Always Online and The Digital Dark Age

Bambi

Bambi
So with the game for perhaps the first time making great changes to core mechanics that radically change the way it is played, rather than just expanding the game with more features, and because the game is always online, the old way of playing will disappear forever. Now suppose one is not fond of the changes or just has historical curiosity, what is to become of it? How will Elite Dangerous (2014-2018) be preserved? Is it to be cast into the fire like the original "unfinished" versions of star wars and forgotten forever?

For the old elites, every version with every change is saved, and can still be played one way or another. From the humble original on the BBC Micro available direct from frontier themselves, to the revered archimedes version, modern but faithful remakes, NES, Amiga ports, every patch version of Frontier Elite II for both DOS and Amiga, the Atari version, every patch version of FFE for DOS, Windows 95, and MacOS, whichever one version with whatever minor change or minor bug that you choose it is out there, preserved, and playable.

But Elite Dangerous as it was is posed to be gone forever. A piece of art, no matter how flawed, is about to be destroyed.
 

LeoBartlet

LeoBartlet
Bambi said:
So with the game for perhaps the first time making great changes to core mechanics that radically change the way it is played, rather than just expanding the game with more features, and because the game is always online, the old way of playing will disappear forever. Now suppose one is not fond of the changes or just has historical curiosity, what is to become of it? How will Elite Dangerous (2014-2018) be preserved? Is it to be cast into the fire like the original "unfinished" versions of star wars and forgotten forever?

For the old elites, every version with every change is saved, and can still be played one way or another. From the humble original on the BBC Micro available direct from frontier themselves, to the revered archimedes version, modern but faithful remakes, NES, Amiga ports, every patch version of Frontier Elite II for both DOS and Amiga, the Atari version, every patch version of FFE for DOS, Windows 95, and MacOS, whichever one version with whatever minor change or minor bug that you choose it is out there, preserved, and playable.

But Elite Dangerous as it was is posed to be gone forever. A piece of art, no matter how flawed, is about to be destroyed.
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Drelthar

Drelthar
Braben said they take "Snapshots" of the game and the server states every so often.

These aren't made public right now, but he did mention that in the interests of conservation, if the game is ever entirely dropped by the studio, they will release at least some of these snapshots.
 

Vardaugas

Vardaugas
One day, in the foreseeable future, the sun will expand past the orbit of earth and swallow the long scorched planet. Then we will never be able to go home ever again. It will be a sad, sad day for mankind.
 

StuartGT

StuartGT
Bambi said:
So with the game for perhaps the first time making great changes to core mechanics that radically change the way it is played, rather than just expanding the game with more features, and because the game is always online, the old way of playing will disappear forever. Now suppose one is not fond of the changes or just has historical curiosity, what is to become of it? How will Elite Dangerous (2014-2018) be preserved? Is it to be cast into the fire like the original "unfinished" versions of star wars and forgotten forever?

For the old elites, every version with every change is saved, and can still be played one way or another. From the humble original on the BBC Micro available direct from frontier themselves, to the revered archimedes version, modern but faithful remakes, NES, Amiga ports, every patch version of Frontier Elite II for both DOS and Amiga, the Atari version, every patch version of FFE for DOS, Windows 95, and MacOS, whichever one version with whatever minor change or minor bug that you choose it is out there, preserved, and playable.

But Elite Dangerous as it was is posed to be gone forever. A piece of art, no matter how flawed, is about to be destroyed.
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c00ky1970

c00ky1970
Errr, it’s a game?

Nowadays because of The always on interwebz things can be updated.

Why do you want to live in the past?

The future has Jetpacks and Quantum Computers and Global Warming, why would I want to play the chillier version of ED from 2014??
 

thistle

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Bambi said:
So with the game for perhaps the first time making great changes to core mechanics that radically change the way it is played, rather than just expanding the game with more features, and because the game is always online, the old way of playing will disappear forever. Now suppose one is not fond of the changes or just has historical curiosity, what is to become of it? How will Elite Dangerous (2014-2018) be preserved? Is it to be cast into the fire like the original "unfinished" versions of star wars and forgotten forever?

For the old elites, every version with every change is saved, and can still be played one way or another. From the humble original on the BBC Micro available direct from frontier themselves, to the revered archimedes version, modern but faithful remakes, NES, Amiga ports, every patch version of Frontier Elite II for both DOS and Amiga, the Atari version, every patch version of FFE for DOS, Windows 95, and MacOS, whichever one version with whatever minor change or minor bug that you choose it is out there, preserved, and playable.

But Elite Dangerous as it was is posed to be gone forever. A piece of art, no matter how flawed, is about to be destroyed.
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I *think* you're suggesting these Q4 changes are somehow making the 2014-2018 version redundant?

But the game changed 2014 TO 2018. You could have said the same with all the changes from 1.0 to 2.4, for example.

I dont understand.
 

Chaparral

Chaparral
Yeah that stone arrowhead my ancestor from 12 generations ago is gone too. Bummer. How will I cope? What was I saying?
 

c00ky1970

c00ky1970
I think Banksy proved that even when art is destroyed,albeit partially, it is still art.

And some silly people will still pay for it....
 

Ralph Vargr

Ralph Vargr
Just wait until the power goes off. Even solar panels and battery charge recycles come to an end.

One of the team members I was working with had no books *at all*, and wanted everything digital.

We may be left with what's left in hotel room drawers...

People are losing respect for history.
 
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