At this point they do not even have much of incentive to deliver a game. They do not seem to be beholden to anyone or to any deadline's. Furthermore, why deliver the game when you can continue to make $6m or so a month from it (which give or take is equivalent to selling 120k copies a month).

I would not call it a scam per say (but I would also hesitate to say definitively that it is not a scam, its quite questionable) but this game has been in development for so long yet has so little to show for it. Their choice of engine was poor and not made for what they intended (as much as I like the cryengine, or I guess lumberyard is what they use now which is a version of that, that engine was not meant for massive games like this). Granted its still in "development", but given how it was initially meant for much weaker hardware, the game still performs so poorly. Very unstable, massive FPS drops even on a good rig (was not great on my 9700k with 2070 Super, and its not great now that I have an RTX 3070) (note I never backed the game, I tried it again using friends account on my own PC).

As for the world, everyone keep saying it will have a massive world so much bigger than ED's, but that is not true at this point in time. ED has a large working world, tons of planets (albeit empty), they have foot combat coming now (and with ED you know it will release so this is a safe bet). SC on the other hand currently has a small world with a few stars. Should they say they will have a large world, but at this point in time it is empty promises given their track record. I used to be super excited about this game (especially Squadron 42), but now its just ridiculous. Chris Roberts is milkng you all dry. Imagine if this 350m would have been invested somewhere (would be worth much more), or given to better causes than to inflate some delusional (at this point) guys wallet who cant manage a project.

Uh no not even a comparison a PC is significantly better than the switch in almost all conceivable ways, has a significantly better game library, provides a much better gaming experience (flexibility of control methods, graphics quality, frame rate, loading times, and more) and simply put Switch is an inferior way to play games. Now, if portability is your main goal, then sure it is better, but even then given covid when would you need that functionality (tbh in my view even before covid, outside of a flight, seems kind of odd to be outside playing a video game...). Even then though, you want to play game while watching TV? You can wirelessly stream your PC library to your Android phone (not perfect but if done right very good). A smartphone also has a significantly better display than the low rez, and (imo) low quality LCD display of a switch.

If you can not affordany other game system (or only one game system), switchis literally the worstone to get as it lacks games and has a tiny library. It is great as a secondaryconsole/handheld, but not as a primary.

Lmao you are grasping at straws OP. First, the game is still the best on PC, no questions asked, keyboard and mouse are far better for FPS, and the game will look better on a PC.

Second of all, as nice of a controller the new Dual Shock is, it wont add much to the immersions, its just cool but that is it, certainly better than the XSX controller though.

Third and most importantly, as of now Tempest Audio is garbage. It does not support surround speaker setups (big missed opportunity) and even on headphones, it just sounds awful (have tried it using both a Steelseries Arctis 7 and a Corsair HS70 in Spiderman Miles Morals, turning tempest on sounds like garbage, as if you are under water, better left turning it off). Lastly, for immersion, playing games on a nice 5.1.x (or higher) surround setup is far better than playing on headphones (especially gaming headphones, which tend to sound worse than regular/studio headphones)

To be fair games at $70 today is still cheaper were when they first became $60 back on 2005 I believe. If factor into account inflation, $60 back then is $79ish right now. So its not much of a price increase to be fair, it does not even fully cover inflation since 2005.

As for me, most games I do not buy day 1 as I am willing to wait a few months for the price to go down and I have a massive backlog as is. Only a few games to I buy day 1ish now. Plus I have GamePass on XSX and Origin Access on PC so for MS and EA games get those that way now.

Although generally it is cheaper to build it yourself, that is not always necessarily the case (depending of course on your priorities and if you want to run CPU stock or OC it, since pre-builts generally come with the lower-end mobo's and cpu coolers). In my case, like two years ago, got a CyberPowerPC off Amazon for effectively $1200 after tax which had a 9700k, RTX 2700 Super (recently upgraded to RTX 3070 FE for free since could sell 2070 for $600), CM 120mm AIO, 16GB DDR4 3000 RAM and 1TB Nvme SSD. Would have cost more to build it myself (plus the time) so went with that. Back then keep in mind prices were normal and availability was fine so if you want a PC now pre-builts may be the quickest way to go.

Although personally would have chosen something other than Alienware (their thermals are super iffy so if you don't know what you are doing/how to mitigate it could be an issue).

On another note, you should consider changing the speakers. Shame to play games while listening to those Bose. GIven how great HDR looks on PS5 and XSX games should also consider playing on a good HDR TV (say LG CX OLED, Samsung Q90T, Sony X900/950H, or Hisense H9G). The difference between SDR and HDR on a good TV is night a day its amazing.

I am not sure anymoe, i was actually going to get an 8800GTS 320MB, but then the ATI catds are right are the corner, and given that the HD2900xt (dam h8 this HD name) is right around the corner, the 8800GTS line will probably drop in price, that plus i have heard that it may perform a lil bit better than the 640MB version of the 88GTS, and may cost $50 less.

So anyway w8'ing for the release before the purchase, although i wish Nvidia would release the 8900 line already.  

This looked simply awesome, pretty good gfx, gameplay seems intense from the video, and it seems to have an interesting storyline (well seems, because there are the terrorists, then russians talking about showing what they can do, and not fearing anyone) so seems like a promising game.

Hoping it will come out this year, and for the PC platform. Tbh nvr liked playing CoD on any other platform.