Except those who couldn't, gave up, were waiting for their DRM free boxed copy, yeah. Anyone who has been around the forum knows about the concern about the upcoming release from players who the online modes clearly aren't working for. Those guys did not go anywhere.
No Single Player offline Mode then?
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Except those who couldn't, gave up, were waiting for their DRM free boxed copy, yeah. Anyone who has been around the forum knows about the concern about the upcoming release from players who the online modes clearly aren't working for. Those guys did not go anywhere.
i fully agree with you, it was to further counter their nonsensical arguments about this game being made primarly online only
I dont think the vast majority as you put, are worried, i do not see any "blatently devious" move either, it seems to me it was technical reason for the decision, but as neither of us are on the FD team we cannot say for certain.
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OK. Point. If we're going to be pedantic.I'm old skool - you have single player and multi player. Single player games have no justification for being online in my book
[FWIW. I'm still not sold on why single player online exists anyway. If you're going to play multiplayer, play multiplayer, if not, don't. Swapping between the two is pretty tantamount to cheating (again in my book) - but that's another argument that's been done to death
It's a good book. I also have a copy.
feel sorry for that
That is correct. But people are unhappy to have this choice so close to release and are expressing that feeling. You're OK giving people that freedom, I'd assume.
Does Halo have a dynamic economy?
Does Halo have a persistent (massive) gameworld that changes based on players actions?
Also comparing games like Battlefield/CoD and Halo that plays out on deathmatch maps to a game like Elite is ridiculous. Yes, each instance could be defined as a "map", but all of the gameworld is connected together consistently in a bigger picture that is not seen in these other games.
It's not a pure MMO of course...more like a hybrid.
What are you on about?
I haven't seen anyone criticize anything that works, or hasn't been dramatically changed very late in the game. I've actually seen hardly anyone criticize Frontier directly.
Completely agree with the wiki'd questions about titles such as Sim City 3 (or even Diablo 3), but that wasn't my point really - and you do know that
I am perfectly capable of reading articles, you know
DRM stands for Digital Rights Management. Simply put, it is a way to prevent people from utilizing a program in ways not intended by the creators, such as pirating the program, or fiddling with its internal workings. A client server system with authentication definitely fulfills this by, at the very least, disallowing more than one simultaneous usage of a single account. The determining factor is not whether a component is necessary for the intended experience, but whether it helps prevent tampering with the program. So really, any program with online features, and some method of authentication, which is pretty much anything with online features, has DRM. However, the issue people take from DRM is that it hampers the intended experience of legitimate users in attempts to protect the creators' data. In cases where a program could function as intended just fine without online authentication, forcing such a thing is pretty terrible DRM for the user, but in cases where it couldn't function without online authentication, it is still DRM, but not really bad DRM.
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The top right hand corner, right of the "Settings" button
It's a good book. I also have a copy.
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Some news articles specifically mentioning the topic from the past 24 hours:
http://www.themittani.com/news/elite-dangerous-beta-benefits-announced-offline-mode-axed
http://www.pcgames.de/Elite-Dangero...ngleplayer-gestrichen-Backer-empoert-1142823/
( google translate to english )
http://vrfocus.com/archives/8781/elite-dangerous-offline-mode-dropped-hit-community-backlash/
http://elitenews24.com/news/elite-dangerous-beta-3-9-due-20th-november/
http://www.themittani.com/news/elite-dangerous-beta-benefits-announced-offline-mode-axed
http://www.pcgames.de/Elite-Dangero...ngleplayer-gestrichen-Backer-empoert-1142823/
( google translate to english )
http://vrfocus.com/archives/8781/elite-dangerous-offline-mode-dropped-hit-community-backlash/
http://elitenews24.com/news/elite-dangerous-beta-3-9-due-20th-november/
Oh and to everyone:
The galaxy is yours
Elite: Dangerous is the spectacular new sequel in the Elite series of games.
Head for the stars, take a ship and trade, bounty-hunt, pirate or assassinate your way across the galaxy in this massively multiplayer online space adventure
It's an awe inspiring, beautiful, vast place; with 400 billion star systems, planets, moons and asteroid fields just waiting to be explored and exploited.
New to Elite: Dangerous?
Take a look at our Quick Start Guide
Why not join the thousands of people who are already playing Elite: Dangerous and dive into the greatest multiplayer space adventure game ever created.
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The galaxy is yours
Elite: Dangerous is the spectacular new sequel in the Elite series of games.
Head for the stars, take a ship and trade, bounty-hunt, pirate or assassinate your way across the galaxy in this massively multiplayer online space adventure
It's an awe inspiring, beautiful, vast place; with 400 billion star systems, planets, moons and asteroid fields just waiting to be explored and exploited.
New to Elite: Dangerous?
Take a look at our Quick Start Guide
Why not join the thousands of people who are already playing Elite: Dangerous and dive into the greatest multiplayer space adventure game ever created.
Thanks to Kayweg for the link
Beta OUT NOW
Yes. You are right. Thanks Frontier! Both Frontier and First Encounters were ground-breaking, wonderful games! Thank you for those.
(Sorry, couldn't resist).Does E: D? We haven't seen much evidence of that in action, except for tweaks around product availability and stock regeneration rates.
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Word search not finding "mmo" on that page.
All of this is done locally on your PC. Load up a tutorial miaaion, unplug your internet then go onto suoercruise. All orbits are there. Jump to another system, everything is generated on your PC without an Internet connection and it still all works. Fly around for an hour, watch the planets orbit. It all works.
No Internet, all local. And in Beta 3.
sigh...
The galaxy is yours
Elite: Dangerous is the spectacular new sequel in the Elite series of games.
Head for the stars, take a ship and trade, bounty-hunt, pirate or assassinate your way across the galaxy in this massively multiplayer online space adventure
It's an awe inspiring, beautiful, vast place; with 400 billion star systems, planets, moons and asteroid fields just waiting to be explored and exploited.
New to Elite: Dangerous?
Take a look at our Quick Start Guide
Why not join the thousands of people who are already playing Elite: Dangerous and dive into the greatest multiplayer space adventure game ever created.
Beta OUT NOW
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