The day you stop playing Elite Dangerous
- Thread starter Deekin Scalesinger
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Yeah its a keen point.
All the news plus the patch has definitely made me do a double take on frontier as well. Like others have done with different companies and franchies, i may have been holding frontier with an incorrect mindshare given they may not be so different to all that after all.
The only reason frontier escape wrath is the extra spending is completely optional.
Frontier could have addressed issues, they even created the standard industry pretense of an opportunity to do so via running a beta... but they didn't. And beyond subjective marking of features, they've actually built things that are genuinely shoddy (probing only from supercruise eg). Yeaaaah.
All the news plus the patch has definitely made me do a double take on frontier as well. Like others have done with different companies and franchies, i may have been holding frontier with an incorrect mindshare given they may not be so different to all that after all.
The only reason frontier escape wrath is the extra spending is completely optional.
Frontier could have addressed issues, they even created the standard industry pretense of an opportunity to do so via running a beta... but they didn't. And beyond subjective marking of features, they've actually built things that are genuinely shoddy (probing only from supercruise eg). Yeaaaah.
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So... no.. Spiderman 3305?
I don't buy into this video game industry doom and gloom. It's an industry, just like any other, someone with passion and ingenuity comes up with a good idea, then everyone recognises the formula and plug what they can into it for profit until it dries up. Think of superhero movies/series, most of them are crap, but every now and then you can enjoy a good one.
I think ED is a good one, and while I've taken some breaks from time to time, I still find it enjoyable and look forward to new content, at whatever pace it comes.
I think ED is a good one, and while I've taken some breaks from time to time, I still find it enjoyable and look forward to new content, at whatever pace it comes.
Gotta say, I've never really understood the hostility toward ad's in a game like ED.
I mean, why would it be a big deal if the holo-adverts in ED were advertising, say, Thrustmaster joysticks or Alienware PCs?
I suppose some people might find it conflicts with their suspension of disbelief but, I dunno.
Personally, it'd actually reinforce it cos I think it'd fel like a link between the ED universe and the real one.
As long as the ad's fitted into the style of the game, it seems like it could be a nice little earner for FDev.... especially if the revenue might bankroll server upgrades etc.
As to the OP's actual question, the only thing that'd make me stop playing ED would be not enjoying it... which is why I won't be playing it again until I've had a look at disabling some of the new lighting effects.
Having said that, I'd stop purchasing stuff from the store in a heartbeat if I saw FDev attempting to indulge in any of the currently popular "silicon valley moral gatekeeping".
I like to think I'm as open-minded as anybody and no company who indulges in regressive authoritarian bullpoop is getting a penny off me.
"Get woke - go broke", as the saying goes. [up]
I mean, why would it be a big deal if the holo-adverts in ED were advertising, say, Thrustmaster joysticks or Alienware PCs?
I suppose some people might find it conflicts with their suspension of disbelief but, I dunno.
Personally, it'd actually reinforce it cos I think it'd fel like a link between the ED universe and the real one.
As long as the ad's fitted into the style of the game, it seems like it could be a nice little earner for FDev.... especially if the revenue might bankroll server upgrades etc.
As to the OP's actual question, the only thing that'd make me stop playing ED would be not enjoying it... which is why I won't be playing it again until I've had a look at disabling some of the new lighting effects.
Having said that, I'd stop purchasing stuff from the store in a heartbeat if I saw FDev attempting to indulge in any of the currently popular "silicon valley moral gatekeeping".
I like to think I'm as open-minded as anybody and no company who indulges in regressive authoritarian bullpoop is getting a penny off me.
"Get woke - go broke", as the saying goes. [up]
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EA was publicly mocking critics of BFV before release..
bold strategy
for elite i would say monthly subscription and having less fun or being bored
bold strategy
for elite i would say monthly subscription and having less fun or being bored
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Believe me, when Frontier decide they no longer wish to serve your community, it's like you never existed.
By 3304 they'll have revived Walt and put him in charge again
just like in Futurama style [haha]
Nope, these are real present reasons.
OP is being paranoid about Frontier suddenly becoming super shady, which they've shown little inclination for. We've told them for years how they could best take our monies and they refuse.
Your own concerns have way more to do with the fruit company in your avatar.
Free2Play but Pay2Win, Microtransactions and especially the smartphone game generation, on top the plans of killing the second hand market for consoles are the reasons, why i've continued playing Elite for 3 years now.
I've never played a game for so long before. But i also had never so less free time per week ever before
As long as they stay with cosmetics, everything is okay. Otger developers however, put HUGE grind walls into their game and than sell progress.
As long as Frontier keeps current way, i'll stay. In the last 3 years, i've bought lesser than 5 games which was previously my average per month. But most games today just aren't worth buying or even trying. I'm glad Elite Dangerous exists.
Free2Play but Pay2Win, Microtransactions and especially the smartphone game generation, on top the plans of killing the second hand market for consoles are the reasons, why i've continued playing Elite for 3 years now.
I've never played a game for so long before. But i also had never so less free time per week ever before
As long as they stay with cosmetics, everything is okay. Otger developers however, put HUGE grind walls into their game and than sell progress.
As long as Frontier keeps current way, i'll stay. In the last 3 years, i've bought lesser than 5 games which was previously my average per month. But most games today just aren't worth buying or even trying. I'm glad Elite Dangerous exists.
Exactly this.
I remove all 'dealer items' from my vehicles when I buy one (scrape off vinyl adverts for them, remove the license plate surrounds with their name on it, etc.) I hate advertising for others...and I hate the idea that something I have paid money for starts making more money by selling my forced views. No thanks. I remember when Cable networks (in the US) were sold to us as being 'ad free' because WE were paying for the network and there was no need to take advertising $$$ from the advertisers. This one idea would be a game breaker for me...in any game I would purchase...