I'm fairly new here. After reading some good things about the progress of the development of ED and checking some of the Youtube videos, I got really excited and decided to preorder. It's the game I've been waiting for for years. Since I'll have to wait for the game to come out in December, I am checking the forums here and on reddit every day to see whats new. Initially, I was quite amazed by the community. People posting their setups (including custom built game chairs and whatnot), people soldering their own headtrackers (EDtracker), people writing Quickstart tutorials for new players and so on... I was rather impressed. But more recently it seems the forums have been taken over by a bunch of people who just can't stop whining. Seriously, all the whining is extremely off-putting for new/future players like me. It just creates so much negativity around here, it's a shame.
Also, I read in one of the polls here that by far most of us are in the age range of 30-50. When you read some of these threads with all the bickering going on you'd think the average age is between 15 and 16...
And I just don't get the point of those threads. I think all of us want ED to succeed. But what is the purpose of those complains? It's pretty clear that it's crunch time at Frontiers now until release. Does anyone seriously expect they drop everything they are doing and will all of a sudden start implementing feature X because someone here started a thread 5 weeks before release and complains that his favorite feature is not in the game, yet? From what I have seen, Frontier is much better organized than most other developers. They keep their promises. They try to stay realistic and don't promise things they cannot keep (Hello Mr. Molyneux). And the DDA gives a very good idea of what they have in mind for the game. How many of those features will make it into the game at release and how many will be added in later updates we don't know. And honestly, I don't care. What I see is a very passionate, capable team of developers that is trying its best to make this game a success.