Time to abandon it

There are other ways to play the game (e.g. role-playing like Isinona, getting involved in racing, planetary circumnavigation or other player group activities). These rarely lead to making money which means they're not a means to an end which means there's doesn't have to be an end. ... well, at least not until your imagination and willingness to be involved run out.

You're right about the money tho' - ultimately it's no use and any gameplay focused around making it will ultimately grind to a halt ... ooh, see what I (accidentally) did there? "grind" to a halt! 😄

If you like the idea of a game where you can really immerse yourself in making and spending money then you might want to give Eve online a go! Any comparisons with Star Citizen need to wait until it's actually out.
I heard you can immerse yourself to spend money in star citizen quite a lot already 😜
 
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I have learned that I'll never abandon the game. I haven't seriously played in many weeks now (and this after buying a gaming PC), because I've found other games to be more compelling at the moment, but as long as ED has the Milky Way galaxy, it will always have a place on my hard drive. And I suspect once my Rift S arrives, I'll be enjoying the game once again.

And if I were to quit forever, I still will have gotten my money's worth, and I bought it twice!
 
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I have learned that I'll never abandon the game. I haven't seriously played in many weeks now (and this after buying a gaming PC), because I've found other games to be more compelling at the moment, but as long as ED has the Milky Way galaxy, it will always have a place on my hard drive. And I suspect once my Rift S arrives, I'll be enjoying the game once again.

And if I were to quit forever, I still will have gotten my money's worth, and I bought it twice!

When the new mechanic in the fss works out fine then I'll gladly continue playing.
I'll probably never abandon ED completely but I'm already playing other games now and I'm having loads of fun.
When something new is added to ED and it looks good then I'll definitely try it and see from there.
Right now though I rather spend my time (and money) on other games.
 
If Fdev treated their community like NMS did, no one would leave. Heck more people are probably playing NMS then Elite.

I don't know which game has the most players but Hello Games definitely puts Fdev to shame regarding updates and additions to the game.
Yamik's latest video points this out brilliantly imho.
Hello Games consists of only 25 people, that's the skeleton crew working on ED right now besides the other 75 working on the 2020 thing.
 
I've said elsewhere that I fear the day when I reach the same limit as the OP because it's always a possibility, but thankfully it hasn't yet happened to me. While I play much less than I used to, and for shorter periods of time, there's still an occasional itch that only ED can scratch. Sometimes it's the desire for something specific, which might encourage me to engineer a ship or join a CG or expedition, but more often it's just the urge to bimble around for a while, running a handful of missions to worlds I've not visited before or just firing up the exploration account for a few hops towards the rim. I'm fully aware that any enjoyment I'm getting is 10% in the game and 90% in my head, but that 10% remains so beautiful -- even after five years -- that nothing else can touch it.

And ultimately, whether I'm playing six hours a day or one hour a fortnight, all ED is doing when I'm not engaging with it is taking up a few GB of hard drive capacity (and some desk space for the X52, but thanks to some extra long PS2 cabling even that can be moved aside when I'm not using it). It's a diversion, there when I fancy it and unobtrusive when I don't. The idea of fully "abandoning" something that's still under active, albeit laboured, development seems odd to me. But hey, we're all different. Maybe if I found something else so engaging that it out competed ED for my gaming time? For a while I thought it might be Jupiter Hell, of which I've played an inordinate amount, but that's a wholly different beast that scratches a very different itch.

For what it's worth I would love to see the things the OP describes make it into ED eventually, but their absence isn't enough for me to write off the entire experience just yet. But the fact that I do worry about the possibility is itself perhaps an admission that things aren't all rosy. ED is definitely not the game it could have been by this point. But it still draws me, something it clearly fails to do any more for the OP. I wish them luck in finding the game that does.
 
If Fdev treated their community like NMS did, no one would leave. Heck more people are probably playing NMS then Elite.
Steam charts or it didn't happen!

