News October Livestreams
So they are having the Bug Hunt in the coming weeks, followed by Q4 content soon
well considering that 5 weeks have passed since they said that they where going to talk about Q4 content SOON™ i would rather skip the whole bug hunt.
Oh jolly good ... the newsletter is in
Moving on.
so in other words SOON™???
"The team are full steam ahead working on the fourth and final chapter of the Beyond series of updates, we'll have more news on this very soon. While we wait, we've managed to steal away Elite Dangerous Art Director, Chris Gregory, for just a small moment, to look back and answer a few quest"
Just like last week and the week before and the week before that... we can see something very "soon".... so soon that they can't give us a date for the live stream. [where is it]
If the Frontier marketing department was smart they'd show us some concept art or a screenshot every week. Something to make us excited and to talk about.
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the SOON™ will be coming SOON™
Ah, soon like a Pluto year. This explains a lot.
they are a month late already, and Frontier might be taking some notes from CIG
The one thing that Frontier do very well is mishandle communications.
If they were smart they'd copy what paradox does. Wait till you are far enough along in deveolpment to have details to share and dole them out in weekly dev diaries, one detailed post per subject/aspect of the awaited update.
"That's all for changes to the discovery scanner, tune in next week when we will go over the new detailed surface scanner and the planetary probes feature!"
It keeps fans intrested, engaged and talking about the update. Fans wouldn't be feeling let down and anoyed right now, we'd all be egerly waiting for the next dev post... which they would already have planned and ready to go. I just don't understand why they keep making a rod for their own back like this.
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Yep, Paradox does a great job of talking about development. So does SCS Studios. So do many dev studios. Frontier used to three years ago, but they changed policies for some odd reason, and it's hurt the communities morale in a very negative way.
Maybe Frontier could tell us the date when they are going to reveal the date for the Q4 stream
Maybe they could at least reveal the date for the reveal date for the Q4 stream reveal?
Maybe we should waste another month on going on about unanounced open only powerplay which isn't even in Q4.
What happened to OOPP in the end? Any more feedback from Sandro?
I mean, it's a bit rich dropping that fart in the room and then running off hoping no-one would notice...
It won't be a thing for 3.3 according to Sandro. Maybe, possibly someday in the future. No ETA's no guarantees of course.
According to Zac it's been "prioritised", to everyone else that means bumped up the running order but in marketing speak it means dropped...
Hopefully a PP overhaul will be in the post 3.3 era.
Ignored again. It becomes clear its just better to ignore what Sandro says until simeone else shows it actually being a thing on a stream. Its not worth spending time on giving feedback on anything as its quite likely just a random thing in his mind, uconnected to any development plan.
Its a bit odd, the combination of 'we need to be silent until we are dead sure about something' with 'here is a random and highly controversial brainfart.' I'd rather have them be open about stuff they are actually working on. But that could just be me.