Yet again CIG shows us they don't care about us players, only our wallets.
The game is absolutely unplayable right now. Server FPS is around 2–5 and the game barely functions. Constant crashes, horrendous lag, broken systems everywhere, and gameplay that gets completely bricked half the time.
CIG delayed the free fly because the game state was so broken, admitted they needed hotfixes over the weekend, and then barely addressed the massive list of issues 4.8 introduced before pushing the free fly live anyway. Meanwhile there’s still no real clarity on what this supposed “Wednesday patch” is actually fixing.
And now we’ve got situations where stations are being completely clogged with abandoned ships sitting on every pad before the free fly has even properly started. With the new insurance system allowing near-instant claims, people are spawning ships nonstop and leaving them everywhere.
On top of all that, releasing a $5k ship during one of the worst patch states the game has had is absolutely insane. If sales were really that important, then DefenceCon and the free fly should have been delayed until the game was actually stable. These are completely controlled event dates, CIG chose when to launch this.
I’ve been playing for two years and spent around $175 so far, and I honestly don’t think I’ve ever seen the game in this bad of a state. Sure, bugs are expected in an alpha, but that excuse only goes so far when the game is barely functional and monetization keeps taking priority over stability.