I like your succinctness. +1
We deserve an Official answer from David Braben (I dont think he really knows what happened with 1.)
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I like your succinctness. +1
bf4 was unplayable on release!
LOL +rep
If you think I'm bad, you ought to see what other people say about me!
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I fear there may be some over-reaction going on in this thread. Calling for people to get sacked is a bit heavy handed. Crikey it will be torches and pitch forks in a minute or worse still the ultimate British action....writing a strongly worded letter.
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Frontier have released another patch today so they are working hard. Yes it's frustrating but it is only a game. My suggestion is if you are getting so wound up about it go and play a different game for a few days and come back to ED.
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Frontier have released another patch today so they are working hard. Yes it's frustrating but it is only a game. My suggestion is if you are getting so wound up about it go and play a different game for a few days and come back to ED.
Yeah, there is definitely a problem as this isn't the first time we've seen big issues with the released product. I'm just saying that people are assuming what went/is going wrong and need to take a step back and let them sort it out instead of saying "fire the person doing this!" No, this is the part where executive management (David B.) comes in and says "it isn't acceptable, find out how to change for the better and do it"
If they fail that charge (or as you say, scale into a serious org) then yeah, heads be rollin
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because your neighbour is dumb enought to shave his balls with a chainsaw doesn't mean you should try it too
And im not getting Hardline, it looks awesome, it really does but first they did bf3, at bf4 i thought they had learned their lesson, they did not, im not getting hardline for at least a year if ever.
Agreed, looks like they've had about 6 of their 9 lives judging by the responses today. Fingers crossed they can claw some trust back quickly.
It is so much faster tho. Closest shave evar, the wife loves it
I love Elite and think the game is GREAT. I have never played any of the previous version. Maybe placing individuals into a certain diagrammatic makes you feel more entitled, but it doesn't make you correct.
Then you haven't been in any kind of software development. It's completely normal to decide which are major bugs (crashes/freezes), which are minor bugs (game works but impedes/degrades gameplay in an aspect), and which are bugs that aren't going to be fixed (yet, or at all) because they are not relevant for gameplay/sales.
If you aim to fix all bugs for a patch/bugfix/release this is what happens: you never release. There's always more bugs coming in than you have time to fix, so you prioritize until you have something you feel can be handed out.
You set a quality goal which maybe says: "no major bugs, 5 minor bugs and the number of low priority bugs doesn't even count for the goal"
And sometimes even that is compromised by deadlines (there are monetary considerations to any software project, you know?)
And - gasp - even testers aren't infallible. Sometimes a bug just isn't found during testing.
So then you get a bugfix for a bugfix. It happens more than you think.
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While you talk to Sir Braben, i want to speak to Bill Gates about how it's possible that something so negative as this forum is able to show up on my Windows version.
Let me tell you Sonny that the Queen takes orders from no one!
You might have confused Elite 1984 with Elite Dangerous.
Also, 1.1.02 is inroute. Looks like they're fixing 100% of the bugs. This pleases me greatly...
I am so happy you let us know how happy you are. We all was really worried that you wouldn't be.
No, but being correct makes you correct... and I am correct.
Happens far too often than I'd like.
As for the other stuff, loads for you to uncover in the beta testing threads.
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