If you thought that CIG spending money on a theater-style briefing room or creating deformable bedsheets was money being lit on fire, wait 'til you see the life-sized F7C Hornet model that was part of a video reel from the recent Squadron 42 gameplay event, which readers may recall was held ahead of the single-player title's 2027 launch [...]
I dunno, i think the gaming populace is a different beast. The community for SC is way more invloved and voiciferous. I think there are likely many SC players that would happily not bother with SQ42 (though have likely paid the pledge) but if the game fails or doesnt sell well then this hurts CIG and hurts any future investment and they simply cannot rely on players funding the game alone.
I don’t have a horse in that race, but I’ve seen a few people saying SQ42 was what they really wanted out of this. Probably Wing Commander nostalgia.
No idea how much of the player base that represents though. And I assume in terms of how much they’ve paid CIG they’re most certainly dwarfed by SC ship buyers.
They’ve got stiff competition from ACE COMBAT which doesn’t spend 15 years developing a single game they said was finished 10 years ago.
They don’t exist in the vacuum they think they do.