look ay Freelancer and Starlancer
I would but, y'know, the company that made them closed 5 years after releasing them.
Is that better, or worse, than how FDev has managed the Elite franchise?
Elite studio should be sold
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I would but, y'know, the company that made them closed 5 years after releasing them.
Is that better, or worse, than how FDev has managed the Elite franchise?
How to get Elite Odyssey on Xbox Series X/S, get Phil Spencer to buy FDev.
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First off, who would buy the franchise? Secondly, would that somehow, magically, alleviate the problems with the engine and the code? I don't know anything about game engines and coding, but given that Cobra is an in-house engine, chances are that any outsider would need a whole lot of time to even begin to understand how to make it work more efficiently . . . if that's at all possible, given that FDev have struggled mightily.
Frankly, anybody who's got the cash lying around AND doesn't mind to inherit a HUGE technical headache would likely roll up their sleeves and charge the consumer base right and left. Corporations are not charities, they want to earn money, and sinking many thousands of hours into a project demands that money be made.
Can't say I'm entirely happy with the way things are going, but if you honestly think selling the franchise would "fix" anything (except Braben's bank account), you are kidding yourself. Sorry, not to be rude, but this is not feasible.
Frankly, anybody who's got the cash lying around AND doesn't mind to inherit a HUGE technical headache would likely roll up their sleeves and charge the consumer base right and left. Corporations are not charities, they want to earn money, and sinking many thousands of hours into a project demands that money be made.
Can't say I'm entirely happy with the way things are going, but if you honestly think selling the franchise would "fix" anything (except Braben's bank account), you are kidding yourself. Sorry, not to be rude, but this is not feasible.
Porting a game to a different engine would probably be huge project in man hours, if not in fact impossible..
So what's UE's example of proceduraly generating a full sized planet? I don't think I have seen it used on that scale yet.
And how I can be positive? I allways see only how ED is dying. Stocks falls down, players are leaving, in game story is gone, schedules are more and more bigger, moderators dont want talk with us via streams, developements are canceled, Drew Wagar is gone,... I want to be positive but how coud I?
Step one to being more positive will be to not watch that persons content.
Hardly surprising is it though with the world being in a mess for quite some time and only getting worse. As to Frontier itself they've delayed two titles and Ody launch was terrible so again hardly surprising that stocks are down.
Happens with literally every single game ever.
It's really not.
Well Drew Wagar is gone so its not all bad
Yeah, because Yamiks is well known for his balanced and measured opinions 
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Yeah, because Yamiks is well known for his balanced and measured opinions
Well he is in tune with the important blokes who like wearing horse masks demographic.
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Click bait = $$$Yeah, because Yamiks is well known for his balanced and measured opinions
Merit value of the content doesn't matter.
It works quite well (for "content" creators), evidence above.
Yes, it's unfortunate and cynical that the algorithms favour outrage and negativity over everything else.
Well I watched a bloke camp for a night in -20c using nothing but a sleeping bag and bubble wrap so I'm not sure that's an algorithm winner but there is good stuff out there that isn't outrage or negativity.
And the first thing they (and yes, probably I would do if it were me) is charge a monthly fee to play. They certainly don't make money on ARX, do they? I haven't purchased ARX in over a year. Any corporation purchasing ED is going to want a return on investment. Yes, they'll lose a bunch of current customers that only want to play for free, but they may gain more as the monthly fee would (in theory, anyway) (1) pay for more robust servers resolving instancing issues and (2) pay for programmers to resolve bugs, fix issues, and provide more content.
Not that I'd LIKE a monthly fee, but if anyone expects that things would get better if ED were sold to something like M$, this would be something one could (and should) expect.
I live in Canada, and sadly, I can just go outside during the winter to see homeless people doing the same thing. It breaks my heart.
the products were fully completed so i think thats a plus, ED although playable is still not a 100% finished product as FDEV are still developing it.
not always true look at "Bus simulator 21" for a game that uses Unreal engine the wrong way
maybe they should start by selling frontier forums, all Frontier need for announcements is tweeter.