Might be new and deadlier Thargoid ships to satisfy the "new ships new ships" wailers.
Another one who didn't understand... you are very bad negotiators.
Oh please, Enlightened One, explain to us lowly plebeians the true meaning of this decrepit and oft-refuted platitude.
LOL. You sweet summer child.
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I used to work in a café where the motto was "The customer can f off". I once threw someone out for asking for a stupid cocktail. We did pretty well.
That one sentence completely describes my view of the Odyssey release. Here's your space legs, good luck....
Oh please, Enlightened One, explain to us lowly plebeians the true meaning of this decrepit and oft-refuted platitude.
large companies understood this maxim,
When Coca-Cola was sold to thousands of people, those who didn't like it showed up because it had too much sugar.
Coca-Cola understood that it had to sell its product without sugar, and it filled that empty space with dissatisfied customers, and tripled its sales.
In the world of games, Word of Warcraft created the race-classes with a defined aesthetic to encompass the taste of almost all the urban tribes of the time. (metal, hippie, rolera, gothic, Asian, etc) and always the guide of their updates had to do with what the public asked for.
"The customer is always right" means that if the public asks you for pizza, you "sell" them pizza and if the public asks for sushi, then you sell them Sushi. There is the money.
If it rains, you sell umbrellas, if the sun comes out, you sell sunshade.
That isn't what that phrase means, though. You're talking about product and market research, which is something completely different. "The Customer is Always Right" is in regards to the customer service industry.
This is what that phrase looks like.
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"The customer is always right" means that you're expected to return a 40 year old and obviously broken vacuum, even though it obviously wasn't bought at your store. "The customer is always right" means that you're expected to provide a hamburger for a customer's kid, even though you're a waitress at a seafood restaurant. "The customer is always right" means you're expected to spend four hours trying to get a customer's $20 prepaid phone to work, despite being discount retailer.
Lots of grasping at straws here. Let's just make it simple.
On a macro scale, "customer is always right" works because you produce what the market demands.
On a micro scale, "customer is always right" doesn't work because people are Richards.
There, everyone is happy now (I hope).
On a macro scale, "customer is always right" works because you produce what the market demands.
On a micro scale, "customer is always right" doesn't work because people are Richards.
There, everyone is happy now (I hope).
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Y'know it's been a long time coming because Richard had a to wait for a long time for Karen to appear. When's the wedding? 
That story at the start of the article just rings so true for so many posters on this forum. They buy ED. Then they come in and demand long list of changes that basically make ED a different game. Just fly another airline.LOL. You sweet summer child.
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I used to work in a café where the motto was "The customer can f off". I once threw someone out for asking for a stupid cocktail. We did pretty well.
I am relatively happy. Missing a specific PS4 PMF though, that did not really make it to build a meaningful beachhead in the PC realm, the more because it was hit extremely hard by the Thargoid invasion. The corresponding Squad feature appears to be broken too in this case. It is what it is now, but please try to avoid this kind of social life disruption in the future, the vibes were a bit much to process. As to the feature overhaul: I can't miss what I do not know, so, to be honest, I really wonder why this mystery needs to be discussed. "Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent." (Wittgenstein) - I believe that relates to healthy communication. It is no surprise to find some salt in the comments as reaction to perceived lack of attitude, which is obviously a cause for alienation. That is not exactly the way to the respectful conversation I am sincerely wishing for.
you don't need to want to change things to be salty about the current and future state of elite.
fdev hasn't done themselves any favors for years in not fixing popular issues, not delivering updates without previously identified regressions, shuttering community content, misleading or lack of communication of paid content, taking away functionality more and more frequently than adding it.
that's not even touching on the whole untapped community wants and desires to change or add to elite.
i wouldn't worry too much about the new players buying elite and being excited about the potential that seems right there for the taking and coming on the forum to share. it doesn't take long for that excitement to be killed off and for them to be told that such dreams are actually wrong.. not the incompetence or unwillingness of the studio to deliver (or let the customers do the delivering) what customers want
There's change and then there's delusion. The changes demanded by some are the equivalent of going to a Cajun restaurant and then demanding they change their entire menu so it becomes a Italian pizzeria. They don't want change, they wanted an entirely different cuisine.
By the way, here is a game whose mechanics could be studied to get good ideas for expanding Odyssey.
In particular, the way the game generates local or global missions with different contacts that need to be dealt with in a certain order is awesome and worth looking into.
en.m.wikipedia.org
However, this comes with a caveat:
In particular, the way the game generates local or global missions with different contacts that need to be dealt with in a certain order is awesome and worth looking into.
Sid Meier's Covert Action - Wikipedia
However, this comes with a caveat:
Yes - very much so, I think. Features which work absolutely brilliantly in one game can just be annoying in another. Tetris had a great implementation of limited inventory space under a time limit which was fun - and made it the best-selling game for decades. That doesn't mean it would be good for Elite Dangerous to do that for the materials screen.
(I keep a vague eye on Dual Universe in that it seems to be the anti-Elite-Dangerous and I'm curious if that route works better: all the features like ship interiors, base-building, paid subscription, open only, surface mining, player economy, built on a commercially-available engine, new ships, etc. that people keep saying should be in Elite Dangerous ; very few of the features ED already has beyond "you can fly a spaceship and it can have guns and cargo space". Same complaints about the devs, though.)
Apparently Fdev should have included hand-spinners some years ago because that's what the market wanted at that time. They could have sold them through the ARX store and have 100% happy customers.
Alas, Fdev is dedicated to engineer a complex product including several layers of software, develop a deep lore and nurture Elite since a decade with hand-crafted stories and events at near zero cost for their customers. But said customers wanted hand-spinners, while they for some reasons only they can understand kept playing Elite, why didn't Fdev made hand-spinners instead of Elite.
It's beyond me, probably.
I hope the major feature rework is charging money yearly to play Elite, so we can get rid of the hand-spinner team and properly fund Odyssey for the future releases.
Alas, Fdev is dedicated to engineer a complex product including several layers of software, develop a deep lore and nurture Elite since a decade with hand-crafted stories and events at near zero cost for their customers. But said customers wanted hand-spinners, while they for some reasons only they can understand kept playing Elite, why didn't Fdev made hand-spinners instead of Elite.
It's beyond me, probably.
I hope the major feature rework is charging money yearly to play Elite, so we can get rid of the hand-spinner team and properly fund Odyssey for the future releases.
But why the constant focus on these "some"? There has been plenty of reasonable feedback over the years. Just because bad feedback exists, doesn't mean all feedback is bad.
That and watering down the gumbo itself...
What constant focus? I just commented on the fact that the story in the linked article rang true for me. Blame the guy that posted the most excellent, insightful and accurate article.
'bout the only thing I constantly focus on is how much I hate PMFs. You wanna call me on that, then fair play.
Sorry, that wasn't meant to be targeted towards you but the forum in general. Bringing up bad apples to dismiss any criticism.
Regarding PMFs, as you were.
I find it interesting that there's an update that Frontier have said is one of the biggest ever coming to the game due
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