My visit to Frontier Developments and the Future of the Game

Hi there,

Was great to see you guys visit.

I hope I didn't bore you all too much when you came over to my beautiful corner of the office.

Hope to see you all again,
Dom

This is great news, but this is in the back of my mind; it's likely what, 6 months until 2.4 start, with 6 or more months after that for the core mechanic improvements. So frankly while this is good news, I'm just not all that excited yet. But I was never really afraid that ED was dying, so if that was your fear, I can see how this would be exciting.


What makes you think 6 months? I sincerely doubt they will want to wait too long after the PS4 version is released. From the noises I am hearing, I am guessing that part 1 of 2.4 is almost ready to go out the door, so I expect we will see a beta within 1-2 months from now. I also sincerely doubt we will need to wait for the core gameplay upgrades as long as had to wait for the headline features we got in season 2.
 
What makes you think 6 months? I sincerely doubt they will want to wait too long after the PS4 version is released. From the noises I am hearing, I am guessing that part 1 of 2.4 is almost ready to go out the door, so I expect we will see a beta within 1-2 months from now. I also sincerely doubt we will need to wait for the core gameplay upgrades as long as had to wait for the headline features we got in season 2.

Are we having betas, just seem 2.4 is mostly story. I wonder how much they will want to test in the public domain.

Someone on facebook mention Holome updates so may be something for a public beta.
 
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Hi there,

Was great to see you guys visit.

I hope I didn't bore you all too much when you came over to my beautiful corner of the office.

Hope to see you all again,
Dom

Don't make us disappointed MoM, we like when you're particular evil ;)

oh that didn't come out right, oh well you get the point :D

Yeah.....just hope the whiners aren't allowed to get her minions lobotomized!!!
 
Frequent longtime posters to the forum who live around the corner. Good enough for you?

The comments you are replying to came from someone on my Ignore List. I think you can see why they are there.

Guess this guy has never heard the term "Influencers" before.

Obsidian Ant and all the others who were invited are well known for their efforts in communicating to their audiences about Elite Dangerous. And they all do an outstanding job at that. Especially Obsidian Ant! The fact that they are all located within driving distance of Frontier made this all possible.

Does all the Sour Grapes come from this person because THEY actually believe that THEY should have been invited instead?
 
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As much as I was pleased and reassured by OA's and others comments in this thread, I can't help but totally agree with you 100%.

Those rumors on Reddit that the cheaters were only given a 30 day game ban and ALLOWED TO KEEP THEIR CHEAT SHIPS with all their exploited modules, fills me with far more dread and disappointment if true than ANYTHING positive Frontier could possibly be planning for us in future updates.

The game can not continue with that dark cloud of injustice hanging over the community.

Those Cheat Ships and every single exploited module NEED TO BE GONE PERMANENTLY from the game. There is no gray area here whatsoever.

If that means wiping or deleting the offender's saves or accounts completely in order to remove their ill gotten gains then so be it! You won't see anyone around here shedding any tears over such a move from Frontier.

Rumours on Reddit. What a concept!
 
Hi there,

Was great to see you guys visit.

I hope I didn't bore you all too much when you came over to my beautiful corner of the office.

Hope to see you all again,
Dom

Are we having betas, just seem 2.4 is mostly story. I wonder how much they will want to test in the public domain.

Judging from stuff I've been hearing-such as in OA's video-there is a lot of non-story content in 2.4 as well. Maybe not as much as in 2.1-2.3, but still quite a bit. It will probably only be stage 1 that would have the beta, as I suspect that will be the only part with non-story based content.
 
Rumours on Reddit. What a concept!

I hear ya. That was my first reaction as well. But... Some of what I saw had a certain ring of truth to it, and that is what concerns me greatly.

I could see Frontier doing this out of an innocent ignorance of the kind of S Storm such a move will ultimately bring down on their heads.
 
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Don't tell me - I bet it was a roller-coaster of fun. Did you speak to the creatives / writers - oh, sorry, I forgot that Braben doesn't need them.

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Thanks very much for posting and the video was good too.

Having heard the experiences of the group in really excited about the future. Even better we will get to see some new content next week!!!
 
Obsidian, I would normally be cheering after seeing such a video, but given that we don't have any proof that the recent engineer-hacked modules have been removed from the game, it's very tough to log into Elite these days, let alone get excited about the future.

It always comes down to the same old problem. Communication. :(
 
What makes you think 6 months? I sincerely doubt they will want to wait too long after the PS4 version is released. From the noises I am hearing, I am guessing that part 1 of 2.4 is almost ready to go out the door, so I expect we will see a beta within 1-2 months from now. I also sincerely doubt we will need to wait for the core gameplay upgrades as long as had to wait for the headline features we got in season 2.

I was just going off of the last several major release patches, which have been pretty consistently spread 6 months apart. Even if 2.4 is close, I imagine the core gameplay improvements after that will be quite a ways off. At the very least, 6 months from now.
 
The comments you are replying to came from someone on my Ignore List. I think you can see why they are there.

Guess this guy has never heard the term "Influencers" before.

Obsidian Ant and all the others who were invited are well known for their efforts in communicating to their audiences about Elite Dangerous. And they all do an outstanding job at that. Especially Obsidian Ant! The fact that they are all located within driving distance of Frontier made this all possible.

Does all the Sour Grapes come from this person because THEY actually believe that THEY should have been invited instead? As if Frontier would fly out some unknown gamer from who knows where for a private tour of FDEV? Something tells me that in their fantasy world the answer is yes, and this only informs me that my Ignore List is precisely the place this Man Baby belongs. ;)

His forum name is a good clue.
Jesus just being nosy I think.
 
Well, well.
Though I like ED a lot, and play the hell out of it, I try to stay level headed about these things. You know - play the jaded, salty veteran but I must say I find myself all caught in this and quite excited about the future.
 
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