So first of all yes the title is a little bit click baity - Sorry
I've got 1600 + hours in Elite and for the money I've spent (including all the ship skins at kits) I've never had better value for money from a game. I still play the game no one can have my stuff and I don't hate Fdev and the game isn't doomed!
Now that's out the way I recently started playing Warframe.
Warframe is a year older than Elite but the community approach feels like it's matured 100 years ahead of Fdev. Now this isn't a pop at the community team Will, Paige, Brett and psuedo member Sally do a great job but it just feels like the strategy is so wrong!
All the secrecy and lack of engagement is strange.
Digital Extremes (the devs that make Warframe) do 2 things 1 they involve the community in their streams and promote their communities creatives which I think Fdev have started doing more of recently and that's great.
But the second and most important thing they do is talk openly and honestly about the game which Fdev seem terrified of. This doesn't just mean give me more info now, they talk about things they're not happy with, like the archwing (a jet packy flying thing that is cool but adds very little to the game) the devs go on stream and laugh at how they just missed the mark and want to make it better.
If we look at something similar here (CQC and powerplay) Fdev talk about it like it's fine even when looking at ways of improving there's little acceptance they got something wrong. And the biggest surprise (to no one ever) is that when DE talk about things they got wrong the community accepts it and is happy they tried something new.
They talk about concepts for changes to the game and the community is positive. I remember when Fdev announced focus feedback and the community was the most engaged they've been, but then then mid way through they chickened out because there was some debate - why??
I get that the forums can get salty but back in 2015 / 16 I remember the same "where's the news Fdev?" threads all over the place. We've had 2 "important community update" threads and both feel like they were off the back of so much noise on the forums Fdev had to say something.
I honestly thought Fdev were right in their approach given the Star Citizen debacle but even now it seems NMS, SC, warframe, The Division and countless other games have over taken Elite on community engagement hell even looking at the new forums I see JWE has developer spotlights, Planet coaster has dropped news on a new update and yet for elite our latest dev posts are "welcome to the new forums"
So yeah I just don't get it, what gives Fdev why is Elite left out from community engagement?
TL;DR - Why do all other games (including Fdev's other games) get more community engagement than Elite?
I've got 1600 + hours in Elite and for the money I've spent (including all the ship skins at kits) I've never had better value for money from a game. I still play the game no one can have my stuff and I don't hate Fdev and the game isn't doomed!
Now that's out the way I recently started playing Warframe.
Warframe is a year older than Elite but the community approach feels like it's matured 100 years ahead of Fdev. Now this isn't a pop at the community team Will, Paige, Brett and psuedo member Sally do a great job but it just feels like the strategy is so wrong!
All the secrecy and lack of engagement is strange.
Digital Extremes (the devs that make Warframe) do 2 things 1 they involve the community in their streams and promote their communities creatives which I think Fdev have started doing more of recently and that's great.
But the second and most important thing they do is talk openly and honestly about the game which Fdev seem terrified of. This doesn't just mean give me more info now, they talk about things they're not happy with, like the archwing (a jet packy flying thing that is cool but adds very little to the game) the devs go on stream and laugh at how they just missed the mark and want to make it better.
If we look at something similar here (CQC and powerplay) Fdev talk about it like it's fine even when looking at ways of improving there's little acceptance they got something wrong. And the biggest surprise (to no one ever) is that when DE talk about things they got wrong the community accepts it and is happy they tried something new.
They talk about concepts for changes to the game and the community is positive. I remember when Fdev announced focus feedback and the community was the most engaged they've been, but then then mid way through they chickened out because there was some debate - why??
I get that the forums can get salty but back in 2015 / 16 I remember the same "where's the news Fdev?" threads all over the place. We've had 2 "important community update" threads and both feel like they were off the back of so much noise on the forums Fdev had to say something.
I honestly thought Fdev were right in their approach given the Star Citizen debacle but even now it seems NMS, SC, warframe, The Division and countless other games have over taken Elite on community engagement hell even looking at the new forums I see JWE has developer spotlights, Planet coaster has dropped news on a new update and yet for elite our latest dev posts are "welcome to the new forums"
So yeah I just don't get it, what gives Fdev why is Elite left out from community engagement?
TL;DR - Why do all other games (including Fdev's other games) get more community engagement than Elite?
