IGN's 25 PC Games to Play in 2014 - No ED?

breakpointUK

breakpointUK
IGN's 25 PC Games to Play in 2014

http://uk.ign.com/articles/2014/01/21/25-pc-games-to-play-in-2014?page=1

Elite: Dangerous is missing from the list?

Although Star Citizen gets a mention (is it even out in 2014?)

Now I tend to take everything written on IGN's website with a pinch of salt, I've seen a few errors (especially when talking about older games) and of course their blatant bias towards certain titles....

... but for many, IGN is a point of contact for information on upcoming releases etc

Why have they totally forgotten our favourite spacemark game? Do FD need to be a bit more shouty? Do we need to be a bit more shouty?
 
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Norbert

Norbert
If you look at which games have had the perfect score in the past on IGN, you will understand it is not impartial at all. First of all, you will notice most of these games are console ones. Secondly, a game like Uncharted 3 receiving perfect score and not last year's Tomb Raider?!!??!?!??

So ED being a PC game and crowd funded, chances were scarce it would ever be mentioned. Who cares anyway :D
 

FS3DPete

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Norbert said:
If you look at which games have had the perfect score in the past on IGN, you will understand it is not impartial at all. First of all, you will notice most of these games are console ones. Secondly, a game like Uncharted 3 receiving perfect score and not last year's Tomb Raider?!!??!?!??

So ED being a PC game and crowd funded, chances were scarce it would ever be mentioned. Who cares anyway :D
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Notwithstanding Mass Effect 3 getting a perfect score despite having flaws and a botched storyline. I won't forget that in a hurry.
 

breakpointUK

breakpointUK
Norbert said:
If you look at which games have had the perfect score in the past on IGN, you will understand it is not impartial at all. First of all, you will notice most of these games are console ones. Secondly, a game like Uncharted 3 receiving perfect score and not last year's Tomb Raider?!!??!?!??

So ED being a PC game and crowd funded, chances were scarce it would ever be mentioned. Who cares anyway :D
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SC is also a PC game and crowd funded... yet they mentioned that on their PC games in 2014 list!

I think ED deserves publicity, even if it is on IGN
 
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Dejay

Dejay
The PC gaming landscape is evolving in 2014. Now more than ever we're playing games in their early-access state and helping out with development via huge crowd-funding campaigns.

Star Citizen
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Meh. I kinda do care. And Star Citizen has no chance in hell to come out in 2014!

FD should really step up the PR and marketing for Elite Dangerous:
-Tell em that ED is in fact an MMO
-Add guild support (chat channel, invite system, persistance, 100+ players, web app)
-Give Website more "bling", like this
-Give info on ships or content
-Personal storytelling not featured. Find a way to tell how cool generated missions are
-Make sure people can make good screenshots and vids (without UI/Cockpit/3rd person)
 

Exmortis

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I'm not a big fan of IGN. They typically focus on big budget, heavily marketed games, which very often suck. They're cookie cutter, formulaic, and uninspired. The past several years have shown me the best games are off the beaten path. DOTA 2 was not even reviewed by IGN and it's one of the hottest games in the world right now.
 

jedt

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Dejay said:
Meh. I kinda do care. And Star Citizen has no chance in hell to come out in 2014!

FD should really step up the PR and marketing for Elite Dangerous:
-Tell em that ED is in fact an MMO
-Add guild support (chat channel, invite system, persistance, 100+ players, web app)
-Give Website more "bling", like this
-Give info on ships or content
-Personal storytelling not featured. Find a way to tell how cool generated missions are
-Make sure people can make good screenshots and vids (without UI/Cockpit/3rd person)
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no.... really, don't do any of those.
 

SAB380

SAB380
The writers of IGN most likely weren't alive when Elite was released.
That's not taking a shot at them ....

Why would they be excited about Elite when there has been almost no marketing for it ?

For any of us that played the original (and Frontier), we GET IT !
But its going to have to come out and be a slow build for everyone else.
 

Yaffle

Volunteer Moderator
Yaffle
avow555 said:
Sure getting tired with folk banging on about these things, lol

ED seem to have a positivity lethargic PR approach, time to step it up people.
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I'm not too sure why that should be the case. The problem with hype so far from a release DATE being announced is that it has to keep being kept going and going. Lots of hype leads to more of the "ARE WE NEARLY THERE YET?" posts here, and probably magazines like IGN getting hype fatigue, or trying to bring pressure on FD to fix a date. Then when the date is fixed by extraneous pressure it becomes something everyone focuses on, and just generates ill will if it's moved back. Forcing yourself to a date leads to real problems - see SimCity, a game essentially released as an early beta. Lots of PR, but is that the PR FD are after?

TL;DR - focus the PR as and when everything becomes clearer to FD heading towards a smooth (i.e. NOT Diablo III or SimCity) launch.
 

Kroy

Kroy
IGN, pfffft.. Never mind, there are some excellent links to be had out there that do include Elite: Dangerous

GameTrailers

PCGamer

RockPaperShotgun

mmorpg.com


Dejay said:
FD should really step up the PR and marketing for Elite Dangerous:
-Tell em that ED is in fact an MMO
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No, it's not really an MMO. It's kinda like an MMO, but any critic would argue against that statement on the "massively" part of MMO. Even the front page of E: D's website says it is a "multi-player" game.

Dejay said:
-Add guild support (chat channel, invite system, persistance, 100+ players, web app)
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No thanks. I'm a guild master in Elite and I want to see what tools we have at our disposal BEFORE crying for the same old, generic cookie-cutter Guild Management options.

Dejay said:
-Give Website more "bling", like this
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You know that Eve Online has been around for years. Do you remember what Eve Online's website looked like when it first arrived?
The website is fine. It works for the target market, and that is late 20's upwards. It's not meant to appeal to 12 year old with an attention span of a gnat.

Dejay said:
-Give info on ships or content
-Personal storytelling not featured. Find a way to tell how cool generated missions are
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These are good ideas.



avow555 said:
Sure getting tired with folk banging on about these things, lol

ED seem to have a positivity lethargic PR approach, time to step it up people.
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No one actually has said WHY it should be "stepped up". Just wait and see what happens when the multiplayer alpha hits. If it's good... it will sell itself. That's the age we live in. Why make a rod for your back with hype that you can't back up with action, when you can let people make their own minds up?
 
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Tinman

Tinman
"Stepping up" the PR before they can present the whole scope of the game is pointless IMO. All we have seen so far (in terms of gameplay) is space combat and that still applies when the multiplayer alpha comes next week. Elite is so much more than "lasers in space" and to give it justices all the other aspects needs to be in the game before a more comprehensive PR push can begin.

We old fans know what this game is about but most current gamers don't. All they have seen so far is a space combat game...but that will change soon. :)
 

Juniper

Juniper
Dejay said:
FD should really step up the PR and marketing for Elite Dangerous:
-Tell em that ED is in fact an MMO
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Which it's not... so you're saying start with a lie or exaggeration - that will certainly go down well. Great plan. What could possibly go wrong? :rolleyes:

Dejay said:
-Add guild support (chat channel, invite system, persistance, 100+ players, web app)
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Nope, definitely not.

Dejay said:
-Give Website more "bling", like this
-Give info on ships or content
-Personal storytelling not featured. Find a way to tell how cool generated missions are
-Make sure people can make good screenshots and vids (without UI/Cockpit/3rd person)
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Don't really want any of these yet either (though the website could do with more bling).

I want them to spend all their working time making the game, then ramp up the marketing and exposure during gamma.

Slowly slowly catchee monkey. :)
 
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