Ever since Gamma 'development' has been a frantic rowing back so I'd say almost certainly. Saw an interview with one of them a while back where the evasiveness and awkward body language when asked about planet-side landings made me think that's something else we're not going to be seeing.
Elite Dangerous no longer an MMO?
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Ever since Gamma 'development' has been a frantic rowing back so I'd say almost certainly. Saw an interview with one of them a while back where the evasiveness and awkward body language when asked about planet-side landings made me think that's something else we're not going to be seeing.
They've been pretty clear from the word go that planetary landings would be paid DLC released some time after the main game.
Instances are not a concern for me. We could discuss EVE vs ... lets say instancing in STO or ED or future StarCitizen but thats another discussion.
What does concern me is Frontier's roadmap for ED. Everything that is on their immediate TODO list is still aimed at single player experience and that frightens me. Planetary exploration, walking in ships and stations. Great, we will receive even less content then what current "explore the galaxy" is.
If, when they start to add depth to a game, now that will be really exciting. Currently, for a solo payer, there is less gameplay than there was in first X game.
What does concern me is Frontier's roadmap for ED. Everything that is on their immediate TODO list is still aimed at single player experience and that frightens me. Planetary exploration, walking in ships and stations. Great, we will receive even less content then what current "explore the galaxy" is.
If, when they start to add depth to a game, now that will be really exciting. Currently, for a solo payer, there is less gameplay than there was in first X game.
only a 13 year old who thinks pedantry and cleverness are the same thing can claim ED is an MMO. I'm with you and I'm enjoying the game for what it is. I don't seriously expect it to be anything much else than what it is now.
I can only find a quote from DB where he said it is not an MMO. He also said it will have multiple saves and a way to save/restore your progress, so I guess not everything from that interview can be trusted. I bet this MMO was something enthusiastic MMO junkies came up with after hearing it is going to be an online game.
That's the most depressing part: All the disadvantages of an MMO -- always online (the lag, server issues and all the rest that entails), having to deal with griefers, exploiters, et al -- and none of the advantages -- multiplayer content, chat, guilds, trading/buying/selling with other players, crafting, et al.
Trying to shoe-horn a fundamentally single-player game design lacking any meaningful multiplayer features into an always-online multiplayer experience wasn't ever going to work very well. How that little reality seemed to escape FD's attention is something of a puzzler to me.
They certainly did with offline gameplay promise. With MMO, not so much.
Tbh such people scare me. They defend FD even if you can provide clear evidence.
He is one of the guys that are responsible for that half finished mess they call a game. With proper feedback FD could have changed or improved some game mechanics before this "release".
Yeah, I agree.
Could be something to do with the store page advertising it as such as well.
Except you are ignoring they were advertising it as one. It said so on their website up until shortly after release. A screen shot is provided in this thread.
It still is a massively multiplayer online experience. How is it not? Just because there aren't 100 people hanging out in Sol spamming trade chat doesn't mean it's not
1) Massive
2) Multiplayer
3) Online
I won't argue against the fact that grouping is terrible (non existent) and social interaction is extremely limited, but it still is a game where tons of people are "in the universe" and have the ability to play together. Plus it's online.
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The DDA carries absolutely no weigh anymore. FD themselves basically said, "Yeah, we're not bound by that, we'll do what we want with our game".
It was a nice way for FD to get £300 from people in kickstarter and you got Supercruise out of it.
Pedantry. The term 'MMO' has a clear meaning.
It's not true, the DDA still bind SOME aspects of the game
For example, micro jumps were proposed and cancelled due to the overwhelming negative feedback from the founders
From the store page today!
Frontier have called Elite: Dangerous a MMO many times in the past...GOOD JOB!
it was little hard to find but it is there and it is FD.
well, that should change I personally disagree with what they say.
good we got that settled, now, next topic?
Just because a game doesn't go by the (terrible) typical conventions of an MMO doesn't mean it isn't one. Elite is massive (probably the largest game ever made), and it's multiplayer and online so I don't see how anyone could deny that it indeed fits the requirements of being called an MMO. The real problem are the people who are brainwashed by WoW and other "by the numbers" MMOs into having pre-determined and erroneous ideas of what MMO means.
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