It's funny that you guys congratulate and thank them when the game is still in such a mess 4 days from "release". Missions are impossible to complete, hence no money and rep hit, I am now Hostile in Empire and Unfriendly with the feds. On top of that, the updated launcher downloads at 0.1mb/sec when pre-gamma all patches downloaded in 5 secs for me. The game has had no additions since early beta and is most definitely not ready for release, bare bones mining, repetitive mission and trading play and no lore or story to speak of or any other kind of 'immersive' features. Finally, 4 days before release and there's no viable way to play with others in game as there are no group activities, no player factions not even a sandbox environment to create your own game.
Hell it has even less features than FFE, at least in that one you could see the police officer's fugly face, wearing a pig hat when paying your fines and you could send 'comms' and 'chat' with NPC's, even transmit a distress call.
I am starting to think that paying for this was a waste of money. And just to clarify since I can see flames coming , I am a fan of the series which I have been playing since 1985. As a matter of fact I am playing Oolite this very moment while waiting for the patch to download at the light speeds of 0,01 mb/sec. Who knows maybe I will get the chance to fail some more BBoard missions before I go to work tomorrow morning.
And the sad fact is that in a year from now they will ask us to cough up more absurd amounts of money to pay for proper multiplayer features and a couple of new ships, call it an 'expansion' DLC and stick the "400 billion star systems to explore!" sales pitch label.
The 'it's a beta' argument no longer applies on the 12th of December. So no FD, not a good job AT ALL.
Well done!
