Dude i've been following the NS2 community for a while now..it's been a very slow and drawn out process but theyre starting to shape things up a bit more now. Unfortunately things have been delayed an enormous amount since theyve essentially created their own gaming company and this will be their first release.
I have alot of faith that they will support this game with all theyve got. If you guys haven't played NS1 before then you should be in for a real treat. It was unlike anything in it's time, a true genre of its own in it's time mixing RTS gameplay with FPS in an alien vs marine context. I had a helluva lot of fun with this. I'm pretty sure i'll be preordering soon depending on how the closed beta is coming along (it launched recently).