[BowBun]

Have you built anything comparable? It's in alpha, making performance/presentation comments seems really out of place. If you were well-informed on the project, you would know that they intentionally put performance optimizations on the backburner, because optimizing tech they intended to replace is not a good use of time.

Besides, in the last 6 months performance has drastically improved, as anyone that actually plays will tell you. I play regularly, do a variety of delivery/bounty/mining/recovery missions, explore planets/stations, have funny interactions surrounding all of that with other players, etc. Rome wasn't built in a day.

[RNAlfons]

Do I have to build something comparable to be able to comment on the performance issues I have witnessed? I don't think so.

Do I have to accept all those excuses, which like those pictures of ships never run low in this company, to comment on the performance? I don't think so.

They promise a lot. They don't deliver. They break things which were already working and I'm still waiting. Those are clear signs of terrible Project Management and I think, I don't have to know all those cool insiders-excuses to be able to comment on this failure.

So please. Spare me your epigrams. They won't change anything about the facts.

[dang]

Hey, please don't take HN threads further into flamewar. Your reply here is a noticeable drop hellward, and that's what we're trying to avoid here!

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[empath-nirvana]

> It's in alpha, making performance/presentation comments seems really out of place.

This is a ridiculous statement. They've collected half a billion dollars from customers and have been in alpha for over 10 years.

[BowBun]

I'm not entirely sure what your point is. I didn't realize being in alpha had monetary or time limits.

[Tepix]

The release was promised to be 2014 or so.

[chrisjj]

Reminds me of the film director dismissing the view of a film critic who had never made a film in his entire life...

[BowBun]

That sounds like a good thing. Artists rarely care about what critics say, and when they do it's seen as an obsession to get rid of. I would hope Kurosawa didn't waste time listening to critics and instead took feedback from those that made films.

[chrisjj]

The director cared enough to make the dismissal.