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To be fAir, SC is trying to do things that no one else done in a context of a single game. I applaud their dedication, but I won't be buying JPGs of a ship for 2k.

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Give the same amount of money to a better team and you'd get a better (finished) game. So the allocation of capital is wrong in this case. People shouldn't pre-order stuff.

The misallocation of capital also applies to GPT-4.5/OpenAI at this point.

Yeah, I wonder what the Frontier devs could have done with $500M USD. More than $500M USD and 12+ years of development and the game is still in such a sorry state it barely qualifies as little more than a tech demo.

Yeah, they never should have expected to take an FPS game engine like CryEngine and expected to be able to modify it to work as the basis for a large scale space MMO game.

Their backend is probably an async nightmare of replicated state that gets corrupted over time. Would explain why a lot of things seem to work more or less bug free after an update and then things fall to pieces and the same old bugs start showing up after a few weeks.

And to be clear, I've spent money on SC and I've played enough hours goofing off with friends to have got my money's worth out of it. I'm just really bummed out about the whole thing.

Gonna go meta here for a bit, but I believe we going to get a fully working stable SC before we get fusion. "we" as in humanity, you and I might not be around when it's finally done.

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