Now you use arguments. The original 'lol just a tech demo, no foundation or nothing!" line had none of that. To anyone stumbling into this topic, it doesnt looke like a 'sober and rational' assessment, it seems like a troll-post. Maybe because people get tired of repeating the same arguments over and over, but when it all devolves into a barrage of such one-liners the reasoning and logic behind the posts is likely to be missed...
The trouble is that even now, even with 3.0, describing SC as a tech demo, as a proof of concept, as a way to show case the technology - is pretty much accurate.
You might want to call it trolling...but a tech demo is what it is. With no gameplays loops of note, it can't even be upgraded to "Playable Demo" because most of the gameplay isn't there. It's simply there to show certain aspects of the technology...that's all it does.
I wish it were more, and hope they will get everything into 4.0 that they hope for, but describing 3.0 as a tech demo may be, in your eyes trolling but it is still an accurate description.
This is all perfectly fine (although somewhat petty), but it does contrast with some of the 'defenses' some here bring up when explaining why I post. "We need to protect people!" is being brough up every now and then, and indeed what you say matches the tone around here
much better.
You'll get a range of motives here and not everyone wants to "twist the knife". You might think this forum hostile, but in reality what is being discussed here is what I would term healthy(?) scepticism. People here aren't going to toe the CIG party line and if they don't toast CIGs successes, that's because CIG haven't had ANY successes for a long time. They have overpromised and underdelivered and if people here take them to task for bugs, it's because CIG themselves are treating this game like a full release rather than the preAlpha it is. If CIG want to polish the game and make believe its a Beta release, they deserve a severe amount of criticism.
All of which is usually correct but only serves to underscore the point being made. For all that CIG are trying to make believe this is playable product, it isn't. It's a preAlpha. They should not be polishing it. They should not be worrying about optimisation. They should not be worried about creating assets. A good deal of what they are doing NOW is stuff they should be doing two or three years in the future - and likely will be doing because developing these assets and systems so early leaves them highly vulnerable to changes.
That's one reason why development is slow. CIG are wasting time and money "polishing" a preAlpha version and in so doing they are building a house without foundations.
