Your fear that the game may fail at launch is also wishful thinking. Except the campaign system, can you tell me what it is that the game still need, which hasn't been done or isn't being done yet, to do a proper launch?
Loot system, Elites, the "burn card" system they talked about (or something else to make elites work), Weapon mods for all weapons, more saveable loadouts, Different iterations of weapons (like the mastercrafted stuff we heard of), PvE (we have one single non random map right now) -> balance all this stuff Before you jump in with "that´s all being worked on right now!" I am highly aware. If they manage to get that stuff actually in i will be very happy. But even if they do add all this in one single month. Balancing all this and getting rid of bugs in one month sounds unreasonable to me. I´d prefer to have all that in and then at least 2 months of beta to make it right. To balance correctly etc. I do say doubts about all this getting in on time are reasonable. But now we are only 1 month away from launch. I waited so long i can wait one month to see how this turns out before i will call doom and gloom on this.
...This is absolutely bonkers. The game just had it's 4th faction"completed." It isn't even out of alpha yet and they are launching in a MONTH?!
I can't wait to watch Total Biscuit and Angry Joe tear EC apart. To be honest, the game deserves to be. BeHaviour clearly sees the development as a liability now and are making a cash grab move to make up some of the losses before cutting development completely. In the grim darkness of the not-so-far future, there are no open territories, no new races, and no players. There is only mediocrity.
I'm just kinda stumped. It makes me feel extremely foolish for even believing in the game let alone spending hundreds of dollars on it. I have no doubt in time EC could be the game I bought into, but right now I'm just disappointed in the state of the game for something that goes gold in a month. I wanted this game to succeed, I know all of us did, but it seems like going gold is a last gasp to keep the game alive.
This game is going to be dead on arrival. It has almost no hype around it. Most people don't even know it is in development. The only thing that could sell it is if it was a solid game and gets good critic reviews. Sadly in it's current state it is far from that. The critics will give it bad to mediocre reviews. The gaming world is harsh these days. No one will care about a game that has promises of future content. First impressions mean a lot. No hype + bad reviews = dead on arrival.
Oh, it's Planetside 2 launch all over again. Except EC is in even worse state than PS2 was back there.
after around 1100 hours of EC the release don't look to put in soo much to make play for another 1000 hours (the new big stuff is aready in, only space wolf special snowolflackes are missing). deathwing instead look like an extremely cool 10 hours canpaign that you will not touch again after you complete the game.
