed anything close to a "release" yet.
Time is forever, but the advantage is not. In terms of overall focus, SC also has a clear advantage over ED in sheer scale... they don't focus on just the "ships" or "flight model", they're making it a whole and completely expansive individual type game where you can really do "anything", "anywhere", rather than limiting focus to pew-pew activities in ships. If FD wants to keep the arcade-style pew-pew focus without further expanding this game, so be it. They're clearly missing out on a huge opportunity. They need to stop catering to a small portion of niche players who want only one type of game play (combat) and really go Beyond to "depth" in terms of the setting.
SC isn't going to "kill" ED nor FD, as they've already gotten the money from the customer and how long someone continues to play doesn't factor into it... there's no subscription. But they're likely not going to sell very many more copies afterward, and even if they ended up going F2P it's going to be a minuscule comparison to the depth of SC in terms of competition. Given the choice between combat-focused pew-pew arcade shooter or an infinite possibility setting where I can do anything, anywhere- I know where I'll be. And it won't be sitting in the cockpit all the time pressing a fire button and watching ships explode.
