EuroGamer: The state of Elite Dangerous (according to its most prominent players)
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I don't mean to spell out the obvious, but it sounds like you're a wee bit sour that it wasn't you that was chosen to be interviewed for the article.
Yes, it takes a tabloid to start a fire, Today was Eurogamer , then tomorrow can be IGN. If they smell truth on this "acusations" the fire get's wide and this thing close to a "major" releasecan be very dangerous... maybe a fail can make devs open their eyes for the real necessities of the game?!
Well I read nothing new from my perspective other than the existence of CMDR Arcannon - I'd never heard of him before. Pretty much everyone who has experience of playing ED for more than 6 months knows of what it does well and what it does badly. Almost everyone knows of the increasingly urgent need for the core gameplay mechanics to finally be fleshed out once and for all. Next to that is the problem of how every new headline feature that gets added very rarely connects together with the rest of the game.
Most of that article was already pretty much distilled and collected here in this thread on this very forum:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/344577-It-feels-like-someone-is-doing-their-job-wrong
Most of that article was already pretty much distilled and collected here in this thread on this very forum:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/344577-It-feels-like-someone-is-doing-their-job-wrong
I was going to say!
When large and popular game sites run articles about "Trouble With FDEV, ED and its Community", the last thing dedicated players of this game should be doing is dismissing the article out of hand.
I don't give a rip if you like EuroGamer or not. Your opinion is easily in the minority worldwide so it really doesn't matter all that much. Eurogamer is read by millions of gamers every single day. A not so flattering article about Elite Dangerous on the eve of the PS4 launch is the last thing Frontier wants to see!
Maybe this will be that additional "kick" in the rear end so many of us have been waiting for?
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That's a bit more like it! Not far off my own impressions of the article and the game. There are niches of player communities with diverse loves and hates, but what's happening on the forum is a dismissal of criticism - and that's because those niches and groups, just like any game, live in their own little niches and forums and discord groups.
I think it's only right and fair to let those criticisms be aired and discussed on the official forum even if the playstyle and group is utterly alien to you. It's really not helpful and certainly not professional to show animosity and dismissal, particularly if you're doing it in an quasi-official capacity. That's the issue I have with how this thread started to unfold within 10 minutes, I don't think I'm being unfair in saying that, and I don't think it's desirable for the forum or the game.
So the PvP'ers were interviewed and are this month's hot topic. Maybe Eurogamer should talk to the canon guys next, or Isinona, or Kerrash. As long as people are being truthful and are playing the game I don't have a problem with it, and I love reading the crazy different persepctives and experiences people have with the game, and all the amazing experiences, loves, hates, criticism and disappointment that comes with it - if you're being honest.
They also never blamed TJ. That's a red flag right there
Ha! Yeah. It's so very ED-forumy.
LOL!
Yeah, what people are after is more cutscenes. Spot on, Eurogamer!
Yeah, what people are after is more cutscenes. Spot on, Eurogamer!
I'm not disagreeing with you when you want to improve that, I'm just pointing out that the flight model being the core gameplay is not just some silly opinion - its is quite literally the core of the gameplay.
Has anyone go a tl;dr version of the article?
Pretty much rubbish. He makes a few good points but he also take massive liberities with the "player base", basically sensationalising the piece and making out ED players are somehow different from other players - what an idiot.
Then he said this
Not everything he says is , he makes some good points but we don't need the hyperbole or the innacuracies
Additional: This is nonsense too
I sat at my computer and worked out how to launch in 5 minutes. What must the learning curve for Falcon 4 be then?
Here's 200 buttons now go ahead and switch the right ones in the right order and get the engine started.
Then he said this
Not everything he says is , he makes some good points but we don't need the hyperbole or the innacuracies
Additional: This is nonsense too
I sat at my computer and worked out how to launch in 5 minutes. What must the learning curve for Falcon 4 be then?
Here's 200 buttons now go ahead and switch the right ones in the right order and get the engine started.
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These are our moderators, with that level or reading comprehension. And constantly patronizing and ridiculing criticism. This is the people FD is trusting their community to.
Who the flip is Dr A? Never heard of him. Why didn't they interview someone who was actually well known like Obsidian Ant or Mobius, instead of whoever that writer is mates with?
"There are good things and bad things according to 3 random players"
That's because the article was written by a four year old. That's about the level of response it deserves.
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