Dear Braben, Brookes, Frontier Development Staff and Forum Community,
I'm concerned. I'm worried. And for once. Not for myself, not since Chewbrookie latched himself onto me as owing me some kind of 'beer debt' that I can never repay.
But watching the community for a while (and being a wonderful part of it) I am worried about what I can see as an inevitable backlash to the release of Elite Dangerous here. And I think here is where the staff expect perhaps the most heartfelt support, me in fact see the forum waters turn red as we go in for the attack. In reaction to the DDF Archive, some of the releases etc I think that perhaps when the game is released A LOT of people here on the forums will be loud and vocal of their disapproval of how the game turned out.
I think it's a lot like The Phantom Menace, I don't think it's important what was in that movie, I think Lucas would have found it almost impossible to nail it perfectly and the backlash was inevitable. I feel with Elite and Frontier and First Encounters, the expectation is too high. I expect you guys being professionals are expecting a certain percentage of the community to not be happy with the final decisions, I just hope you're ready to accept a lot of criticism and be able to take on board that which is merited and ignore that which isn't.
I expect to like a lot of the game, not like some elements of it and accept the game for what it is. And I hope I'm wrong and everyone is relatively happy with the final product.
Good luck guys, remaking the fourth sequel to three classic games after all this time. The expectation is high and although I have no doubt you're up to the task, I hope everyone at the end of the day can take two steps back and remember. It's just a game. Well your livelihood, but for us, just a game.
Shaun Gibson (not writing as Jeff Ryan right now).
PS. For the record I think this is one of the best online communities I've ever been a part of.
I'm concerned. I'm worried. And for once. Not for myself, not since Chewbrookie latched himself onto me as owing me some kind of 'beer debt' that I can never repay.
But watching the community for a while (and being a wonderful part of it) I am worried about what I can see as an inevitable backlash to the release of Elite Dangerous here. And I think here is where the staff expect perhaps the most heartfelt support, me in fact see the forum waters turn red as we go in for the attack. In reaction to the DDF Archive, some of the releases etc I think that perhaps when the game is released A LOT of people here on the forums will be loud and vocal of their disapproval of how the game turned out.
I think it's a lot like The Phantom Menace, I don't think it's important what was in that movie, I think Lucas would have found it almost impossible to nail it perfectly and the backlash was inevitable. I feel with Elite and Frontier and First Encounters, the expectation is too high. I expect you guys being professionals are expecting a certain percentage of the community to not be happy with the final decisions, I just hope you're ready to accept a lot of criticism and be able to take on board that which is merited and ignore that which isn't.
I expect to like a lot of the game, not like some elements of it and accept the game for what it is. And I hope I'm wrong and everyone is relatively happy with the final product.
Good luck guys, remaking the fourth sequel to three classic games after all this time. The expectation is high and although I have no doubt you're up to the task, I hope everyone at the end of the day can take two steps back and remember. It's just a game. Well your livelihood, but for us, just a game.
Shaun Gibson (not writing as Jeff Ryan right now).
PS. For the record I think this is one of the best online communities I've ever been a part of.
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