I'm sure when David Braben does an interview with a fund management company it's DEFINITELY aimed at the whinny angry ex-boyfriend demographic.
David Braben talking about FDev generally, and Elite Dangerous specifically (timestamp 6m05s)
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Stuff about the company, doing well apparently.
That fund management company should come here to the forums and interview us.
lol you wouldn't really wish that on anybody
Imagine being on foot staring down a full wing of Cutters/'condas/Corvettes. All max engineered
"Hi, welcome to amati global investors portfolio update with David Braben. David nice to talk to you"
"Hi Paul, first right off the bat I feel this is the most appropriate forum to start detailing everything about next years update for one of our games Elite Dangerous so I'm going to spend the next half an hour listing the Odyssey content in detail we've not yet done so elsewhere - but I really feel like this would be the most obvious time to discuss that, I hope you know about VR Paul because I'm going to be answering all of your questions on VR and it's place in the future of the game. I'm also going to spend a further 15 minutes at the end addressing players concerns regarding our fleet carrier.."
"Uh David, we're here to talk about Frontier Developments financials"
"Paul, all I have to say about that is Kerching! Kerching! Now let's talk space legs..."
Ha ha
Though, to be fair, Braben does have his own website and forums where he could at any time keep players up to date about how he feels about the state of the game or the future of the game and respond to the most frequent player concerns. But he has not.
So i think the original statement, that he doesn't care is apt. Nobody who cares would let the narrative that they held so important die like it has.
Really he's not who matters anymore. The project manager is the person who needs to care about what they're managing. Who's that and why haven't they played the game they manage?
So i think the original statement, that he doesn't care is apt. Nobody who cares would let the narrative that they held so important die like it has.
Really he's not who matters anymore. The project manager is the person who needs to care about what they're managing. Who's that and why haven't they played the game they manage?
Your last paragraph - there are people employed to do that job - negates the point in your first + second paragraphs.
When it was David Braben and a few other people, he would have been intimately involved in decisions. I can't imagine that's his role now, and the company employs people to do that. Equally, I suspect the top level decisions on direction will be approved by him, for Elite and other titles.
I thought it was interesting when he said "I ... we" at one point in the interview
I thought the best bit was when talking about people working from home and he mentioned providing support for people who might be struggling, like someone who has to do it in their bedroom because they are in a house-share. Forumites can whine and moan about F D wrt Elite or VR - personally I think that the attitude shown in the interview really shines.
Precisely this.
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Ok, a bit late to the party but that just proverbially made me snork my morning tea onto the screen. Cant read rest of the thread. Must wipe.
It's good to see so many Communists railing against the Capitalist pigs! Up the proles!
It's not been removed.
Only 1.9% of steam users have VR, catering to less than one in fifty of your potential customers is a bad idea. Once VR gear improves and has wider support straight out of the box it'll pick up, for now its an extremely niche thing.
Yes a reduction of the size and the price of the equipment is necessary also for the access to the largest number of people.
Yes a reduction of the size and the price of the equipment is necessary also for the access to the largest number of people.
It'll get there, just not yet. It'll also probably become much more user friendly you need plug and play for the mass appeal, and a price drop as you mentioned.