Are you kidding? Without OA i wouldn't be playing the game.
How could anyone even start playing elite without watching this video? Not everyone played elite in 1984?
ObsidianAnt: Frontier - What The HECK Is Going On With Elite Dangerous?
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Are you kidding? Without OA i wouldn't be playing the game.
How could anyone even start playing elite without watching this video? Not everyone played elite in 1984?
Wow... so this is using development resources to benefit the most number of people..
Some designer inside frontier had to tell the easter egg company where to put the frontier logo... not even a decal for players.
Cancelling development just still bribing content creators.. this company goes to new heights every day. I'm amazed truly.
I've always liked his videos, but personally I think that if you have nothing good to say, then better to not say it.
Disclaimer: Unfortunately I can't always live up to my own standards..
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What inaccurate information?
I never really know whether you're being cynical, sarcastic or actually serious. Or were you just trying to be funny? I'm sorry if I'm being a little humourless right now...
Practically doesn't matter but the symbolism is terrible...
Also if they take the liberty to use such gross excuses for cutting development, i get to in the forum post as well. Standards of behavior get set from the top
I was considering hitting the like button, but then again I wasn't sure if it was sarcasm/successfully trolling me or not..
Edit: I decided to give the post the benefit of the doubt, if it was intended, then plus points for the dry humour and sarcasm!
Edit: I decided to give the post the benefit of the doubt, if it was intended, then plus points for the dry humour and sarcasm!
My response to that is to play horizons. Even taking a look odd on your drive and in the community cannot achieve that outcome. ie, when something is negative that's how it is.
Played this game for years, FDev always says how excited they are to show off what they are up to, usually to end up giving us some cut down version that they generally let die on the vine. It's not unusual or a surprise that OA would bring that up. Non of this is new or should be a surprise to anyone who have played this game for any significant amount of time.
It's the sheer frustration around the many unfixed bugs and missing features that's the biggest thing to me.
There are two different approaches you can take and make the community happy. You can take the big dev studio approach and say little, but fix things regularly and competently so that people can expect bugs to be fixed in a reasonable timeframe.
OR you can take the small indy dev approach and communicate regularly with the community and explain why bugs are there and that you're working on them, but they're complicated to fix, and maybe giving some temporary workarounds, but assuring everyone that they ARE being worked on, thereby building a rapport with the community.
But the worst case is having the speed of the second but the communication of the first. There are bugs that have been around for literally years. There are bugs on the issue tracker that have been reported dozens of times, but because the issue tracker doesn't count anything that doesn't hit a minimum popularity threshold, they just vanish. It's like they're actively trying to spit in the face of their community, many of whom really do want to help them.
If someone quits because they're not into FPS combat, then fine, that's just life. But if someone quits because they get crash after crash in repeatable ways that have been posted multiple times but never fixed, then that loss is 100% fdev's fault. And that is EXACTLY the sort of thing that kills a community, and then a game.
I don't want to be down on Elite, but it's really hard to see any upside to the approach they've been taking.
There are two different approaches you can take and make the community happy. You can take the big dev studio approach and say little, but fix things regularly and competently so that people can expect bugs to be fixed in a reasonable timeframe.
OR you can take the small indy dev approach and communicate regularly with the community and explain why bugs are there and that you're working on them, but they're complicated to fix, and maybe giving some temporary workarounds, but assuring everyone that they ARE being worked on, thereby building a rapport with the community.
But the worst case is having the speed of the second but the communication of the first. There are bugs that have been around for literally years. There are bugs on the issue tracker that have been reported dozens of times, but because the issue tracker doesn't count anything that doesn't hit a minimum popularity threshold, they just vanish. It's like they're actively trying to spit in the face of their community, many of whom really do want to help them.
If someone quits because they're not into FPS combat, then fine, that's just life. But if someone quits because they get crash after crash in repeatable ways that have been posted multiple times but never fixed, then that loss is 100% fdev's fault. And that is EXACTLY the sort of thing that kills a community, and then a game.
I don't want to be down on Elite, but it's really hard to see any upside to the approach they've been taking.
Just today Buur and Rheeney were discussing the graphics improvements sneaked in in recent updates (possibly update 11) without announcement, so maybe they don't count as news, but the myriad improvements and optimisations can't be totally ignored. It's not all bug fixes.
Always forget the MAC and offline single player. The two that were the first to fall on the battlefield.
Could you elaborate? I mean can you explain why you think so? Can you define good in an objective way? Is there a reason all things "not good" are better left unsaid? Do you think it solves anything, the quietness? I'm sincere.
Yes, it turned out to be the ongoing story for the Kardashian TV show.Did you hear the one about a hundred monkeys typing out the works of shakespeare?
They even kept the poop throwing part.
If FDEV
I'm like 99% sure the marketing department came up with this idea, presumably using funds from the marketing budget.
Businesses have divisions and separate budgets. If they didn't spend the money on this, the marketing department would spend it on something else and it wouldn't have gone to the development team for ED.
Are you serious?
I'm like 99% sure the marketing department came up with this idea, presumably using funds from the marketing budget.
Businesses have divisions and separate budgets. If they didn't spend the money on this, the marketing department would spend it on something else and it wouldn't have gone to the development team for ED.
No, I can't define good in an objective way, and possibly I'm wrong in the above statement.. In this particular case I don't think it serves any purpose to post videos negative of the game and the company. This is their modus operandi and I don't think that any amount of criticism on youtube or the forum is going to change that. People who have been around a long time ought to know that and shouldn't expect a change... People that are new might get seriously concerned about their beloved game.
Still I come back to the point that this is a game and a company that has almost consistently received the same criticism as long as the game has existed. They might not publish a bug free game, but they have consistently published a game for close to 8 years.. Somewhat on topic seeing OA's channel this is something SC has failed to do.. What do you prefer a space game you can still play 8 years later or a tech demo that occasionally is completely unplayable or that occasionally resets your game?
But to conclude.. I probably should just remove the forum from my browser, all the manure here is really getting on my nerves lately..!
I also don't see how one could possibly criticize a company for sending out easter eggs..
And that's exactly what OA was talking about, which is why I don't understand the hate for him stating the obvious.
I see nothing wrong with trying to expand one's horizons in gaming. He's not "pushing" ED that much because there's been no major content for years and no communication with the game's plans for the future. That's not Ant's fault - that's FD's.
It used to be 300, but then Xerxes happened, someone got kicked down a well, and I guess you know the rest.
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