Define worse.
No Single Player offline Mode then?
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Define worse.
Actually, I take the opposite opinion - it bodes VERY well for future commitments and support. Because they took a decision to make sure the game was *better*, and stayed at a particular level of quality, rather than producing an average experience.
In actuality, it shows a BETTER support for the backers and customer in general.
Unfortunately they re-iterated in black and white that there would be an offline mode of play. So who could trust that even if they did?
And its not "as long as humanly possible" it be the second there is no $ to pay for the servers.
So we need to provide $ for that somehow and after the kick in the groin at least I'm not going to.
Not even for a paintjob , which I sadly already got me some and I wouldn't had if it was stated plainly before, what was apparently already planned long ago , you don't do these design changes in the last week . But let everybody that wanted offline play (even static prolly) keep that hope.
Now just as a oh btw -off-comment somewhere in a newsletter filled with exiting promises .. pff
Sry Michael, thx for at least taking youre time to answer to day , but all that leaves a bad taste.
So we need to provide $ for that somehow and after the kick in the groin at least I'm not going to.
Not even for a paintjob , which I sadly already got me some and I wouldn't had if it was stated plainly before, what was apparently already planned long ago , you don't do these design changes in the last week . But let everybody that wanted offline play (even static prolly) keep that hope.
Now just as a oh btw -off-comment somewhere in a newsletter filled with exiting promises .. pff
Sry Michael, thx for at least taking youre time to answer to day , but all that leaves a bad taste.
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I can answer for me.... yes. You guys should make the game become the best possible with the presence of an offline mode.
From your perspective.
How is not being able to play the game having spent hundreds if not thousands of pound on it an improvement?
Sometimes, keeping your word is your worst option. Unless you are really living in a world defined by black and white, that is.Really well said. FD should keep his word.
All this the offline mode would make the online game worse is a side track.
You could have an offline mode and still the same online game it just costs more to do and they did promise that and many brought the game only because of that.
At the very least a full refund should be offered.
You could have an offline mode and still the same online game it just costs more to do and they did promise that and many brought the game only because of that.
At the very least a full refund should be offered.
Yes.
And I really mean it.
Maybe I would have replied differently a year ago, but not anymore.
Exactly.
Well they could switch to a subscription model now.
You guys are so certain. Is it not possible that maybe, just maybe, I actually enjoy the game? Oh right, that makes me a fanboy. Well, this fanboy just dropped $18 on the Chrome viper skin, and is currently debating dropping another $5 on the red flame eagle skin. Why? Because I can, and because I enjoy the game, so I support it. It's already given my hundreds of hours of enjoyment, with thousands more to come. You'll see me nowhere except defending Empire space to my dying breath. And maybe buzzing the moon/Earth for giggles in an Imperial Hunter.
You're also a manager and fully aware of their staffing needs? You also have intimate knowledge of how much work would need to be done to facilitate an offline mode that wouldn't incite the masses? This was a necessary evil, but the lesser of those available.
Again? DRM... You keep using that word. I know it does not mean what you think it means.
Because all you programmers are wizards right? Bloody magnets, how do they work. People seem to believe this was somehow an easy or flippant decision and are vehemently ignoring all evidence to the contrary. You can't please 'em all, Michael. But you have pleased most of them. And I know you'll continue to do so.
Sorry but I'm still even after a few hours of considered thought really disappointed. Here is a sad truth. Without offline we don't own a game. The servers really could go down and then no game. Wasn't the game meant to be procedurally generated anyway ? And honestly if you tagged the graphics and sound engines onto a bug fixed Elite 3 First Encounters you actually have more real game content.
Elite Dangerous looks and sounds great but its feeling awfully hollow in there.
I want and paid for offline ...
Elite Dangerous looks and sounds great but its feeling awfully hollow in there.
I want and paid for offline ...
So, a question comes in my mind : why trying to share universe then ? Make two distinct worlds !
30 years ago, I was satisfied and very happy to play to the original Elite without online mode. 20 years ago, I had the same joy and satisfaction for FE2, always without online mode. As soon as I learn that Elite came back with a new opus, I decided to participate at the "building" of the game but only if it will have an offline mode, so it's the very first thing I had checked.
The cornerstone of crowdfunding is the trust. For me, removing "full offline mode" from ED is like betraying the trust that I have placed in FD. If offline mode is removed, it will be the second time I am betrayed with a crowdfunding... Enough to permanently stop this mode of financing...
The way I play Elite, now and in the past, doesn't need "dynamic universe", "experience sharing",... As I don't reject something without reasons, I tested ED in multiplayer mode, but always returned to solo mode. Sometimes, I test again multiplayer after big updates, but I still don't like multiplayer mode.
I found that the sentence I read in this Newsletter #49 ("A fully offline experience would be unacceptably limited and static compared to the dynamic, ever unfolding experience we are delivering.") rather vague... But enough precise to worry me a lot.
I claim the right to be excluded from a "dynamic, ever unfolding experience". So please, don't remove the full offline mode ! I'll eventually accept an (non compulsory) connection from time to time, but I will be very disappointed and dissatisfied if this mode would be removed.
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I think you understimate by large the economical impact of this decision.
Also you don't miss a bit when you play offline a lot and occasionally get your Universe/Eliverse database updated. So not an argument against Offline.
Arguments were already listed like IP and lack of manpower. These are the only true reasons. Not that it means E : D will fail, it means it will be much less succesfull.
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