[drums fingers]

Ok, times up:
 
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After many years of play I think it's time to abandon it, in the end you realize that the game has too many limits that I hope will be introduced in the future, now everything is limited to grinding and making money and once you get the ship and build properly you have finished the game because everything only leads to making money and nothing else, everything brings you back to this.
For years people have been asking for storage in the stations for the materials and resources collected, being able to walk on the planets and build outposts, add a videochat directly in game with the group's participants, as they are doing on Star Citizen, an audio / video player, make the planets with realistic textures and not all the same with a single color pattern, there is no life in this game and maybe they will be limits of the engine, but I believe it is the lack of desire of the devs to improve the game by investing money, but obviously it is more important to sell skins, what is left to do in this game? jump from one system to another, farming, do missions to get only to make money, too little, there is no capital ship where you could invite party players, it would be more fun to be able to manage the entire ship, mining on foot and missions, I lost all interest, perhaps the new players have not yet understood but at a certain point yes and the money is of no use.
Almost sounds like your describing life in general. For an excess of 70 years, I've been getting up in the morning to the tune of the ding dong ringing, got dressed and went down to the breakfast table only to see the same old thing. And after 50 years of going to work 5 to 6 days a week, I'm finally retired. If it weren't for my grand kids giving me a console three years ago, I'd really have nothing else to do. BUT, I do have a fancy new pc, and restarted ED from the beginning and though it does get old from time to time, I'm not ready to abandon it or life in general just yet. But should I loose my other eye and be completely blind. I'd more than likely hang it up. Sorry everyone, but my wife would get my stuff so don't anyone bother to ask. LOL
 
Take it easy, friend.

But really, any open world game is not meant to have an end game, right? Nobody lied and said there was a final boss or something.

The point of grinding to unlock ships and modules is so you can build ships that are novel and fun to play with. The point of the game is to use those ships in any of a wide variety of activities. If you don't like those activities, then there's no point to grinding. But don't mistake the end of that grind as the end of the game.
 
You can always take a break. I've only started playing again about a month ago after taking a 6 month break. I'm sure I will again here soon.

Since back I've done 3 CG's, started a lucrative mining business, built out a exploration Phantom, and taken my mothballed cannibalized Ferdie out of long time storage and restoring it back to a bounty hunting machine
 
The content drought has many old players feeling frustrated, but 2020 wil bring many of the thing that alot of players want and will hopefully keep us busy for a while yet
 
I don't know which game has the most players but Hello Games definitely puts Fdev to shame regarding updates and additions to the game.
Yamik's latest video points this out brilliantly imho.
Not really, they mostly added stuff that was in Elite since release. Like VR, Multiplayer and a Radar... And they also manage to break the entire game by doing so.

Hello Games consists of only 25 people, that's the skeleton crew working on ED right now besides the other 75 working on the 2020 thing.
That's probably why NMS has such low quality.
 
I’ve been playing for nearly 2 years, and still haven’t done a fraction of the things I have in mind. There is always an adventure or a different experience around the corner, though to be fair, I have never gone at it like I “have” to unlock all the engineers as quickly as possible, for example. The only time I really felt I experienced “grind” was trying to get those damn modular terminals for Mr. Qwent :D

I still don’t yet have an Anaconda, Cutter, or Corvette, either.

Oddly enough, the only thing that has either blocked off avenues of pleasure in the game for me, or made me look at it with a view to giving it a rest for a good while has been when Frontier themselves go and short-name-for-Richard about with the game I bought in the first place.
 
This. Combat is always fresh. Keep pushing the boundaries, challenge everything. Have you soloed a wing of Elite FdLs in a Sidewinder yet? No? There's more to do then.

For me, I love engineering. Sure the grind sucks, but I've gotten it down to a science so I'm not wasting too much time at it. Once I max my mats, I can do a season of engineering a half dozen builds or so. :D

And then I get to try those builds... in the fires of combat.
 
I don't know which game has the most players but Hello Games definitely puts Fdev to shame regarding updates and additions to the game.
Yamik's latest video points this out brilliantly imho.
Hello Games consists of only 25 people, that's the skeleton crew working on ED right now besides the other 75 working on the 2020 thing.

NMS is an extremely simplistic game though, so there's not much complexity to update. I'm playing it ATM.

I'm hoping when we get feet in ED the NPC's don't look and act quite so much like characters from cheap and nasty afterschool TV.
 
This. Combat is always fresh. Keep pushing the boundaries, challenge everything. Have you soloed a wing of Elite FdLs in a Sidewinder yet? No? There's more to do then.

For me, I love engineering. Sure the grind sucks, but I've gotten it down to a science so I'm not wasting too much time at it. Once I max my mats, I can do a season of engineering a half dozen builds or so. :D

And then I get to try those builds... in the fires of combat.
I'm at ~2250hrs in elite and still haven't got around to the Thargoids or Guardian unlocks. So much to look forward to! Right now I'm trying to make my PvE builds survivable to gank squads.
 
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