not in the long term it’s not

it really is better for the devs

This is said a lot but... Is it really? And if so why should I, the customer, care?

I can't think of any other good or service in my life that I would go out of my way to buy from an alternative store so that the manufacturer makes more money. I don't choose between Aldi and Whole Foods based on whether the manufacturer of my chicken bullion cubes makes more margin with one or the other. It's just fuckin weird.

My biggest complaint about E:D is that star citizen's flight mechanics and ship design ruined the game for me. Star Citizen has a wider variety of ship designs than E:D. Additionally, the ships I've tried in SC are incredibly responsive, to the point where even the nimblest E:D ship feels like a whale. However, that's about all I can say for star citizen. I mean, it's getting there, slowly but I swear to god the world is going to end before they finish the fucking game.

Meanwhile, E:D is very much a complete game in a massive galaxy. Sure, it may not have as much detail as CIG is trying to put into star citizen, sure it may not have the complexity of star citizen, but that doesn't matter if you can't finish your game. However, E:D's ships suck.

Can we take star citizen's good half and E:D's good half and make one complete game please?

Once you trick out an Anaconda you "beat the game".

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