My apologies Mad Mike and anyone with young children trying to WFH, including FDev. I must admit, that point alone would put a large dent in any days productivity...
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I'm new to the game, but it has kept me sane during lockdown. We are all eager for the update, but we would, I'm sure, all prefer to wait for a finished product.
Thanks Cmdr Will!
Number one community for the number one space game.
Appreciate you like it, but some of us are waiting since 2016.
Lol so basically your ex-company was just as bad as FDev. Okay.
Not too sure what you're talking about here.
Why should it have been.
Everybody lies. Not that I think FDev have specifically lied to us about anything, or more like, there is nothing that can prove that they have lied to us at any time.tldr: A liar will not be believed even when he speaks the truth
This is an interesting turn of phrase for Frontier to use. If the cause of the delay was just the effort of transitioning from an office to home working environment it makes sense, as the productivity of the team was temporarily halted rather than reduced.
Though I hope Frontier aren't going to do to 'slightly' what they did to 'soon', stretch the meaning way beyond the commonly accepted definition of the term.
I meant from the last paid expansion - Horizons - which has been great breakthrough for me and convinced me to finally buy the game. All fizzlers after that.
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No need to apologise and i will be 100% honest with you , as someone who for most of his life was fully committed to never having children, historically I never would have considered their impact either......Now however I genuinely have no idea how single parents do it ,.much respect to em, because I only have the one and am not a single parent but am finding I log into work and it's like having a break!. Hell I am appreciating the down time cleaning the toilet... I even managed to eek out cleaning the bathroom to take 40 mins over the weekend.
Forget pubs and restaraunts opening I am just waiting for nurseries to open
Panic... No but concern? Absolutely imo .....
He learned his lesson and made changes to his strategy and company for the better... FDev just continues to make everything worse with no real end in sight.
Lol, what do you know about both companies their strategies? What strategies are you even talking about? Technically? Marketing? Communications? And why is it even important for me to decide whether I like a game or not? I uninstalled NMS, I'm still playing ED after 6 years, I don't give a rats arx about their strategies.
You brought Sean Murray up, just setting the record straight for the uninformed. NMS is not my cup of tea, but I do respect what Sean and company have done to transform their disaster into success.
The strategies that produce real, measurable results. The strategies that have moved NMS from the worst release in the history of gaming to one that is now rated as “Very Positive” on Steam. Those sound like good strategies. Maybe FDev could learn from that?
The NMS community seems pretty happy. Go browse their subreddit if you don’t believe me. ED’s community is, at best, a mixed bag with much of the content as of late being very negative.
Believe what you want, but making excuses and not learning from mistakes is not going to make things better. If you like where the game is right now, that’s fine, it’s your right to your opinions. The rest of us can have opinions too and many of us think things could be much better.
You do not get tired of venting your frustrations here
By waving an empty bag?
That his game is a mess doesn't bother me, or how happy the community is, or how the last 1% of the steam reviews are. He is selling something different now that he did back then. He hyped a game by sitting in front of a screen fiddling with a controller, pretending to play a game that did not exist during sneak preview. His quasi hysterical answer he gave about what the endgame of that... game should NOT look like was build exactly the way he ridiculed. He calls it a mistake himself, its hilarious...
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When the NMS community imploded and was toxic (game launch), Hello Games went radio silent while working on small updates. Updates 1.1 to 1.3 arrived to barely any fanfare.
Then two years after the game's launch, with HG continuing their radio silence, the 2.0 NMS Next update arrived and changed the community perception. Throughout all this, and afterwards, HG only give info on upcoming updates a month or so before they arrive.
You appear to be suggesting that FDev spend two-plus years working on a massive update for the game (spoiler: they are, it's nicknamed New Era), and should go radio silent during that period - thankfully, FDev ignore that and communicate with us on interum updates, community events, livestreams etc. Info on New Era is coming this Summer, over six months before the paid-update arrives.
I'm glad FDev are already working on a big update (just like you suggest) while refusing to go radio silent (counter to what you suggest),
FDev have already said that news and information on New Era is coming this Summer, 6+ months before it is scheduled to launch in Q1 2021.By the same token, they will give details of their new era at the very last moment, so it would be meaningless to ask for something to change or finish, because when developers are really doing something worthwhile, they want to tell about it as soon as possible, take a look at the same blizzard that announces the new update a year and a half before the release and then another half a year testing with the players
This is likely to be postponed until autumn, closer to winter, because of the covid-19. Though, probably, a short teaser 10-15 seconds long, just with a couple of ships will be shown. Fdev never announces the details of the update before 2 months before its release.
So, it all depends on whether a new era is released in the middle 1 quarter of 2021 or at the end.
Information about Horizons was given four months before 2.0 launched.
Information about Beyond was given four months before 3.0 launched.
I'm amazed that you think FDev should have a predicted the emergence of a global pandemic that would impact their development schedule.Oh, I remember a year ago they said in the same exact messages that they would release the newest era in late 2020, although those who doubted it were already then. And just like people like stuart gt, max factor and other "white knights" (well, you probably yawn them) threw them messages fdev as an indication that a new era will be released no later than the end of 2020
It was funny to see it, it's even funnier to remember it through the prism that the doubters were right