My suspicion is simply that there is NOTHING else out there that brings the other elements to the table like this game does. The market is pretty bereft of offerings and I found myself mostly playing Space Engineers had this not come along and even that was starting to get stale no matter how many mods I threw on the pile.
if all the other facets of the game were terrible, such as ship building, industries, talent tree design, voxel deformation based terraforming etc..if all of those were subpar aspects of gameplay but PVP combat was exceptional, then I think the only people even chatting in this forum would be hard core pvp folks.
The game offers enough elements that as a package cant' be found anywhere else that it is going to draw a diverse crowd.
I'm personally on the fence and reserving judgement until there are more specifics on actual mechanics, inter-safe zone travel etc. I've done my share of 3d newtonian based physics pvp in a very old game called Jumpgate, but I'm just getting too old for it anymore. With that said, I understand the appeal.
