Frontier, please deeply consider moderating steam forums
Certain ppl start daily threads that try to channel all neggative that can be found about the game
to the point of making the game look like an utter garbage, to any potentional customers
It's your money that you lose "thanks" to the steam community,
and it's doing you anti-service to have the game on steam, since when ppl travel on long journey,
they open up Steam discussions to see what's new or if anyone needs something,
and they find mostly troll based threads, nothing Lore friendly, nothing worth of reading
The in game missions are ho hum, I have seen many forum posts asking for mission rewrites so others feel that way as well
the AI is fairly weak and predictable in combat as well as everywhere else so that could use some work
Exploration ( from what I have read as it never interested me) is pretty dry and boring many many threads on here asking for a rewrite of exploration
Powerplay needs a lot of rebalancing and work ( again from what I read as I have not tried PP yet)
The multiplayer aspect is abysmal , from the lack of players online to the lack of in game tools to be able to find other players to group up and play with, to the instancing which is the absolute worst programming decision I could think of for a multiplayer game. Cost effective but detrimental to a game that touts itself as massive multiplayer
The graphics and artwork are top notch no argument there
The in game sounds from the music choices to the combat sounds to everything else, Absolutely superb, I have never heard better anywhere.
Overall the game looks nice but as far as gameplay all the actual gameplay mechanics from my own personal experience as well as the forum threads and comments I read all are pretty dry and need work!
It is hard to provide positive reviews of a game that looks and sounds nice but is lacking in the "game" department
I know I know it is a work in progress, There is a term for that that allows buyers to know they are getting a "work in progress" it is called a game in Alpha or Beta a little honest advertising would probably do wonders for what new purchasers expect vs what they get! When this metric is off balance you tend to get a lot of angry customers that write negative reviews and comments about your product
The same above when you say a game is massively multiplayer then buy it only to find out 90% of the players play in solo mode you are probably not a happy customer
The Pricetag, When I see a $60 pricetag on a game I don't expect the game to need all that rebalancing and rewrites, I expect and probably your average customer expect it to be already balanced and rewritten and in a great gameplay state. When you spend $60 and find out that is not the case probably not a lot of happy customers and you should expect negative reviews and comments galore.
This game has a lot of Kickstarter backers and fans from back in the day that can see no wrong or hear of no wrongdoing. That is ok and great but the game is hitting the mainstream gamers now and the shortfalls and balancing issues are going to be viewed from the "gamer community" not the fanboy community more and more and you should absolutely expect the gamer community to be more critical and less forgiving of those shortfalls than the fan boys and those that worship at the altar of David Braben.
