[Video] Open letter from community to Elite Dangerous
- Thread starter Yamiks
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You are just sulking because you are hanging round the forum of a game you don't like anymore, you'll feel better if you try to get over the video game and move on.
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You can't think of even a single counterargument eh ?. Thought not.
Read this as well, might help you understand where you are going wrong :
The topic every game dev is talking about behind closed doors : The cost of doing business
Content warning : I’ve embedded some tweets to various developers that show the sorts of comments that they receive every day. There’s some…
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And then what? Wave at frontier with an even bigger empty bag?
No, it doesn't. Multicrew is still ed. Powerplay is still ed. It took 4 months to fix things like the mass lock bug and everything else broken in the December update. That's absolutely unacceptable.
The fact that people in this thread (like you) are getting upset that people dare send FDev a petition to get them to improve their QA Process!
You failed to offer even a single substantiative argument. There aren't any major bugs? Have you even touched Multicrew since it launched? I'll ask again. What words in the petition itself, the letter on ipetitions.com, is impolite or threatening? Just because people had a thought to try a more offensive protest doesn't mean that this one is. As for balance, heal beams are still ridiculously overpowered. Their fixes have been to keep people from using them for station griefing. That's just 1 example. How many useless weapons are there? You got any cannons fit to your ships right now?
After seeing your question mark followed by a period, I've decided that we are enemies and do not agree on things after all.
Here's the three specific criticisms (again) of the wording of the petition that you missed or ignored in my previous post :
"balance" could mean pretty much anything.
Major bugs sounds like a character from Starship Troopers and is so imprecise its impossible to satisfy.
Also an impolite threatening demand for more communication is quite obviously self defeating.
Also cannons are great always been one of my favourite weapons.
Its a full stop you heathen.
I'll ensure you experience a full stop, just you wait.
Beats computers.
Kinky, I like it.
Then frankly your arguments are nonsense. You still havent shown me what on the petition is impolite. Just because some people on reddit are jerks doesn't taint everything everyone else does. That's like calling all of Christianity bad because some priests are criminals.
So those outstanding issues negates everything else FDEV have fixed over the years? Seems like cherry picking to me.
You can send a petition, flowers, toilet rolls, billboards, hamsters, ..., and it will not represent me nor my opinions of the game and the bug testing of it. My gripe is with the petition and the people behind it thinking they somehow represent the community that I am also part of.
That's mixing concepts. Keep it simple please. Is this about the wording and intent of the petition, or is it about specifics of the game mechanics you are dissatisfied with. One thing at a time, please.
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Death threats are bad m'kay.
Read this next time you are wondering why the devs don't want to touch us with a ten foot stick :
The topic every game dev is talking about behind closed doors : The cost of doing business
Content warning : I’ve embedded some tweets to various developers that show the sorts of comments that they receive every day. There’s some…
You probably didn't have to maintain one in the 60's, 70's, or early 80's.You're not endearing yourself, you know?!
As a Brit (specifically, a proud Jock from Edinburgh who grew up in Harrow) & the owner of a 2015 Jaguar XF 3.0D V6 Portfolio, I can tell you that in over 3 years I've never had even one major issue & only a couple of very minor ones. I wish I could say the same about my previous car, a BMW 330D Coupe - a manufacturer, supposedly with one of the best reputations for build quality in the industry - at less than 2 years old, conked out with a serious engine management issue on the A3 approaching the South Circular in London <ahem> at morning rush hour...I won't forget that day in a hurry or the fruity Chaucerian vernacular I learnt either from the legendarily patient, empathetic & amiable Londoners.
What's this thread about again?
For me, it's not sufficient clear what is meant by 'Fix the long standing issues'.
After several discussions in this thread it turned out it means:
- make the BGS open only (something lots of people in the community disagree with)
- make PP open only (something lots of people in the community disagree with)
- fix PP (with people having different ideas how it should get fixed)
- remove the FSS and restore the old exploration gameplay (again, lots of people disagree with this)
- add offline mode (ok, I just made that up)
- remove the ability to duplicate materials by mode switching (surprisingly this is something I agree with, considering how many people complained about the mission board fix it's another controversial topic though)
For me it's problematic that the petition looks like many people would be in agreement, but if you take a closer look lots of people wouldn't survive sitting in the same room for more than 30 minutes.
Yeah, so that's why we're using a politely worded petition. Your other arguments are bad, "Fewer bugs" and "better game balance" are perfectly clear and reasonable requests.
TLDR : death by committee.
The problem is not that nobody would welcome changes but that nobody can agree how these changes should look like.