1.1 sounds like a disaster, but as of 3.36PM GMT a new patch is supposed to be incoming.
Frontier seemed to have quite a small team on Elite: Dangerous (Many companies work with a core technology team early on) but with the ticket backlog, and the recruitment, it seems Frontier are trying to expand to meet the size of the fan-base.
Those positions take time to fill, train and become knowledgeable, and get productive with changes that are consistently reliable. Maybe from now until after 1.2 (or even 1.3) is in we need to be more patient as nobody wants another 1.1.
We've all have moments where we've praised the game, criticised the game, asked or commented on ideas, but Frontier clearly need some time to adapt after a reasonable successful December launch (a very difficult period to pull of such a launch with such a server reliant product)
I am not a beta tester, but I don't think most people playing were expecting 1.1 so soon, and the pressure on the developers, speed of the release (and issues), not to mention being in the office today probably being one of the worst places to be in the white-collar world, (for a few hours) suggests we need to help take some of the pressure off so the team can fully establish a consistent core experience which meets the minimum expectations of 95% of the fan-base with 1.2 to build upon.
I'm expecting a lot of flac for this post, but demoralizing a pressured team and setting unrealistic expectations, (especially after an expansion in new staff to help manage the progress on ED - which alone is a challenging time) is probably going to make things worse in the immediate future, and lead to more incomplete updates.
Frontier seemed to have quite a small team on Elite: Dangerous (Many companies work with a core technology team early on) but with the ticket backlog, and the recruitment, it seems Frontier are trying to expand to meet the size of the fan-base.
Those positions take time to fill, train and become knowledgeable, and get productive with changes that are consistently reliable. Maybe from now until after 1.2 (or even 1.3) is in we need to be more patient as nobody wants another 1.1.
We've all have moments where we've praised the game, criticised the game, asked or commented on ideas, but Frontier clearly need some time to adapt after a reasonable successful December launch (a very difficult period to pull of such a launch with such a server reliant product)
I am not a beta tester, but I don't think most people playing were expecting 1.1 so soon, and the pressure on the developers, speed of the release (and issues), not to mention being in the office today probably being one of the worst places to be in the white-collar world, (for a few hours) suggests we need to help take some of the pressure off so the team can fully establish a consistent core experience which meets the minimum expectations of 95% of the fan-base with 1.2 to build upon.
I'm expecting a lot of flac for this post, but demoralizing a pressured team and setting unrealistic expectations, (especially after an expansion in new staff to help manage the progress on ED - which alone is a challenging time) is probably going to make things worse in the immediate future, and lead to more incomplete updates.
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