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- Thread starter David Braben
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Thanks fly safe
I guess I'll go play NMS. Their devs wouldn't do this.
Eat some of your eggs
Don't leave please, you're a valuable member of the community.
I'll take a guess.
They're a studio that loves their game and invests in it.
I feel for Elite's devs. They can only work with the hand they're dealt, and their dealer prefers playing it cheap.
Sad news, though not unexpected.
I wanted the offline solo game because once I had that they could never take it away (turn off servers), didn't happen.
Hoped for a Linux client as I've never been a Windows user, never going to happen.
Settled on the PS4 version and to be fair, I've had my moneys worth.
I might consider Steam/Proton as an option but does Elite have anti-cheat? If it does I'll not bother because I know they won't ever put effort to make it proton compatible if there ever were issues. I do not want to be left in the lurch again.
It doesn't help I've a fair chunk of arx in my ps4 account, guess some of that will never get spent now.
Time to start looking for something to take EDs place, oh well.
The worst thing for me is that I'm not sad, angry, or even frustrated any more, just resigned to this outcome and utterly not surprised.
I wanted the offline solo game because once I had that they could never take it away (turn off servers), didn't happen.
Hoped for a Linux client as I've never been a Windows user, never going to happen.
Settled on the PS4 version and to be fair, I've had my moneys worth.
I might consider Steam/Proton as an option but does Elite have anti-cheat? If it does I'll not bother because I know they won't ever put effort to make it proton compatible if there ever were issues. I do not want to be left in the lurch again.
It doesn't help I've a fair chunk of arx in my ps4 account, guess some of that will never get spent now.
Time to start looking for something to take EDs place, oh well.
The worst thing for me is that I'm not sad, angry, or even frustrated any more, just resigned to this outcome and utterly not surprised.
Not really, they were Micros, now the original IBM PC may have been a derivation of Micros, but an IBM compatible as people understand them would not be classed as one.
Hi Bruce..
Now that Frontier are no longer trying to squeeze the Odyssey foot inside the console shoe, will Frontier still be further optimising Odyssey on PC for lower end PC players as part of your ongoing odyssey refinement and finishing process over the coming year?
Odyssey still needs work in this regard, even without the Console incentive.
I see you doing this on lots of threads, winding people up with your sarcasm and passive aggressiveness. I hope it makes you feel better about yourself.
As a PC player, this really sucks, I can understand that optimizing Odyssey for consoles would be very difficult considering how bad the PC performance was at launch. Even with the optimization updates, I still had to upgrade my graphics card to get the game running mostly perfect, the way Horizons runs. Creating games, especially ones as complex as Elite, is hard work. That said, frontier you really need to step up your internal management. Posting this update a day or two after announcing the F1 manager project sends mixed messages when your talking about the longevity of Elite. Yeah, I get that there are multiple teams working on different games but... come on, give Elite the attention it deserves. You recreated a playable simulation of our galaxy, that is a tremendous achievement that cannot be understated. Which is why is so stressful seeing that potential taking baby steps forward and backward. I optimistically hope that having a single codebase will allow quicker development. We all want to see Elite shine.
Yep. If they wanted to do save transfers properly they already have the backend in place to do it, as all that data is stored server-side on Frontier's systems and we know for a fact that for a while at least, it was possible to use cross-save.
Mr Hat is the heart and soul of this forum and he's genuinely aggrieved at the lack of forum harmony in these trying times.
Shame on you for trying to read something malicious into his words.
All games die I guess, but the fact that Odyssey was actually announced on console makes this a really bitter pill to swallow. Feel like I've been mugged off and bitterly regret all the time invested and store purchases since then. I've logged 2,000 hours, have an FC, 48 fully engineered, fully tricked out with skins and cosmetics ships, participated in most cgs, helped noobs, given wealth away, been on player created explo trips and tagged a ton of cool planets deep in the black. To quote another CMDR, looks like my story ended. FDev pulled the ultimate permadeath gank. Wow. This sucks hard. Why do I even 'game' tbh. Jesus. It's the ton of store cash spent that stings the most, which I kinda justified to myself by thinking it was supporting the development and running of the game. Thanks. Literally only a full asset transfer to PC could make this even kind of ok, but that's never been a thing so far and highly likely never will be judging by the ice cold statement on that.
o7 to the players.
o7 to the players.
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Uh, they're considering all options...
Good news finnaly. Ive been waiting for this ever since I heard that elite dangerous will be relased on consoles. Please look how progress of development went down since ED was not PC only. Only downgrades, and overall slower development due of it.
About time. This game was supposed to be PC only from begin, now atleast there might be some progress on its development that they finnaly free of that consoles burden. It was very obvious from very moment, when frontier decided to "relase" elite on consoles as well, that it will means, slower progress overall, due of need having consoles crowd happy as well. Frontier was not ever big enough and never was and it never be, to be able to have such game on multi platforms.
About time. This game was supposed to be PC only from begin, now atleast there might be some progress on its development that they finnaly free of that consoles burden. It was very obvious from very moment, when frontier decided to "relase" elite on consoles as well, that it will means, slower progress overall, due of need having consoles crowd happy as well. Frontier was not ever big enough and never was and it never be, to be able to have such game on multi platforms.
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I wasn't the one making the point in the first place. I think you are confusing me with @kulebiakin
I wonder how spectacular fireworks we could have now, only if console owners could self destruct their Fleet Carriers...
07 console fellow space citizens, go gently towards the night.
07 console fellow space citizens, go gently towards the night.
Just say it you guys choose the wrong game engine for EDO and cant get it to run on the new PS5 or Xbox. If you would have used the Unreal 5 engine all this would have been avoided, but to license the Unreal engine costs money.
You truly deserver what ever fallout becomes of this. You lied to use about EDO, took our money and then anounced no VR support, I was a VR exclusive player. FD will never get a dollar of my money ever again.
You truly deserver what ever fallout becomes of this. You lied to use about EDO, took our money and then anounced no VR support, I was a VR exclusive player. FD will never get a dollar of my money ever again.