Well you have to ask yourself, do you feel respected as a paying customer
I've seen it with all companies which are publicly traded. The customers stop being a focus, pleasing the shareholders becomes a top priority. And I am sure many of you remember the times when seeing the "Activision" or "Electronic Arts" logo on the screen meant a good game. I do. And now what? They are symbol of universal hate, ruin their titles with predatory things like lootboxes and other casino mechanics
in full-paid titles, premium currencies... Oh wait, ARX you say?
News flash. Consumers don't want something that's a dumpster fire that they paid money for. We saw this happen with No Man's Sky launch. We saw this happen with CP2077 launch.
Then why don't you learn, and stop pre-ordering and playing on release? This cycle won't stop until we as customers put a stop to it. Unfortunately, people are sooo keen to part with their money on a wild goose chase, that is not going to happen. Look at Scam Citizen if you need examples. As for CP it wasn't that bad as people made it out to be, played 50 hrs of it before I got bored with it. I will return to it sometime, maybe. It was simply overhyped - and this is exactly what is happening here. Odyssey was overhyped and underdelivered. I'd say a standard release, consistent with the track record. When I look back at my 5-years-younger self who was overjoyed when Horizons released... I could save myself so much disappointment and lost hope
Also, don't play on release. It's bad for you. Seriously. Unless you are doing it with a group of passionate friends - there's really no point. Nowadays software project, esp. games are really huge, and will be bug-ridden. What you see now is AFTER QA and a fixing pass or two. But you simply cannot catch all the bugs. It's literally impossible.
This person has the right approach.
If only shared that approach. I love the fact that we now have an avatar, because it opens up SO MANY possibilities and has tremendous potential. But you know what? After 6 years of following the development (more like watching glaciers move) of Elite Dangerous, I am vary of the ability of FDev to realise such tremendous potential. It really seems like they're laying foundations and placeholders everywhere and never go back to finish them. Need examples? Thargoid introduction. Thargoid bases. Planetary gameplay. Multicrew...
In fact I think FDEV has now one in a lifetime chance to redeem all this (well, maybe one of two in a lifetime, another being atmospheric planets), to show that they're The Boss of space gaming. All it would take is fleshing odyssey beyond the scope of what was delivered - adding ship and station interiors, adding interesting exploration gameloops, Thargoid interactions [guess they are in as pew-pew already, waiting for something like gamescom ;-)]. Maybe introducing base building? I would pay for such addition, too. I don't expect them to go all Hello Games on Elite and release everything for free. I know that software is expensive to develop, as I develop it for a living. I however fully expect them to actually DEVELOP Elite. And not man a skeleton crew on the game for another 2 years focused on bugfixing gold rushes only while they go pursue another theme park franchise. Sorry, EDO is the only visible effort since Horizons from a software development perspective. I had teams much, much smaller than frontier which could turn a complicated product around in under a year, overhauling it to the gory bits. I refuse to believe FDev is unable to. I think they simply don't need / want to. By they, I mean management. Braben. Shareholders. Not the devs, as they usually do what they are told to do
Well, good luck FDEV. You will deliVeR, I will buy
