Beige Alert, this is a Beige Alert. Will all key personnel please saunter vaguely towards their stations when they get a minute, but for god's sake, don't rush. Repeat, this is a Beige Alert.
Next Update = 2020
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This is the balancing act that FDev are going to have to try and get right almost as much as whatever the content itself may be. Say too much and simply set themselves up for a massive fall, say too little and let expectation spiral into guaranteed disappointment.
However they end up handling it they’ll be aware they can’t simply say nothing, we just don’t live in a world like that anymore.
I’m just glad I’m not an FDev Community Manager over the next two years
If I could give you my stuff in this multiplayer online game I would, but I can't as it's a woefully lacking multiplayer online game.
Pretty sure that was an Fdev dev who said that which then got cancelled to be added to the much bigger update coming later. The people with LEP got something from the store as compensation?
Maintenance mode, MVP, New Game free to LEP owners, I'm calling it.
It really depends on what they are working on... if it's awesome it's worth the wait!
But if it's just feels incremental, well then yeah it's too long.
Last year an FDev employee told me we hadn't see anything yet, and Beyond Chapter 4 would be awesome.
Well, I liked chapter four, in fact I liked all of the beyond updates, but non of it felt earth shattering? Felt more incremental to me.
Anyhow, time will tell!
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Epic pathetic even by FD standards. When I think I supported this guys in Kickstarter after waiting for 20 years for Elite game. And 5 years later after epic fails like powerplay, engineers and impotent unimaginative design leadership they come up with this... I hope Fdev share price tanks even further. This is a slap in the face for everyone who backed this game and pulled FD from the gutter. Braben has disappointed me big time. From now on there is only one legend game designer - Sid Meier !
This is a problem with modern game development. You release a game that's unfinished, but promise that it will be. You then expect people to pay full price for the unfinished game, as well as pay for additional content which is meant to finish the game. Then you dangle carrots in front of people and give them vague ideas about what's coming, building insurmountable hype and leaving your customers inevitably disappointed.
I've had a blast with Elite Dangerous, and am by no means complaining about the delay because I am enjoying the game as it is now. All I'm saying is, Frontier is just as dishonest a company as the rest of the industry...or any industry for that matter. People are justified being upset by this news.
I've had a blast with Elite Dangerous, and am by no means complaining about the delay because I am enjoying the game as it is now. All I'm saying is, Frontier is just as dishonest a company as the rest of the industry...or any industry for that matter. People are justified being upset by this news.
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I chuckled, reading FDev's latest informational update noting that FDev took several paragraphs to say . . . expect exactly nothing.
No ice planets, no fleet carriers, no significant new content releases until sometime next year. New content is (reportedly) scheduled for release sometime in Q4 2020, which probably means in late December after lots of hype/buildup just like last year's thoroughly underwhelming "new" content update and in addition, we are all going to PAY for the "new" content. Way to stretch it, FDev.
And still no Panther Clipper. o7
No ice planets, no fleet carriers, no significant new content releases until sometime next year. New content is (reportedly) scheduled for release sometime in Q4 2020, which probably means in late December after lots of hype/buildup just like last year's thoroughly underwhelming "new" content update and in addition, we are all going to PAY for the "new" content. Way to stretch it, FDev.
And still no Panther Clipper. o7
And then there's SC
Well, at least one company knows what finished means. We are all still waiting for Elite to achieve what was originally promised (yes, promised) and planned for release. The 2020 update is still likely not going to wrap things up but at least it's a step...
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Neither game is finished..SC just admits it.
Alpha centauri base game without upgrades plays much better with the second to last patch, from memory 3.xx. Patch 4 did something to the AI so they all fold in favour of one big one. Patch 3 you will see miriam get mouthy to yang and yang being most unamused. Planet busters tend to follow. Look into that if you like. I expect the final patch is more difficult for the player but second to final is alot more fun.
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Yep, FDev declared Elite "finished and done" back in Dec 2014. But it wasn't. Heck, they didn't even call it 'early access' which they did call Horizons shortly before it launched... unfinished... SC hasn't been declared finished and done because it isn't. (Just confirming that was the message in my OP...)
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Blackcompany
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Wow...could have sworn someone predicted that the next stage would be continuing to postpone updates until boredom drove the player base away.
Calling it now: there wont be any significant content this year at all. And the game will be declared dead prior to 2020 "content" coming.
Those of us stating the game was in maintenance mode have been ultimately proven right. FDev have provided close to nothing on the pretence of a year of "free updates". Updates that were already thin but became even thinner after failing to deliver on the promise of fleet carriers and improved planet terrain. The only reason 2018 was free was because FDev knew it was so minor they couldn't sell it.
They now admit that they took a sabbatical they knew they could get away with, propped up by fan boys with multiple accounts going over paint jobs and ship kits, while they diverted the majority of workers onto Jurassic Evolution.
The fact that they have nothing waiting in the wings for 2019 is a huge admission. Remember the line "over 100 people working on Elite", what a joke and a talking point...
I eagerly await what FDev decide to be enough of a buggy minimum viable product to stick a price tag on for 2020.
They now admit that they took a sabbatical they knew they could get away with, propped up by fan boys with multiple accounts going over paint jobs and ship kits, while they diverted the majority of workers onto Jurassic Evolution.
The fact that they have nothing waiting in the wings for 2019 is a huge admission. Remember the line "over 100 people working on Elite", what a joke and a talking point...
I eagerly await what FDev decide to be enough of a buggy minimum viable product to stick a price tag on for 2020.
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Blackcompany
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There is no development. Its over.
Blackcompany
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If they cared - at all - about keeping the game alive, there is NO WAY they make this announcement. No way. They would simply continue with the "soon" mantra.
This is a "soft" end of life announcement intended to kill any remaining interest.
I wish that I could disagree with you, but I can't, not one little bit. Spot on.