I am interested in SC. If they manage to pull this off... well... then I think they might just possibly have one of the best games ever made for this kind of a thing... but again, that is only if they pull it of. They have biten of a very large chunk after all, and we won't know if they will be able to chew it just yet.
I do enjoy space sims/fighters like this, but in general it has only been a select few games that I have liked in it (partly due to not playing everything, and not being interested in certain games etc). The first one for me was Tie-Fighter, I really loved that game and finished it atleast 2 times I think, I never liked the X-Wing games though for some reason. The next game of this nature to pull me in was many years later when I found Freelancer, which is one of the few games I have finished more then 1 time (finished it 2 times, and I sometimes go back and play it every now and then). I really enjoy all of the aspects of Freelancer. And lastly I have played and really liked the various versions of the X3 games in the X-Universe, which I like just due to how much like Freelancer it is (although it is also different on some levels which is a plus also), although I have never finished the main storyline in that game. I did try X-Rebirth, but unfortunatly my computer is just not strong enough for it...
Which is unfortunate, because I know that my computer will not be able to handle neither Elite or SC... which I do want to play both of (including X-Rebirth to of course). So yeah... will see what happends. I think the only really bad thing about SC (and Elite to i belive) is that you basicly will always need to be online (don't know to what extent Elite will need internet, but I recently heard something about it always needing online or something... not looked it up though to find out). And of course with SC you will mostly play amongst other people, multiplayer basicly. I much rather play compleatly solo and against the AI, and not have to deal at all with other people. But that's just me, I never really liked multiplayer or PvP in games really, and I certainly do not like the idea of other people being able to start greiving or PK people, just to be Trolls and in general just try and do what they can to destroy the fun for other people. I am sure you can opt out of a lot of that if you really want to though... but I guess we will have to wait till the game comes out to find out just how much one can opt out and/or in for things like that with SC.