Does Elite development ends in 2024?

Exterminatus93

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Please have a polite discussion, I don't want you to close the thread, I just want to know the opinion of the community.

Time advances and in December 2024 it will be 10 years since the launch, there are still many promises to fulfill that were announced on the Kickstarter. There is really not much time left for that date and looking at the panorama of the content that they released between 2019 and 2020, I do not see time to add new content or an obligation to continue developing elite beyond the end of 2024 or I will continue to see the time that Odyssey is consuming.
 

Exterminatus93

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The truth is that it is another point of view and maybe I take it "ad litteram"

Is there a game that had to be bought that lasts +7 years and receives content? None come to mind, or they are F2P or with subscription.
 

londonx

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Exterminatus93 said:
Please have a polite discussion, I don't want you to close the thread, I just want to know the opinion of the community.

Time advances and in December 2024 it will be 10 years since the launch, there are still many promises to fulfill that were announced on the Kickstarter. There is really not much time left for that date and looking at the panorama of the content that they released between 2019 and 2020, I do not see time to add new content or an obligation to continue developing elite beyond the end of 2024 or I will continue to see the time that Odyssey is consuming.
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Leading questions are not polite, surely you know why there wasn't much content in 2019 and 2020? New Era was in production development, it seems unlikely that they thought they would spend 4 years without any new paid content (Beyond Season was free), release Odyssey and just sit there wondering what to do for the next 4 years, especially in a Public listed company with a strong emphasis on growth.

Ramping up paid content for a strong performing title makes the most logical business case and the long New Era development cycle investment therefore only makes sense if it was going to enable releasing more paid content other than just Odyssey. I would go further and postulate that the risk of the launch of an un-optomised Odyssey DLC was weighed to protect that future paid content schedule ie funding and marketing scheduling.There have been enough hints that there is other stuff being done in parallel to what was revealed in Odyssey, e.g. other planet types.

It would be better to wait to see what the scope of the released content looks like over the next couple of years as that would be more telling of the long term vision of the New Era work and technical ability.
 
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Riverside

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Exterminatus93 said:
Please have a polite discussion, I don't want you to close the thread, I just want to know the opinion of the community.

Time advances and in December 2024 it will be 10 years since the launch, there are still many promises to fulfill that were announced on the Kickstarter. There is really not much time left for that date and looking at the panorama of the content that they released between 2019 and 2020, I do not see time to add new content or an obligation to continue developing elite beyond the end of 2024 or I will continue to see the time that Odyssey is consuming.
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Development of new features will eventually stop, and some time after than eventually the servers will be switched off with or without some way to continue to play 'offline', or with community hosted servers.

The rate of progress on the game has slowed significantly in my view as a consumer, perhaps each thing that gets added requires more work, perhaps (more likely in my view) the lack of a long term plan is hurting the devs now as they try to crowbar 'modern' features into a game that wasn't built with those features in mind but with a 'we'll cross that bridge when we come to it' mindset.

But one thing that has become clear with the bungled, delayed & yet still seemingly rushed Odyssey release is that FDev haven't given up on ED yet, although 6 months after full release with no indication of future direction whatsoever I am increasingly of the opinion that unless Odyssey can be turned into a success (by whatever metric FDev uses, probably RoI) it may well be the last major addition ED gets.

But then I thought that in 2018 when Beyond finished, and here we are after the doldrums with a pDLC so maybe in another few years we'll finally get actual atmospheres and actual spacelegs?

Enjoy what parts of it you like while you can imo, one day you won't be able to any more & may wish you had played more when you could :)
 

dreampage

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I think Elite as it is now is on its last legs. Odyssey was the last attempt to reinvigorate interest in it, but it failed miserably. Frontier is now putting out fires and there doesn't seem to be much future for the game anymore. It is what it is. I wouldn't be surprised if a successor title was already in planning stages. It's clear that the Cobra engine is incapable of keeping up with today's modern gaming standards and the dev team has continually made wrong design decisions. I think it will go on for a few more years in its current form but nothing else. I wouldn't mind a new Elite at all, a brand new game that takes it back to the roots of what made Elite fantastic in the first place, the magic of discovery, trade and exploration in a spectacular galaxy. With modern graphics, modern performance and a modern remake of all the core features, without all the grind and uninteresting gameplay loops. The game is only somewhat alive on PC anyway. I wouldn't be surprised by a new announcement in the coming years.
 

Drelthar

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zimms said:
Yes, there was. It was said during Lavecon, there was a thread about it here but that got deleted or lost during forum restructuring - the link is now dead.
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Sure, there's hearsay then.

There's a bit of David Braben saying he'd not want to shut the game down, and that it'll go as long as it can.

In some video - though, Awfully, I'm not gonna bother finding it as I posted it elsewhere in the previous (twelve thousand?) of these threads.
 
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