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Yeah that ice planet is stunning. If they can get even close to that using procedural gen and not hand crafted it will be fab. A tough goal tho
"Beyond" free for Horizon owners - LEP musings
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Yeah that ice planet is stunning. If they can get even close to that using procedural gen and not hand crafted it will be fab. A tough goal tho
Re consoles (sorry I am on phone and can't edit well) that is what detail levels are for. If Xbox runs on medium/ low PS4 on medium, PS4 pro on high and Xbox 1 X on ultra. The base Xbox is weak sauce but it's better than many PCs within the horizons min spec.
Presumably when Jazzy buys a car and he's promised x and gets y he can gain comfort by knowing how much fun he had driving his car / hour. You can literally do a £/hour on anything and it's still just as meaningless.
If you pay for something, you get it or you were ripped off - it's that simple.
Personally, looking at the share price, I assume that the markets think that FDev is good value for a takeover. I'm worried that if they get taken over all deals are off, us 2015 LEP holders can forget it. Maybe all us LEPers need to buy shares in FDev to vote against a takeover and protect our investment
PS - I don't want a refund either, I want my Elite hopes and dreams to be fulfilled
You base this information on what basis I am curious? UK stock market is a bit different that US one. Acquisitions aren't very common here. It is highly possible some institutional investor will want increase their share as there are potential for good profits. For FD to be taken over there should be solid reason why and willing David and other founders to allow that to happen.
I think people are being nervous for no good reason. Despite what certain trolls might imply ED is one of most visible products for FD. Not continuing to invest and develop it would be shortsighted at this point.
I've also bought the Premium Beta (Life Time Expansion)
Agree, if FD can make a fun game from this bare bones framework I will spend money on cosmetics AND my friends will buy Horizons.
I've spent more than 400 dolars on Path of Exile which is a true free to play game because of their GREAT GREAT expansions with new fresh gameplay each one.
As such a player until FDev have something to show for S2 I won't be spending my money yet. Hzns was pretty awful from my POV - I hate RNG upgrades and having to grind for them and then how they ruined PVP. The only good thing about S2 was planets really but then they never really developed them any further - imagine if they had....
So now I have to wait until 2019/20 to see what's on offer? OK well in the meantime I'll go play something else.
This.
Why is a "space game" complicated? It isn't - tons have been written in the passed. Flight sims are more complex then ED will ever be and they get made plenty.
So yes, whilst programming is hard for the average person, to people that do this it's not a big deal and there's a ton of games in the past to prove that.
I think the reason Space games weren't touched is that the big publishers are all about profit and clueless to what people want from games. Space games are seen as more niche, but think of the target audience now available thanks to the internet.
Then Star Citizen comes along and shows these suits in the AAA offices, just like DayZ did, just how out of touch they all are.
Both SC and ED have proven there's a market out there and because of that we see more space games being made now.
However David declared that Elite Dangerous is the definitive version. There will be no other titles
I paid more for parking in London over the weekend than that! (No, I wasn't at Frontier Expo). Seriously, paying for an LEP in the very early stages of a software product's development is a gamble. It's not just dependent on the continuing existence of the product, it will inevitably be vulnerable to the commercial priorities of the developer. I would guess that ED and FD are in a good place, financially, and they don't need to charge for what is, after all, an extension of Horizons. However, I think they will definitely charge for later developments that cover spacelegs and atmospheric planets, so there's still plenty of opportunity for you to look back, smile smugly, and tell us all you got a great deal!
There was no "gamble" about the LEP(2015) it was a purchase of all future paid expansion content. Frontier changed the rules after selling the LEP when they went to a new model for releasing content. If you bought a lottery ticket and won the main prize and suddenly the rules were changed that everyone who entered got a share, you might be a bit upset.
Why would they say anything to a thing some overly nervous people made up with no basis at all? It is obvious that the developement on the game will continue and it is pretty obvious that there will be paid expansions in the future.
If it would be otherwise, THAN they had sayed something specific. Or do you call your boss ever morning, telling him that you still work for him and are on the way?
As an premium beta backer I got the LEP Included, in terms of hours played I'd say Ive had my moneys worth.
In terms of immersion and content, I'd say they still owe me.
I'm hoping 2018 will resolve that last part, I'm taking an extended leave of absence from the game until Q1 when things are supposed to get better.
In terms of immersion and content, I'd say they still owe me.
I'm hoping 2018 will resolve that last part, I'm taking an extended leave of absence from the game until Q1 when things are supposed to get better.
They should, so the whining stop.
But dont complain when you have to pay in the future than. Based on pure speculation
And stockmarkets re "tech" companies work the same regardless of where the market is. I'm more familiar with UK than USA too.
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Good to hear!
Somewhat off topic to the thread, but...
Fortunately though they're not mutually exclusive. You can have hand crafted assets that use PG for variability, distribution patterns, and so on.
The trick of course is getting it all to work together, look good, and make sense within the game.
We'll see, but yes, I am encouraged by the visual and where the devs seem to be aiming because of it.
Also those tires sinking/digging down into the "snow" (ice crystal debris dust?)... [up]
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I wish I was English like my hero Tj.
Really? He said that? Hmm.
Surprising that he'd close the door on that possibility.
They didn't. It just happened in your imagination because you want to be disappointed or upset. There will be more paid expansions.
Yep I remember that too
That said.....
https://www.pcgamesn.com/elite-dang...body-quite-likely-to-be-frontier-developments
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that is a blow tbh, I was quietly hoping sometime later on we'd get a proper Elite IV that was offline single player.
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