The house has already won. They have my money and I have very little to show for it, and the prospect of getting anything worthwhile for my money is decreasing with every new release.
I'm not as pessimistic, mostly due to the dumb funding. I mean really, a person would
never pay $300 for a video game in a store. But it does depend on what you mean by "worthwhile".
I think it might become worthwhile because I think CR thinks he has the cash now to clone ED. He will try to do a "one-up" on the graphics side with super-high polygon models and the single-player campaign.
I am not being sarcastic either. Look at the history. He backed ED and has access to the DDF. He ditched the CryEngine Shattered Worlds approach and decided to re-write the engine for DFPP and 64-bit in key areas to give a bigger seamless play-area at 1:100 scale. He has recently said he was negotiating with PG experts very experienced in space stuff (like Space Engine, perhaps), to bring them on in an admission that it is impossible to create even 70 fully detailed star systems in a lifetime by hand-crafting, let alone enough stars for an
Exploration mechanic. And every 10ftC I have watched I think after the question as CR is answering "the answer is... just like in the ED DDF posted in 2013."
Otherwise, what CIG delivers is aligned with the original plan, which was a bunch of dogfighting scenarios on small-for-space CryEngine level maps, FPS scenarios with various location maps (starships, ground locations), AC and Murray Cup, all linked by the Hangar Module and loading screen animations.
