Five years good>
after that, it can run as a sidecar on Interplanetary Coaster Evolution
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Five years good>
after that, it can run as a sidecar on Interplanetary Coaster Evolution
There is F1 Manager 22 you guys can play soon.
When Frontier says something, it usually isn't much.
The Cobra engine is high tech? No system can run bad code cleanly.
I think a fresh start would be more productive.
Not surprising news but I have some respect for FDEV finally saying it out loud.
What I find baffling is that the "this will be good for the future development of PC ED" promise actually still works on some people. It's clear as crystal ED has no long term left - this trajectory has been going on for years.
And maybe that's ok. It's an old game held together with duct tape and glue. Maybe it's time for everyone to move on and go outside.
What I find baffling is that the "this will be good for the future development of PC ED" promise actually still works on some people. It's clear as crystal ED has no long term left - this trajectory has been going on for years.
And maybe that's ok. It's an old game held together with duct tape and glue. Maybe it's time for everyone to move on and go outside.
This is so wrong. ED is much better now than what it ever was, and improves at every iteration (but I suspect you haven't been able to play EDO so you wouldn't know...). After they got rid of consoles, they can focus on PC, the right (albeit sad) decision, long overdue.
I strongly disagree, which is why I stopped playing at the release of Odyssey. But that's fine, we don't have to agree - circle back here in a year and we will see who was correct.
I do not understand what is so difficult to understand? Read David Braben's message.
Frontier has been trying to optimize Odyssey for PC for a year and fails.
That's why there's no point in releasing it on consoles.
My guess:
It's just not worth it financially.
The revenue from console sales was certainly budgeted during the development of Odyssey.
Now add 1 and 1 together.
Frontier has been trying to optimize Odyssey for PC for a year and fails.
That's why there's no point in releasing it on consoles.
My guess:
It's just not worth it financially.
The revenue from console sales was certainly budgeted during the development of Odyssey.
Now add 1 and 1 together.
I've seen many 'Communities' online making light of the news, as a pc Cmdr I really do feel for the Console Community. I accept that to push on has meant to focus at the expense of consoles, but does this mean that tickets etc will soon be answered for pc only? Many console Cmdrs will be truly devastated - as I would be, so leaving consoles as they are in their current state must surely mean ensuring what they have at this point will be regularly monitored and addressed?
So your experience is a year out of date
Charging like "F Troop"?
Yeah, I wasn't really talking about my experience in game. You can have an educated opinion on a product without using it. I've never played SC either but I have a good idea of why I don't want to.
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I am assuming you are being a little sarcastic to prove a point .... however just in case, I would say 25% of my gaming is on games and platforms which were out before many of the people on this forum were out of nappies.
I completed Zelda LTTP on the SNES recently with my lad as well as fantastic adventures of dizzy on the nes. (oh and never forget speedball 2 and sensi soccer and ko2 on Amiga)
however it's a slight false equivalence. those games are all self contained complete experiences. Elite isn't. I know over the years I forgave a lot about the game and filled in the blanks because of the promise that the game had going forward and in the hope that those blanks got fleshed out. Elite sold many copies and got a huge amount of press not because of what it is....... but what it is aiming to be.
for now that dream is still (tenuously) alive on PC but for console gamers it is not. so sure. you can technically still play everything you could last week on PS4.
but it's a bit like a really promising sci-fi show that had a slow but promising start.......... and ended on a complete cliffhanger. I know I often don't bother with stuff like that if I know that it isn't going to be resolved. I absolutely certainly would not pay to watch it as it isn't finished.
That’s just fantastic news... Not too long ago I transferred my game from PC to Xbox Series Xand then bought an Xbox HOTAS just for this game.
Steering clear of Frontier from now on, bunch of clowns.
Agree with your commentsI gotta say, I am genuinely angry. Partly my own fault for optimistically believing Odyssey really would come to consoles eventually despite all the evidence.
but jeez - bought it to play on Mac, Mac support dropped; no worries I will buy it for Xbox… now that’s been dropped as well. VR too but at least I wasn’t invested in that.
maybe my memory is failing me, but I can’t recall any time in almost 40 years of gaming where the feature set and platform support for a game has been repeatedly stripped back like this. It seems like the logical endpoint of a development process that completely underestimated the effort needed for a multiplatform live service game and never managed to dig themselves out of the hole they got into years back.
I guess my ED adventure ends here - no wish to buy a PC just for one game, nor to keep playing ED legacy.
and to announce this surely, surely knowing the very first question would be “can we transfer to PC” and having no answer… mind boggling lack of foresight? Or holding off on more bad news till later?
Disgusted
Well, from what I've came to discover, the quasi-totality of people who "stopped playing at the release of EDO" and complain ever since about EDO are console players...
If you think about it logically, (and check the steam player charts) that's very unlikely to be true.
My concern, as with others, will be the future of the current game. Yes, it's a kick in the teeth for console owners, but it will also be of major concern for those of us on PC. If development stops in one area, does it follow that it moves to a "winding down" in others? I don't know.
It would be interesting to see what the roadmap for the game currently looks like. I have the nagging feeling we're looking at the game's demise and an uncertain future. I hope I'm wrong and would love to be enlightened to the contrary.
It would be interesting to see what the roadmap for the game currently looks like. I have the nagging feeling we're looking at the game's demise and an uncertain future. I hope I'm wrong and would love to be enlightened to the contrary.
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