Why Stop at 10 Years?

[Varrag]

10 years is very long time in gaming and I've always understood that as general intention/wish to keep the game alive, rather than some sort of hard coded master plan; 10 years doesn't necessarily mean that they will be adding new shiny stuff each one of those years.

In any case, I'd really like to remember ED (or even play, who knows?) when its last hour comes, servers are shut down, and they release standalone game open to all sorts of modding \o/

 

[Privata]

Ok I to have heard of the 10 year plan, but does someone actually have a source? I couldn't find one before.

Google it , on the wiki there are tones of references to it that link to official statements

 

[who?]

Ok I to have heard of the 10 year plan, but does someone actually have a source? I couldn't find one before.

They talk in one of their financial reports about the game having a 7 year lifespan (plus 2-3 years in development before that?).

I don't expect 10 seasons of updates.

 

[CMDR Cosmic Spacehead]

I figured if the game does well and keeps doing well, they'll keep working on it.
If it looks like thing are drying up in a few years, I'd like to think that they would set the game up to be run off private servers, so we can all keep enjoying it.

It would also be nice if they somehow opened up a few more galaxies to explore, before switching off the lights, so the content keeps flowing!

 

[PiLhEaD]

They've already the ^tm for Elite: Deadly.

Not to be confused with Elite: Dudley - in development by CMDR Thrust.

 

[vernonator]

Seriously? I'm not even sure i'll be alive in 10 years, never mind planing byond that

Lets see them actually deliver on the second "season" before we start star gazing out years in advance.

 

[InMemoriamSirocco]

In 10 years we will have harddrives that allow for offline mode.

 

[Beachlight7]

^^ This ^^

I don't even buy green bananas.

I buy mine ready peeled.

 

[GaryII]

If Frontier has a ten year plan, what's the plan after that?
Why not just continue adding/upgrading features?

If game will be still profitable after 10 years, i am 99 % FD will continue development.

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Open it up for modding, add 20 years

Modding support will rise more cheating issues...since you can create cheat mods, too

So I guess this will never happen..

 

[Urbanski101]

The 10 year plan thing was probably something to do with securing investment, both kickstarter and private equity. If FD had said they had a 20 year plan they would have been accused of "arrogance" that their game can withstand the changes in tech and gaming for that long. A 5 year plan would probably be seen as "lacking vision"

10 years is probably about right for their initial aims but now the game is live everything will depend on £££. If it's profitable it will continue, if not it won't but may end up released as source code.

EVE is over ten years old and still going strong, World of Warcraft is over ten years old I think so it is possible.

 

[CMDR Argent Steel]

If this game is still going in ten years I expect the next step would be a completely new Elite game built from the ground up with new software innovations and systems. The games now do things the games ten years ago couldn't do so well, and computers will handle more demanding software in ten years. It'll be time for a whole new game at that point.

 

[Miklos Atreides]

If this game is still going in ten years I expect the next step would be a completely new Elite game built from the ground up with new software innovations and systems. The games now do things the games ten years ago couldn't do so well, and computers will handle more demanding software in ten years. It'll be time for a whole new game at that point.

To hold this game alive for more than ten years the really important things are in the Server Data Bases. You can easily change the engine/client that interprets the data to comply with latest technologies. So you can keep the universe while supporting newer hard/software combinations. (If thought on it deeply and archtectured carefully).

Regards,
Miklos

 

[cmdr_Havalok]

Yep 10 years. That's all we got! On the day after the 10 year anniversary they shut the servers down. Now, after almost 2 years we haven't explored 1% of the galaxy they have given us to romp about in. We'd better get moving.

 

[Krezan]

Think a lot of it depends on the elephant in the room, Star Citizen (dun, dun, da). Can it hold up, only time will tell.

 

[siberia]

They've already the ^tm for Elite: Deadly.

Not to be confused with Elite: Dudley - in development by CMDR Thrust.

That's a frightening thought, Yam Yams with Lasers!

 

[OnePercent]

Elite dangerous 2

 

[cmdr_Havalok]

Not to be confused with Elite: Dudley - in development by CMDR Thrust.

Is that where we get to be Canadian Mounties in Space?

 

[the100thmonkey]

In project management, every plan has a timeframe of some sort. It's part and parcel of planning anything, from learning, to software development to war.

 

[Remus]

Next step after 10 years ?

Elite : Andromeda of course ! [yesnod]

 

[Mark Lock]

Hey Cmd KEBO here!

If Frontier has a ten year plan, what's the plan after that?
Why not just continue adding/upgrading features?

I would gladly continue paying yearly and keep the good times rolling.

If the plan is restart new with new technology,
I fear that the graphics will be nicer and the AI might be better,
but then we'll have to go through another ten year to reintroduce the features we already had.

I used to play sports games and I found with each new generation of consoles,
that's what would happen.
Madden Football and NHL Hockey don't offer much more immersion now than they did ten years ago.

Just my two cents...

LOVE THE GAME!!!

I wouldn't worry about it so much, even Microsoft FSX is 10 years old and still it has a huge community considering it the best flight simulator on the market even if there are newer competitors now, what Microsoft did is sell the engine behind FSX so that other companies can make FSX based flight simulators.

What I'm trying to say is that if ED worths it in 10 years, it won't disappear and FD or somebody else will keep developing ED, the more you work on something the more it becomes important and a waste to just quit it, believe me , in 10 years we will still be playing ED and still considering it the best space game ever if they make their vision a reality.

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To hold this game alive for more than ten years the really important things are in the Server Data Bases. You can easily change the engine/client that interprets the data to comply with latest technologies. So you can keep the universe while supporting newer hard/software combinations. (If thought on it deeply and archtectured carefully).
Regards,
Miklos

You can also convert the databases to the new db standards we will have at the time, outdated engine/client is no problem at all, nowadays you can update software to new OSs and DirectX version without screwing up the core code, all you have to do is adapt it.