Frontier's release plan is genius

Quantis Trap

Quantis Trap
If I understand correctly the plan which Frontier has explained in the last few days, I think it's genius!

Here's why:
  1. Separating the Horizons client from instancing the Odyssey client lets commanders who have not bought Odyssey and don't need the features, be insulated from a lot of the new bugs and server instabilities.
  2. Frontier can call the release in the 19th a full release and yet still benefit, ALMOST AS IT WERE A BETA, from testing and comparison of differences the existing client and the new client have.
  3. Previously Frontier (Arf) had said that Horizons and Odyssey commanders would not instance together (because of the PEGI rating excuse), but now they are going to allow it at the time of the console release. If true, It's wonderful news!
  4. It gives commanders who haven't purchased Odyssey plenty of time to watch the DLC's progress get better and decide of they want to buy it.
  5. ...
I may be wrong on details, but the way I understand it now, applaud the decision!
 
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m0rl0ck

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It really is genius. Splitting the player base to increase want for Odyssey. Marketing hype for three releases of the same product. Getting players to pay to do alpha testing for them and a paid PC beta.
I thought about it for a minute and i cant think of any way they could have squeezed more profit out of the Odyssey release. Im no marketing expert, but i cant think of a single trick they missed.

With marketing genius like this, im not really sure that you need a good product, almost makes me want to buy some Frontier stock.
 

CMDR Karrde Sun

CMDR Karrde Sun
The only thing i would be curious about is if they planned on making it like this from the start.. ie keeping it split until console launch. Maybe they wanted hypers to inhale all their hype before dropping the news.

Yeah im definitely glad it landed this way as well.. there's at least 6 months of time where anything or nothing could happen.

I guess is forever going to be an interesting one.. a massive positive relief for people who would rather play something more mature while odysee fills out, and a massive stab in the wallet for the early adopter types who would see this as a sign of holding back stuff to encourage purchase.

Its too complicated, i just think they were late... or now never planned to do full optimisation for pc launch. If things just went as expected we wouldn't have to theorycraft bad news, something good not to forget.
 
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Quantis Trap

Quantis Trap
I think the "genius" I was claiming is in how they are handling the non-optimal situation which covid-19 gave them and deciding to enable instancing across Horizons and Odyssey in a few months. They didn't have to do that, but I'm glad they are!

Chrystoph said:
You forgot that the current "release" let them cash grab right before fiscal year end...
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Nope. Didn't forget about it. I just don't mind it. I've know that Elite Dangerous is a developer training ground, an engine test bed and a bit of a cash cow for years.
znôrt said:
genius isn't going to sell crap. it will be a 30% of horizons. wait & see.
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Not sure what you mean by "will be 30% of horizons".
Amanojaku said:
Game devs have been releasing betas for years under the guise of "full release". This is nothing new or genius, but simply par for the course. I'd love to be proven wrong on this just once.
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That's for sure, but for the most part Frontier has not play this particular game with Elite until now.
 
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Ydiss

Ydiss
Geniuses are only realised by those with a level of intelligence capable of understanding the reality and impact of their genius. The other end of the spectrum try to burn them at the stake and throw them off cliffs.
 
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