since terraria is getting a major overhaul soon 2yrs after "the last patch",.....

[lammatt]

i hope SQUAD will do the same a few years after they officially closed the project.

imagine... when this forum turned into a deserted wasteland in the cyberspace and virtually all players have forgottten the game,

suddenly they announce there'll be a major patch, reviving the game and the community

this will be very nice, wont it?

[KasperVld]

Seriously, the game isn't even out yet.

[Rage097]

There is a very LONG way to go before the game is even released, and then to let the game runs steady for a while. If what you suggest is even likely it will take a VERY long time.

[Guest]

Seriously, the game isn't even out yet.

Not empty quoting.

[lazarus1024]

Truely. Its like hoping that the Girl you just started dating will break up with you in a couple of years, but then you'll run in to her a few years later, she'll throw herself at you and it'll be just like old times.

How about you worry about the relationship you have now and not some hypothetical many years from now thing.

KSP has been around, for what? 2 odd years (or is it 3? Sorry, I've only been around for a little over a year). It is going strong and growing both as a community and as a game.

SQUAD hasn't really talked recently much about their long view of KSP in terms of where they think they'll be when the game is "finished". Some of the last discussions they had about it seemed like they are probably at least a good year away from where they think the game will need to be to hit Beta and I'd expect probably at least a few months of it being in Beta before they feel they've quashed enough bugs and done enough game balancing and optimization before I think they'd consider it "done". They've already talked about (and gotten undeserved backlash) future expansion plans to KSP once they feel they've delivered the final game.

I think SQUAD has concrete and ephimeral plans for KSP that are going to keep it in fairly active development for at least then next couple of years and possibly/probably longer.

[Epthelyn]

The reason Terraria's update is getting a lot of attention was because Redigit just suddenly declared that they would no longer be updating the game and would be doing other things. Terraria has a fairly replayability but since there are relatively few mods for it and it does get slightly repetitive after the first 60 hours it's nice to see an 'overhaul' which will add content.

KSP, however:

- It's not finished, and it will no doubt be a considerably long time before it is "finished", yet people have played KSP for hundreds of hours and are STILL coming up with crazy new ideas and having fun with it.

- As long as Squad add more places to go to (and perhaps randomly generated space) there will be more and more things to do. Think of all the things you can do on Duna, and then rewrite that list for each new planet.

- The modding community in an unfinished game is a million times better and more active than Terraria's is and was. Mods make games last for much, much longer, at least as long as they are developed in an active community.

The simple fact is that all most games eventually die, even the best ones. Squad could develop a perfect game and people could be playing KSP actively with a community for over a decade, or it could slowly diminish after a few years and become something people play to remember the past. The only major overhaul you can do to a perfect game is to tell people to play something else until they regain interest