But the PC game to console could be EDO ????
Elite Dangerous plans for 2024
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Will be interesting to see how they spin it or if they communicate any of this at all to us, the Elite community.
It’s something that is done with iL-2 Great Battles - collector planes. I’d certainly be up for buying a Panther Clipper or Moray Starboat or others from the old roster
If it’s that or they switch the servers off, though? I know which I’d prefer (sub) and at least that would be a choice.
I mean, that's not the choice though. I really don't see what's so bad about the model of "charge people money to buy the game, update the game to attract more new players". Discussion here is skewed towards long-term players of Elite and I think people forget that, yeah, you did have to pay for this game. Doesn't matter if it was a long time ago since, ideally, the plan is that other people will continue to buy the game.
I love ED it is the only large game I play but I would have Real difficulty making that decision.
PZ2 is in line to have a release
Maybe PC2 will see the light too
Not sure what will be the 3rd - JWE3? - have no idea, i have not followed the franchise and no sure if it has any big budget movies scheduled to launch in 25 or 26
A successful PC game ported to console? Well... Warhammer 40k ported to XB/PS, or JWE2 ported to Switch2
But i'm well known to be bad at predictions, however i dont feel lonely
That is an interesting thought - having said there's no way they could sell it as a going concern on the open market, what they could do is a sort of demerger thing and actually set out the run cost in public and set a subscription price accordingly, and run it like a not-for-profit. Suspect that would be a small number of people with a relatively expensive subscription, but that's OK if it works.
In reality you'd probably find FDev have accidentally tangled that IP with other IP so you'd never be able to divest it without someone complaining about best value for IP and fiduciary duty.
On reflection here, perhaps the lesson is "if you got your passion project off the ground contrary to all expectations, for god's sake don't float the company, just keep going as a private boutique"
You are astonishingly terrible at predictions, because the post to which you are replying with a prediction about Warhammer going to console says that Warhammer to console is already announced ;-)
For me the choice would be between quitting and trying to make illegal private servers or an offline mode if I still wanted to keep playing without updates.
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that depends................ back at the start of the game David Braben said that in the dark and distant future when the servers were turned off, it would be possible to release the server code to players to allow the game to either run offline, or on private servers.
obviously this would likely lack a lot of the BGS stuff, but OTOH it may open the doors for modding etc.
I would be quite interested to see what the community would come up with to flesh out the world..... and i think there would be a lot of interest. there are a huge number of fan made expansions for the game oolite. imagine if Elite had bolt ons like oolite does............. it could be quite incredible.
dont get me wrong i dont want them to turn the lights out...... and hell I would not like to bet any money that FD would even release the code anyway so that is not a gamble i want to see happen........ but it could be the second life of the game......... A bit like that old Chris Roberts game Freelancer.... that really came alive after the game died.
slim chances for that to happen.
IF Frontier was still a private company ruled exclusively by DBOBE, maaaybe, but definitely not when FDev is a PLC and it's run by a board of directors
Wasn't the split between David and Ian ? Because Ian released the code ? And David wasnt happy ??
yeap, there was that too...
That was a whole dark time and dont want to stomp around with theories which may or may not be correct. (ok i will dip my toe in because i cant resist but i think it was more to do with Frontier 1st encounters ( Elite 3) being released as a separate game rather than a Frontier Elite 2 expansion which had been expected..... the former being something Ian Bell would have been entitled money for due to an agreement made for royalties, the latter being something he would not get anything for.
but FD did release the code for Fronter 2 1st encounters (or Elite 3). They have also hosted the original Elite game to download on their own pages in the past.
I am not 100% sure, and i had had a few "sherries" at the free bar.... but i am fairly sure I saw Ian Bell at the launch party in Duxford back in 2014. IF i am correct then one would think that perhaps those bridges were some what mended because if not i doubt he would show up to that.
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I want to say thank you and that I'm very appreciative of the knowledgeable and patient answers that have been given to my questions, coming from a lay person.
As far as my understanding of the concepts I think this part framed it in a way that made the most sense to me in relation to how to negate the problem of the differences in simulated motion between the two concurrent activities, and as a result how any math in relation to it can be ignored.