Elite: Dangerous Trailer now with added honesty

I think this "new" trailer is perfect. It points out that the gamedevs have actually lied alot during the marketing. The release show was complete lies from start to finish. "You can fly together" This is complete and utter lie. There is no system to fly together in the game. The games way to handle players in different instanses makes it completely impossible in open play. It's only someways possible in private group and even there you cant actually fly together. Forexample if you do find your buddy and follow him and he gets dropped from Super cruise there is no way to get to help your friend. You cant share the bountyes with anyone, you cant trade items in space, you cant dock you cant even jump together. You cant fly together. Period. Yet they still keep selling the game with images of everyone flying together, jumping together and they even kept saying that on releaseshow.
First thing they should do in this game (actually already should have done) is to implement someway to make clans and for those clans to fly in the same instance all the time no matter what. At the sametime they should implement a possibility for that clan members to share the income they get and the ships they have. Then we can talk about this game being something like they have promised. Until then everything they say is just another lie.
 
Got a good chuckle out of that trailer, Pretty much sums up driving the bus around doing deliveries. But I have had a blast in combat, Open gameplay looking for players is a ton of fun hunting them down, some can fly rather well and makes combat a blast, The AI not so much LOL.
 
ohh so if they did why did they not notice that all products especially gaming have these types of artistic license?

How about the SC2 trailer...Did people expect FPS battles and amazing graphics after seeing that?...or even worse the WOW trailers?

This form of advertising is used for all products from cars to toys to gaming and ED is no different.

Seems to me more like taking any opportunity to bash ED with no reason what so ever, either its that they hate the music or are being "lied" to.

Needs to stop this close to release, if i were a mod i'd have deleted this thread a while ago.

See, this is nonsense.

I have explained the motive for the video time and time again at this point, so why dont you want to listen?

The music was good for starters, and we dont feel we are being "lied" to... We did think it was a little silly that the trailer denoted absolutely nothing of any of our experiences in game.

Our group, which consists of around 8 core people, play a wide variety of games to have a laugh. We are of the age range 21-30 odd, I believe.

We understand how marketing works, and on top of that, have no desire to bash ED, as its a game we all enjoy and intend on playing actively.

I honestly dont see what your problem is here. This wont be harmful to the game in the long run, its just a light hearted joke.


Its a great trailer and there is nothing to take the **** out of here, some people seem to have a lack of understanding that these forms of artistic/cinematic videos are common to all modern day products.

It was well put together and gave me a great feeling while watching it, only people i'm embarrassed for here are those that don't seem to understand how marketing works...

Mods just shut this thread already, you really want this garbage on page 1 of the forums for release?

It seems you dont understand how fun works.

There is always something to take the mickey out of.

Nobody said we dont understand and appreciate how actual marketing works... fair play to them on the trailer, but there's nothing wrong with parodying it.

Why would a mod shut this thread? I'm pretty sure that there are people on the dev team that would at least see the humour in this.
Shutting it down would pretty much fuel the fire for people who genuinely did dislike the trailer, and probably make things worse. Do you want that? Because I dont.
 
I don't think it's fair play to grossly misrepresent the content of a game, but then I do not have any fan ties to any one product to cloud my judgment. I invested money in this during early beta like most people here and when I first saw the trailer my initial response was 'What game is this?' because it bore little resemblance to the game I actually have.
 
Thanks for that! That was fun!
At the end of Frontier's video, it should have zoomed out from a monitor in the cockpit of one of the big ships, like someone was watching TV while on a cargo run. :D
 
That video was genuinely funny, thanks. Also, subscribed to that channel.

I don't get why it got so many angry comments saying that he was misrepresenting the game. Official trailer misrepresented the game to a far greater degree but I doubt that any of them are angry at FD for it.
 
I couldn't stop laughing, quite a clever edit.

I think the issue isn't that they added a little flair to the game videos in post production but rather that nothing in the trailer represents actual game play video. There are have been several valid points made about somethings like group play that are inferred but are not even close to the actual reality of what we've been provided.

If someone from the ED Dev team is reading this I'd love to know how to make my Cobra yaw as fast as they do in the video.... :)
 
Jags video didn't claim that it was anything other than a trailer. It did compare trailer to reality, though.

Not really - it lost all semblance to a comparison as soon as he started jumping to another system. It then went on to not compare in any reasonable manner and just showed a nice long SC journey - when for all we could tell the actual trailer may have been depicting a 10Ls journey from an asteroid field to a nearby station... obviously in an exaggerated non game play footage kind of way!
So yeah at best it's a mickey take; showing the most boring extremes to offset the over the top nature of the original - raised a smile in a couple of places, but hardly worthy of critical acclaim.


Hop on reddit and share the love to the actual author, chaps! Post to reddit up top.

This bit made me laugh more than the vid :p
Share the love and bump us on our social media format of choice..
This is why I can't be doing with reddit and twotter; too much, love me, love me, for my liking.

Don't think this is being shared here for our benefit - but more for the benefit of you and your group of friends...
 
I giggled.. +1

But hes in a slow ass hauler, and fighting with multiple enemies is almost like the trailer, when im fighting.. high andrenaline :)

And game trailers.. nevah resembles gameplay, and too bad its his experience.
 
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