Elite Dangerous is the ULTIMATE "Im taking a break from this for now" Game.

Ive been playing games all my life. And I can safley say that i have never put down a game and come back to it weeeks, even months later, as much as i have Elite Dangerous.
AND thats not a bad thing.

Dont get me wrong..its not a GREAT thing really either.. its not good OR bad..its...its Elite. Its a part of my life. This i know.


People often say here..."Im burnt out", "ive hit a wall", "what do i do now?" "Im bored.."

People also say

"I love elite- never stopped playing, its amazing, so much to do..."

Whos right?

Well...both..and...neither.


The thing is..Elite is and always will be that game that you play either forever..or..for a while...OR once and then never again.

My point?

Who the hell knows.

I certainly dont.

o7
 
Okay....

Lol

I play ED alot. Then I stop and do something else. Then I play ED again. Then I stop and do something else.

The fact I keep coming back to ED says alot. No game will ever keep me playing it, exclusively, forever. Most games I stop playing, I never go back too. Unless I forget why I stopped playing. Lol

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Haha ah ye op, I know exactly where yer coming from. I cant keep my head down in this game fer more than a couple months at a time before I need more. Im actually a lot more sociable than I sound and this game is my enigma game in that none my m8s play this and I just cant stay away...not forever anyway. And I play it as a lone wolf explorer so sociable just doesnt happen in this game fer me.

But I love and cant stay away, and oh boy Ive tried...Im not long back from a break to go play other stuff with actual people and guns and fun. Been playing hard all week 6 hours a night right through till the wee hours. Tonight Im fed up again and cant be bothered so Im gonna go watch game of thrones till the wee hours. And then tomorrow, Ill grind another couple klys out on my way to the core...

Isnt this fun?

Can I haz yer stuff btw?
 
I hung it up after trying out Power Play then came back a year later when Horizons came out then hung it up again until Commanders and Multi-Crew came out.
 
I come back to playing, then leave it again for a few weeks or months. But I always keep tabs on game news and developments. I guess I've seen and unlocked just about everything so I come back for opportunities to experience new things or for multiplayer experiences.
 
Yep got to agree. Its been off my hard drive once since alpha. I find I binge on it for a week or so then play something else for a month or so. Have to say though the gaps between me going and coming to it are getting longer.
 
This thread just made me think of the quote "Don't call it a comeback, I've been here for years!" - LL Cool J. I never really say I am going away or make a conscious decision to do so. I either am motivated to play or I am not. Sometimes I just want a simple twin stick shooter to play, other times I want to climb in the cockpit and travel the stars... I don't think too much into it lol :p
 
Maximum break time is 3-4 weeks a year when on vacation :) Even when I am totally upset and shout "I quit now" - one day later I´m back in the cockpit :)
 
Nothing better than an MMO that can still give you that wanted alone time WHENEVER you want it, and even those times that you don't want it. However, I'm in your camp as well. Flirting with 2000 hours into this game since almost its release date, and that number keeps rising. I may take a break from time to time, but after a time away, nothing has pulled me back into the fray more than Elite.
 
I've stopped playing for a month now, gonna wait for 2.4 to drop, but I'm still frequenting the forums and Reddit?!? it's in my blood. :)
 
I play it in stints, got the game a few months before Horizons came out played it right daily untill the following June, took a break came back in October 16, played it daily untill mid January of this year, think Ive logged in a few times but not really done anything. I do have two week off strarting today and was planing to get in game and go and look at some of the new stuff that dropped in 2.3 and after.

ED will always be a game I come back to loved the 84 and later versions killed my Amiga 500 playing Frontiers, the disk drive died on the 2nd, and by then I had my first PC a sturdy 286 SX25 If I rem right. Thats why I still lurk on the forums and read them daily this game is in my blood. Its a great game and with luck and a little faith in the Dev's it will keep on growing and become what they and us want it to be.
 
I don't play games for their graphics, and I tend to come back to all the games I loved. I even use DOS emulators for those shiny 80s games. Even a mac emulator for the first escape velocity game...
 
I hung it up after trying out Power Play then came back a year later when Horizons came out then hung it up again until Commanders and Multi-Crew came out.

Powerplay was the first big shot across my bow. I expected it to introduce lots of interesting combat scenarios which, off the back of Wings, could also allow some interesting PvE and PvP experiences. Instead, it was some bizarre board game basically rebadging as much existing gameplay as possible.

From then on I've grown ever more worried about the design choices, with The Engineers and Multi-Crew basically sinking the game for me I think.

In two years precious little depth has been added, while effort has been happily dedicated to questionable bolt on after questionable bolt on. IMHO The Engineers has actually damaged the game...


I don't expect 2.4 to change my current view of the game... So possibly my last hope is seeing how game changing the core improvements are that FD have now commited to, and also what 3.0 offers... ie: More simplistic bolt ons, or finally some solid gameplay mechanic/depth improvements.

So I have hope... But my Spider sense is telling me, given a clear track record, that's probably it now for me TBH!
 
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I'm approaching 5000hrs and on my 4th comeback.
When I burn out I read for a few weeks ,revitalise myself then reinvent my role-playing.
I'm currently a lone wolf freelance ,philanthropist billionaire .
 
This game is one of the few games I return to, and I call them my palette cleanser games. Since the focus of the game is so different than others on the market, I can use it to recharge before playing other genres. With how homogeneous the gaming industry is turning, it's nice to have something I can play flexes a different part of my brain. It's almost like a video game version of 'Meditation through motion'.

For the record, the only other game I treat in a similar way is Minecraft. Another game where you set your own goals, doesn't really have an end game and took years to become a behemoth in content.
 
I play it for a bit, till I get sick of the bad things in the game, then I'll stop playing again till I forget about the bad things, start playing again, get annoyed again, rinse and repeat.

Reminds me of some of my past relationships :)

I'm currently in a "not playing, annoyed" phase. Stupid rank grind, Stupid engineering grind, stupid Covert election missions, stupid getting blown up with no way to defend myself and loosing hours of progress.

Will probably come back for 2.4, till I get annoyed again.
If Thargoids are just rebadged CZs or require daft grind or are generally more annoying then fun it won't take long to move back to the "F this game. Why do I even bother" phase.
 
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