Attention Whoever at FDEV Is Responsible for Marketing & Communication

Genar-Hofoen

Genar-Hofoen
Dear FDEV's Marketing & Communication Department,

Please find a little time in your busy schedules to do the following:


  • Place a prominent page somewhere on your web site and on the forums with the following information:

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  • Origin of the name "Elite: Dangerous"​

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  • FDEV's vision of the game.​

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  • A clear definition of what the game is​

This will help to combat misconceptions and misunderstandings that are apparent in the forums, especially the misconception that this is purely a PvP kill-fest game.

As evidence I submit the following quotes from the forums:

<snip> it's called Elite: Dangerous.....for the thousandth time the clue is in the title of the game! <snip>
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Not boring at all. That's what makes Elite ..... ehmmm............ DANGEROUS? <snip>!
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ELITE Dangerous is meant to be dangerous. <snip>
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So you've been interdicted and destroyed ONCE, by a CMDR, and that's it... Sorry I thought this was Elite: Dangerous, not Elite:slight tickle. <snip>
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This is Elite Dangerous, should be able to blow up people where and when ever you see fit. My care cup is empty.
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Those are quotes from one thread on the forums.

YOU know what your vision and intentions are for the game. A not insignificant number of players do not. Why? Because frankly, FDEV, you really suck at communication with your customers.

Please improve your FDEV-to-Player communication. Players are your paying customers, they are helping to fund the game that YOU, FDEV, want to play. However, you are absolutely failing to communicate what exactly that is to new players. '84ers like myself know what Elite is, know the lore, know the atmosphere of the Elite universe. New players do not. A lot of these new players have grown up with MMO's that were influenced by Elite but have a completely different mind set from Elite. You, FDEV, are failing to communicate what Elite is.

Weekly Newsletter and Dev Update : Useful, interesting, but inadequate.

Someone from FDEV specifically employed to actively and daily participate in the forums : Adequate.

If you don't want to employ someone to do this, then you should at least find more time to participate in the forums.

Regards,

Genar.

I now don my flame-proof trousers and await the pitchforks and burning torches.
 

Alex Merion-Turner

Alex Merion-Turner
LOL!

You ain't been around here long if you expect FD to respond to such a dictatorial demand!

They really have shown that they won't be dictated to when it comes to this topic, they'll tell us things when they are damn well bloody ready to tell us whatever the hell they like, when and where.

And if you're convinced that FD don't partake in the forums you should check http://eft.recoil.org.
 

Genar-Hofoen

Genar-Hofoen
Alex Merion-Turner said:
LOL!

You ain't been around here long if you expect FD to respond to such a dictatorial demand!

They really have shown that they won't be dictated to when it comes to this topic, they'll tell us things when they are damn well bloody ready to tell us whatever the hell they like, when and where.

And if you're convinced that FD don't partake in the forums you should check http://eft.recoil.org.
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Dictatorial? I disagree. It's a heartfelt post, and offers suggestions. It may be written in a blunt style. But it's not dictatorial.

I use that url extensively. The participation that does take place is simply inadequate.

I am trying to tell FDEV that the attitude of "they'll tell us things when they are damn well bloody ready to tell us whatever the hell they like, when and where." , should be reconsidered, and have given evidence of where that attitude is leading. And it is not leading to a positive view of FDEV, nor does it lead to positive outcomes in the forums.
 

Ydiss

Ydiss
If FD created information to disprove every misguided post on these forums, it would take them a very, very long time. That's what we're here for. White knights unite!
 

Extreme_One

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Play the game the way YOU want to play and don't worry about others that want to play the game THEY want to play.

That's the beauty of the sandbox style of game.

FD have given us the stars, it's up to US how we use them.
 

Genar-Hofoen

Genar-Hofoen
theriverlethe said:
I doubt people who kill at random are going to read the mission statement.
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Oh I agree - but the end result would be that there is one canonical page of information to point to, whenever misunderstandings occur on the forums here or elsewhere. Instead of this information being spread far and wide on the internet in the form of videos, interviews, disparate web pages.
 

FuegoPantalones

FuegoPantalones
I think you're confusing Frontier's vision of what Elite:Dangerous is for Frontier's opinion on how their customers should play it. They've expressed the former - you can read it on the home page, or FAQ - they have not expressed the latter.
 

Kolato

Kolato
Dangerous is because Dangerous is the rank you would be supposedly get access to Founders World.. Until frontier said lol nope.
 

[VR] Mad Mike

[VR] Mad Mike
hey, whilst on the subject of marketing and communication.

They still have not updated their front page with the error in their space station that I ticketed months ago. This is high priority guys ;)

"The Coriolis is the iconic dodecahedron Starport from Elite."

no its not it is cuboctahedra :D

The Dodo is not in ED (Yet???)
 

bamber

B
So are you arguing it is elite dangerous or isnt elite dangerous

I have found that every other player pales in comparison to me I am by far the most dangerous commander playing elite today - Just look at my stats -

  • Deaths in Game - 10
  • Deaths due to a CMDR - 8
  • Deaths due to CMDR Bamber - 8
  • Deaths due to any other CMDR - 0
  • deaths due to an NPC -2

This is a Dangerous galaxy and I am by far the most dangerous CMDR to me in it
 

Jaeger

Jaeger
Alex Merion-Turner said:
LOL!

You ain't been around here long if you expect FD to respond to such a dictatorial demand!

They really have shown that they won't be dictated to when it comes to this topic, they'll tell us things when they are damn well bloody ready to tell us whatever the hell they like, when and where.

And if you're convinced that FD don't partake in the forums you should check http://eft.recoil.org.
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FTFY

You ain't been around here long if you expect FD to respond
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Nice post OP cant rep you any more yet..
 

Jaeger

Jaeger
Extreme_One said:
Play the game the way YOU want to play and don't worry about others that want to play the game THEY want to play.

That's the beauty of the sandbox style of game.

FD have given us the stars, it's up to US how we use them.
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Ehhh. except if you want to play in open you can be attacked and destroyed by a wing of pirates. Your progression disappears because you lost your precious cargo, you lost your ship because your credit is tapped out.

Boom ... you are PK fodder in a Sidewinder again... your efforts are wasted, you are nothing.

sry offtopic...
 
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