30 percent and falling on steam
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They met their financial goals and release date though I bet, so no I don't think anything will change. Frontier and every game developer saw what happened with Cyberpunk 2077 (and that is, actually, a really good game), yet decided to plow ahead anyway with a buggy alpha release disguised as a finished product. The difference between CDPR and Frontier is that CDPR's big mistake was biting off way more than they could chew. Frontier on the other hand have released barely functional features ever since Elite first released. The only way to get them to change their behaviour is to refund the game or not buy it in the first place. I think it's fairly clear that Frontier's management couldn't give a toss about the Steam score otherwise. The actual developers and community managers/mods though? I feel bad for them. They no doubt worked, and still work, their arses off to try and get a workable release going against a completely unrealistic deadline. Let's be clear 100% here - the developers deserve our deepest sympathy. David Braben and his management team? Yeag. Not so much.
I want to apologize to my friends that I got into this game. Some have spent a lot of money on arx in anticipation of this disaster of a game and I feel it's my fault for hyping it up. I hate the new galmap ui and the non-procedural planets and the overall bugginess of the game. I am starting to feel this could be the end of this game for me. I honestly wouldn't mind a rollback.
How can you say they're non-procedural planets? You think they hand crafted every planet? I'm sorry, but if you're going to complain, complain about something that's worth complaining about and not just random words.
I get the release has been buggy, but they'll fix it. They already are. I've recommended this to friends, and I've no regrets. Games are buggy. Some are more so than others. It's annoying it's happened, but get over it... move on... and let them fix the issues.
I get the release has been buggy, but they'll fix it. They already are. I've recommended this to friends, and I've no regrets. Games are buggy. Some are more so than others. It's annoying it's happened, but get over it... move on... and let them fix the issues.
Well they've cost themselves for any future frontier publisher title. Unless they're perfect anyone who's seen elite is going to be wary at the first bad smell.
I wouldnt be surprised if brabes has been getting some urgent phone calls from the warhammer and f1 people asking how their projects are going to be different. Ie not 30% red.
I wouldnt be surprised if brabes has been getting some urgent phone calls from the warhammer and f1 people asking how their projects are going to be different. Ie not 30% red.
I think the community should look at itself...
What it asked for.. What it demanded.. Imagine if fdev had delayed the release..
Apart from the GFX performance issues that are real I see a lot of users who have customized their settings for EDH and I think these settings are causing problems with EDO. Many report big improvements after clearing their gfx setting (for instance Super sampling)
Frontiers mistake imo is them stating EDO performance would be close to EDH performance (which it is.. except for combat/walking)
What it asked for.. What it demanded.. Imagine if fdev had delayed the release..
Apart from the GFX performance issues that are real I see a lot of users who have customized their settings for EDH and I think these settings are causing problems with EDO. Many report big improvements after clearing their gfx setting (for instance Super sampling)
Frontiers mistake imo is them stating EDO performance would be close to EDH performance (which it is.. except for combat/walking)
Perhaps for you, but many many players are getting sub 20fps sitting in a station, or even just flying around. Without custom graphics settings.
They have no culling, they have barely optimized, and their colour grading is a mess of sRGB RGB and HDR.
it's a mess stop making excuses
Nope, they're making lots of money regardless and it'll improve in the coming months. We still need ship interiors and Earth-like worlds so they can't quit development.
You should read my post again
Were you here during the alpha? Because I distinctly remember the calls from us players to delay release, because we were afraid something like this might happen. And now here it is and somehow it's even worse than I imagined. So stop putting the blame on the community.
The usual big name streamers have been paid off with trinkets and stations named after them.
Usually when a new game launches famous youtubers, streamers receive gifts to promote it. If the development team had additional time they would polish it before release. They didn't decide to release it prematurely.
I would say most of the time probably either at home or at work, but I don't see how that would have anything to with the launch of Odyssey?
My point was simply that a lot of players voiced their concerns and actually suggested delaying the release here in the forums during the alpha, which you might not have known, had you not been reading on here at the time, because the entire alpha section of the forum has unfortunately been taken offlline.
Which I might add is a sad thing indeed, as there was a lot of good feedback in there on issues we are still facing now after release.
Then we agree here, what I disagree with, is that the blame for all of this somehow lies with the community. But we can just as well agree to disagree
Nope. They might cut (loose) a manager or two, but to just "give up" on Elite because of a mistake they made would be corporate suicide.
Agree... I don't believe anyone on this forum would want that... yeah we argue, dramatize and bicker but we would not want such a drastic response from Frontier. We love Elite too much to give up on it. Frontier has power over us even when they mess up... its like that abusive girlfriend that we always go back to at the end of the day.
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yo $fdev show me just one planet, which looks like one out of the release trailer. You scammed us hard. And this truth realy hurts.
Great article if you haven't seen it. Some interesting comments how Frontier could learn to work wiith players going forward:
superjumpmagazine.com
Elite Dangerous: Odyssey — Mismanaged Expectations and a Future of Infinite Possibility
What the new on-foot component of the game means for its future
superjumpmagazine.com