ObsidianAnt: Frontier - What The HECK Is Going On With Elite Dangerous?

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Well, after the report for the first 6 months of FY2022 (June-November 2021) was being analyzed, we got an almost 3 months of silence, console dev canceled and it's obvious the ED team lost a lot of resources and things slowed down a lot. (no more Dev plans/updated and weekly news are mostly replaced with news about events organized by the community, streams reduced to one per week and so on)

Now, guess what, end of FY 2022 is really close.
Then the financial report will come followed by a board meeting and then they will know whatever resources will be available to ED.

So they cant really reveal anything since whatever they have planned (if anything was actually planned) might get lost in whatever budgetary cuts might happen at the beginning of the summer when the next FY will start.

Or, who knows, maybe ED fared better than we all assume and it will get a budgetary increase for the FY2023 😂
 
I did not receive an egg, even though I've put many thousand of hours into this game providing tools for tens of thousands of commanders to enhance their enjoyment of the game. It's a strange world!
There was a debate (relatively small) about why people who make the tool for us to have fun didn't get ANY recognition or anything, but influencers got settlements after them and an IRL package instead.
 
Every time someone criticises the game, Braben delays Earthlikes another month.
I criticized shadows on PS4, and Braben canceled Odyssey on consoles!

Not saying the two are related, but...

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Maybe it's a bit of people are just sick of negativity in general?

I mean, I get up in the morning, go about my day which includes a relatively stressful job. In the midst of all that we've had a two years pandemic. War in Europe with the threat of nukes going flying at any given moment. People are losing loved ones at a rate of knots. Governments seemingly getting more corrupt by the day, fascism making a storming comeback, people at each others' throats on the streets.

What's wrong with in the middle of all this, sitting down to play a game for a couple of hours and - god forbid - getting some $#%^@$@ ENJOYMENT out of it? And if you don't get any enjoyment out of it why are you still doing it to yourself? Does it somehow make you feel better to just p**s all over everyone else's chips rather than, I dunno, playing any one of a million other games out there, or maybe even going outside once in a while (which some of you could do with)? Or just accepting the game for what it is, which I'll bet a hefty pint that every single person reading this has gotten their money's worth out of?

Oh wait, its that the constant bile and hatred is coming from a place of love. Good god, it must be horrible living with some of you. I have this image of spouses or significant others walking around with their eyes and nose circled in red pen, because their faces aren't perfectly symmetrical, and everyone else must see what I see, and share in my unhappiness at being exposed to a less than perfect product. Wives and girlfriends walking around in a red bra because one boob is 4g heavier than the other. And it all being spelled out like they're being done some sort of service. "Stop crying, I told you that you were overweight and useless because I care about you. Do you expect me to stay quiet and pretend that everything is fine while you fall apart?"

"For fudge sake" (Thanks FDev censors) get over yourselves, acting billy big bollix over a computer game. There's not a single one out there that's without issues, not a game, not a film, not a person, not a sports team, or whatever you happen to get your jollies from.
 
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I doubt anyone at edcd who make your favourite tools got an egg either.. i will check. Not that I actually want an egg.

Well there's where you've been going wrong. Making tools to help the community and support the game isn't going to set you up with no Easter produce is it?

If you had a YouTube channel on which your most popular videos were apparantly highly commented upon by people who seem to be celebrating there one day being less niche' space games again. Hooray. You would probably have an egg too.

Maybe it's like the Eurovision song contest, you know how the UK seems to not really want to win, so they send the bad songs? Frontier want to kill their own game and move on, OA is providing a service to that narative.
 
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I thought the suggestion that a reason why FD does not communicate roadmaps like other games is because of a lack of confidence in their ability to deliver, and he did actually support that with a couple of their own quotes. That's an interesting point from the video but overall yes he has become increasingly jaded and negative about the game. I don't think it's without reason though - but the negativity trend is clear.
Has he been bought a shiny new rig by the Star Citizen company like so many other online "content creators" who "suddenly" decided to play SC online and not have a good word to say about FDev?
 
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