Nobody has to pay for anything outside of the basic game.

Well mate, we all ask ourselves the same questions (and more) but we've got hope that this might just be a game worth playing. Hope dies last. Either way, since with this game announcement I've seen a wave of new and old people getting interest in this game genre and in playing Freelancer, just look at how many people are playing Freelancer right now, the numbers almost doubled
Even I had plans on playing the new Syndicate game but after all this talk about spaceships and a new game being made, I got interested in Freelancer again and I HAD to play the vanilla campaign again one more time to see if I still get that wow-feeling when I unlock new ships and find new systems ... and I did get that feeling, it's incredible that a game's campaign which I played dozens of times can still deliver the thrill of exploring and fighting or simply sightseeing.

If the authors want people to pay more, then it's common practice to set incentives for them to do so. Nothing unusual about that, every crowdfunded project is doing it, so why wouldn't RSI?

Timmy, I wouldn't say that instancing is an evil thing that caused Black Prophecy to tank. In my opinion, it was due to a series of bad decisions, such as the staggering lack of new content after the short storyline (just reused stuff), and the very high grind factor.

Besides, think about this. Suppose Freelancer servers could run each and every system as a separate instance. Would that be visible to players? Most probably not. However, being able to run separate processes for them would be great, in my opinion.


Oh, and both Squadron 42 and Star Citizen are already funded, so nobody need worry about that. Even if the four million mark is not achieved, I'd still be willing to bet that they'll release modding tools for the community some time down the road: it's in their own interests to do so too, after all.

I got quite a bit of bro love for the fella.

Nah, actually, I agree with many of the ways he's advertising/marketing this product. He's attempting to get a grass root movement - getting his backers to donate to his cause early. I think it's something that we needed in the space sim genre.

I've also been impressed by the videos they've produced showing great modeling/graphic work already. I'm excited to see what else they'll show the SC community. Furthermore, I can't wait to mod the game once that comes available. Actually having ready made modding tools...I can only imagine the possibilities!!

I must say that Chris's pathos is over 9000 on those vids at RSI, hope he wont loose it after years of development

"Thank you all - Five million dollars! - We'll be right back".

If you are cynical...

"Oh, yeah?"

<chortles>

He just looks like a very cool feller!

They made it!! with 1 hour and 35 minutes-ish left to go!

They're taking us all on a trip to the Kingdom of Awesome, and grumps aren't invited