What on earth is happening to this game, I'm now the last person I know still playing the game. Bored in solo, sick of PVP in open, to much broken stuff, nothing that interests me in the future. All things I have heard from friends in the last 6 months or so. Can 2.1 and the surprise at the end of the season be enough to keep me going through to season 3 is what i'm asking myself. I'm having some time off ED at the moment after the delay of 2.1 and playing other games. Keep popping back on the forum to see whats happening and get streams of posts from people basically clearing off because they have had enough. How many people are like me and giving season 2 the ED do or die option ?
Can the last person out please turn off the lights
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Quite a few if these forums are to be believed. And, much as it pains me to admit it, I might be one of them if I didn't already have my two LEPs.
Don't get me wrong, I still consider $60 to be a fair price for what is supposed to be a year of content and I would have paid for Horizons in December if I hadn't already had the LEP. But having subsequently witnessed that content being released piecemeal, broken, unpatched, now delayed and with less and less in the way of meaningful feedback as time goes on, I would definitely be questioning why I didn't wait.
How the remainder of Season 2 plays out, and how that affects Season 3 sales, may prove to be the making or breaking of ED.
Don't get me wrong, I still consider $60 to be a fair price for what is supposed to be a year of content and I would have paid for Horizons in December if I hadn't already had the LEP. But having subsequently witnessed that content being released piecemeal, broken, unpatched, now delayed and with less and less in the way of meaningful feedback as time goes on, I would definitely be questioning why I didn't wait.
How the remainder of Season 2 plays out, and how that affects Season 3 sales, may prove to be the making or breaking of ED.
It sure is, well minimally a hastle to have to fly 400+ Lyrs to Sothis to obtain mission payoffs that are worthy not only of my rank but the investments ive put into my A rated ships...
Will 2.1 be the bringer of the dawn or just more petty mission restrictions. Ranks will no longer restrict apparently which sounds great, but in exchange for what other harsh restrictive elements?
We still cant buy materials from CMDRs that do like dune bugging about so if we want jump range boosting...you have to dune buggy...thanks but no thanks.
Maybe this secret at the end of the year will be that you can arrive at your ships or call them to you as you can call your ship when on a planet..how sweet would that be. I would practice heart math cardiac coherance from now till then rather than hold your breath on that one.
We are getting bookmarks finally so...ya never know...and just maybe we will have the ability to actually get paid at the station we intended on arriving to after those stupid eagles decide to interdict a deadly ranked CMDR in a FAS rather than have to fly into that station to collect the reward that, that station's controlling faction should be more than happy to wire to me. Again...pranayama breathing is advised opposed to holding your breath...but ya never know.
Its not about price...we have in ED even as it is now, something many times worth more than we paid..imo anyways. Its about dropping a very very heavy Gold ball that they have....this ball is already muddy. maybe they can clean it off and get it to really shine?
I think FDs palms are sweating a little, for when our valued ED mentor Kornelius is youtubed in saying how long it takes FD to offer what should have been there in the beginning, they know 2.1 has to be a grand slam home run...and this secret best be a humdinger too.
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Pre patch drop offs are fairly common though this is a hard one. Pvp meta is awful, space simulation pve is a little too realistic in its emptiness and lots of people have, via smuggling, earned enough money to do anything only past a point there isn't anything else to do, plus if you get bored of one thing, the other things aren't as interesting as they were. True fact.
Hmm, slightly less "Dooooom!!" in this doom thread than I expected so a serious answer I suppose 
I'm in it with the LEP. Don't think the forums/reddit etc is as bad as people think (squeeky wheel etc). I mean look at some of the in-game events (Distant worlds has probably around 2000CMDR's on the trip, community goals are still upwards of 3000 contributors, powerplay is still exceeding the thresholds every week etc etc etc)
My time in-game has dropped drastically due to getting a job but new titles like Fallout4, XCom2 etc are taking some of my time. Overall I have my value for money even if I stopped playing right now (12p/h of fun and games) but Intend to keep going and get VR at some point. Will keep playing probably for the next 5-10 years assuming development continues, playtime may drop but I'll always be here
We have to face facts that no games are eternal but Elite will rely on continuing to attract new audiences, current prospects are good, we've been told at every turn that sales/interest has exceeded expectation and that the development team is growing all the time. The point where the team shrinks and they are mass-producing decals, paintjobs, bobbleheads and other extras is the time we have to start worrying.
