Why Frontier did that?

Scaletho

Scaletho
I don't understand why Frontier risk so much criticism launching and selling a DLC so full of problems, barely addressing so many bugs reported during "Alpha" tests.

This DLC has serious problems! Missions absent from many places, planetary scanner bugged AGAIN! Raw material farming geological points vanished from planets, same bugs from NPCs at Starports, game too much dark, and much more...

Despair for money? Perhaps they trust that ED community will support even a faulty DLC?

This is so unprofessional.
 

Navigare Necesse Est

Navigare Necesse Est
Scaletho said:
I don't understand why Frontier risk so much criticism launching and selling a DLC so full of problems, barely addressing so many bugs reported during "Alpha" tests.

This DLC has serious problems! Missions absent from many places, planetary scanner bugged AGAIN! Raw material farming geological points vanished from planets, same bugs from NPCs at Starports, game too much dark, and much more...

Despair for money? Perhaps they trust that ED community will support even a faulty DLC?

This is so unprofessional.
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I called it - but you wouldn't listen to me and still preordered. No sympathy for that.
 

Stamford Rider

Stamford Rider
Latent Buzzard said:
Because no matter what they do people continue to give them money and continue to pre-order these games / DLCs so really, why should they care ?
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They could take some pride in their work, perhaps?
The company wouldn't exist without Elite: D and yet they seem to use it as a proving ground for intern programmers. Bizarrely graphics and audio are always spot on. (Current lack of optimisation notwithstanding.)
 

hunvagy

hunvagy
Freyar said:
Yup.. and we're still owed another two paid expansions. I am in fear of the future.
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meh, it was to make Elite Dangerous a reality, the lifetime expansions was a nice bonus. I'll check if this expansion can do multiplayer properly, if not I just uninstall again for a few years. I'm jaded enough not to give a hoot any more.
 

Latent Buzzard

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Stamford Rider said:
They could take some pride in their work, perhaps?
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They could but that costs extra and there's no need to do so if your customer is going to give you the money anyway. The bottom line is that most gamers refuse to learn and continue to reward companies who deliver shoddy products. They'll complain and make noise but at the end of the day they'll make the same mistakes again the second there's something new and shiny. The image at the top of the linked page below sums it up perfectly. with so many gamers playing the exact game they say they're going to boycott.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Gamingcirclejerk/comments/90kyub
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/Gamingcirclejerk/comments/90kyub/i_fought_in_the_great_mw2_boycott_of_2009_heres/


Gamers do it to themselves and companies have no incentive to change as long as gamers continue to do so.
 

Vi7ER

Vi7ER
On the flip side you have SC, they take pride in their work and are reaching for the stars. But we'll probably never see a launched product in our lifetimes!

That fine line in the middle of delivering a quality functioning product vs creating a all encompasing experiences (that tends to get away from developers) is it seems EXTREMELY hard to walk. Either we have something never delivered but being done right or something that is rushed out early and incomplete/non-functional.

This is my argument. Why all this wasted effort on FPS combat in a game that has done so well to define the experience of "piloting" a spacecraft. I maintain that the focus for odyssey should have been entirely piloting focussed space legs (read: no larking about doing anything that a pilot wouldn't do - e.g. spacemarine combat).

Give us:
  • Ship interiors
  • Proper multicrew
  • Proper wings
  • Proper NPC crew
  • Star ports
  • Exploration
Pilot stuff.

o7 CMDRs

(yes this is probably my very lonely view amongst a lot of players wanting FPS combat - I just disagree you see)
 

Oztig

Oztig
Freyar said:
Yup.. and we're still owed another two paid expansions. I am in fear of the future.
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I'm an LEPer - why are we owed another 2 expansions, all LEP guaranteed is was that any expansions that came along would be free, not how many
 

askavir

askavir
... because like in every other update, after the servers settle and a couple patches most of the issues will be fixed, the raging mobs will again put down their pitchforks and most people will just enjoy the game and forget all about the post-release drama-queening until the next major (or minor) update. All of this has happened before, and it will happen again.
 
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