And yet, you are still here!
Does anyone else feel like Beyond is a graceful exit strategy ?
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And yet, you are still here!
They may well be back on track, as the early announcement of the Beta 3 came as a surprise to many (esp. me) I didn't expect to see anything until the end of March.
Indeed, eventually any naysayer can be "right" given enough time passing. Just as anyone who prophesies has a chance at eventually being "right" with prediction, statistically speaking
Disney or worse yet EA... and I'll tell you now if that ever happened I'd not only uninstall this game immediately and cease all future purchases with them, I'd also start a mass-market campaign against them. I've often thought about doing so already with the way EA bungled the ME:A release. I should have known better, but bought it as a possible reprieve... I was so wrong...
And CR has earned that ire with the way development has gone at CIG, too. Difference is, FD didn't sit on people's money for over 5 years without even releasing a Beta version- they're still sitting on an Alpha and creating more and more "To Do" lists instead of releasing *something* of value. The latest 3.0 version is still highly unstable (and arguably unplayable for most) and really doesn't show much more than what they've already published in the way of news. They're still hoping to milk the cow before they put it out to pasture.
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First game is winding down thread of February.
Arguably, the "time has told" can also be applied to the naysayers who prophesy "game is dying" consistently, too.
You'd get a good argument too! lol
Still a long way to go, and a lot to learn. The arc is simply fascinating.
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Yay, game is dead threads.
This topic almost needs its own subsection.
This topic almost needs its own subsection.
LOL, I really like such way of thinking. If I have doubt just for a millisecond that the most important thing for DB is the game, I would give to FD no single penny. DB should be more concerned for his employees than for the game. He has to run a company and if ED is in weight, the servers will be turned off.
COMPLETELY agreed here. We can call it "Critical Feedback" and be done with it.
The OPenGL Project is a bunch of people who can never seems to agree on anything at any time and have changed direction more times that it is worth. This is one of the things that holds back gaming on Linux. The API is based on 1990's code that the computer world has far surpassed. The project leadership seems unwilling to address this problem.
Just in terms of game longevity, one of the reasons I am not currently playing Elite quite so much, is that me and my regular gaming group are back playing Lord of the Rings Online. The last time I played that with regularity was seven years ago. However we all have life time accounts from back in the very early days (one of the best purchases I think I have ever made). And we are loving it. It seems just as active today as in was in the beginning.
So I think thoughts of Elite's demise might be slightly premature. As someone else said earlier in the thread, there is very very little out there, at the moment, that can compare with playing Elite in VR. I am fortunate enough to have been able to get a Vive, decent flight stick, throttle and peddles, and the whole experience is breath taking. I don't know of anything else that compares, save for maybe EvE Valkyrie which I have not played outside of 15 mins on a console.
So I think thoughts of Elite's demise might be slightly premature. As someone else said earlier in the thread, there is very very little out there, at the moment, that can compare with playing Elite in VR. I am fortunate enough to have been able to get a Vive, decent flight stick, throttle and peddles, and the whole experience is breath taking. I don't know of anything else that compares, save for maybe EvE Valkyrie which I have not played outside of 15 mins on a console.
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Not sure what sort of debate you're trying to start here? It would be an obvious breach of trust on Frontiers part as they sold LEP's for £120 at the point of Horizon's launch (which was £40), then never made any more paid expansions.. What would I have paid for exactly?
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People say this all the time and it makes no sense to me. "Very different games with very different approaches." No they're not. They're extremely similar and very easy to compare. What is so "very" different about them that you think they are in such exclusive categories that they don't even *compete* with one another? Are you crazy? They do the exact same job. Of course they are in direct competition with one another. There are *still* people who won't even touch E-D, won't even *consider* playing it; because they're convinced that SC us "gonna" be better whenever it comes out.
Tell me how E-D and SC are "very different"?
No.
One has been released as an actual playable game for over 4 years and the other's still an "Alpha" 5 years later?
ED has been developed on 1/10th the budget of the other game, the other game has produced 1/10th the game ED is.
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One is a game, the other one isn't
Unless you criticize the one that "is" and then it's not a finished game, either..
Until someone compares it with SC, at which point it mysteriously gets "released" status assigned once more...
ED starts with the big (the galaxy & moving around it), SC starts with the personal (the individual & their tools). I waited for release to buy ED, I'm waiting for release to decide whether to buy SC. I agree they share a great deal in common, they are just taking two different approaches (and budgets) and have quite some overlap. Hopefully many players will just buy both, and each will have their fanboys too.
Game mechanics aside, I prefer Frontiers approach of releasing a playable game with ongoing development because I can actually play the game & live that life already. Any frustration at the time taken to develop features is shared by fans of each game, but at least with ED I can play a released game.