I'm going to pick you up on this, I feel you are being disingenuous all the way through. You keep saying 6 months and I feel, that is wrong.
Carriers in any form have been tooted since Aug 2018? Whether they were squadron or personal, they are still carriers.
I'd like clarification. Are you claiming that the new iteration of carriers (personal) are in whole a complete new code base? Or (more likely) they are a branch or extension for what was already in play for the squadron based carriers?
Let's say you are claiming personal carriers are a new code base, then yes, that would mean they shelved the squadron code and started afresh, and like you say, they are only delayed 6 months, but also means, FD haven't the foggiest clue about what they are doing. No company unless they are completely bonkers, designs one thing, shelves it and then design and recodes a new thing almost the same.
Let's say you are claiming that personal carriers are an extension/rethink of the existing squadron carriers. Then that means FD are wholly late to the party and incompetent.
Well since 2017 actually but that was just Frontier mentioning a carrier concept, shall we say 2 years of broken promsies and lying then? Space Legs and Sitting in a Space Bar is going to be getting on for 8 years of lies! Or is that you being disingenuous, me putting things into historical context is not the definition of disingenuous. It is quite clear why Squadron Fleet Carriers were postponed in 2018. It didn't even make it past the scoping for pre-production development. Sounds like dev mockup only to me. Right? Whether that flegling code was re-used in 2019 is neither here nor there if it had not got very far, we didnt even have a feature list! The success of Beyond Q4 meant everyone accepted the reason for shelving Ice Planets and Squadron carriers from the Beyond season.
The success of Beyond Q4 shows that Frontier called the right card right? Right? So we have a real business justification for delay 1.
And just to go back to the 'oh! It's free' thing being tooted about... It's another bit of off-the-wall-falseness.
Pointing out something is free because it is a free addition is "off-the-wall-falseness" is it? Right. So the whole point of emphasising that is that a lot of the spam on here is moralising product launch dates and "promises". Product launches and feature sets are actually the perogative of the company, it becomes a moral (not always a legal one) issue only when customers have specifically handed over money, ie an actual investment. Only the lifetime pass owners have a real right for concern as 2018 had originally featured premium DLC that has been delayed indefinitely and now likely to be rolled after "New Era".
Horizons was also way overdue and after it,
Horizons was
way overdue was it? It took two years to finish the season but each of the advertised releases were all on time. Who is being disingenuous by trying to paint a picture that everything in Elite Dangerous with advertised release dates is delayed?
we were told beyond would be a period of bug fixing. QoL improvements blah blah.
Errr no, no one ever said that Beyond would be a period of bug fixing. Every single update contain some bug fixes, do you not read the release nots? There has never been a quarterly update dev time solely focussing on bugs fixing though. Again who is being disingenuous now with actual false statements? Beyond season was focussing on core gameplay mechanics and QoL improvements because it was felt there was wider feature creep of half-baked mechanics after Horizons. Are you saying there were no improved core gameplay mechanics and QoL improvements in Beyond?
The reason it was free was (opinionated) because of the previous delays by frontier, and the mounting bug list.
It was free (why is that an opinion?!) because there was a reassesement on how they were going to release premium DLC in future, people prefer to pay for upfront completed content, so this is when New Era was born. An entire years worth of updates for free, I guess somehow in your world that should not be lauded. No idea what these "previous delays" are you keep spouting with little detail, sounds like fake news sloganeering.
Let's also add in, that every single release these guys have made has been beset by server issues and bugs. It's only in the gaming world that a company like this would be allowed to exist. In a commercial world they'd have sunk years ago. They have bad disjointed design, they have bad roadmaps, they have little or no testing and zero quality control.
Lol yes computer games, tell me about them, but sure go back to playing your Word Processor if you feel more comfortable to perceived stability. I myself have never seen a single bug in production outside of computer games. Never.
And they consistently miss their own deadlines.
Yeah you keep saying that. But you havent listed anything. Is it a case of sling enough mud and it sticks? Ulterior motives?
And finally, again someone else mentioned it, they added the new vote for your favourite bug. Who does this? What commercial organisation makes their consumer base vote for their favourite bugs and then only those voted for get attention. In a commercial world that would be what's known as commercial suicide. But these guys are let away with it because they're a gaming company. Anyone buying their stocks needs their head examined.
Yep they are a gaming company. I guess in your alternate world of productivity software and operating systems with their captive markets and huge stock prices that can sometimes buy most of the planet, are completely bug free and never have bugs that hang around for years. Wet behind the ears are you?
) i'm not happy with the delay.
