Elite Dangerous should have been a single player game
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So, we're at page 11 and we have the same people who are still angry that their offline mode doesnt exist conjuring up falsehoods while ignoring factual counter-arguments. Does this topic serve any purpose other than spleen venting?
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The only reasonable response to this thread is cry moar.
The game has been out a year and a half, it is online only, deal with it or move on; this whole thing was done to death already. I am not even going to respond to claims of drm, pvp is bad etc, as frankly it's not worth the effort. Folks will make their minds up regardless of the facts, but such is the nature of scrubs on the internet.
The game has been out a year and a half, it is online only, deal with it or move on; this whole thing was done to death already. I am not even going to respond to claims of drm, pvp is bad etc, as frankly it's not worth the effort. Folks will make their minds up regardless of the facts, but such is the nature of scrubs on the internet.
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I thought it was a candidate for entry into the Jason Voorhees Revenant Society. There really aren't any new topics since I took a break.
Sorry, this is blatantly untrue. There have been a few attempts at a mandatory online DRM (the most notable being the first iteration of Ubisoft's Uplay service and Microsoft's original plans for the Xbox One console), but these have failed, largely due to gamers basically telling the companies trying it where they can stick their games. As a result, virtually any game in existence that actually has a single-player mode can be played offline without any problem at all. Some of these games do have online features, even for the single-player, but all that happens is that these features are unavailable if you play offline - the core game can still be played no problem.
However, having said that, ED is something of an exception - it is the case that the game, as it currently is, requires internet connectivity to work. Now, there may be a legitimate argument in saying that the developers should have made the game differently, or that they should create a different mode that functions differently, so that the game can be made to work offline, but that is different from saying that the only reason it is online is DRM, which is simply not the case.
Where does that happen in ED?
I am pretty sure they promised it at the start.
Anyway, let's say the server is NOT DRM: Why haven't they released the server software? It's not DRM, right?
People have done some amazing things with the Freelancer server software.
If you say something alone the lines of "well, then anyone could just copy the game and connect to a free server..." then gotcha. The server is here mainly for the DRM.
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I agree. I don't know how they figured this game is an MMO when it lacks the most basic functions people expect from the genre.
I wish they would license the engine, or stellar forge, or whatever it's called to someone who is capable of developing a proper game.
I wish they would license the engine, or stellar forge, or whatever it's called to someone who is capable of developing a proper game.
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Its an MMO because its
Massively multiplayer and online. you dont use a server browser to find instances and everyone plays the game in the same world , therefor its an MMO.
And currently its one of the few MMOs with actual gameplay.
I was there when they added it ...
As for why they haven't released the server software - Ask them .. I am not FD.
I remeber saying they would only give us it if they went downI was there when they added it ...
As for why they haven't released the server software - Ask them .. I am not FD.
I know, I remember said claim too .. however I answered in the way I did as I suspected that Boringnick wouldn't accept that answer insisting that any online game is done purely for DRM if they don't release source code at the same time, to which only FD could answer.
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