You are still arguing "this existing and nearly finished game is clearly inferior to my promised game" however you cut it.
SC should be amazing if it delivers but it's a massive if, when there's already so much money been spent.
If I promise "world peace, free BJ's for everyone, calorie free chocolate only £45 pre-order. Should have it done in about 2 years." would you buy into that? The guy has credentials on his side and talks a very good game but when talking (a good game) alone has netted $20m - is there really any incentive to get this done to a massively polished degree? What more is he likely to achieve?
Not saying your wrong but... maybe just ease off the hype a bit and don't be quite so quick to shoot down critics.
Yes, I might be arguing Elite ('existing and nearly finished game') will be inferior to Star Citizen ('promised game'), however you'll notice im not the one arguing "existing and nearly finished game will be inferior to a game comparable in scope to promises of world peace & BJs for all", so kudos for establishing the grounds of your argument.
People who spread malicious lies about it, should be shot down as the BS shovelling idiots they are.
As for 'hype', the only 'hype' was simply stating what the game (SC) is, what they're working on. If you (or anyone else) can highlight a sentence in this thread where ive posted something which was remotely speculative of what the game would be like (as opposed to simply stating the planned features for SC), to be able to splash hype all over it, i'll buy the OP both games, and he/she can chose for himself. For the sake of the OP, at least try.
If you've delivered on world peace, BJs for everyone & calorie free chocolate for £45 (not sure why £45, SC is £25/$40 or £15 for an AMD code - Elite is the 3m game asking for £45, SC is the one which will raise a good $100m and sells that for $40, and always has, iirc Elite was around £100 for alpha?) multiple times in the 90's, and now you're offering it today with a great team, tons more development access than any developer gives showing them surpassing expectations, then yeah, i'll vote for you.
As for needing an incentive to do what you promised, you sound like a really reputable chap! I guess seeing as CR netted $20m 14mo ago, is still around, has since been providing an even greater level of access to what the team are working on with between 60-120min of video updates per week (of which he's in roughly 40-60% of), and tons of text updates, game updates, live streamed conferences around the world showing of content crammed together in a matter of weeks to show off in very early and far from polished state... what more is he likely to achieve? More than someone with your level of morals, apparently.
Outlining game features = hype = world peace & BJs for all.
Anything else you'd care to add, while posting under the delusion of rational/reasonable thinking?
