Latest stream has more dislikes than likes... FD are you listening?

The current anger is well, justified.
Hmm ..let me think...during last year it was 10 or 14 big games / dlc released +/-. Only 2 were ok.
Wonder why? Maybe because somebody keep buying things and allows managers to manipulate for years ?
Elite is in really good condition actually comparing to others.
(P.S. facts are from russian lang vids on ixtb channel).
 
If sure FD are listening, but people are salty at the moment, so some will just be downvoting on principle.

By all means, keep taking pot shots at FD, they deserve the criticism, but nothings going to change until FD sort things out in the game, no amount of community management streams is going to improve the overall mood.

And that, looking at statements from FD, is still months away, assuming they can improve performance and other issues by console release.

Regarding listening/not listening - does it really matter whether you think they are or not? All that matters is the results of their work, and as noted, we will have to wait on.
 
The YouTube "views" were at something is to 1.5k as I recall but I've no faith in that as a number of individual people who actually watched more than a few seconds of the content.
I sometimes tune in for the first couple of minutes to see if there is going to be anything useful or interesting shown, like Zac with the UI changes last week, then once normal service resumes I'm offski. I couldn't summon up the energy to bother this week as the server patch had gone live and there was next to no chance of any news about next steps only a week after Update 5. Let's face it the last "roadmap" took over 2 weeks to write and that was only "Many Improvements and Fixes" repeated 5 times 🙄


The best thing they could do is point them at the forum thread where @sallymorganmoore has been single-handedly saving EDO expertly putting the world to rights with her sunny demeanour and can-do attitude.
I don't think it's any surprise that FDev got Sally back just before Odyssey was "released" ;)
 
If sure FD are listening, but people are salty at the moment, so some will just be downvoting on principle.

By all means, keep taking pot shots at FD, they deserve the criticism, but nothings going to change until FD sort things out in the game, no amount of community management streams is going to improve the overall mood.

And that, looking at statements from FD, is still months away, assuming they can improve performance and other issues by console release.

Regarding listening/not listening - does it really matter whether you think they are or not? All that matters is the results of their work, and as noted, we will have to wait on.
Well take their Weekly Schedual this week. They could have added that they will be releasing fixes to Patch 5 this week at unspecified time - that would have given some players some reasurence. But nothing. I even asked Sally if there will be something coming this week - she replied she didn't have that information.
And then we get a Rogue Server patch to fix few things. - Which was great, but...

See it's not that they have poor communication with us, it might also be inside their company. Same things with canceling streams at the last moment, or missing Road Maps.
It looks like a chaotic mess from here.
 
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They could have added that they will be releasing fixes to Patch 5 this week at unspecified time - that would have given some players some reasurence. But nothing. I even asked Sally if there will be something coming this week - she replied she didn't have that information.

CMs can't say what they don't know and maybe FD management don't know if there will be fixes this week.

There is plenty of scope for criticism, but asking FD for information they can't confirm is a bit much. Especially if its tentative, and then the community will drag them over hot coals if they then fail to release a bugfix update in the next week or so.
 
Currently the stream has 247 downvotes, so overnight people have been visiting a stream that had long finished to downvote it.

That certainly says something about pettyness.
Says more about the information in streams not getting conveyed to the forums and having to dig through archives of streams to have any idea about what's going on. I didn't watch it live, most of them aren't even when I'm awake.
 
CMs can't say what they don't know and maybe FD management don't know if there will be fixes this week.

There is plenty of scope for criticism, but asking FD for information they can't confirm is a bit much. Especially if its tentative, and then the community will drag them over hot coals if they then fail to release a bugfix update in the next week or so.
Preparations in advance to is a sign of good managment.
 
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A good managment would prepare in advance to deploy fixes to patch, specially after a train wreck release that they had. Even if it's as little as a Server patch.
A good management would relay this information to CM's so they can relay it to the public that something is coming this week.

They prepare, but then things don't always pan out and they have to change their plans. So, again, asking for things they are not ready for them to confirm is a bit much.

FD will announce the next patch when they are confident they can release the next patch. That might not happen until the actual day of the patch.

Last things FD presumably want at this time is to give critics more ammo to use against them.
 
