Exactly. If you want to see what maintenance mode looks like, see Guild Wars 1 for an example.
Content drought, on the other hand...
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Content drought, on the other hand...
We know nothing. Other then the new player experiences and the dev supported events that are coming before the 2020 update.
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You're just making stuff up so you can shoehorn it into your argument.
Some people just can't accept that they are wrong. As soon as someone feels the need to call others white knights you can tell that they don't have an argument.
I'm under the impression that Oolite is better developed and has a bigger team working on it than Elite Dangerous.
Very poor reasoning there. Anyone with even a bit of sense can see who are the white knights maintaining the echo chamber around here. Much healthier to call them out on it even moreso when people like you don't like it.
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White knight or Black knight doesnt make a difference. We all want the same thing in the end or else we wouldnt be here.
No, you were just wrong.
The same argument applies to you.
Yet you accused others of making 'toxic posts'.
Luckly, once you have "discovered" them, you can put them in the ignore list.
Basically the development of this game has been halved since 2016: I still remember when Fd were working on Horizon expansion and they didn't fear anything to shows us how and what they were doing.
It's clear that Ed is a cash cow in maintenance mode with little effort to put on it...
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I personally think ad hominems, like when you declare someone a white knight, are even poorer. They can not even be considered reasoning at all, just mud slinging. Ad hominems like that are usually only uttered when someone has run out of arguments of his own, and can not counter the actual arguments the other party is showing. Sort of an adult tantrum if you wish.
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If often find some people don't even have an argument, they instantly jump to blaming everything on white knights. Happens a lot on the Steam forums.
FDEV didn't show anything from Horizons up until a few months before release.
Come on now, you're not supposed to say what actually happened - that spoils the doom narrative :O
Discuss this:
Basically the development of this game has been halved since 2016: I still remember when Fd were working on Horizon expansion and they didn't fear anything to shows us how and what they were doing.
if you have something to discuss of course...
if you have something to discuss of course...
FDev have stated pretty clearly that the 'New Era' DLC will be an 'in-game' release, not a new title. So both y'all's thinking must have a kink in it somewhere
OK, taking your $20-$25m costs for 2 years as a reasonable generic benchmark (which I do, given about $10K a man-month seems to be something of an industry norm). Let me flip it around for you.
Why wouldn't a company take a measured punt on this proposition?:
- You've got a game live on three platforms which has shifted 3 million units of the base game over 4 years, and 1.3m of the expansion. (An 'attach rate' of 43%, which seems to be on the high end for the industry)
- The majority of the game's revenue 'still comes from people coming fresh to the game'
- You've got a cash balance of around 40m.
- Your break even for your standard launch titles is 'a few hundred thousand units'
- You have very few market competitors in the genre/format.
- A further PDLC could be reasonably expected to accrue a decent attach rate over time, and help sustain core game purchases.
Add in potential factors like:
- The possibility of landing as a launch title for the new consoles. (Given that your game managed its best returns in its 4th year thanks to a PS4 launch, bringing in 22m in total)
And there seems to be fertile ground there for the title still. Decent attachment rates for past paid DLC, cash in reserve to tide over investment phases, past success from expanding to new platforms etc.
You've convinced yourself that there's no reason to invest serious cash in the current title, and poor odds of a decent return. FDev, from their public statements, seem to have a different take
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