Elite Dangerous data : is the game dying or growing ?
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I'm absolutely with Fdev, and I absolutely approve the direction that Elite is taking. Congratulations Frontier.
You DO realize that Metacritic means nothing anymore right?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJANS0VTpbY
And I could go on and on and on... As soon as you brought the "weight" of Metacritic in your argument, you lost it.
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Yup, that's right, doomed.
E: D is doooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMED!
https://www.kickstarter.com/project...ous/comments?cursor=11156736#comment-11156735
...according to some ex-backers over in the Kickstarter Comments Section.
Yep, the megathread's still going: 127,036 comments in a single thread, and counting %^]
E: D is doooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMED!
https://www.kickstarter.com/project...ous/comments?cursor=11156736#comment-11156735
...according to some ex-backers over in the Kickstarter Comments Section.
Yep, the megathread's still going: 127,036 comments in a single thread, and counting %^]
And I am guessing those Ex-Backers are the ones who got refunds because the Offline Play was dropped, but were quite happy playing it in Alpha form with an Online Only connection..
This is why the Internet makes me so sad... -_-
*Looks at latest newsletter*
*Looks at this thread*
Nope... definetively looks alive to me
I must admit today newsletter is a really nice surprise
Yeah, even with the new stuff, Elite is kinda going to be defenestrated real soon. Despite all the replies contradicting me, Elite really is doomed.
I don't think it will die. I'm still playing games that have long since stopped development and I still enjoy them. So provided there are players to play the game, it won't die. Of course FD have to enable servers to continue after they have finished and walked away from the title, but I think that has already been discussed.
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If FD get Horizons up and running with some serious planetary landings and variation in game play, then that will be good and help this, 'grind fest' title, its gaining, become less of a target for reviewers or posters to aim at. I think many players and earlier backers are concerned that, what was said to happen and be included in the game during early development, is being done in a more monetary way (seasons). The onus then being that newer people have to keep buying into the game, for it to get those features included. But there again they have to keep the financial side buoyant to keep things ticking along.
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It won't die anytime soon. However, whether or not it becomes interesting anytime soon, is another question.
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If FD get Horizons up and running with some serious planetary landings and variation in game play, then that will be good and help this, 'grind fest' title, its gaining, become less of a target for reviewers or posters to aim at. I think many players and earlier backers are concerned that, what was said to happen and be included in the game during early development, is being done in a more monetary way (seasons). The onus then being that newer people have to keep buying into the game, for it to get those features included. But there again they have to keep the financial side buoyant to keep things ticking along.
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It won't die anytime soon. However, whether or not it becomes interesting anytime soon, is another question.
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if you call losing some of the chaff that want the game to change to eve online or the expectant gold miners that want player to player credits transfers then we can happily do without them you can shove all the solo players out aswell or at least lock them in solo so they cant infect the open game
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Wow playing an MMO with less players than private servers, exciting!
I almost feel sorry for you for never having a nice large social MMO experience.
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yes. it is very clearly a very doomed franchisestein. dead as a dodo. those twelveteen bobbleheads will only make enough cash for another day or 2.
and then the docking pad 42 at cambridge station will forever close *sigh*
well it was fun while it lasted (not really)
'E's not pinin'! 'E's passed on! This parrot is no more! He has ceased to be! 'E's expired and gone to meet 'is maker! 'E's a stiff! Bereft of life, 'e rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed 'im to the perch 'e'd be pushing up the daisies! 'Is metabolic processes are now 'istory! 'E's off the twig! 'E's kicked the bucket, 'e's shuffled off 'is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisibile!!
THIS IS AN EX-PARROT!!
Elite Dangerous though, is alive and kicking ass.
THIS IS AN EX-PARROT!!
Elite Dangerous though, is alive and kicking ass.
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Drawing some fairly large assumptions based on some pretty sparse data there. And ignoring a well known and documented trend that player numbers go down over the summer months, it's why there aren't many game releases. You'll also not that the player numbers dramatically peak and trough to coincide with steam sales and release over the last 5 months so developing a trend from that is going to be iffy at best.
Also this is not a typical MMO model because there is no subscription. People will more happily dip in and out of it, putting it down for a month or 2 when something else they want to play comes out, coming back to ED later. A monthly subscription encourages players to play monthly so they feel like they're getting their monies worth.
But possibly more importantly, FD is a pretty successful business, if it looked like it was going to crash and burn why would they continue to pour resources into further developing this "obviously doomed product"?
Also this is not a typical MMO model because there is no subscription. People will more happily dip in and out of it, putting it down for a month or 2 when something else they want to play comes out, coming back to ED later. A monthly subscription encourages players to play monthly so they feel like they're getting their monies worth.
But possibly more importantly, FD is a pretty successful business, if it looked like it was going to crash and burn why would they continue to pour resources into further developing this "obviously doomed product"?
'E's not pinin'! 'E's passed on! This parrot is no more! He has ceased to be! 'E's expired and gone to meet 'is maker! 'E's a stiff! Bereft of life, 'e rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed 'im to the perch 'e'd be pushing up the daisies! 'Is metabolic processes are now 'istory! 'E's off the twig! 'E's kicked the bucket, 'e's shuffled off 'is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisibile!!
THIS IS AN EX-PARROT!!
Elite Dangerous though, is alive and kicking ass.
Universal translator even failed me...
You need the Pythonesque module, class 2 or higher.
In all cases if ED was dying, we can say that with the newsletter, it is the resurrection
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