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Nihila Vex

Nihila Vex
znôrt said:
since you seem to enjoy the luxury, in red and bold, to state the obvious that a poster's opinions are his own, i take you either have no opinion of your own
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Sure I have an opinion of my own. I think Elite Dangerous is... well, it's the best we have. It's quite disappointing, in some respects: I believe, as I have since joining the beta, that if it'd been developed as an offline, single-player advancement on Frontier: First Encounters, I'd now be playing my absolute perfect game. So many things make ED as it is less than I think it could've been. But it's the best we've got, and what it is is still very enjoyable, so I play it and I like it.

All opinion, obviously. So I dunno if I'd count as a dreadful FDev fangirl, given that I like the game; or whether that comes from the fact that I'm not troubled by the fact they've upgraded the forums - again, all opinion. Or the fact that I've no reason to believe that those whose job it is to squash bugs are working hard to do exactly that.

Where it gets less 'opiniony', and starts to warrant some actual evidence, I think, is when you start accusing the staff at Frontier of having a low work ethic which, to be blunt, I think is a pretty crappy thing to say.

had to smile with the times new roman thing :)
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I'm actually glad you did.
 

DDastardly00

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The new forums look so great, that they should just pause all game development and bug fixes in celebration of this legitimate fact.
 

krylite

krylite
Duck & Jenny said:
There is an optimistic way of looking at Frontier's silence. Hello Games went completely radio silent after the disastrous launch of NMS. A year later (give or take) they released a huge update that addressed many of the initial complaints, taking the gaming industry by surprise. They have continued to do so ever since, the latest example being NMS VR which nobody saw coming (at least not on PS4). Perhaps Frontier is taking a page out of HG's playbook. Talk is cheap - I prefer results myself, so I welcome this "less talk more action" approach if that's what Frontier is actually doing.
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Nah, Frontier does their own playbook and have done so for a very long time. But feel free to keep switching your opinions left to right and back again on Frontier. It might help mask cloud your extreme criticism and whinging of FD in the past.
 

Duck & Jenny

Duck & Jenny
krylite said:
Nah, Frontier does their own playbook and have done so for a very long time. But feel free to keep switching your opinions left to right and back again on Frontier. It might help mask cloud your extreme criticism and whinging of FD in the past.
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I know my avatar is pretty and all, but you should really crush on somebody else. If you are going to keep crushing on me, at least make it entertaining. You know, like the last rant, the one I got this funny signature from. 🤣
 
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znôrt

znôrt
Nihila Vex said:
Sure I have an opinion of my own. I think Elite Dangerous is... well, it's the best we have. It's quite disappointing, in some respects: I believe, as I have since joining the beta, that if it'd been developed as an offline, single-player advancement on Frontier: First Encounters, I'd now be playing my absolute perfect game. So many things make ED as it is less than I think it could've been. But it's the best we've got, and what it is is still very enjoyable, so I play it and I like it.

All opinion, obviously. So I dunno if I'd count as a dreadful FDev fangirl, given that I like the game; or whether that comes from the fact that I'm not troubled by the fact they've upgraded the forums - again, all opinion. Or the fact that I've no reason to believe that those whose job it is to squash bugs are working hard to do exactly that.
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i agree with all that. i'm disappointed but happy nevertheless too. i can still call out frontier for hosting a bug parade.

Nihila Vex said:
Where it gets less 'opiniony', and starts to warrant some actual evidence, I think, is when you start accusing the staff at Frontier of having a low work ethic which, to be blunt, I think is a pretty crappy thing to say.
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well, the problem is that we actually lack a standard in this field, and any case the bar would be probably fairly low across the entertainment industry. but i think we do have ample evidence, actually 5 years full of it, that they wipe their rears with bug reports. how that scores on anyone's ethics scale is of course subjective. i can't help but think that games are actually software, and having worked in software all my life in very different scenarios, such low compromise with quality would have not been tolerable in any of them. i know most people got used to this and may find it normal bc 'it's just a game' (ie., streamed experiences, throwaway software) but it still doesn't sound well to me.
 

aRJay

aRJay
Daish said:
New forum page why....why is time being spent on updating forum page than looking into the constant issues & bugs with the game.!?

We all now know that updates wont be happening anytime soon, is frontier slowly closing down Elite, and continuing to not answer popular questions.
With new game development keeping frontier busy, Elite seems to be suffering delay and disappointment, and lacking any concentrated fixes to LONG term issues with the game.

I would of thought during this down time period upto 2020... That frontier would be fixing known and long term issues on mass, it would be the perfect time to down tools and group a dedicated Bug fixing team to go through every issue with the game...but will they.?
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They could buy the forum software in and let the forum/communications team customise it.

That isn't possible for the game.
 

IamMe

IamMe
FD spent last two years developing new forum with 100devs working on it :eek:
Now you know the reason why they diched ice planet surface upgrade and fleet carriers:LOL:
 
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