Wrong. The "testing program['s]" STORE PAGE stated "Single Player Offline [ in the finished product]". No small print. Though I am older than most here and my eye's are dimming, I am able to still read.
No Single Player Offline Mode then? [Part 2]
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Wrong. The "testing program['s]" STORE PAGE stated "Single Player Offline [ in the finished product]". No small print. Though I am older than most here and my eye's are dimming, I am able to still read.
I think the offline folks would be fine with that, or even prices that fluctuate randomly within a fixed range per station. Remember this stuff is procedural so it's relatively easy to code. Hence my suggestion to FD to deliver an offline mode after all, at a later date, with exactly such restrictions.
If they announced such a thing, the entire #offlinegate thing would be over instantly. And the negative free publicity Elite Dangerous gets right now would be turned into mostly positive publicity. Mostly.
Irrespective. You bought access to a beta test, not a product.
Ok so a DOH moment here, why not provide an archive of the server on release so everyone can play in an offline enviroment then?!
That sort of thing could in fact be a switch in an options menu.
In any case, nothing prevents a procedurally generated galaxy from being dynamic, from evolving over time, or even from being player-influenced.
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Seriously?
Then how did the previous Elite games had a dynamic economy?
Or the several other games with dynamic economy which are not online?
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The shop receipts prove you wrong! Two seperate items, it won't hold a second in a court. A change of contracts requires at least a mentioning of "which contract" it is changing, don't you think?
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Really. So if the online game was pulled for any reason at all what you're saying is that no one would have any reason to complain?
And btw, I was responding to someone else's post with that answer.
They cannot do that. That would be a hackers wet dream...
You still didn't buy a product, nothing was guaranteed. You paid for access to a test program, not a finished product. Nothing was stolen.
I can surmise you don't want you core of what makes your product work to be handed on a silver platter to hackers and competitors.
Simple they developed it from the start with offline in mind...
I fully agree with you and am myself annoyed enough by this decision to never buy another thing developed by Frontier and that is a promise I will keep. Because I feel that droping off-line mode was not some little thing and it may well have not got enough funding on Kick-starter if they hadn't promised that I remember well how important it was to many who origionally backed this.
I was just explaining why I think they have made a decision that is tearing their player community apart, alienating people from doing business with them in future and dragging their companies reputation through the mud in the press. I do not argue that any of these conseqences are not fully deserved and that they have anyone to blame for any damage to their reputation and future business than themselves.
They promised off-line during the kickstarter and beyond in pre-sale and a month before release they have pulled the plug on it. To be clear to me that is not and will never be exceptable, to abandon off-line so late in the day shows it was never taken seriously as a requirement in the design and hence they never really cared about having to deliver it regardless of any promises made to get more money early on, that's unethical period.
Ditto, but I'm not angry, but I'll be at the premier, I hope that there is no silliness at the event.
I believe a 'rant' would require me to be emotionally involved in the matter which I can assure you is not the case since I haven't lost anything to get emotional about. And we were talking about refunds outside of legal entitlement, which Frontier DO get to decide.
Hello Michael
Can you advise on how long will it take to receive a refund?
Thank you.
You could complain all you wanted. Doesn't change the fact that you'd really have no legal right to since you didn't enter into any contract to purchase a product. You paid for access into an alpha/beta program - irrespective of how that turned out.
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I can't see any mention of Offline at all on the store page going back as far as last January: http://web.archive.org/web/20140106...zaonce.net/elite-dangerous-premium-beta.html/
Well, actually I wouldn't care, I could play a looooong time in that offline galaxy... (ok, I'm starting to sound like these trolls... sorry!)
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