Just a thought, but perhaps you should start a separate thread in general discussion? This derail has gone on for long enough.
It isn't so much a derail as it is people intentionally avoiding talking about Starbound mostly because no one has anything nice to say and those that do only have a tepid "could be worse" sort of thing to say.
Hate versus the Lukewarm.
It's not because there aren't any nice things to say about Starbound. There are plenty, the game got a great performance increase in the nightly, the new quest progression is promising, the content keeps expanding, etc. I was digging down into the core of my starting planet recently, and at one point I could've sworn I was playing Terraria, because I dug into an underground Ice biome, fell into a pool of tar, and had to fend off a constant assault by flying and wall-crawling enemies as I tried to get some torches up to bloody see more than two feet around my character and maybe effect an escape. It's going in the right direction, and it doesn't even have its main story missions working yet.
It's mostly because all of those good things will be dismissed by all the hatemongers in the thread, so there isn't any point mentioning them. The game is improving and looking to be quite interesting at launch, but all you people care about is what was promised and how CF handled its PR, which does not affect the final game whatsoever in my opinion. >_>
(it almost feels like we need a rephrase of the old saying about books and covers. "Don't judge a game by its company."
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