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One of the things that I find interesting about this discussion is how two groups of people seem to be arguing slightly different points--ships passing in the night and all that.
One group seems to be saying that it has no reason to believe that this game will be able to do all that it says that it can do. They point to the fact that there have been multiple missed deadlines by the release team, the fact that reputable text sim developers have indicated that this may be a bit . . . ambitious for a first game, the fact that this is a first generation product, and the fact that the lead programmer does not seem receptive to receiving constructive criticism. They point to all this and say that, based on all the available information, it is very unlikely that this game will come close to doing all that it says that it will be able to do on its feature list with a minimum of bugs.
Then there is a group of people who look at the proposed feature list, assume that everything will work perfectly and exactly how they see it in their head, and say that this game will be the best game ever.
The second group does not seem to "get" the first group's point, and the first group just does not believe the second group.
(There is, of course, a third group--people who have looked at the features that will be in the game and features that won't be in the game and have decided that the game will not meet their gaming needs. But this third group, while large and influential, does not fit into the dynamic I described above. And I think that a lot of them are also part of the first group, anyway.)
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