Fuming Mad and Frustrated: 0.0001% of the player base (those who spent time and effort to meet 25% and those who didn't join the CG and discouraged from the beginning due to the steep top tier goal)
Well that's a different problem and as a Powerplayer you can't even imagine how I agre with you about this. But again: different problem.
No, they just don't care. The majority of the player base isn't emotionally enough to throw a tantrum about such a non issue.
Elite is a MMO, it's not a WoW clone like all the others though. Peter Molyneux' Curiosity is nothing like WoW and yet it's a MMO. Even Eve isn't anything like WoW and yet it's a MMO. The argument that a game needs to be x or do y because it's an MMO is completely irrelevant because there is no universal law which dictates how games need to be designed. If people like it or not is a different topic, but it doesn't make the argument more relevant.
So they widened the range who could have it. Big Whoopie Doo-Dah. It's not worth all the fuss the community (as per usual) are kicking up. Do you ever wonder why Frontier stopped listening to the community? THIS IS WHY.
"game balance altering"? It's a class 5 FSD that has jump range and spool up time blueprint effects, it is hardly game balance altering.
My point is the developers say a lot of things often contradictory. And the MMO aspect of the game is a perfect example.
That really isn't your call to make whether it is nothing or not. And from my point at least I am just giving my opinion not really kicking up a fuss. I think it is a poor decision but I don't expect FD to change their minds over it just giving my opinion . It is equipment which adds an extra .... 20%? To the jump range of certain ships .. that is balance altering imo and will allow ships to get to places others literally cannot.
"I can't do something, make it easier!" or "Other players are better than me! Give me what better players than me have to me too just because I'm asking!" is not discussion or feedback, is whining.
Sorry Mike, but any of us can say it's a big fuss over nothing, it's called an opinion.
That Elite is a MMO but not like Eve is not contradictory. Need For Speed and Project Cars are both racing games, yet they are completely different.
I see this from a different perspective. We would not have so much fuss if the rules would not be altered after the fact. FDev ask for this. Every time they do such a stupid thing they ask for outrage... And this thread is a perfect example...
Oh I know. Frontier are dammed if they do and dammed if they don't.
You could make this argument about literally every change to every game ever.
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