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Comment by mvdtnz | Hacker News Reader

I'll believe it if and when they launch it.

I believe them now. The underlying difference in Star Citizen is they have extremely permissive shareholder obligations, and essentially no deadline.

That virtually uncaps scope creep, and because they've had a fairly open development process it's plain to see the time for not delivering a product past by a while ago.

The thing they can fail to do at this point is scale the player connections. If they manage to scale to thousands of players I'll be impressed.

As for Squadron 42, their track record is good in terms of sheer honesty (really not the same thing as as a prediction). A single player game being "feature complete" is pretty straight forward.

And if it is good, great. Otherwise, it is what it is.

Edit: I have heard "we're almost done" before. So I'll believe it when it installs and runs.

Also what they announced is not even the core game! I stopped caring about what games he has until it is installable and playable (full game). Last game I bought of his was probably early 2000s. It was disappointing. He has got this privateer itch he has been trying to scratch since the mid 90s. This is the 5th version of the game. This one taking the longest. Meanwhile dozens of other companies have shipped complete versions 2-3 times already. I would say to get the current gen feel of what privateer would be I would say play starfield. If all you want is trading and that sort of thing one of the X series.

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