EDIT: This was a response to KrazyKraut, begun before Switchblade's post.
You do realise that you sound just as bad, only from the opposite camp? Your last few posts suggest a determination to love and defend Ins no matter what and to me, that reeks of hypocrisy.
Will it eventually become a good game? Maybe. If they work on it carefully and don't listen only to the suckups. Right now though, it's got a swag of legitimate problems, whether you choose to acknowledge them or not, some of which seem so obvious that people (including longtime community members) are unsurprisingly wondering out loud how they made it through years of testing unnoticed.
You can also compare it to RO Beta 1 as much as you like, but there's a big difference in how the PR has been carried out. Yes, RO had problems, nobody is denying it. So did every other mod ever made, but none were as ambitious in their first versions and they certainly didn't proclaim how "instantly wonderful" they were going to be.
The Ins team have spent years proclaiming that it's effectively "the second coming" and that, as the above quote from Jeremy suggests (along with plenty more from the whole team over the last 3 years) they were intent on skipping all the intermediate versions and going straight to the "perfect" release. A noble goal, but there's a reason no-one else has managed to do it before them. They've now learned the hard way that the more you try to do at once, the more problems you get in one go and in future they'll know better (with any luck). This time round however, it's been a farce. You know it, I know it and most importantly, they know it.
You think we're all desperate to hate it, but if we were, we wouldn't have bothered to try it at all. The fact is, we don't have to go looking for problems because they're everywhere. Just jump on the official forums for confirmation if my word isn't enough. If you expected us to simply toss aside our skepticism and accept their "holier than thou" PR campaign as gospel however, I'm afraid you're mistaken. Most of us wouldn't do so for ANY developer, not even Tripwire. Certainly not for a first time development team with no prior projects to lend credence to their claims.
In time, perhaps this will become a great mod, but it isn't there yet and no amount of wishful thinking on the part of fans will change that.
.First map I find a humvee with dead American driver. I'm given the choice to be an insurgent or an Alliance soldier. This conflict is ongoing still in real life and people are dying (both sides) in real life. I just find the theme of the game a bit, I dunno, tactless is probably the wrong word. It just seems wrong.
