It is not too much for new consoles. it is too much for FDev to handle. they are in over their heads and about to drown. They just could not handle it and gave up. they quit because it was too hard to make it work properly.
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- Thread starter David Braben
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When I find a game I like I like to help support them by buying the premium currency every once in a while. sadly I made the mistake here. I am sitting on 99k ARX. My own fault and will be reassessing my policy from now on.
I have 15k of farmed ARX on the PS4 but if you think I'm laughing about it Cmdr, please think again..... o7.
Lol. Asobo, a studio of around 200 employees, ported MS Flight Sim 2020 to a $299 console with controller, keyboard, and mouse support and the Xbox Series S is weaker than the Xbox One X. We all know what the issue is here and it isn't consoles.
SPersonally, I wasn't interested in Odyssey in any case and gives me an excuse to buy another console. An Xbox for Starfield.
(PS4 Pro player)
(PS4 Pro player)
Looks like I chose a weird time to get back into Elite last month on PS4 a few years after my first experience with it. (I tend to play things intensely for short periods, and maybe come back later).
Missed all the Odyssey kerfuffle, but it was cool seeing all the new bits that had been teased last time I was playing, like blowing up asteroids, and fleet carriers. (Although there are rather a lot of them, aren't there?)
Trying out the big ships for the first time. Just got my first top 10 in a CG, and my first non-cash CG rewards... And if I win an election today a minor faction I'm supporting will take control of the system. This BGS thing is quite entertaining.
Probably not going to move to PC - far too many games I need to play on my console still, without adding an extra platform - but could we at least get major broken functionality working on console for its remaining life, whatever that is?
In particular this Codex log thing looks like it would be good - could certainly have done with that when exploring last time I was playing - having to rely on offline data drives me nuts - but it seems to have come and gone in my time off...
Does a major game function not working at all count as a critical bug? I guess not, or it would have been fixed by now. I understand it's been off for months, not weeks?
Missed all the Odyssey kerfuffle, but it was cool seeing all the new bits that had been teased last time I was playing, like blowing up asteroids, and fleet carriers. (Although there are rather a lot of them, aren't there?)
Trying out the big ships for the first time. Just got my first top 10 in a CG, and my first non-cash CG rewards... And if I win an election today a minor faction I'm supporting will take control of the system. This BGS thing is quite entertaining.
Probably not going to move to PC - far too many games I need to play on my console still, without adding an extra platform - but could we at least get major broken functionality working on console for its remaining life, whatever that is?
In particular this Codex log thing looks like it would be good - could certainly have done with that when exploring last time I was playing - having to rely on offline data drives me nuts - but it seems to have come and gone in my time off...
Does a major game function not working at all count as a critical bug? I guess not, or it would have been fixed by now. I understand it's been off for months, not weeks?
Well. Really disheartened now. I cant afford a PC, and I feel like my thousands of hours and hundreds of dollars worth of cosmetics were wasted.
With Horizons servers staying up, does that mean Gal-Net, Community Goals, and other non-Odyssey general game features will be cancelled too? Is the Colonia Bridge the last CG? Are the GalNet stories over?
With Horizons servers staying up, does that mean Gal-Net, Community Goals, and other non-Odyssey general game features will be cancelled too? Is the Colonia Bridge the last CG? Are the GalNet stories over?
Said the same thing last night to a fellow console player. I bought Elite as it was the closest thing to a flight simulator there was on console. Now we have MS Flight Simulator on console which has historically been a PC for graphics and performance reasons. They could get it to work if they really wanted but with 10 months of delays, the console player base has shrunk massively and moved on, making the whole project pointless.
Thanks for screwing us all. Leaving the game now. Because I’m sure you guys won’t help the console community to transfer our accounts to pc. Sad day for all of us. This is bad, really. It was good playing the game but I’ll let it go.
Yes it hasn't been working since September. CMs admitted the problem, there is a report but it doesn't seem to be a priority. I started a thread about it back in October or so.
But now it irrelevant anyway. Game is dead on consoles. Everything that is relevant like BGS, Story, CGs, so what makes ED a living universe is gone.
Can be still a nice offline, SP space trucker...
I bet the majority of people would have settled for a full account transfer from console to PC. They could have spent the year preparing that, but that wasn't even worthwhile to them.
No Odyssey for consoles, dose that mean we will be allowed to buy and drink alcohol at concourse bar now ?
Sadly one Sunday I waited and waited
With flowers in my arms for the dream I'd created
I waited 'til dreams, like my heart, were all broken
The flowers were all dead and the words were unspoken
The grief that I knew was beyond all consoling
The beat of my heart was a bell that was tolling
Saddest of Sundays
With flowers in my arms for the dream I'd created
I waited 'til dreams, like my heart, were all broken
The flowers were all dead and the words were unspoken
The grief that I knew was beyond all consoling
The beat of my heart was a bell that was tolling
Saddest of Sundays
And I doubt a transfer will happen now either.
Hi Mr. Braben,
I know what it means to make this kind of decision about a "product" close to the heart, I mean as "product owner and head of concept design" but also an entrepreneur, sometimes the heart has to be turned off ", we say. I hope your decision can be implemented in order to improve on the one hand "your idea of long life, that we love" and on the other hand help move console players (and squadrons!) to PC with less effort / cost on both sides ... but to the greater satisfaction of your special supporters, the customers ... the elite dangerous players ... everywhere in the galaxy ...
Good luck..
I know what it means to make this kind of decision about a "product" close to the heart, I mean as "product owner and head of concept design" but also an entrepreneur, sometimes the heart has to be turned off ", we say. I hope your decision can be implemented in order to improve on the one hand "your idea of long life, that we love" and on the other hand help move console players (and squadrons!) to PC with less effort / cost on both sides ... but to the greater satisfaction of your special supporters, the customers ... the elite dangerous players ... everywhere in the galaxy ...
Good luck..
So what this means for all the PC players (as stated I have an older PC version/account and a PS4 version/account) is that any potential new player base for the game has shrunk significantly as consoles are a huge share of the gaming market.
So what happens when the PC version is no longer a financially viable run (which could possibly be tomorrow the way things are going)?
Servers can always be used for more profitable games that FD is running.
What happens? Shrink the galaxy? And when the last server dies.................... goodbye.
Just make it simple if you are a console player
Tell fdev with your wallet just don't buy any games from them and every person you know of tell them the same.
If it's the grave for console why not for everyone else.
System maps will soon only be decommissioned fleet carrier and the small amount of fc left is just the small elitist commanders out there.
Tell fdev with your wallet just don't buy any games from them and every person you know of tell them the same.
If it's the grave for console why not for everyone else.
System maps will soon only be decommissioned fleet carrier and the small amount of fc left is just the small elitist commanders out there.