Critics about ED development

If not, he's definitly buy one soon. That's the only reason for me to push the release of this empty shell before holidays.



Yes, it's more stable at release than many other games today, but polished and finished? Hhhmm.. no.
ED is only stable because there is no content to show many bugs. Nice try.

so like I have said before and I would love for someone to correct me with examples, it appears to me this game as as much content or more content already than many AAA games do, Destiny as an example. and I might add they did it for about 1/10 the cost.
 
All the things you complain about you could have discovered with a little bit of research before purchase.

You complain the game cost too much for a download, and yet you bought it.
No landing on planets? THey didn't say there would be, it is planned for later, as paid DLC. It stated this clearly.

Sorry - no sympathy from me. You complain it is "distgusting!!!" and "screwing the backers" and "not good!!!"
Buyer beware, do your research.
 
Because implementing planetary landings in 2014 is a much, much more difficult task than it was in 1994, simply because of the level of detail that is expected. If you land on an inhabited planet you're going to expect to see not just realistic terrain (which can be procedurally generated fairly easily) but also realistic towns, cities, roads and other man-made structures. Even if they figure out how to procedurally generate those as well, an enormous amount of content will still have to be designed by hand (building styles, textures etc.), and a huge amount of work will be necessary to make sure that the cities on each planet are consistent both internally and with what would be expected to be seen on that planet based on its allegiance, economy, government type etc.


Okey i think i understand it and i am with the same opinion with you. I give an another idea: You can land only on the dockingstation on a planet with a nice panorama viewing and you can walk only on a platform and in the orbital dockingstation! What you say about my idea?

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Sorry - no sympathy from me. You complain it is "distgusting!!!" and "screwing the backers" and "not good!!!"
Buyer beware, do your research.

Did i say it really? No come on i dont mean ist really bad. You did undertand it wrong or a little bit negativ. I am sorry about that,
i understand myself not why i wrote it... i dont mean disgusting i mean: not good, not srewing just mean: uncool.....
 
Because implementing planetary landings in 2014 is a much, much more difficult task than it was in 1994, simply because of the level of detail that is expected. If you land on an inhabited planet you're going to expect to see not just realistic terrain (which can be procedurally generated fairly easily) but also realistic towns, cities, roads and other man-made structures. Even if they figure out how to procedurally generate those as well, an enormous amount of content will still have to be designed by hand (building styles, textures etc.), and a huge amount of work will be necessary to make sure that the cities on each planet are consistent both internally and with what would be expected to be seen on that planet based on its allegiance, economy, government type etc.

Go and look again at what planetary landings looked like in Frontier and FFE. Not a lot of detail there is there? Would you really be satisfied if you saw something similar in ED?

Don't get me wrong, I want to see them too, but it's going to take a lot of time. Time is money, so we shouldn't be surprised that they want to charge us more for it...

But the another question is, how do you know its difficult? Why was it no difficult to generate 400 billion star systems with detailed grafiks and animations??
I think its not true what you say. It must not be plantes with high detailed infrastruktur and cities, no! Planets with fictive landmarks, lakes, oceans and little cities and docking stations thats all!
And thats standart! It was standart in Elite 2 in Elite 3 and should be standart in Elite 4 because thats philosophy!!
 
Did i say it really? No come on i dont mean ist really bad. You did undertand it wrong or a little bit negativ. I am sorry about that,
i understand myself not why i wrote it... i dont mean disgusting i mean: not good, not srewing just mean: uncool.....

I understand English isn't your first language (it isn't mine either) but coming in here and letting loose in a bit of a rage doesn't help you or anyone else. If you mean uncool, then say that.

I get that you're annoyed (can't say p!ss3d off) and even though I think it is for reasons you should have looked at before you bought it, don't "ragepost" :) If you write things like that, many people will just jump all over it. Take a deep breath, wait 5 mins, then write :)

See you in the black, Commander
 
But at last and not least, i like Elite 4 but we cant land on planets like earlier times and that drive me so hard!!! It makes me realy busy!! Its like punishment. Okey i shut down now my computer and i go out a little bit to breath fresh air from earth and walk on the planet see ya later. bye....
 
Dear Frontier company,

i had buyed ED for 50.- Euros, to expensive for an downloadversion and i am a little bit disappointed. The reasons are: ED is like 50% percent finished. Only orbital docking stations.
Landing on the planets not possible like earlier Elite times. Why not? No dockingstations on the planet? But, you want buyable DLC in the soon to be able to landing on
planets! Or to walk in station with extra buyable DLC an thats cheek! The choice of spaceships in ED are very very low! But you sell on your webshop with different
paintbrushes for the ships with 10 Pounds extra! And thats very disgusting!!! Its would better these different ship are available on the station in the game with credits! What i had earned in the game!!!
You get so much millions from the backers and you screwing the customers and thats not good!!

You weren't promised anything. They didn't tell you that something was in the game that wasn't. When you make assumptions, that's your problem.
 
Its okey and fine what you think about ED. i like Elite. I liked Elite 2, because that game had 100% freedom. But ED has only 50%? And why? FD want to addon free landing on planets with buyable DLCs?
FD selling ships with different brushes on the wbshops and why? I dont understand! 30 years ago you get it all on a 600 kilobyte disk and today? 50 gigabytes and we must paying DLCs for anything! Thats cheek.
Today we have the internet with big flatrates and all companys can screwing the costumers with money! thats not good.

