Ho I know them. But 120 000 posts just from the community of one game is an ED's exclusivity. The NMS, X4, Astroneer, etc communities are way less worried about CIG and SC.
It’s funny that you think that worry is the driver. But then these are
the type of giggles that SC keeps on giving
. (Oh no SC, please don't threaten to become a game some more! I... I don't think I could take the worry
...)
A few obvious reasons for this forum having a history of mega-threads is that ED went into kickstarter concurrently with SC, and is still chugging along in parallel. There's always been a lot of cross-pollination between the playerbases.
One advantage it has over the likes of Spectrum and the subreddit though is that dissent and criticism of SC aren't verboten here (as they often were there for many years), and downvotes / 'moves to concern' (and periodic abuse) can't be used to smother those debates. Hence it's proved a logical stop-off point for any of the above fans who've fallen out of love with the project.
NMS launched in mid 2016 and doesn't even have a forum, just the subreddit, so accruing a megathread is pretty impossible. (Plus they've always had their own mega-dramas to keep them busy
)
X4's releases have had an on-off cadence over SC's lifetime which may explain the lack of a parallel hive of villainy there. (It also seems to be a quieter forum from what I can tell, but I'll leave it to you to count the individual posts
)
Astroneer launched in Dec 2016, and so also doesn't really have that concurrency aspect with SC. (2017 was the year of 3.0 absolutely not happening, and is considered something of an infamous dead zone for exciting content no? And in the intervening years SC has pretty much fallen out of mainstream press altogether. Maybe Astroneer players just don't even know it exists
)
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I dare say some here are driven in part by the 'great rivalry for the ages' that you're intimating. That it's an 'ED vs SC' thing. It's not for me personally, I find that tribal stuff daft. It doesn't seem to be the case for plenty of others here either. Both games are interesting because they're similar space games, and it would be good to have decent games in that genre. But both ultimately stand or fall on their own merits.
Personally I've spent the vast majority of the last 4 years not playing Elite. For me this is just a convenient place to chat about SC. (Which I pass through fairly regularly, while checking whether ED has become a game I want to start playing properly again
)
But as always, thanks for bumping the thread. It means more wayward travellers can drop by. And more noobs can learn of the marvels of SC
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