Actually I did quit the game and would've asked a refund if I could. I got more and more annoyed by how this is a single player game with ghost multiplayer people that only affect my world by being objects. They have no influence on economy in any way. I'm extremely disappointed at this especially since it was shown Elite Dangerous would have Multiplayer on a much deeper level.
As of it stands now Elite is, to me, a hide and seek space game where 20 minutes of searching for a target has to unveil into a climax battle which isn't so very exciting at all.
Examples of why I lost interest:
-Mining: Too slow, Tedious and profit is extremely low compared to other activities. Teaming with friends as miner is also ridiculous. You can't trade/share profit properly. Asteroids are different for each player in terms of Metal/Mineral type and whether or not the asteroid is empty. When 1 member gets attacked by a NPC pirate the other team mate gets a fine for attacking a pirate resulting in either a fine or the police killing him next time they scan him. Trust me it happened twice before we finally gave up on Mining all together.
-Trading: Again this is such a fake environment to trade in it's not even enjoyable. All you have to figure out is the best route and your gold. There's no influence by other players it's just you and an AI controlled way of increasing the purchase prices which go down after a while again... Go Rare trading and you net 600k-1 million an hour easy. But again this is not even funny anymore when you're teamflying with a mate for better security or whatever and you can't share profit (Yes again. It's an important part of an online community!) or what about both going in a station at the same time and I can buy 24 Altairian Skins but my mate can only buy 4.
-Traveling/Exploring: After a lot of jumping, supercruising and wandering about in the galaxies I find it the most irritable thing to be it's all an Illusion. Every time you jump you basically jump in a different map and every time you leave supercruise you go to a smaller map. This removes the actual distance you fly. There isn't any actual distance.
http://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDanger...lite_dangerous_mythbusters_is_it_possible_to/ Link for an interesting read on that part.
-Combat: Combat is pretty fun and this is where you find out the game's core. But again this is not quite what I expected it to be. Looking at other space sims I've played I miss a lot of diversity in both weapons and ships. Utilities are lacking and I find it hard to believe we only have a choice in so little firepower. What bothers me the most is how slow the ships react. In other games I can easily turn my ship 180 by shutting down engine thrust and push thrust on 1 wing. And this goes fast and makes a game interesting. Basically like they showed in their release trailer twice. Unless we all go sidewinder mode it will be a merry-go-round most of the time...
-Supercruise: We all love to boost through space, fly from star to star but it kinda gets old after a while. Not being able to properly go to a station in supercruise bothers me. The fact that even tho I say push 100% engine it stays in the blue area and often even decelerate. And when I decide to go to 0% engine it takes a really long time to stop. When you find a player or something you shoot by before you can properly act. What bothers me the most is the 1,000,000Ls I have to travel from the Star to a station and it takes freaking 20 minutes to get there. Even tho there's another star right next to it.
All in all I enjoyed the game for a while until I started noticing these things and it began eating on me. Now I don't even bother playing it because it has no actual value to me anymore. I can easily go on hauling trips until I get the Lakon type 9 and then go on shorter but faster cash runs. But for what? There's no goal in it. I don't have to brag to my friends about my awesome ship or supply a station with meds because they ran low. No, it's only like that in my world. We're all just playing in the shadow of each other. We can see and even touch other people but the rest has no influence.
Again this is MY experience with this game and the reason I stopped playing.
What did I like about the game? A lot, but not enough to keep interested. I liked the Huds a lot. I really felt in control of my ship and it's surroundings. I'm in love with the sounds of the game. The way the engines roar, the blast you make when going into a jump. The voice "AI" is also pleasant to have. Too bad it's not as extensive as Voice Attack (Which is not compatible for non english windows btw making it, again, useless for me).
I might jump into the game again after a good patch update that makes it interesting to see what's changed but to the core I'm leaving because the Multiplayer is one of the most faked multiplayers I've played. It's just as bad as Guild Wars claimed it was an MMO.
