No, you see I don't personally care about the humour aspect of it, funny or not, I don't care. What's annoying is it makes him an untouchable. Frontier CAN'T get into bed with a content exploiter like that .. which he then further exploits, "poor me Frontier didn't give me a free alpha". When he then starts posting untruth as fact (my post above) we start to get into really toxic territory imo.
I guess the only parallel I can draw is when you're having good fun with your mates in the pub, taking the mick. Great .. and I don't just mean it's fine when it's going well, but I kind of do. If one of your mates cuts himself on a glass do you still carry on taking the mick or do you sober up and get him an ambulance? Truth to power is one thing, lack of filter is another.
That's a bit off topic but - though I don't think Frontier have had their finest hour - I think it is probably also true to say that smaller creative organisations have less turmoil, when all your management structures are thown in the air by a pandemic. Frontier has grown in recent years so there's little doubt many staff (none of the current CM team for example) have not been around for any ED release before but people in small companies tend to have more personal agency and flexibility than you can afford in a larger organistaion.
On top of that I happen to be really enjoying EDO. Don't particularly want to see that brought down by people who benefit from jumping to conclusions, give false information or who are attacking other people's livelihoods for the sake of one minute's giggles.
That's fair enough. Again, you have your view, other's have theirs.
I really can't subscibe to the 'pandemic' reasoning. I was up and working from home within a week of this thing, as were some 5000 other employees. Now apparently, FDev have made a lot of millions last 2019/2020 so they too, were in a position to do the same. So using Pandemic is non-runner. If Dev failed to plan they planned to fail.
It also brings to mind the fact that we never told exactly what was going to be delivered. It was always side-stepped. That in itself, was alarming.
I would subscibe to there possibly being too many chiefs and not enough indians, maybe. But it also seems to me, that the chiefs' decisions need to be questioned if that is the case. From my years of playing Elite, I would say, MVP is the oprder of the day in all they do. Why use code if you can use 'random'.. There is, in my opinion a whole heap of the 'game is too big' to fail.. 'the community will keep us running, if we moderate the negatives'...
In my mind, FDev management need to take a step back, admit their failures and present a reasonable plan of action, not the recent 'sprint cycle' they presented last week. Cause, right now it appears things are being put on the long finger in the name of 'consoles'... We signed upfor a PC game..
As for your enjoyment, I'm glad someone is enjoying it, many are not.
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The release should have been delayed, but we all know why it wasn't.
