sure
the thing is almost all of us were big fans of the franchise since its early days and most of us have been waiting for Elite 4 since the infamous Davids interview in 2004
I think we all knew what Elite is (unprecedented Freedom, state of the art PG, no loading screens/pauses apart from the initial one + seamlessness and immediacy, nods to science, dystopian universe) and what to expect. The problem is the lacklustre execution of many of those pillars and the dissonance between Early promises (first 30 newsletters + dev/art diaries) and the release. The dodgy business model adopted by frontier didn`t help either and is one of the reasons most of the others went back to FE2 for good (Me and my Brother are the only ones from our bunch that still somewhat care for ED). We even knew that the game will be buggy at release, because all elites were, what we didn`t know is that it would get worse with time
I blame Multi-player. Current networking is just not ready for a game like this and it seems to hinder development in almost every department
anyway I`m waaaay off-topic so to add at least something to the discussion i`ll say that for me its irrelevant how many people play concurrently, or at all. All I care about is IF FD still intend to deliver on the things from the early newsletters and DDF and if they have funds for it. 2.75M is pretty healthy and PlanetCoaster is pretty strong too so the latter seems a given at this point, that`s good. David is a good businessman these days, no doubt, the thing is he is no longer a developer nor is he a programmer and I`m worried about the former
The game we have today is very different to the one described in the early days, and its quality leaves a lot to be desired. So I`m on the "whiny" side of things nowadays, and I fully understand why others stopped playing , but there are no alternatives because the genre was dead and even in its genre Elite was always unique, so it`s not like i can just jump to some other game and get my fix, so I`m here, waiting for the things that will probably never come
But there might be some truth to what you wrote if you look at it from a different angle, meaning that we were all FE2 fans mostly, and from what I have gathered here on the forums, it seems that people who think FE2>Elite tend to be very negative towards ED which is far more like Elite 84 than FE2/FFE. I think that might be a big factor but again, I knew we won`t get Newtonian flight and despite my personal preference I still very much enjoy flying in ED, my gripes are of a different nature (the biggest one being that FE2 was a much more complete and developed game than E
is 3 years after release and at the dawn of its second expansion).
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