For me Elite Dangerous has more serious issues than all sorts of bugs and the drops of Mac and consoles. The game still lacks too much classic Elite content. It is still an almost empty game with very little things that remember me of the classic Elite games. Has anyone found one of the classic "Dodo" (dodecahedron) space stations yet? New ships were named after the classic ones but looking totally different. Many classic ships are missing and most parts of Elite Dangerous were not made to build upon each other but add things totally seperately to the game. So I often feel like playing "Whatever Dangerous". -.-
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Cobra Mk4 for everyone?
Pretty please?
(I know it was promised to be an exclusive, but since we're at the broken promises part of the game... why not?)
And who's gonna pay the other company?
You’ve kept quiet on console development for so long just to drop this bombshell on us with the caveat of “We are exploring options for transfers but at present have nothing to announce”.
Honestly you should have just continued to keep quiet whilst exploring those options and announced the answer along with this statement further down the line.
Without that option I imagine there will be a large amount of console players with thousands of hours of play time who are too disheartened to start again from scratch on a another platform that many of them probably don’t even own.
Seeing as the default response to questions regarding account transfers is essentially the same as the answer to those regarding Odyssey’s console release over the last year (at present have nothing to announce), I’m not holding out hope for a resolution.
Honestly you should have just continued to keep quiet whilst exploring those options and announced the answer along with this statement further down the line.
Without that option I imagine there will be a large amount of console players with thousands of hours of play time who are too disheartened to start again from scratch on a another platform that many of them probably don’t even own.
Seeing as the default response to questions regarding account transfers is essentially the same as the answer to those regarding Odyssey’s console release over the last year (at present have nothing to announce), I’m not holding out hope for a resolution.
But the players are very far from your heart it seens.
Good thing launching elite on ps4 in 2017 as a quick cash grab just to drop it now.
It seens this is goodbye good sirs. it was a interesting ride. good to finally be able to move on.
Cant say i'll recomend Frontier games in any future conversation.
Why is everyone saying that "This is the correct decision", "It was hard, but it's best for everyone"? Do people not realise that Arx is a thing on consoles and people spent money on there? They lose all of this not to mention the revenue for consoles is now gone completely as well as another big chunk of the player base, some of which already posting about leaving already IN THIS VERY THREAD. THIS HURTS PC TOO. For the love of god please stop with the half-baked sympathy posts and replace them with a post about a transfer from consoles to PC. After all the stuff they've been through don't you think they at least deserve that at the bare minimum? "The promise of it launching on consoles in Autumn 2021", then get left for nearly a year without any information, now this bombshell today. When Odyssey finally merges with Horizons, what even happens to Elite on consoles? Is there no information about that?
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while this is really no surprise to me and i guess a lot of folks around here,
i do feel really sorry for the console community.
sometimes, being right does feel wrong
i do feel really sorry for the console community.
sometimes, being right does feel wrong
I imagine this announcement clears the path for the new planetary tech to be integrated to the base PC client.
Their statement is that they are looking into it, that is not a prepared nor substantial statement.
At the risk of sounding "PC privileged", it's so odd to me how people don't own a PC that's even moderately capable of playing games. I read comments like "A free EDO license is not the point if I have to buy a gaming PC at first." and I'm gobsmacked that folks are gamers and don't have even an average gaming computer. Folks are really out here in the gaming world raw-d0gging it with no PC?
I'm not talking about a $3000 behemoth with a 55" OLED or something. You can build a 1080p gaming computer at a reasonable budget. Console gamers are already sitting on big TVs ($400-$1500) and $300-500 consoles with $60 controllers and $75 headsets and maybe even extra peripherals like a keyboard and mouse (+$$). So complaints about "oh a gaming PC is just too much" is a weak argument.
It's just... so odd to me. I refuse to believe that folks in 2022 don't have a PC of any sort. Is it just a Chromebook?
Re-reading this, yeah I guess I am "PC privileged" and this will be a wildly unpopular post.
Anyway, o7 console gamers. Hope FDev can port your stuff over to PC.
I'm not talking about a $3000 behemoth with a 55" OLED or something. You can build a 1080p gaming computer at a reasonable budget. Console gamers are already sitting on big TVs ($400-$1500) and $300-500 consoles with $60 controllers and $75 headsets and maybe even extra peripherals like a keyboard and mouse (+$$). So complaints about "oh a gaming PC is just too much" is a weak argument.
It's just... so odd to me. I refuse to believe that folks in 2022 don't have a PC of any sort. Is it just a Chromebook?
Re-reading this, yeah I guess I am "PC privileged" and this will be a wildly unpopular post.
Anyway, o7 console gamers. Hope FDev can port your stuff over to PC.
Honestly: we have so few informations about anything in the game that it's really hard to stick around.
I know this is a tough decision, and I understand.
However, given this decision, I feel it only fair to allow console players to transfer over their progress to PC, including all their ranks, ships, materials, engineer unlocks and so on.
The previous system to only transfer over everything in credits was the only thing holding me back from switching to PC.
Having the option to a one-time total transfer over to PC, will let a lot of people continue to play the game, keeping your playerbase high and active, and your sales of Odessey will get a good surge of income. If third party sites like Inara can track all these things, then so should you be able to.
I fear that a lot of people will prefer quitting all together over having to start over with a lot of credits.
Where do we get full refunds for all the money wasted on the console versions then?
Multiplatform risk. Today it's console users getting the stick. Some other day it's PC users. When I see something is multiplatform I anticipate the may be bad ports and crappy support down the line. You want to play with less risk - don't buy multiplatform - especially when it's SaaS model.
I'd really like to see a refund for the 23k ARX I have built up through paying or the free ones we accrued through playing. Or have the ability to give them away to a PC player at least.
The codebase argument is baseless and a cheap way of getting out of it. 99% of the code between PC and Series S / X would be the same.
Bye Elite Dangerous ...
And bye Frontier it was nice knowing you.
Its not about whether I could build a PC to play the game, its about making moves like this for literally no reason.
Bye Elite Dangerous ...
And bye Frontier it was nice knowing you.
Its not about whether I could build a PC to play the game, its about making moves like this for literally no reason.
Unsurprising and not unexpected news, given how poorly EDO's optimising has been going on PC (and for quite so long).
Quite a surprise that no consideration had been given to a build on current generation consoles though.
Now PC players might expect better focus on EDO, merging clients and improving performance? Or perhaps the inevitable, and predicted, announcement of servers shutting down on December 31st 2023?
Quite a surprise that no consideration had been given to a build on current generation consoles though.
Now PC players might expect better focus on EDO, merging clients and improving performance? Or perhaps the inevitable, and predicted, announcement of servers shutting down on December 31st 2023?