ANNOUNCEMENT Elite Dangerous: Odyssey Announcement
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huh... That might explain all my missing posts. Especially the one where I said "How do you fools make a living?" (jk)
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This is a bad decision, really, no money.
Nevermind......
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No it isn't. You're overestimating how many actually use VR.
Hmm so far Reddit poll states ~25% VR only Vs 75% 2d only. Over a thousand votes last I checked. One fourth isn't half bad
Paragraph 7.2 of the ED EULA allows FDev to collect anonymous usage data, including device IDs etc. They probably know exactly how many ED players use HMDs, and for how long per session.Hmm so far Reddit poll states ~25% VR only Vs 75% 2d only. Over a thousand votes last I checked. One fourth isn't half bad
Possibly related: VR Headsets Are Dying A Lonely Death (Forbes)
LMAO you actually believe EVERY SINGLE ELITE DANGEROUS PLAYER actually participated in that? LOLOLOLOLHmm so far Reddit poll states ~25% VR only Vs 75% 2d only. Over a thousand votes last I checked. One fourth isn't half bad
You know damn well that VR users flocked to that poll because of how riled up they are, and most standard users probably didn't even know the poll existed.
I wouldn't trust some biased reddit poll worth a damn.
I dont even use reddit, i doubt most people do.
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ED is one of the few jewels in the crown of the VR portfolio. There is a very fat chance whoever owns an headset owns ED.
Even more related:
the same article said:
As with forums, it's a sample of users. Statistics tell us that samples are representative. There's a whole section of math dedicated to statistics and math couldn't care less about biases - it's just numbers.
Not saying the article is right, just that it might be related.
The rebuttal even mentions ED.
The big question is: How many people "strap in" to ED while at home? FDev should know best.
That article doesn't mention psvr at all. Which has well over 60 percent of all vr headset market wise.
guess it's irrelevant if they are only talking PC.
guess it's irrelevant if they are only talking PC.
FlithyMick's comment wasn't really refering to promises, more people claiming to quit over a feature, but then staying and whining. This has happened with numerous features (promised or not). As for PS4 owners and the Cobra MK4, i'm happy to supply that information for you - slightly long :/ sadly.
So after the PS4 announcement, but 6 months(?) before the PS4 launch PS4 payers queried if the pre-order bonus for Horizons would include the Cobra MK4. Afterall both PC and Xbox players were offered this. The responses were:
12/12/2016, 8:48 AM: Gary Richards said: We are still working out the finer details of the PS4 Release and there'll be further announcements closer to the time.
24/11/2017, 3:23 PM: Lloyd Morgan-Moore said: Unfortunately I don't have any news to give you on this at the minute, but we haven't forgotten about the Mk IV for PS4 players!
27/06/2018, 8:42 AM: Lloyd Morgan-Moore said: I'm going to be chasing this up today, I'm aware how eager everyone is to get into the seat of the Mk IV [yesnod]
29/09/2018: Customer support said (link dead/wiped): We recommend PS4 users keep an eye on our social media channels for updates regarding the Cobra Mk IV
03/12/2019 5:45pm: Paige Harvey said: We have nothing to announce regarding the Cobra MK IV’s availability on PlayStation 4 at the current time.
8/4/2020 9:32pm: Tim Smith said: Currently, there are no plans for that at the moment.
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Then links to "being unfair" (Fdev's words) to not offer the Cobra MK4 to Xbox cmdrs, but this doesn't seem to apply to us
The thread where FDev seemed to announce the Cobra MK4 offer to Xbox commanders:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/259478-Cobra-Mk-IV
Particularly this post by Zac Antonaci, where he says it's to give parity between Xbox and PC commanders on the offer.
Then this follow-up post:
So not offered the same options, and no way whatsoever of getting the Cobra MK4, and FDev themselves stating to Xbox players about "fairness" if it was not offered to them (and the xbox offer was some months after the PC "exclusive" deal finished) - so no parity or fairness to PS4 players.
To not clog this threaad with offtopic replies, best if you query here if you want to know more: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/will-ps4-get-the-cobra-mk-iv.314330/
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Be interesting to see what the PS5 / PSVR 2 does, and if PC media, developers and players give any more thought to them.
Sorry Frontier, but without VR, at least when I'm sitting in my cockpit, I will not play this game. Too much of a step back. I was never keen on space legs anyway. I am very disappointed about this announcement.
I doubt pc media would pay it any attention. That really doesn't matter though. The console market is big enough to not really be affected by happenings on the PC side.
But I don't feel like developers have ignored it. Just Fdev lol. Just off the top of my head, the two biggest titles that support VR regardless of platform (resident evil 7 and no man's sky) have supported psvr, with resident evil 7 vr support not coming to PC for a whole year after psvr.
To add, Dreams getting vr support is huge. Allow users to create their own VR game is neat. I cannot comment on it yet though because I'm not in the closed beta as it seems to be EU only for some reason.
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