[FaultyAirlock]

I'm not sure where you got the idea that "cautiously optimistic" means anything other than what it is; optimism tempered with realism. And concerning "negative buzz"; almost all the comments so far (including my own) have been positive...

I'm not expecting a bug-free game, or a perfectly balanced game, and I'm CERTAINLY not expecting a game that's exactly like SEIV (because if it WAS exactly like SEIV, I'd just play that instead; it's more stable and I already own it). All I'm really interested in is the game-breaking bugs being fixed... and I'm quite certain Aaron will be able to at least squash the worst of them before it goes gold.