I've may have mentioned these before, I think, so just reiterating it again,and possibly expanding my explanations...
First, the whole thing about them giving daily updates is great, but its a double-edge sword. A lot of you are obviously going crazy each time an update shows up. They could have gone the other way, and just update infrequently, but I believe that the only reason why they're doing daily updates (as well as putting up a roadmap) is to show that they're actually making progress. People will go crazy/complain either way, so there's not much we can do. It might be a good idea for some of us to just completely ignore this thread (hard to do), and just wait for the OT thread to show up one day. No point getting aggravated.
Next, concerning the "beta", the actual release of the game, and about them being overly ambitious and putting in too much crap. Things like quests, more items, biomes, food... essentially, whatever they've been talking about for the last couple of weeks? Let them take their time (well, not too much time) and let them put em in.
The quests, at least based on what they've said of the quests, I think are too important to "leave out" when the beta releases. Early on, they said that progression, essentially finding better gear, and being able to use said gear, is pretty much dependent on the quests. If progression is tied to all the quests you do, then that would mean you shouldnt be capable of doing certain things if you haven't completed a certain quests. If they were to leave this particular system out, it'll just screw us up later. That character you spent days, countless hours building up? More than likely, you'll probably have to restart you character all over again if they put the quest system in.
I mean, in Terraria, when something major was added, they recommended that we start a new character over. This wasn't that much of a problem, since its not that bloody hard to rebuild your character up. The way Starbound is being designed, it'll take a while, and I don't think any of us will enjoy having to keep restarting our characters every time a stupid update comes out.
Additionally, whats with this stupid mentality of "give us the damn game, you can fix the stupid bugs later"? WHY? Before, when it came to games, we always used to complain when a company releases a game that just "wasn't finished". Have we become used to this mentality of having games that work like complete shit and hope that companies fix it later? Do we really not care when companies have to readjust things so that the game is more balanced? This is the sort of crap that needs to be taken care of before we get the damn games. Seriously, as someone pointed out, most of us aren't even going to bother to report bugs in the first place. This essentially is no different from us getting a retail release of a game, and then waiting for the devs to release updates to fix crap.
Woooo... I'm done ranting. Originally, I was just going to rant about the guy who wanted to get a refund for his pre-order. That was 2 hours ago. But hey, its his money, he can do what he wants with it. So instead, turned into just a general rant of the complaints.
One last thing though, to get everyone in the right perspective. Mentioned earlier, the devs said that they were gonna do a live demo at an event late next month. So based on that, its pretty safe to assume that there's no way in hell that we're going to get a beta of any kind before that demo. After that is a possibility, but not before. What this means is that there's no reason to complain "WHERE'S MY BETA?" until OCTOBER (the month after the demo). Sure, you guys can still complain, but we're not getting it until the earliest, October, so really, save your energy. We're suppose to get that damn Terraria update soon on the PC anyway, so put your energy into that.
I also wrote an incomplete feature (waiting on assets) to where if youre falling more than x seconds you start to produce a flame like a atmospheric reentry. Dont know if thats going to continue being a thing or not though. I also fixed a bug that caused players run animation to sometimes play backwards when theyre not holding anything.