They prepare, but then things don't always pan out and they have to change their plans. So, again, asking for things they are not ready for them to confirm is a bit much.

FD will announce the next patch when they are confident they can release the next patch. That might not happen until the actual day of the patch.

Last things FD presumably want at this time is to give critics more ammo to use against them.

Players seek stability in chaotic times - so things like Road Maps and weekly schedual - is what gives then that.
 
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That implies we left the Good Times in the first place.

I think we had more of an intermission in the drought. Just long enough to refill the popcorn and add more salt to make up for how sticky this situation is getting.
To my cynical mind, we had an intermission while Frontier were trying to sell us something (David Braben popped up as usual), and now that's done (until the console versions hit the fan, sorry marketplace), it's back to the usual post new era of communications.
 
Currently the stream has 247 downvotes, so overnight people have been visiting a stream that had long finished to downvote it.

That certainly says something about pettyness.
I like many do not live in the UK timezone so yes over their night I viewed it and as all Youtubes I watch if it entertained me I give it a positive vote. If I find is not entertaining it gets a negative vote, No malice on every Youtube since the dawn of Youtube I always give a thumbs up or down on its entertainment value. Many of my friends work away each week and catch up on content Youtube each weekend they are home, same system as my above comments, we play many games Elite included and we watch many content Youtubes regarding Elite and other games and vote accordingly on quality of the stream/Youtube.

Being your in a position of some authority on these forums going by your title under your username, you would think on how you would word your comment before posting? Reason, That is quite an arrogant comment from a Forums Mod if you ask me.

If Frontier don't want their Streams voted on, Do Not upload them to Youtube!
 
They prepare, but then things don't always pan out and they have to change their plans. So, again, asking for things they are not ready for them to confirm is a bit much.

FD will announce the next patch when they are confident they can release the next patch. That might not happen until the actual day of the patch.
Well their roadmap that we were allegedly supposed to be really excited for never really committed to any further patches after patch 5. So... things could stay as they are for quite a while.
 
The ole no info don't answer questions stream is a waste of time . And don't get me started on the let play elite as we are " one of the boys " routine .
We would like info
What's being worked on
Console news
Don't ignore questions . This brings distrust and anger . We don't need a full roadmap , but many fixes and improvements don't hit the mark .
The only CM that's doing anything ( it seems to me ) is Sally on the forums .
I know their hands are tied but man is there any point in the streams ? No not really , I watch just in case something slips .
 
Exactly mate :(



It is hardly derailing and turfing over your point really is it? Especially as I'm in agreement which you can glean from above. And of course I like the game, else I'd be a bit of a freak here for the fun of it, even though it is the interwebz. You have given me a good idea for a masterplan though - being the only villain left wiv all da stuphs!

So, I realize you're a bit peeved (being polite) and I got up your nose, but turfing over your thread and derailing it? Not really mate, bit of an overreaction to be fair. It's not like you haven't seen the bad jokes about stuphs before, but that's their point - they are bad jokes!

That is unless this is like the classic interwebz conversation, where both people get the wrong end of the stick? If that's the case then I will accept an Asp Scout as compensation, as I am clearly never wrong ;)

Reading back though, yeah I didn't share my opinion in my first post, but it was a forum tradition joke, and if I thought you were a prat looking for blatant attention and I didn't know you (for a long time), I would have probably been blunt, but I honestly didn't mean to antagonize you, and my apologies if I did in any case.

Either way, you know I'm here because I love the game and the current situation is pretty tragic. We can't make a headline out of the single set of numbers you have in the OP, but that doesn't stop it being a little alarming. And I wouldn't have known this had you not posted.

So while I probably look like a royal tool to those unfamiliar with this forum, you have known me long enough to know where I stand buddy, really. And sometimes when things suck, the best you can do is to laugh, and at the end of the day that was all I ever try to do with some threads here.

I probably should have put this in a PM, but I decided not to as there are going to be some reading this that don't get it - and it's not a problem to have a laugh whilst also being annoyed at FD, right?

Anyway, I'll leave it there. And where can I collect my free stuphs?



Ah sweet, thanks StuBot! Duz yoo haz any spare modules? ;)
You sir are a constant source of both inspiration and good old fashioned stiff upper lipidness, what what

Tatty bye old bean
 
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