I’ll leave this here.
I can appreciate that Chris Roberts has a huge passion for creating groundbreaking games, and that’s good- but some people should just not be put in charge of projects with massive budgets, and nobody having the ability to tell them “no.”
As a reminder, when I backed Squadron 42 in 2012, I was starting my 3rd semester at NC State University, after transferring from Community College. I’d moved to Raleigh from San Diego a year before that, and a month later I would go on a date with a woman I’d end up marrying two and a half years later.
Since buying that Space BMW package, I have finished that undergrad degree at NC State, worked at three different engineering firms, worked at one university research center, and now work for a nonprofit, started and finished a masters degree, moved four times, bought a house, married that first woman I mentioned, divorced her, met and dated my current wife, married her, and become a parent to two little ones. And like @Aginor I don’t have the time to game that I did when I first pledged what feels like a lifetime ago.
Oh, and I’ve built three complete PCs that were all theoretically within the system requirements of the game.
I’m not holding my breath. I’d really, really like to eventually play the Wing Commander spiritual sequel I backed, but at this point I pretty much count that $75 as being gone.