You are creating a false dichotomy.
There is a lot of room in between making design decisions and idle banter.
It boggles my mind that you really seem to expect that a forum full of contradicting and quarreling and also incompetent voices should make decisions about a game that is so important to the developer in general and David Braben in particular.
You are totally unrealistic in your expectations. It is simply not possible, not doable, not practical.
What is more: I strongly believe what you want would be counterproductive and destroy the game in the end.
The fact that the founders got a big influence in the design process is clear, the community still has an influence, but in the end there can be only one that makes the final decisions. You need someone at the helm with a strong vision where to go.
I think FD does a great job, but many in the community seem to be completely devoid of patience and also to lack the understanding about the enormity of this project. FD will implement more DDF stuff, but they simply need the time to do so.
Thank god we as a forum community are not the ones in the captain's chair.
Your putting words in my mouth I haven't used. I never said DDF members made design decisions for FD or "voted" how the game will be. Don't twist my thoughts into your fears or what you imagine I'm saying, because you're wrong.
But, if you like CQC and PP, by all means, keep cheering the current path on.
It boggles my mind that you, or anyone, could think FD is doing anything other than chasing money and letting sales drive the direction of the game, as opposed to delivering the game they promised. As for CQC and PP, if you think FD has only been working on them since December, you're sadly mistaken.
What I am saying and hoping, is that if FD followed the DDA, CQC and PP wouldn't have happened and if the DDF had been consulted prior to these two abominations perhaps FD would have stuck to the "vision" or "path" as opposed to cash grabbing by changing the direction of the game.
You may not agree with my position but, don't put words in my mouth I didn't say. At the most basic level, yes I do expect a group of arguing DDF members could come up with something better than CQC and PP, all I have to do is read the DDA to see that, matter of FACT, FD is responsible for the DDA, DDF members just "helped" FD.
So, if you want to know why the DDF is dead, it's because David and Michael decided to go off the path with CQC and PP so there was no need for it and if people had known about it they would have left in droves months ago.
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