But on what do you grind your skill if the combat is not competitive at all, on what reputation you are working if the org system is nearly not integrated at all in the game, it’s not yet fully persistent and there are no real economic dynamics besides the simplistic, predetermined cargo runs.

Grinding your skill up or your gear or your reputation etc. I’m saying no one commits to the game as in committing to a regular multiplayer game.

Note I’m not saying no one plays, period. They are sticking to their guns, and I think it seems to be paying off. CIG is not abandoning the hardcore gameplay in favor of quick cash from the more simplified version. Instead it seems to me that CIG is confident about how thier base will expand as the game's depth continues to grow around the core vision of the space sim, and CIG is avoiding exactly the choice what WoW fans complained that Blizzard made. The game already offers gameplay that you cannot get elsewhere, so just sprinkle on some generic gameplay on top and you're 'good enough.' If CIG were just in it for the money, they would polish what they have now and cash in because they have ALREADY passed the minimum threshold to sell. This is because CIG is taking the right direction.

They know there is currently a smaller base of 'hardcore space sim fans' (of which I am a part) for whom the game has ALREADY reached a point where it's entertaining enough to play on a regular basis. I mean, IMHO thinking logically, CIG has metrics on it's community. (I mean he did eventually, after the community beat the passion out of him, but that was years later after the game was a well established success.)ĬIG actually have their stuff together way more than Notch did, so they are progressing despite the different culture at large. Modding API sound familiar? And yet that game made history because Notch had vision to do something and didn't just cash in. Minecraft would never have made it in today's environment. People love to conspiracy theory everything these days, and SC is an epitomy of it. That's why PTU is ALWAYS empty when new patches come out, why I NEVER run into other players in the Live PU, and why I personally haven't ALREADY gotten more playtime out of the alpha than I have at say The Division which someone gave me as a gift but that I just didn't really care for.

Star citizen 2019