Just need to drag it out another 4 years and the fanboys will have their "10 yr plan" chants vindicated!
The old 'ten year plan' remains one of the best examples of how gamers hear what they want to hear rather than what is actually said.
Does anyone else feel like Beyond is a graceful exit strategy ?
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The old 'ten year plan' remains one of the best examples of how gamers hear what they want to hear rather than what is actually said.
No chance. They'd have a LOT of angry lifetime expansion pass holders on their hands who essentially, would only have got Horizons for their money. Wouldn't surprise me if there was a class action suit.
Great post (I'll just quote this top bit though).
They never guaranteed these features though.
I remember the video where Braben talked about getting up out of your cockpit and going down to a hull breach inside the ship to repair it.
They also had a single player offline mode and a 'pay to be part of' design decision forum where players would work directly with developers.
Unless you plan on playing this game for the rest of your lives, why not have a sunset on this game? I like the concept of all the other enhancements to general gameplay, but those attributes can exist in games that don't have the time grind feel of ED. Let's be real, every game is a time grind, that's why they are called pass times, however they shouldn't feel like a time grind. I'm not even talking about the hour+ trips to long range stations. I am talking about the relentless countdowns to do damn near anything in the game. What, you cannot suspend disbelief to allow a FSD to just discharge on the word "go"? You cannot cool down instantly? You cannot drop out of hypercruise at your station? No, because the bulk of this game has always been the time sink you endure in order to get to the actual game play.
It reminds me a bit of those "drive here and talk to this guy" games. Nothing but driving around, all the time with some brief moments of gameplay, followed by more driving around. Fun at first, but not lifetime level fun.
It reminds me a bit of those "drive here and talk to this guy" games. Nothing but driving around, all the time with some brief moments of gameplay, followed by more driving around. Fun at first, but not lifetime level fun.
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Why shouldn't we be able to play this game for the rest of our lives? I'm going to play Super Mario Brothers 3 for the rest of my life. Good games are good games forever.
Because there's no offline mode.
Although, there is no real reason why ED can not be evolved in perpetuity.
Frontier Development exists to make Elite. Everything else stands in service to that. This is CEO Braben's life work, where he started, what he keeps coming back to.
Is this so hard to see?
Blackcompany
Banned
People BELIEVE this? Wow...
Frontier exist to make MONEY. Elite...isn't doing very well at that any more..
Of course Frontier has an obligation to share holders as well, but it is not a stretch to think that other titles help fund Braben's original vision, no?
As long as it's free to KS backers and LEP holders. I don't mind either.
Well, sure, Elite can't be much of a money maker, being free and all.
Luckily, FD has Elite : Dangerous. It's making loads of money and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.
Don't you just love a happy ending?
I hope elite continues.
But having followed Star Citizen development Vlogs 2 years, there is no way they are implementing anything but some reward tables and textures. Reward this for that rather than those for these.
It just takes too much development muscle to make real content additions and they are making Jurassic World, they don’t have the bodies to do much elite content unless it’s already done and needed tweaking to roll out.
But
Those gameplay reward/outcome tables can be tweaked in a genius manner oor bloody time sink focussed lame manner.
That’s where we here come in.
The game is good if the tedium is reduced and players, oh those angelic players, are given a chance to come up with their own emergent gameplay ideas.
Rescue beacons do that.
Player generated CGs would do that.
Stable multicrew on ships that promote it- the upcoming ‘aircraft carriers’-can do that.
Multicrew planet falls, -Player bases or hangers, can do that with the existing engine.
But if we don’t trumpet our needs
It will be the awkward silence when hull limpets were introduced.
But having followed Star Citizen development Vlogs 2 years, there is no way they are implementing anything but some reward tables and textures. Reward this for that rather than those for these.
It just takes too much development muscle to make real content additions and they are making Jurassic World, they don’t have the bodies to do much elite content unless it’s already done and needed tweaking to roll out.
But
Those gameplay reward/outcome tables can be tweaked in a genius manner oor bloody time sink focussed lame manner.
That’s where we here come in.
The game is good if the tedium is reduced and players, oh those angelic players, are given a chance to come up with their own emergent gameplay ideas.
Rescue beacons do that.
Player generated CGs would do that.
Stable multicrew on ships that promote it- the upcoming ‘aircraft carriers’-can do that.
Multicrew planet falls, -Player bases or hangers, can do that with the existing engine.
But if we don’t trumpet our needs
It will be the awkward silence when hull limpets were introduced.
Feels like ED is just getting started, not heading towards an exit strategy. Not at all. While there is still bucket loads of money to be made from the game there is not going to be an exit strategy. I doubt even the all mighty SC will even come close to killing off ED.
You may have an overly romanticised view of TheBraben.
Really think you need to provide some references for this assertion, or is it just supposition and hot air?
Lawsuit? EULA.