A message to Frontier From D2EA
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It is sad that you think that DTEA is only about clicks. He has been a proponent of the game for a long time, and offered many guides and suport resources on his website for new folks and veterans alike. Have you done this work? He is pointing out that the interest is waning, and suggests reasonable things to enhance player population.
It is important to note that DTEA gathers info from a variety of sources to express an opinion, and he tries to distill that feedback in his youtube posts.
It is also interesting to see here, that your feedback is about how the game impacts you individually, without consideration to what the community at large is engaging in or not engaging.
If you do look at steamchart trends as a sampling tool of the total pop (not the actual total pop of course), it is clear that overall player engagement is declining.
Trying to denigrate the messenger about community-based feedback (those that DTEA interacts with), you don't convey a compelling argument that the game is fine.
@Rubbernuke
I never thought of ynu as one to wilt.
Seems i am the master now, as was foretold.
That's what you get for VADER.
I never thought of ynu as one to wilt.
Seems i am the master now, as was foretold.
That's what you get for VADER.
So the numbers of active players have been increasing?
I didn't say that. I said that content creators vastly overestimate their role and representation.
I really think the framing it gets here as "frontier is only catering to people interested in AX" is wrong - it's easy to forget that the AX gameplay content has only been the focus of the last 2-3 patches despite dominating the narrative long ago and there really isn't that much of it considering the time scale.
It's just that there's been nothing else and odyssey had no new ship based content to begin with. When they can only deliver this much then people are going to be mostly bummed regardless of what they choose to deliver.
Abandoning the "feature rework" and not giving us a new roadmap gives us nothing to look forward to long term either - things have been this dire for a while it's just that now that we've seen the roadmap play out there's less hope for the future.
It's an old game and most people have thoroughly exhausted all the content by the end of Horizons/Beyond except for exploration which is "limitless".
It's just that there's been nothing else and odyssey had no new ship based content to begin with. When they can only deliver this much then people are going to be mostly bummed regardless of what they choose to deliver.
Abandoning the "feature rework" and not giving us a new roadmap gives us nothing to look forward to long term either - things have been this dire for a while it's just that now that we've seen the roadmap play out there's less hope for the future.
It's an old game and most people have thoroughly exhausted all the content by the end of Horizons/Beyond except for exploration which is "limitless".
So when he points out that the interest in the game is declining, it is exclusively from his own community - or is he also considering other data sources?
I think it's fair to say that with 100k subs, he speaks with a bit more cred than the average forumite.
Never get a job reading horoscopesIn a cunning move and wicked plot twist, Frontier will drop a bombshell U16 preview later today covering all the bases Youtubers keep crying about, making D2EA eat his words and make him reconsider if one should release such a video on preview day
He is wrong when he claims to represent the community as a whole, and that the community as a whole doesn't care for the war (which he reads from his own poll in a very sketchy way) and that the community thinks the Titans were a waste of dev time.
probably not. I could make some money at the circus or an exhibiton where I show how I can put my foot in my mouth.Never get a job reading horoscopes
That was really a less than exciting stream.
The Titans were probably way easier to make than he thinks they were and might even have been another thing they had mostly designed and maybe even modeled out years ago when they were making the surface sites.
yet he says in his video that the Titan is nice and all, but "imagine all the ships that could have been designed for the dev time that went into it" (I am paraphrasing). That is very... let's say not smart on a lot of levels.
Thargoid war is not bad. But if I had a choice, I would eliminate the "thargoid material farm". This was supposed to be war, not farming...
With this detail, I would like to state that I fully agree with D2EA.
With this detail, I would like to state that I fully agree with D2EA.
If you mean the clearance of alerts and thus the prevention of invasions by tissue sampling: Yeah that rubs me the wrong way too. This mechanic opens the flood gates to metagaming and cheesing the war, which is of course what happened - gamers be gamers, and gamers want to win. I am extra miffed that this ended the existence of planetary and stationary AX CZs, which I thought were a brilliant addition and which I enjoyed tremendously.
Losing gameplay to win the war sucks.
Is this the channel that does the grind guides?
And not only do you have to sacrifice your gameplay but your FPS too since sampling was ruled more effective at lower 30 FPS.
Yes, that's the point I was trying to make.
For this reason, I haven't been able to participate in thargoid wars for a long time.
The battle of Hip 22460 and the end of the Azimuth Saga were very good. (Maybe it was the best experience of my 20 years of gaming life. If there was such a war-activity today, I would camp and fight in the system for 1 month.)
But this "material-gathering farming"?? Absolutely not.
I'm not a fan of D2EA but he has access to many more commanders through his streams and his PMF , so you could argue that they have a better feel for the game than the odd player and a couple of mates who play the game ??
They could be wrong but if you ask 100 consoles players if edo is a flop you can imagine the answer , now ask 100 pc players the answer is going to be different . Now ask 50 50 you going to get a better feel of how the game is going ?
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