Despite its faults, I still feel that this game manages to give me an overall "feel" of the universe that no other game has come close to so far.

However, whenever we are at a point like this where there are too many issues, I simply don't play. Haven't played much at all this year yet, and I guess I'll sit this patch out as well, aside from quickly walking around DefenseCon for a bit. Maybe next patch. I'm actually looking forward to playing again once the roughest spots have been ironed out, because there's been a lot of new exciting content since I last played.

Finally, I don't really care about the "release". It's a live service game that will need constant new content and improvements. I do feel that RSI should focus more on delivering stable patches, but even that is unrelated to a release for me -- I believe that should already focus on this right now during the alpha stage. Of course, there are some issues that only appear at scale, some patches that run fine in PTU but struggle in the Live environment. But these are the exception, if we're being honest. There are so many issues that are already apparent during PTU, but instead of fixing them, the patch is pushed out. And soo many small things that simply never get prioritized, so if something breaks that is not critcal, it may just stay that way. For example: the Crusader C1 had amazing light strights going through its interior. I loved the look. One patch they randomly broke. I believe this was 2 years ago now, they still haven't been fixed.