If you thought that CIG spending money on a theater-style briefing room or creating deformable bedsheets was money being lit on fire, wait 'til you see the life-sized F7C Hornet model that was part of a video reel from the recent Squadron 42 gameplay event, which readers may recall was held ahead of the single-player title's 2027 launch [...]
I don’t have a horse in that race, but I’ve seen a few people saying SQ42 was what they really wanted out of this. Probably Wing Commander nostalgia.
No idea how much of the player base that represents though. And I assume in terms of how much they’ve paid CIG they’re most certainly dwarfed by SC ship buyers.
They’ve got stiff competition from ACE COMBAT which doesn’t spend 15 years developing a single game they said was finished 10 years ago.
They don’t exist in the vacuum they think they do.