I think the current outlook is best described as cautiously optimistic, PS4 release possibly at some point maybe, they could release a load of spin-offs once it's further developed like a 0 gravity FPS mode, possibly a story-mode or even a Telltale games style spinoff.
My personal feelings are they have to start nailing the connection issues, people want the Massive part of Massive Multiplayer Online. People want 100 CMDR's in an Instance or 30 people racing SRV's. If this means getting dedicated servers where private groups can pay a monthly fee to play in more stable and controlled instances (no forced subscription, totally optional) this is one option.
Imagine if the 20,000 strong Mobius group crowdfunded ~£3000 per month (No idea of the cost, this is a random number plucked out of thin air) to get on dedicated servers ensuring proper tracking, less lag, more players in one instance. Starports that are literally thriving with activity, space shipping lanes that look like they do on Futurama. etc etc etc
I'm in it with the LEP. Don't think the forums/reddit etc is as bad as people think (squeeky wheel etc). I mean look at some of the in-game events (Distant worlds has probably around 2000CMDR's on the trip, community goals are still upwards of 3000 contributors, powerplay is still exceeding the thresholds every week etc etc etc)
My time in-game has dropped drastically due to getting a job but new titles like Fallout4, XCom2 etc are taking some of my time. Overall I have my value for money even if I stopped playing right now (12p/h of fun and games
) but Intend to keep going and get VR at some point. Will keep playing probably for the next 5-10 years assuming development continues, playtime may drop but I'll always be here We have to face facts that no games are eternal but Elite will rely on continuing to attract new audiences, current prospects are good, we've been told at every turn that sales/interest has exceeded expectation and that the development team is growing all the time. The point where the team shrinks and they are mass-producing decals, paintjobs, bobbleheads and other extras is the time we have to start worrying.
I think the current outlook is best described as cautiously optimistic, PS4 release possibly at some point maybe, they could release a load of spin-offs once it's further developed like a 0 gravity FPS mode, possibly a story-mode or even a Telltale games style spinoff.
My personal feelings are they have to start nailing the connection issues, people want the Massive part of Massive Multiplayer Online. People want 100 CMDR's in an Instance or 30 people racing SRV's. If this means getting dedicated servers where private groups can pay a monthly fee to play in more stable and controlled instances (no forced subscription, totally optional) this is one option.
Imagine if the 20,000 strong Mobius group crowdfunded ~£3000 per month (No idea of the cost, this is a random number plucked out of thin air) to get on dedicated servers ensuring proper tracking, less lag, more players in one instance. Starports that are literally thriving with activity, space shipping lanes that look like they do on Futurama. etc etc etc
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Yes because I can't possibly play both... /sarcasm
The whole NMS/Elite/SC debate is pointless as is the xbox/pc/ps debate. People will mingle, people will pick favourites, people will become disenfranchised with each. Currently Frontier can only do the best they can with Elite and see what happens. At current the games are all very different despite being in the same genre in the same way Borderlands is very different to Call of duty despite them both being FPS games (an apt graphical comparison if I say so myself). I wish people would stop these silly arguement/comments as they really provide 0 benefit to anyone.
Edit: Sorry if that came out as a rant but its starting to feel like a broken record.
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That's the problem I don't want to stay away, I've put in nearly 4 weeks of my life out of the last 18 months. My son was speechless when he saw how much time I had put in and he plays Fifa/Cod for hours a week. I'm not bothered about the cost of the game or value for money, what i'm bothered about is investing that amount of time for something that I felt would grow to be something nothing could touch but is now starting to feel like it's going down the pan.
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Yeaaaah believe it or not, this really isn't about you. Shocking I know right?
It's about new players that put NMS and ED side by side and choose where to put their cash, and new players are what keeps 100% of all games afloat. Right now, I'd pick NMS over ED in a side by side comparison and unless FD gets serious about fixing some stuff, I think the majority of new players will too.
Frontier Developments are recruiting developers, they have adverts on the most purchased sandwich bags of the Cambridge Science Park (where I work, hello Thoroughbreads) and that has to be a positive sign.
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Why this fascination about people "leaving" ED? There are so many games out there worth playing. It is not necessary to play only one of them (ED)!
