News Announcement: Elite: Dangerous coming to Xbox One

OriginalBadBoy · Mar 11, 2015

Tod said:
The most annoying thing is that no one is going to give any details on the deal as it is some BIG SECRET.
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Its called business ... and an NDA

Stealth Gamer92 · Mar 11, 2015

Patrick_68000 said:
Here you have all the informations. And you can sign up to receive updates devoted to the X1 --- http://www.elitedangerous.com/xboxone#content

Thanks. Also while looking online I found out if you have a flight stick(or HOTAS) for PC or PS3&4 or XB360 you can buy a CronusMax and use it and your computer to make the HOTAS work on Xbox 1 so that's good if a dedicated flight stick isn't released for Xbox 1.

Ruskodisco · Mar 11, 2015

i really dont care about playing with console players. but David said the consoles wont be "dumbed down" but will the pc version of this be dumbed down due to the console version having the full version of elite?

mossfoot · Mar 11, 2015

livvinrussian said:
i really dont care about playing with console players. but David said the consoles wont be "dumbed down" but will the pc version of this be dumbed down due to the console version having the full version of elite?

Nope! Next question

blugorilla · Mar 11, 2015

if i got a copy of the game on my xbox one would i be able to transfer my account and everything i have to my xbox.

Stealth Gamer92 · Mar 11, 2015

mossfoot said:
Nope! Next question

So that is irifutably confirmed with no loop holes? So they can't release a dumbed down game and say "we dumbed it down on both" or "before"? Great! More developers should be that bold and sure they made a good game!

Except Ubisoft, they're already like that and have 3 straight bad games the try to brag about.

blugorilla · Mar 11, 2015

blugorilla said:
if i got a copy of the game on my xbox one would i be able to transfer my account and everything i have to my xbox.

will my account transfer? if not i definitely wont get a copy.

Tod · Mar 11, 2015

blugorilla said:
will my account transfer? if not i definitely wont get a copy.

It would make sense for if Elite accounts could transfer, because I bet a good percentage of their sales would come from people who already support the game if this was the case. I can't see many existing players buying a console version if they have to start again.

Asp Explorer · Mar 12, 2015

Tod said:
It would make sense for if Elite accounts could transfer, because I bet a good percentage of their sales would come from people who already support the game if this was the case. I can't see many existing players buying a console version if they have to start again.

I can only see that realistically happening if the email account used to purchase Elite on PC/Mac from FD exactly matches the email account tied to a XBL gamertag with an active Gold subscription. Even then, I doubt it will happen.

blugorilla · Mar 12, 2015

Tod said:
It would make sense for if Elite accounts could transfer, because I bet a good percentage of their sales would come from people who already support the game if this was the case. I can't see many existing players buying a console version if they have to start again.

exactly! ive just know alot of big name games that have don't it in the past and still haven't allowed for it.

SiriusSeven · Mar 12, 2015

Asp Explorer said:
I can only see that realistically happening if the email account used to purchase Elite on PC/Mac from FD exactly matches the email account tied to a XBL gamertag with an active Gold subscription. Even then, I doubt it will happen.

I don't think it's as complicated as you think. Dragon Age on XBox 360 required a (free) account that was distinct from XBox Live. I was crazy annoyed because you couldn't play if their server was down, even though it was an offline game. I think they did it to kill resale value....anyways, there is precedent for XBox games to require you to log in with their own account. FD could just load our save.

I'm more worried about version differences in save formats. The PC will be patched faster than the XBox.

blugorilla · Mar 12, 2015

SiriusSeven said:
I don't think it's as complicated as you think. Dragon Age on XBox 360 required a (free) account that was distinct from XBox Live. I was crazy annoyed because you couldn't play if their server was down, even though it was an offline game. I think they did it to kill resale value....anyways, there is precedent for XBox games to require you to log in with their own account. FD could just load our save.

