So you believe FD will add elite feet, planetary landings, cities, EVA, underwater exploration, etc. into the game without a surge of popular support and cash?
Look - I’m new to this game. I didn’t know it existed before May 2018.
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I’m sure Fdev will continue to update the game but I’m less sure it will include all the things that most people seem to want. If they said to us - thanks for the interest, but we’ve got this covered - then we’d know. We could stop talking about it and complaining. We wouldn’t do any fundraising.
All I’m proposing is that we come up with a realistic list of new content and open a dialogue with fDev to see if there is anything we can do as a community to help them achieve those goals.
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You're new, you will learn, Fdev suck at communication. It would be literally impossible to open up a dialogue with them (unless you own a YouTube channel). Four months ago (ish), they teased a new era for Elite in 2019. That was it! No hint as to what it might even relate to, just that it was paid DLC and they
reprioritised ice planet improvements because of it.
Excuse me, but as a dev (not frontier) I highly object to this. It's either ignorance or stupidity.
It is usually not the devs who decide what does or does not get developed, it is management.
Yea, apologies for that, wasn't hating on the devs (I'm sure the devs doing Fallout76 never wanted what management pushed out on their customer base), and I could've worded it better, it's the marketing team (or Mr B) selling the dream and management who won't give the time needed to see those...
promises come to fruition.
There's no need for any further fundraising
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They've got a paid expansion due out at some point this year which will no doubt include at least some of the communities most requested features. They're just not going to reveal it's content until they're ready to do so, yes it sucks that Frontier are so secretive but you'll get used to it.
Been here since 2.3 and I still hate the awful communication from Fdev, but I am looking forward to what's coming (so long as it's atmospheric landings
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The first kickstarter spoke of stealing players ships, hunting dino's on earth like worlds, location damage on all ships, walking (third person shooter stylee), planetary landings, a functioning economy, comets, gas giants (as in flying thru the upper clouds), an offline mode and a <redacted> ton of other stuff (google DDF)... so we're still waiting for those to be fullfilled - how would a second kickstarter be any different?
