I apologize if I came off as combative. This perpetual drama has put me in a bad mood. I love the SC community, we're all a bunch of nutters, but there's always something that people are upset about. I have absolute faith in Roberts and have always just wanted a good ol' fashioned circlejerk while we wait for the BDSSE to cook. It's unrealistic and unwise as we're responsible for giving feedback, but a man can dream dammit. :P

You raise a very good point with Squadron 42 costs in both mocap actors and voice talent. Both TOR and Destiny had some talent, but it was voice actors only I think. I'm still not following with the regular employees though. All 3 have to pay for employees during the dev cycle, and I imagine that the time spent with a skeleton crew would be mostly negligible expenses in the grand scheme of things. The reworking or scrapping of already completed work would be the largest expense of SC over the other projects in my opinion. I doubt there was nearly as much in TOR and destiny since they didn't contract out or have vast feature changes.