An how much did you pay for Elite First encounters, probably around 50 quid, back in those days 50 pounds was worth a lot more than 50 pounds is today. An that why we are getting less in our games today, the price of games isn't keeping up with inflation, no where near.
 
Expansions like planetory landings will be a revenue stream for the game and cost extra . They had better be or the extra I paid during kickstarter and beta for all future expansions will be the lie you are talking about, that cost a lot more than 50 euros.
 
LaPalma, do not bother engaging the FD Defense Force, they will defend the state of this shell of a game until they exhaust you. Your complaints are felt by many many people disappointed with this game, the hard-sell flyers (Newsletter) they email is just one sales pitch after another with nothing much about the game. The whole thing from the start appears to have been shady and all about profit for FD.

They sold 1/3 of a game, and want to charge DLC for the rest; it must make Electronic Arts feel proud. They refuse to honor refunds, so they will continue to hear the outrage.

But you are playing the game right? Aren't you? And you are enjoying playing the game? Yes/No? If not, why are you posting here? You get some sort of twisted enjoyment from hanging around a forum for a game you don't like/don't play?

Can i have your credits?
 
I dont understand! 30 years ago you get it all on a 600 kilobyte disk and today? 50 gigabytes and we must paying DLCs for anything! Thats cheek.
Today we have the internet with big flatrates and all companys can screwing the costumers with money! thats not good.

50 gigabytes? You sure it was Elite dangerous you downloaded?
My game files are less than 4gb
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I paid my money and got what I paid for, the rest of the stuff was always to be added later and anyone who researched before purchase should have known this.
I have already spent more time in ED than any other game for over a year
 

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50 gigabytes? You sure it was Elite dangerous you downloaded?
My game files are less than 4gb
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I paid my money and got what I paid for, the rest of the stuff was always to be added later and anyone who researched before purchase should have known this.
I have already spent more time in ED than any other game for over a year

i know without a doubt ED is under 5gigs
 
Dear Frontier company,

i had buyed ED for 50.- Euros, to expensive for an downloadversion and i am a little bit disappointed. The reasons are: ED is like 50% percent finished. Only orbital docking stations.
Landing on the planets not possible like earlier Elite times. Why not? No dockingstations on the planet? But, you want buyable DLC in the soon to be able to landing on
planets! Or to walk in station with extra buyable DLC an thats cheek! The choice of spaceships in ED are very very low! But you sell on your webshop with different
paintbrushes for the ships with 10 Pounds extra! And thats very disgusting!!! Its would better these different ship are available on the station in the game with credits! What i had earned in the game!!!
You get so much millions from the backers and you screwing the customers and thats not good!!

-Expansions (not DLCs, EXPANSIONS) have always been part of the plan.
-This is a multiplayer game with no monthly fees. It's perfectly fair for them try to make some money to support further development. Just be thankful that the game is not pay-to-win...
-Videogames are pretty damn expensive to make.

The game needs to be improved and there are lots of valid complaints on this forum. This thread has none.

I liked Elite 2, because that game had 100% freedom. But ED has only 50%? And why? FD want to addon free landing on planets with buyable DLCs?
FD selling ships with different brushes on the wbshops and why? I dont understand! 30 years ago you get it all on a 600 kilobyte disk and today?

Because now that ships are not entirely made of one single polygon, videogames are more expensive and take longer time to make.
 
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This game is more finished/polished than any AAA game I've encountered with in the last 4 years.


There is a point at which astroturfing/zealotry becomes so disconnected from reality it's just asinine. You've reached that point. The game in its current form is just a foundation. It couldn't be farther from 'finished' - a fact that FD readily admit.
 
Dear Frontier company,

i had buyed ED for 50.- Euros, to expensive for an downloadversion and i am a little bit disappointed.

Not true.

When these following games was first released (similar buy to play online games):

Defiance - 60 USD
Guild Wars 2 - 50 USD
APB (original) - 50 USD
The Crew - 60 USD
ESO - 60 USD

And the list goes on.

So you are just being plain biased with your statement even from the getgo.
 
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thats business...

..Nö i did nöt wrote 50 gig i write 5.0 gigabyte!
Not sure what 'that's business...' is referring to in context of your quote of my comment?
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You did actually write 50, I direct quoted you and in fact your comment still reads 50.
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I made no other comments one way or the other on your opinions I merely questioned your figures
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I do, however, happen to disagree with you.
Elite is, in reality, a working game, it may be perceived to be currently 'feature' light but it is a finished product in that it is all playable and it's advertised launch features are present.
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If the game is not what you expected then I feel that is due to your expectations not the fault of the game itself.
Many of the features you say are missing were never promised for the release version and much of it has been clearly stated as future paid DLC
Lack of research on your part is not the fault of FD. If you feel that you have been mis-sold then you can take legal action as the EU and UK have strict laws on advertising, selling and trading. However without evidence of wrong doing 'electronic' data based media such as games, music and video is non refundable, as I understand it, except in the case of faulty goods.
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Anybody who feels ED is lacking is entitled to that view, I would have liked to see more depth within the existing features but that doesn't equal the game being incomplete generally it is just a personal view.
 
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