I think its understandable that people are a bit concerned. This is something FD could simply clarify but have chosen not to, but they've been talking about changes to the 'season' model for months, and as I recall saying all would become clear at Expo 17, but guess what.......
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I think its understandable that people are a bit concerned. This is something FD could simply clarify but have chosen not to, but they've been talking about changes to the 'season' model for months, and as I recall saying all would become clear at Expo 17, but guess what.......
On the internet this passes as "irrefutable evidence".
True.
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I wouldn't call that a roadmap .. more like .. a vague outline ..
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Start of Year Stuff Other Stuff More Stuff End of Year Stuff
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I wouldn't call that a roadmap .. more like .. a vague outline ..
Start of Year Stuff Other Stuff More Stuff End of Year Stuff
| ....................................... | ..................... | ..................................... |
Looks like it has a beginning and end to me, much like a road.... it starts here, and goes to there...
I guess I was expecting to see more detail.
Examples:
Compare the above against what Frontier showed at the Expo.
It's just a line that basically says: "stuff is coming." This is not a roadmap, this is a vague release schedule.
Granted it doesn't have to be as detailed as some of the examples, but something more than "we're releasing stuff" would have been appreciated.
Not everyone is in favour of Frontier's predilection for mystery.
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They did provide an outline in the talk as what the theme of each drop will be (1st - mining overall and the debeigification, 2nd & 3rd - content only, 4th - Exploration update) plus they have subsequently told us that there is additional premium content scheduled as well. Frontier always play their cards close to their chests, so this is par for the course. You can either can either deal with it or get wound up by it, either way Frontier are not changing their ways.
Since there's such a charitable mood in this thread I'll throw in some Crom Silver Fesh too.
While we're on the subject, if FDev decide to turn ED into a fishing simulator at some point in the future, I'll be vigorously seeking a refund.
Did you not see the mining plans? MINE FOR FISH!!!1
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I'm aware. I'm simply saying more detail would have been nice.
And in the beginning that was pretty cool, but as someone who is part of several alpha/beta releases, my preference is transparency.
Keep the narrative and narrative-related content a secret, but normal content should -imho- be announced months before release so the community can then discuss it amongst themselves and Frontier can take those discussions and analyse them; perhaps (as examples) finding out that something they put in is a bad idea, or they read something that's a good idea and move to implement it before release.
I don't get wound up over small things.
I was in the 2nd wave of LEP purchasers and didn't realise we don't get a say in this, SO UNFAIR!
See the revised post I made for more clarity on what I mean.
He is positively negative.
Would it make you feel better if FD came out with an anouncement every year that said, "Rest assured there will be premium content to buy next year. That will of course be free to LEP owners."
Are you honestly worried that FD as a business will turn to socialism and thus devalue the LEP? Serious question.
You mean that didn't really happen? [where is it]
Indeed, I don't see why people are spazzing out. If frontier said that Beyond was the last series of updates, they'd have a point. As it is, I still wish I had the opportunity to get the LEP for my Xbox account. I'm willing to bet that it'll end up being a worthwhile investment for those who have it.
I wasn't an alpha backer, but I did have premium beta access. However in the new scheme of things, neither alpha or premium beta exists as everything gets dropped in at beta stage - fairer for everyone potentially bar those at higher backer levels, however personally that is not an issue: I backed to get the game and if my £150 pledge only got me the core ED game and none of the expansions via the LEP, I would still be buying them.
The challenge with Frontier saying "hey folks, we're working on this and it will run like that" is that everyone and their dog will chip in with their own thoughts as there are a lot of armchair designers. I can understand Frontier not wanting the distraction - and to be honest, it's a lot better than the old Alt.Fan.Elite days where David Braben posted that he did not want any suggestions and would ignore any threads with them as they have their own ideas and did not want to get accused of plagiarism. Now we have a suggestions forum.
That's good to hear
They will.
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Well put. I was disappointed that the Content of the FX17 presentations did not include answers to some of my questions, I looked into it further to see if I had missed anything & eventually asked Zac for clarification, which he kindly provided.
I am hopeful that more info will be released before the end of the year.