I played ED for hundreds of hours. Then I stopped. Currently, I love to play XCOM 2. Lately, I gave Civilization 5 another go and still loved it. And today, I bougth Galactic Civilizations 2 (Edit: actually 3, not 2) and I plan to sink hours and hours into it.
And you know what? When it is the time, I will plug in my HOTAS and my pedals again (which I bougth solely for ED and for which I spent way more than for the game itself). I will mount my brand new VR headset. And after I did reset my current commander, I will again enjoy this awesome space game with a whole new experience.
Will I again stop playing at some point in the future? Well, I guess. Probably!
And then I will play some other games (maybe even NMS) and after a while, I will plug in my HOTAS and my pedals and... you got my point.
Just stop spreading FUD, guys. Enjoy your gaming-life (or just your life in general).
I played ED for hundreds of hours. Then I stopped. Currently, I love to play XCOM 2. Lately, I gave Civilization 5 another go and still loved it. And today, I bougth Galactic Civilizations 2 (Edit: actually 3, not 2) and I plan to sink hours and hours into it.
And you know what? When it is the time, I will plug in my HOTAS and my pedals again (which I bougth solely for ED and for which I spent way more than for the game itself). I will mount my brand new VR headset. And after I did reset my current commander, I will again enjoy this awesome space game with a whole new experience.
Will I again stop playing at some point in the future? Well, I guess. Probably!
And then I will play some other games (maybe even NMS) and after a while, I will plug in my HOTAS and my pedals and... you got my point.
Just stop spreading FUD, guys. Enjoy your gaming-life (or just your life in general).
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You only have to take a look at the system traffic boards to see a lot of people are still playing the game. I am often surprised when I do cargo runs to some random backwater system and check the traffic board, then you check the bigger hubs and see thousands of ships passing through over 24 hours (I am aware that the same cmdr can be counted multiple time)
For sure FD need to be on the ball and add more content for people that want a classic gaming experience, still I find these doom threads quite amusing. We are entering the age of VR, On the most basic level ED is fortunate that it has quite a unique platform along with space engine - People will purchase these sims purely to experience an accurate recreation of our galaxy in a virtual reality.
SC,NMS,ED are all unique, don't understand why it has to be either or, I'll have all 3 on my hard drive, the more entertainment options the better.
Worse case ED doesn't make enough cash to continue development - no disrespect to the hard work the devs put in, but if ED pulled the plug in the future, this game would be the greatest space sim platform that modders have ever got their hands on, the scope for modding is massive, an entire recreation of the milky way ready to be retextured, an infinite amount of community content to be added.
So either way I don't see a problem, either FD deliver what they promise over the next few years, or they fold and the modding community takes over.
For sure FD need to be on the ball and add more content for people that want a classic gaming experience, still I find these doom threads quite amusing. We are entering the age of VR, On the most basic level ED is fortunate that it has quite a unique platform along with space engine - People will purchase these sims purely to experience an accurate recreation of our galaxy in a virtual reality.
SC,NMS,ED are all unique, don't understand why it has to be either or, I'll have all 3 on my hard drive, the more entertainment options the better.
Worse case ED doesn't make enough cash to continue development - no disrespect to the hard work the devs put in, but if ED pulled the plug in the future, this game would be the greatest space sim platform that modders have ever got their hands on, the scope for modding is massive, an entire recreation of the milky way ready to be retextured, an infinite amount of community content to be added.
So either way I don't see a problem, either FD deliver what they promise over the next few years, or they fold and the modding community takes over.
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Jenner
I wish I was English like my hero Tj.
Mod hat off.
The real question is: Do you value the time you've put into the game? Was it a good experience? Did it mean something to you, if only as a pleasant diversion? If so, then it was (and is) all worth it! At that point it doesn't matter if ED disappeared tomorrow - you've enjoyed your time with it so long as it lasted.
"This too, shall pass" as the saying goes. Nothing lasts forever.That said, the rumors of ED's imminent demise are greatly exaggerated.
There are lots of things still coming this year!OK, so that's 0.3% of the 1.4. million players accounted for. Have the rest been eaten by Thargoids?
Nahh.. They're too busy playing the game to post quit threads
According to Steam stats 3,500 CMDR's are playing right now with a peak of 4,251 today. On the biggest online gaming platform in the world. http://store.steampowered.com/stats/