This explain quite well the disaster of ED.So I'll direct everyone to here.
Frontier Developments Reviews
38 Frontier Developments reviews. A free inside look at company reviews and salaries posted anonymously by employees.www.glassdoor.ca
Go ahead and read the reviews of former employee's you'll see the issues with Odyssey start with the culture of work that Frontier has, that David and other upper exec's have caused within their company.
I'll quote from one.
This is the cons of the review and this is from a current employee.
If Fdev has a culture of work where Senior and leads are making indecent comments to members of the team, they need to be removed full stop, that's not a leader. A leader doesn't sit there and make indecent comments in a work place, they stop them, they take care of their employee's concerns and everything I've read on glassdoor shows me that Frontier would be a horrible place to work at.
This all above contributes to the overall culture at Frontier, and translates over to projects (Elite, Jurassic world, and others Fdev develops/published). If I had a boss who was making indecent comments towards me, my work would falter as well, in fact I have been in a company where I had bosses who didn't care for their employee's and treated them like crap till their morale went, and they quit or were fired due to it.
Frontiers artists (Who you will see on glassdoor as well) have also stated similar things to the part I quoted above. So the fundamental problem, is Frontiers work culture itself.
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As of posting this Frontiers Stock price on the market has dropped by 165 GBP
Overall in the last 5 days Frontiers stock has lost close to 500 dollars off of it's stock price from 2900+ GBP to trending to dip below 2500 GBP.
Driver can't fix internal game engine problem
I didnt say it would fix it all but a new driver in need as well I for one have no problems running the game with a i7 2600 1660 ti
When I look back at all the waffle about teams of 100 people, allegedly working on EDO for something like three years, I struggle to take it seriously after witnessing the outcome.
They made it equally as hard to get a refund via Steam. Odyssey play time? It's whatever your base game playtime is, automatically denying just about anyone who tries the DLC from a refund. As you can only refund if you played something for less than two hours. Though I found a way to contact real people and got my 60 bucks refunded.
Adding FPS was always going to be a mistake.... they could have added so many things (while fixing stuff) to the existing Horizons game at a much lower cost (both time and money). I actually don't even understand it from a business standpoint. Maybe I'm wrong, but I really don't understand why they aren't trying harder to go after all the zillions of people who bought KSP and NMS... that seems like a much better target than people who want FPS gameplay where there's a zillion more times competitionThing I find myself asking, erm, myself, is what were FDev actually doing during the development cycle of Odyssey?
I mean, we need to put this all in perspective to fully understand what's happened here.
Most recently we had 18 months of "almost nothing", which we accepted on the understanding that FDev was focused on completing Odyssey.
Before that we had a year of "Beyond", which appeared after people started asking tough questions about DLC and the value of LEPs, and FDev justified it by pointing out that work had already begun on Odyssey an only a small sub-team was working on Beyond.
Before that we had "influencer" visits to FDev HQ which proudly declared that FDev have a team of more than a hundred people working on ED and provoked questions about what they actually spend their time doing.
I'm not going to say I told you so but several years ago I said that this all reeked of a kid going out playing every day during the summer holiday and then doing all their homework on the night before the new school term starts.
When I look back at all the waffle about teams of 100 people, allegedly working on EDO for something like three years, I struggle to take it seriously after witnessing the outcome.
And, to be clear, it's not just Odyssey I'm disappointed over.
It's all the OTHER stuff that's been delayed, set aside or overlooked, over the last three years, with the justification that FDev were working on Odyssey so they didn't have time to fix/expand/create other stuff as well.
Simple business standpoint = selling a new product = revenue
Yes. I think it just needed two or three more months in development. It feels a bit like everything came together in the last week, only it didn't really come together and they couldn't afford to delay it.
Man our standards as a community must have really dropped if we think that all EDO needs is to be "tidied up a bit."
I think its the English way to say "it's completely f*** up".
Dunno. I think it's the best expansion they've done. But also the most broken at launch.
Well if we are only comparing FDev to FDev, I can see why you might think so. But FDev and Elite don't exist in an industry vacuum; they can and should be compared to other studios and games, and in that regard, EDO is probably one of the worst expansions I've ever seen.