I'm more worried about version differences in save formats. The PC will be patched faster than the XBox.

granted patch differences will happen because xbox makes the company pay to update their games. but i was thinking of more of a one time link where what ou have is transferred to you console like "warframe" did for PS4. i don't mind if what happens after that point it becomes different or cant transfer back but i would like to continue wherever i left off at on the pc version on my xbox. or its just not worth a rebuy to have to start over.

SiriusSeven · Mar 12, 2015

blugorilla said:
granted patch differences will happen because xbox makes the company pay to update their games. but i was thinking of more of a one time link where what ou have is transferred to you console like "warframe" did for PS4. i don't mind if what happens after that point it becomes different or cant transfer back but i would like to continue wherever i left off at on the pc version on my xbox. or its just not worth a rebuy to have to start over.

That's interesting and would certainly solve many problems.

They did it with the last Beta, so why not?!

blugorilla · Mar 12, 2015

well as far as ive seen from FD they don't seem to be the most logical of company, so i doubt that this will happen and they will forego the ability to allow it. haven't really seen them do anything that the community has asked for so my hopes are very low

SiriusSeven · Mar 12, 2015

blugorilla said:
well as far as ive seen from FD they don't seem to be the most logical of company, so i doubt that this will happen and they will forego the ability to allow it. haven't really seen them do anything that the community has asked for so my hopes are very low

Well they responded to the community in a big way today! Today is perhaps the worst possible day to make that claim.

CaptainKremmen · Mar 12, 2015

blugorilla said:
well as far as ive seen from FD they don't seem to be the most logical of company, so i doubt that this will happen and they will forego the ability to allow it. haven't really seen them do anything that the community has asked for so my hopes are very low

You must be "seeing" a very different universe to me.

hawkenfox · Mar 12, 2015

Gasoline said:
So that's why there wont be more than two firegroups!

heh now I know too.

blugorilla said:
well as far as ive seen from FD they don't seem to be the most logical of company, so i doubt that this will happen and they will forego the ability to allow it. haven't really seen them do anything that the community has asked for so my hopes are very low

And to you ... up till now frontier has been pretty good with their user base suggestion and listens to them. You dont follow the forum

much do you? Good and logical ideas are still implemented, self centric ones aren't ... so there you go.

But with xbox in the dev line of sight ... things can change like crazy dumb down. Xbox players aren't serious

they are casual players ... will get a bunch of whiner comments and request ... hope frontier filter those noise

once it goes live. I mean look at the game controller how many button does that have?

Stealth Gamer92 · Mar 12, 2015

hawkenfox said:
But with xbox in the dev line of sight ... things can change like crazy dumb down. Xbox players aren't serious

they are casual players ... will get a bunch of whiner comments and request ... hope frontier filter those noise

once it goes live. I mean look at the game controller how many button does that have?

That(cassual whiners) won't be the crowd they get if they advertise with the real game and not the "TopGun in space" aproach they had in their GDC trailer. Also it has enogh buttons it can be used right now on PC without a K+M and work.

AnnuverScotinExile · Mar 12, 2015

blugorilla said:
well as far as ive seen from FD they don't seem to be the most logical of company, so i doubt that this will happen and they will forego the ability to allow it. haven't really seen them do anything that the community has asked for so my hopes are very low

As others have said, FD have done a lot of stuff load moaners and whingers have demanded, often to the detriment of the game.

Conn_obi · Mar 12, 2015

hawkenfox said:
heh now I know too.

And to you ... up till now frontier has been pretty good with their user base suggestion and listens to them. You dont follow the forum

much do you? Good and logical ideas are still implemented, self centric ones aren't ... so there you go.

But with xbox in the dev line of sight ... things can change like crazy dumb down. Xbox players aren't serious

they are casual players ... will get a bunch of whiner comments and request ... hope frontier filter those noise

once it goes live. I mean look at the game controller how many button does that have?

Sure some Xbox gamers are casual, but that's doesn't mean to say that every Xbox gamer will behave like a total idiot. There are plenty of mature, sensible gamers on xbox and ps4 who behave like sensible people.

Not everyone who games on a console is an annoying, 12 year old troll.

Also plenty of people are using the wired 360 controller to play on their pc's and they say it works great.