I'd love to say first hand that there was a time you were my most thought of figure in the entire industry. Your early Elite titles brought something special to my childhood, right into and throughout my teenage years. So fast forward to me finding out about Elite Dangerous and I was in heaven. However, to put bluntly, the journey with Elite Dangerous has been a bumpy one indeed.
There seems to be a constant and in my opinion blatant disregard for quality in the run up to major patches and DLC releases. The inconsistencies in communicating with the community until all hell breaks loose here doesn't add up for a company claiming to hold the community with such high regard. Sometimes core content bugs takes many months to address and at other times the most basic of issues is evident from the onset and yet seems totally oblivious to the development team when they're raised with them. I just don't get it. It sometimes seems evident that even the dev team do not fully understand their own game or play it enough to see what's going wrong in or with Elite Dangerous.
I wish to see Frontier earn the respect it so desires and actually strive to release the level of quality it so purports to pride itself on delivering. No more blatant lying to us or taking us for fools. Redeem yourselves through offering us proper and consistent transparency with Elite. Odyssey has launched with some evident and obvious downgrades to planetary tech that borders on being fraudulent alongside false advertising. See posts on this with direct picture comparisons taken from the trailer designed to lure in pre-orders and people's money. Even the Alpha had better visuals than the final build in areas. This isn't a good thing. It won't bode well for Frontier if this is not communicated quickly and with honesty as to why there is such a disparity in quality when the company boasted the final release would be better than anything shown prior. This has proven simply untrue and to me this is unacceptable.
David Braben, I still hold you in high regard for your life's work and your company commitment to Elite. But please, start making real waves here. You and your team have the power to really light a fire under Elite and make it the most recognised and sought after game of it's type across all platforms. Frontier just have to pay more astute attention to the community since there are many of us here who have played Elite for long enough to see exactly what the potential of the game is and more precisely the areas of the game in dire need of improvement so as to help Frontier offer a more complete and immersive experience with the game. Not to mention a more enjoyable one.
I do have high hopes for Odyssey, but as it stands, it quite obviously wasn't anywhere near finished. The lack of an Armstrong moment from stepping out of an Airlock or walking down a ramp alone, for me at least, evidently makes this clear. The issues with performance, the delay on consoles and subsequent segregation penalty to PC owners of Odyssey and Horizons, and the obvious massive downgrade in planetary tech, showing vastly degraded ice worlds and geometry etc all serves to prove this in my opinion.
Please, just throw us cleaner bones from now on...
There seems to be a constant and in my opinion blatant disregard for quality in the run up to major patches and DLC releases. The inconsistencies in communicating with the community until all hell breaks loose here doesn't add up for a company claiming to hold the community with such high regard. Sometimes core content bugs takes many months to address and at other times the most basic of issues is evident from the onset and yet seems totally oblivious to the development team when they're raised with them. I just don't get it. It sometimes seems evident that even the dev team do not fully understand their own game or play it enough to see what's going wrong in or with Elite Dangerous.
I wish to see Frontier earn the respect it so desires and actually strive to release the level of quality it so purports to pride itself on delivering. No more blatant lying to us or taking us for fools. Redeem yourselves through offering us proper and consistent transparency with Elite. Odyssey has launched with some evident and obvious downgrades to planetary tech that borders on being fraudulent alongside false advertising. See posts on this with direct picture comparisons taken from the trailer designed to lure in pre-orders and people's money. Even the Alpha had better visuals than the final build in areas. This isn't a good thing. It won't bode well for Frontier if this is not communicated quickly and with honesty as to why there is such a disparity in quality when the company boasted the final release would be better than anything shown prior. This has proven simply untrue and to me this is unacceptable.
David Braben, I still hold you in high regard for your life's work and your company commitment to Elite. But please, start making real waves here. You and your team have the power to really light a fire under Elite and make it the most recognised and sought after game of it's type across all platforms. Frontier just have to pay more astute attention to the community since there are many of us here who have played Elite for long enough to see exactly what the potential of the game is and more precisely the areas of the game in dire need of improvement so as to help Frontier offer a more complete and immersive experience with the game. Not to mention a more enjoyable one.
I do have high hopes for Odyssey, but as it stands, it quite obviously wasn't anywhere near finished. The lack of an Armstrong moment from stepping out of an Airlock or walking down a ramp alone, for me at least, evidently makes this clear. The issues with performance, the delay on consoles and subsequent segregation penalty to PC owners of Odyssey and Horizons, and the obvious massive downgrade in planetary tech, showing vastly degraded ice worlds and geometry etc all serves to prove this in my opinion.
Please, just throw us cleaner bones from now on...
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