I'd have thought maybe people would have wised up to preorders in general by now. But as i said, if you are preordering, then you are part of the problem, because publishers won't stop offering preorders until people stop buying them.
Why the constant dishonesty?
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I'd have thought maybe people would have wised up to preorders in general by now. But as i said, if you are preordering, then you are part of the problem, because publishers won't stop offering preorders until people stop buying them.
I pre ordered. I trust FDev to deliver.
I trust that they aren't delaying for any other reason than the global pandemic - which seems perfectly reasonable to me.
I trust them because I have got more than my money's worth from what I spent on Elite so far.
If they don't deliver a decent product in a reasonable timeframe then I won't be so generous next time.
This doesn't affect my pre-ordering of any other product.
Yes the delay is annoying but I don't want someone to potentially die for a hobby, FD have a duty of care to its employees.
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You said
Frontier's Trading Statement said
" our initial target for Q1 2021 (January to March) "
I don't know why you're trying to make this so hard.
Indeed and I don't disagree with that. But I don't personally believe that they didn't know it was going to have to be delayed when they made the preorder live. This is obviously, just my opinion. They certainly knew the console version was going to have to be delayed, hence why there was no preorders or discussion around it for consoles..
Regarding the former, i'll give them the benefit of the doubt. We don't know how hard FD have been hit by covid, how many staff have been infected. How many man hours have been lost in the last month.
The latter is more questionable, unless they really have been hit mega hard and have had to make a tough decision. Otherwise they would have already known back in December. On the other hand, they never did preorders for consoles.
How nice of you to completely disregard the discussion in this thread and just drop by to tell us everyone who talks about the delay is an awful human being and doesn't value human life (what?).
Sad to hear the console developers were hit so much harder by the lockdown than the PC developers.
PC developers were less affected because they installed anti-virus
Hope you dropped the mic after that onePC developers were less affected because they installed anti-virus
Edit: Nevermind, not woke up yet.
To funny. cp2077 has nothing to do with FD. Wishfull thinking on the detractors part.
Wow if they finally saw the gaming community, including the 8 million new free epic users, are actually more sensitive to quality than their usual standard I’d be impressed. Delays are fine but the dog food grade patches frontier consider good enough not really.
As long as we don’t get another palms up dog food and delayed that’s all we could manage patch like beyond and carriers...
.... but I doubt there’s any real correlation they’re just late. The lagging marketing material implies it if anything.
As long as we don’t get another palms up dog food and delayed that’s all we could manage patch like beyond and carriers...
.... but I doubt there’s any real correlation they’re just late. The lagging marketing material implies it if anything.
Or British development studio owner?
Nah the only sad thing about brabes is put down the controller and has fun with business strategy instead. He is pretty good at it too if you forget you’re an elite customer for a sec.
Braben and Roberts. Which one is the con artist?
Yes, this whole delay IS bcuz of colors. their doubling down on cheap ways to make money...now introducing polka dots, plaid overlays, corduroy and a new paisley print 3300- 6000 ARX a piece.
Our motto is "if it clashes with the universe then add plenty"!
And umm, no character content.
With regards to the console delay, I'm pretty sure that's not really in their interest and may well be causing them some worry.
At that point next-gen (or current gen, as they will be) consoles will be established and starting to get some good games out which will be taking advantages of their capabilities. Into this market walks Frontier with an add-on to an old-gen game which doesn't bring the game up to the current standard.
It'll be fun and all, but new players might struggle to see the attraction.
At that point next-gen (or current gen, as they will be) consoles will be established and starting to get some good games out which will be taking advantages of their capabilities. Into this market walks Frontier with an add-on to an old-gen game which doesn't bring the game up to the current standard.
It'll be fun and all, but new players might struggle to see the attraction.
But that depends on each person's perspective.
Living in the NW of England, (where we've had basically only 2 months of 'no lockdown' restriction's of some form, since last March), when I pre-ordered my copy of Odyssey I knew damn well that there was very likely going to be another delay on it's release.
Yet I still placed my order & I wait............nothing dishonest about it.
Now if Frontier suddenly announce bankcrupcy or liquidation because of ONGOING financial difficulties, yet they still took my money.....that would be dishonest!
The thing with people complaining about preorders being available 'knowing full well the game was getting delayed' is that, A) it's your choice to pay money for something that doesn't have a release date and B) ED has been running for years with constant development, it's not like Frontier are going to run off on holiday with your 20 quid.
It'll be ready when it's ready and anyone who whines that they can't have it RIGHT NOW need to give their head a wobble.
It'll be ready when it's ready and anyone who whines that they can't have it RIGHT NOW need to give their head a wobble.
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I dont think many are whining they aren't getting it right now. More that they aren't getting it when everyone else is. I feel there is a distinguishable difference between the two
You can't expect anything different from a typical "yesman a s s licker"