Are the releases of Squadron 42 and Star Citizen tied together, or could they be released on separate dates?

Well, they'll absolutely be released in separate places. I mean, Star Citizen, you can play part of Star Citizen now, play a bunch more of it tonight, and Squadron 42 will be independent of that. Squadron 42 will be out before Star Citizen is live, final, finished forever. So yes, that question is yes.

It's not a perfect analogy, but Squadron 42 is kind of like Warcraft 3 and Star Citizen's World of Warcraft. It's the single player, it's the campaign.

Oddly enough, if both games had fully come out, I think that was Curt Schilling's whole project, Kingdoms of Amalur and Copernicus, the MMO, where it's like, here's the single-player game to set up this grand, amazing universe you're going to inhabit in an MMO, and then the MMO: hey, here's the repercussions of what happened in that other game.