Elite Dangerous in the Media thread

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Harbinger

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Hour long video from Yahtzee (Zero Punctuation) on Elite: Dangerous:

[video=youtube;Iw1Yr3mZJMo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw1Yr3mZJMo[/video]
 
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Fost

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xyphic said:
Was discussed many pages ago. Does bring up the point though that El Reg haven't done a denigration piece on ED recently; they're getting slack!
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Why exactly does the register hate E D so much? Never actually read it so don't get their angle.
 

sgurr

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Fost said:
Why exactly does the register hate E D so much? Never actually read it so don't get their angle.
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I don't think it was the register as a whole, all the negative articles were written by a single author who usually writes good pieces.
Whatever the reason behind his approach he hasn't done an elite piece for a few months now.
 

sgurr

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Steed said:
I don't think it was the register as a whole, all the negative articles were written by a single author who usually writes good pieces.
Whatever the reason behind his approach he hasn't done an elite piece for a few months now.
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Having said that it seems there was a new article recently by a different author. Simple factual reporting of the xbox release. The comments were mostly positive too.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/0...ont_dumb_down_elite_dangerous_for_xbox_build/
 

Frank

Frank
Fost said:
Why exactly does the register hate E D so much? Never actually read it so don't get their angle.
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The most upvoted comment about the XBOne article was "Frontier promises.. What could possibly go wrong?"

I guess the Register crowd are a little less forgiving towards a games developer who originally promises a DRM-free game and then announces the game is going to have always-online DRM just weeks before its launch.


 

Astrobia

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Frank said:


The most upvoted comment about the XBOne article was "Frontier promises.. What could possibly go wrong?"

I guess the Register crowd are a little less forgiving towards a games developer who originally promises a DRM-free game and then announces the game is going to have always-online DRM just weeks before its launch.
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I wouldn't call always online DRM in the strictest sense but I was certainly upset at the announcement it wouldn't have offline play. Still hopeful they'll make it viable in an expansion some time in the future. Suspect thought the timing was you can't know their intentions and I prefer to believe people aren't usually sly and greedy but rather are short sighted and... How can I say this nicely... Insufficiently skilled to rise to the scope of their expectations? Unless a private investor walked into their office one day and told them they "have" to go online only I wouldn't call it DRM for protecting the investment on the market. The idea that they can't deliver the elite experience in offline play because of a lack of content is frankly laughable because online singleplayer is still equally bland and repetitive and the dynamic universe is only so at a snails pace. But I'm perfectly willing to believe they didn't have the time and resources to develop the dynamic processes for offline play before now.

Perhaps they should consider a half measure like some other companies have done and allow players to optionally log on periodically to download snapshots of the online universe to update and overwrite the offline one. One way of course, nothing uploaded. If people want to bear witness to the ever changing universe that would allow them to do so at a pace that suits them in their download quota.

In other news...

http://www.idigitaltimes.com/elite-...not-planning-give-keys-current-players-429861
 

sgurr

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Frank said:
The most upvoted comment about the XBOne article was "Frontier promises.. What could possibly go wrong?"

I guess the Register crowd are a little less forgiving towards a games developer who originally promises a DRM-free game and then announces the game is going to have always-online DRM just weeks before its launch.
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Hadn't spotted that, and understandable although there was more to it than drm (eg. maybe they dug themselves a hole with the security problem of giving players a local galaxy server to tinker with). What Astrobia said as well.
Hopefully powerplay will provide the necessary content boost.
 

Cmdr Eagleboy

Cmdr Eagleboy
Captain_Chaos said:
Holy crap, are people STILL whining about the "DRM"?!
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There's a bit understandable concern of ED being online game. Previous games has surrvived and are still playable because they are just regular single player efforts. There are general dislike of online games between fans of previous games - control of private information, not being able to play something without connection, etc.

There are lot of people who will move on after geting their share with ED, but rest of community will want to stick with game as long as humanly possible. Being online complicates that a bit - but FD pledge will hold, it will be possible.
 

Frank

Frank
Captain_Chaos said:
Holy crap, are people STILL whining about the "DRM"?!
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There are people like Fost who don't seem aware of the controversy that the development of this game had went through over the breaking of this promise. He was wondering why The Register was so harsh on Elite: Dangerous. I'm merely pointing this fact out.
 

finchywinchy

finchywinchy
Frank said:
He was wondering why The Register was so harsh on Elite: Dangerous. I'm merely pointing this fact out.
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C'mon. They're harsh with everything It's a tabloid! The red-top is a bit of a give-away. Aside from that, they're simply a jaded bunch who don't have truck with over-promising and under-delivering.
 
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