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- Executive Meddling: It has been argued that the broken state Rebirth shipped out in was a result of deadlines set by Deep Silver, though no direct evidence is available. According to the developers themselves, the game's very existence was this. They originally wanted to go straight into making X4.
- Production Nickname: TNBT, short for "the next big thing".
- Schedule Slip: Originally set for release in fourth quarter 2011, but the season came and went with no specific release date. Some fans were half-convinced it had become vaporware due to a lack of information. (The devs and beta testers were barred from talking freely about it thanks to non-disclosure agreements.) CBJ, the one dev who post on the forum on a regular basis, consistently denied this to be the case, and on August 8 Rebirth was announced for a November 15, 2013 release.
- Troubled Production: X Rebirth went through major hassles in its development. The very game's existence was due to the fact Egosoft's former publisher, Deep Silver, forced them to release a product made with the new engine they had developed for X4: Foundations. The game also went through several iterations, one of which was supposed to be an Xbox 360 game. The current version of the game still bears some remnants of that version, the enhanced controller support and the big A in the interface menu being the most noticeable of them. The rocky launch and the Executive Meddling ended up being the last straw for Egosoft, who went on to publish X4: Foundations themselves.
- What Could Have Been: Storywise, the game was originally going to be set a thousand years after the gates shut down, instead of the 25 of the final game. Also, the Dark would've been caused by a supernova, instead of a firebreak by the Ancients to stop the Xenon from spreading further.
- Why Fandom Can't Have Nice Things: The aforementioned CBJ calls fans out
on the endless whining about there being very little news from Egosoft about X Rebirth for about a year and a half. When they were posting a screenshot a week, people started demanding more info and videos, at which point ES basically said "screw this."shea: But i still cant understand why a few screenshots every week cant be posted,
CBJ: The irony of this is that when we were posting weekly screenshots, people were complaining that it wasn't enough and demanded videos. When we provided a video they demanded gameplay information. The reality is that no matter what we provide, people will always want more, and this thread will run on regardless, with those people who are inclined to do so getting irate and impatient. Again, we know people want more information, but despite what some of those may people think, doing what they want isn't always the right course of action when the bigger picture is taken into account.
