Nope, as they can't solve the repeating textures issue
(yes I'm aware this is concept art).
Development Update 1 - June
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Nope, as they can't solve the repeating textures issue
(yes I'm aware this is concept art).
Oh dear............ you try and please everyone and years on we end up here... bit saddened but not surprised tbh...
And without additional funding in recent years from outside investors, they were/are spending more than they made ...
I don't fully believe that - a post like that can't have taken that long to draft and post. The timing of its release was for a reason, so yes, it was released as soon as it could be, but not because the post wasn't ready yet.Sure, but it got released as soon as it could be.
Because in the end we still love the game, it's literally a part of our lives for some of us. So yeah, they lied (I mean just look at the trailers), but when they say "sorry, it's going to take some time because we don't know how to do that yet" of course a part of me thinks I've been scammed (and this is coming from someone who bought the lifetime pass), but I also don't want the game to just end like that, and personally I don't want a refund.
Not sure if that makes sense, but anyways.
They probably followed the concept art TOO CLOSELY.View attachment 245709
Nope, as they can't solve the repeating textures issue
(yes I'm aware this is concept art).
I wanted to say, This is not just a great start, but I would also like to know even more about the challanges you guys face developing this game. What limitations are you facing and what solutions were implemented. To me ED was always a technical milestone, I wish I would know more about the under the hood stuff. Despite the game being the state it is in, it's still a technical marvel, so hats down on that. I hope you open up on that front as well, I am sure a lot of the fun would love to read about that.
So you are claiming that because SC has made so much from crowd funding and ship sales, it proves that there are 100s of millions to be made by developing a competitor game??
Why aren't you doing it so? All you need to do is run a kickstarter, have some round table investor talks (not easy I've been there) and prove to them you can make 100s of millions
Let me know how you get on
This is exactly why I pointed out in the following lines that the things already there need to be fixed first.
Yes to the first 2 and a "hope so!" to the last.
I'm not even sure there's another developer that would be prepared to copy that exploitative funding model, even leaving out if there's a market for it. Without a minority of people spending thousands rather than $40 it can't exist.So you are claiming that because SC has made so much from crowd funding and ship sales, it proves that there are 100s of millions to be made by developing a competitor game??
Why aren't you doing it so? All you need to do is run a kickstarter, have some round table investor talks (not easy I've been there) and prove to them you can make 100s of millions
Let me know how you get on
I don't know what I expected from this Dev Post, but just a few bullets points about the same stuff we've already been told wasn't it. I would like to have seen behind the curtain. Don't just say "We're having trouble finding the fix", tell us about some of the reasons it's hard to find, and open up about the design decisions that led to where we are, good and bad.
At least YOU can get some improved communication. What about the rest of us? We paid for the game and were told we would get our questions answered, but hey, c'est la vie right?
stormyuk
Volunteer Moderator
Believe me, we are players too, we share the same frustrations. It would have been great had they been able to release the post earlier but, it was released when it could be.
It was released when the CMs were told to release it. It could have been released yesterday, last week, last month. It contained no new information. This is decision by FDev management and tells us all exactly how little has changed and that they have no intention of following through on any of their promises.
Ian Phillips
Volunteer Moderator
improved communication = "It's not ready yet. No, we can't give an ETA"
As a console CMDR I totally agree that we’ve waited long enough for the update, but I also couldn’t agree more that the bugs should not be ignored
I think the promise of communication came from Frontier as part of some sort of damage control, after the release of Odyssey and the reaction. Since then it seem that the communication has been used to buy time. That does not change the fact that we paid a decent amount of money for something that wasn't finished. I don't recall being told, that playing VR in the same resolution as Horizons, I would get roughly 1/3 the Horizons fps. That is with Ultra in Horizons, and Low in Odyssey. I like the sunsets and the new planets, but this is not what was promised. And the list is endless. It simply cannot have come as a surprise to Frontier (management). That makes me upset, and I think other people feel something similar.
Hypothetical question:
If frontier said, we’re running another Kickstarter for ship interiors or weather effects etc insert your dreams here…. Would you fund it to allow them to get more developers onboard and accelerate development.
I know I would. I’d be interested if others would too. I didn’t track the original kick starter so not sure if these things were covered in stretch goals or not.