known in the industry as having 'a Peter Molyneux moment'
I think I've realised what the problem with ED is.. Braben has lost interest and moved on?
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Mind showing us where they promised if, and when, athmospheric landings would be delivered?
You may have a point. There appears to be an infinite salt source that just keeps on giving in these forums. However, giving people what they say they want is already known to be a limiting long-term strategy. Working out what people really need or want is the key. As car-maker Henry Ford once allegedly said: If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.
I know the things that delight me most are not things I have asked for. Things that I have wanted - coveted, even; save up for - have often ended up being "meh" - a shrug of the shoulders - "was that really worth all the effort?"
There used to be a Frontier FAQ before I bought the game that described atmospheric landings in this ED release except I cannot find that web page anymore. The FAQ also stated there's a story in the game except neglected to mention t'was WIP and written by someone in a book that was later sold last year.
This article - https://elitedangerous2016.wordpress.com/tag/atmospheric-planets/ - quotes David was still very keen to implement atmospheric landings in June 2017, except he changed his statement to "we don’t want to make potentially empty promises to you" b/c he knows that's what he promised earlier. Otherwise, why do so many ask FDev about this?
I interviewed Ed and Sandro at PAX last year and they both say that David Braden not only has his hand on the tiller, but sits right next to Sandro. Those are the facts, the rest of this thread is speculation bordering on libel. Not developing the game they way you want or not interacting with the community directly does not equal ZOMG BRABEN QUIT. His company is now successful enough that he can pay people to interact with us and get on with the business of running a multi million dollar corporation.
Repped, we can't have the truth get in the way of a misguided, ill-informed, childish rant can we. What other venue do these experts on all aspects of the gaming industry have to continually tell how great they are and how only they know how the game could be made GREAT again !
And in turn, here’s some rep!
Also, here’s the thing where I interviewed Ed Lewis last year. Topic in question begins at 3:45. Enough of OP’s nonsense.
https://soundcloud.com/cmdr-arbitration/pax-east-2017
Hands on tiller and sitting next to Sandro is just good public relations talking. David has his hands full steering Frontier to not just one but multiple Frontier visions, hence as you say he pays/delegates other tasks to others b/c it's simply not possible to manage so many functions yourself.
I'm not saying he has lost interest in ED, except his time is spread thinner to multiple projects/functions. I know a CEO who founded a software company decided to step down and pass the CEO baton to his CFO b/c he wanted to devote more time with their development team to improve on the number of applications that have grown since he started the company with just one application.
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Ive been thinking this for a while as well. As a founder, he would have the luxury to direct the team to make the game he wanted to play. Given the type 10 was actually allowed to be released looking and with the poor quality workmanship that it was, and the stuff that's been presented for Jurassic world evo...
Either braben has long ago put down the controller.. either that or they've gone over budget on all the projects and new offices and content is just getting pushed out without the required polish passes. Could be either honestly because JWE while amazing has gotten the cheap treatment everywhere you look at it.
Either braben has long ago put down the controller.. either that or they've gone over budget on all the projects and new offices and content is just getting pushed out without the required polish passes. Could be either honestly because JWE while amazing has gotten the cheap treatment everywhere you look at it.
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As far as I know, atmospheric landings has always been an intention. Not a promise. (But I am on mobile atm, so can 't exactly look it up)
This is my thought too. As far as I know, they have all been intended. But some seem to think intension is a promise.
Ok now Im confussed...
As for the OP, I dont think DB has left via stage left, just you know he's a man with his fingers in many pies. Aslo what he might have wanted for ED somtimes comes down to what you have to work with, I dream a dreamers dream but lets face it when you wake up its not all that is it, or its close but always somthing more to be had.
LOL.
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Yes I'm sure as a CEO he is massively interested in a development of a product with approx 200k (and judging by the interest in CGs and number of participants steadily declining) active users wold-wide without subscription based service.
At the moment ED is mostly a PR burden and not a source of income. They only earn on skins and we could all see how much effort goes into those.
Anyone that believes ED is not piggybacking on the income of Planet Coaster is just delusional. Frontier is doing ok as a company, but not thanks to Elite.
At the moment ED is mostly a PR burden and not a source of income. They only earn on skins and we could all see how much effort goes into those.
Anyone that believes ED is not piggybacking on the income of Planet Coaster is just delusional. Frontier is doing ok as a company, but not thanks to Elite.
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