Elite Dangerous data : is the game dying or growing ?
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2.01, barebones 2.00 has a glitch which transmuted a parrot into carrot.
Right now, Elite is #1 seller on Steam
Steam still exists?
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Hello,
The metacritic score and steam rating is what kept me from buying the game when it first came out. I didn't even pledge for Kickstarter as I had already pledged to SC and I had read some not so nice reviews. I finally caved in, cause RSI was really starting to me off, and now I'm pretty addicted to ED.
ED is not a game for everyone, and FD should not make it so (here's looking at you, CQC.) FD should concentrate on their niche market and make an awesome game for them. Then good reviews would spread by "word of mouth" and the game would surely and steadily grow. Have a core bunch of players. Take EvE Online and CCP, and look at what they've done.
It's one of the reasons I find the Horizons announcement disappointing. 2 main new feature (planetary landing, crafting), and the rest like Multi-Crew, chained missions, updates to PP are just enhancement to the core mechanics. Enhancements which have been asked for since the game went live (or even before), I believe. https://www.elitedangerous.com/en/shipyard , read the description for the Asp. It is being marketed as a multi-crew ship in Season 1, yet the only time it gets to be a multi-crew ship is when you purchase season 2. I don't really think Horizons will help FD compete with RSI who have all these features out of the box, for half the price. In fact RSI could probably use Horizons as an example to promote SC.
ED biggest advantage right now, is that it's already a fully playable game, with a vast game universe, customizable ships (module swapping), a somewhat realistic representation of the Milkyway (as far as is known to science), and a bunch of passionate players (just look at the Commanders who have created Mobius, Lave Radio, Hutton Orbital, INARA, EDDN, Coriolis, ED Shipyard, ED Connector, etc.) Leverage on these strengths, use it as a foundation and build a great game.
Have fun, fly safe.
P.S.: I'm right now going to go use one of Elite Dangerous' biggest strengths and explore the galaxy, starting from Sol. To the Core!!!
The metacritic score and steam rating is what kept me from buying the game when it first came out. I didn't even pledge for Kickstarter as I had already pledged to SC and I had read some not so nice reviews. I finally caved in, cause RSI was really starting to me off, and now I'm pretty addicted to ED.
ED is not a game for everyone, and FD should not make it so (here's looking at you, CQC.) FD should concentrate on their niche market and make an awesome game for them. Then good reviews would spread by "word of mouth" and the game would surely and steadily grow. Have a core bunch of players. Take EvE Online and CCP, and look at what they've done.
It's one of the reasons I find the Horizons announcement disappointing. 2 main new feature (planetary landing, crafting), and the rest like Multi-Crew, chained missions, updates to PP are just enhancement to the core mechanics. Enhancements which have been asked for since the game went live (or even before), I believe. https://www.elitedangerous.com/en/shipyard , read the description for the Asp. It is being marketed as a multi-crew ship in Season 1, yet the only time it gets to be a multi-crew ship is when you purchase season 2. I don't really think Horizons will help FD compete with RSI who have all these features out of the box, for half the price. In fact RSI could probably use Horizons as an example to promote SC.
ED biggest advantage right now, is that it's already a fully playable game, with a vast game universe, customizable ships (module swapping), a somewhat realistic representation of the Milkyway (as far as is known to science), and a bunch of passionate players (just look at the Commanders who have created Mobius, Lave Radio, Hutton Orbital, INARA, EDDN, Coriolis, ED Shipyard, ED Connector, etc.) Leverage on these strengths, use it as a foundation and build a great game.
Have fun, fly safe.
P.S.: I'm right now going to go use one of Elite Dangerous' biggest strengths and explore the galaxy, starting from Sol. To the Core!!!
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RSI doesn't have anything else out so far than a rudimentary tech demo with pretty graphics. The shoddy Arena doesn't come at par with CQC even. Unless RSI starts delivering Someday Soon(TM), they'll be in trouble - VaporWare and all that jazz.
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Considering most games don't give tech demos, not too mention RSI not having released the game it's pointless to compare the two seeing as how Elite Dangerous is supposedly a complete game with Expansions to come. I have my problems with this game notably the lack of social features for me mostly, but bashing another game to hide the short comings of Elite doesn't exactly help.
When a game is released for 60 dollars then yes it's complete that's not too say expansions can't be added but the game is still missing some important things(for me that's the lack of a decent social feature)
Don't say that, I have so many Steam games! Is Steam doomed too?
Yeah, Steam is crucial, especially for us Linux gamers.
Also, I thought this was pretty cool of them...
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Heh
I had never heard of Metacritic before it was mentioned on this forum year or two ago. But yea, anyone who bases opinion on critics is a fool.
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I know what your saying and even the most die hard Elite fan would agree the game was released half baked, doesn't change the fact it still costs 60 dollars and still has some frustrating holes here and their, that don't seem to be addressed. Hence why you have players like myself being frustrated that the big announcement was an expansion that throws in more content rather then filling in said holes. But meh whatever pretty sure this counts as off topic so I'll stop.
Same. Also same with movies, music, etc. Critics are as much biased as anyone else - and pretty often it is so that I don't like of their choices, just like that they don't like mine.
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Tad bit off-topic, yea. We don't know however how the holes will be filled, as they don't carry so much media weight than expansions and talks about such. Fixes to things don't gather audience nor gather new faces, so to say.
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Ditto, can't do else than agree with that.
I don't know what you're all talking about. I get my dead-on-accurate world view from two places... Metacritic and Fox News.
Take this informative piece on Metacritic, for example:
0/10 This game is trash. The only thing that sucks worse than this garbage excuse for a game are all the virus infested ads about it popping up all over the internet and eating up all my CPU.
Those evil developers, deploying CPU-eating virus advertisements. Someone call Hannity!
Take this informative piece on Metacritic, for example:
0/10 This game is trash. The only thing that sucks worse than this garbage excuse for a game are all the virus infested ads about it popping up all over the internet and eating up all my CPU.
Those evil developers, deploying CPU-eating virus advertisements. Someone call Hannity!
I really hope SC is great, I've not backed it however as the extremely likable CR has form for over promising and under delivering. What worries me about SC is how much stuff they seem to keep adding prior to be able to releass anything.
I find it interetsing to see the contrasting styles of delivery, where FDev get the bare'ish bones up and running, and then start filling it out, whilst RSI keep adding stuff to a product that now has an end 2016 as its current release date.
Given the direction of travel achieved by FDev so far, and from what I've been playing for the last 12 months, I'm very happy with what I've spent on ED considering the number of game hours I've already enjoyed.
None of which stops me hoping for good things from SC, but I think NMS is a more viable alternative to ED. Personally I'll be owning all three.
As for 60$ games that are complete on release, well many are, but ED isn't one of them.
Yeah, I saw that "review" too. Thanks for the laugh.
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