[prof_hobart]

It's not random person off the street. It's someone with a well known and well respected history of delivering high quality games.

[89a]

> well known and well respected history of delivering high quality games.

Someone is forgetting how Elite 2 turned out

[leoc]

Frontier was fine, a good Elite sequel. Even First Encounters was okay after extensive patching. And the problems with First Encounters at launch were apparently down to deadline issues with the publisher, just the kind of thing that a Kickstarter launch ought to avoid.