Oh, ... speak for forself. As for me, I am still enjoying flying around (on two accounts), and don't really need to be constantly spoonfed information. Actually, I prefer the current tone of semi-optimistic speculation to the usual rabid negativity that flows following updates, or sometimes even the announcment of updates.
Lack of info, Leaks and Cheating... my considerations and my suggestion
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Oh, ... speak for forself. As for me, I am still enjoying flying around (on two accounts), and don't really need to be constantly spoonfed information. Actually, I prefer the current tone of semi-optimistic speculation to the usual rabid negativity that flows following updates, or sometimes even the announcment of updates.
That's a different company you're thinking of.
Not sure which one, but it's D.E.F.I.N.I.T.E.L.Y not frontier.
I don't see in the current cheating issue a lot of optimism. It's also true that many people are positively hyped because of the space legs leak.. but still that's all based on speculations and not official statements
Yup, and a whole new bouquet of new and reappearing bugs.
A new Initiative with weeks of doing nothing followed by a CG with a replica multicanon which needs grinded materials to make it somewhat different as reward.
I wish Fdev concentrated a bit more on the maintenance aspect, solve some long standing bugs etc.
But what do I know, I'm not on the design team and don't know how to make a game, so it all must be just dandy, right?
Not what I said, but have fun with that.
Leak aside, there's been plenty of speculation threads which are always better than whinging, imo. The cheating, well that's a different matter, unrelated to the 'maintenance mode' nonsense or FDevs communication strategy, and not really on my radar... whenever I see a video that has the bandwidth & FPS displayed in the corner, or hear people going on about macros and voice commands, I miss PC gaming... until I am reminded about the chronic hacking and cheating.
I've never said so. I also believe there is more behind the scene of the leaks, but AGAIN we're left with speculations only, which is my main point.
It's hardly nonsense, they've only made two real efforts during the development of this game, the original release and the initial Horizons drop.
Everything after that has just been decoration.
The point is more about the communication rather than the content size
I'm kind of on the fence about them communicating more. On the one hand, yes obviously I'd love to know what's coming up, but on the other hand I don't want them to be seen to be making promises where they're not. They've been bitten by this before. Plans change, priorities alter.
Horizons has always been in maintenance.
And if the next major release only has elite feet, it won't have much of a shelf life.
Other opinions are available.
I don't think they will be binning that last 12 months work - I just wish they would just come straight out and tell us that they WILL NOT reveal ANYTHING until shareholders give the nod.
As for cheating and punishment / banning - they don't want to discuss that either.
The door is locked, lights are turned off and curtains drawn and no matter how many times you knock they will not answer the door.
As for cheating and punishment / banning - they don't want to discuss that either.
The door is locked, lights are turned off and curtains drawn and no matter how many times you knock they will not answer the door.
We're receiving something like total radio silence.
No one can confirm leaks when FDev refuse to comment on them. Of course, that's what they should d if they want to keep their surprises.
Don't you even care about what open players feel? No one (you thought) ever complained because it never went public like this. Everyone, or almost everyone, thought FDev was giving the cheaters the consequences they deserved. Well they were not. If the cheaters only lose what they cheated to get, they'll just cheat again. I mean, why not? It's just that obvious.
Or they totally shut up and pretend nothing happened like what they are doing now, and announce content when it is the right time. Nothing will change, after all.
They should not reveal their complete plan.
They have people paid to manage marketing and communication so they should know how much info and the level of detail to share.
They should announce as much as it is required to stop wild speculations and show the development direction:
- if it's about something that was promised and discussed multiple times during the kick-starter campaign
- if it's a global rework and improvement of the current game assets
- if it's something completely new that has never been announced nor discussed before.
For the moment it kind'a is. Frontier said this year won't have any major updates, only small QoL updates with fixes, that's pretty much maintenance. However, it's in maintenance for the reason that they're working on the next big update. So it's both in maintenance and development mode in a sense.
This is not a realistic scenario. I'm quite sure someone in the marketing is following up what happens here and deciding on the next move. We should also give signs to influence their decisions of course, and this is what I'm trying to do with this discussion. If many people agree with the OP then this is already a sign that it can't be completely ignored. This already happened last August.
The community insistend so much on a feedback that in the end they provided some information even if this was not completely mature, but they said enough to stop bad speculations.
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