It's true. https://deadline.com/2017/10/lin-manuel-miranda-executive-produce-the-kingkiller-chronicle-adaptation-showtime-lionsgate-1202195413/
Plus it's getting a movie and a video game.
I played it a bit, found it to be a super generic survival game with a fallout skin. That entire genre is so overdone now it is hard to make one actually decent.
As you said, i'm busy as fuck nowadays, I like SC because it seems to let me have equal footing with those who have 60 hours a week to play while I have college or work. Plus I has an 890 and Kraken now so I win the game.