We don't know if that ever happened.
Failure Developments at it again
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Bottom line is, FDev don't seem to engage in any lessons learned procedure which is difficult to understand. I wouldn't get away in my work consistently producing stuff that's wrong or doesn't work. I'd at least get a stern talking to from my boss/client to ensure this doesn't keep happening.
And with Elite updates, it feels to me that the trend is pointing downhill with regards to 'getting it right first time'. Which surely isn't the best way to run a business.
Edit - and one more thing. The one feature as an online business you want to get 100% right first time is store related changes/updates. I never really had any issues trusting Frontier with my personal and particuarly credit card details, but seeing how much of a shambles the whole thing is right now, that's taken a bit of a hit now.
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Let's be fair, the majority of people complaining simply do not understand the complexities involved in developing, upgrading and managing "Elite Dangerous" and all of it's supporting components.
Collective moaning is one of the prime functions of a forum, of course, though. So carry on...
As costumers, is it required of us to be understanding?
We payed for a product, that at this point are more then a year old.
This is no beta, it's a minor patch.
indeed. and there other game developers that take their work seriously and can get your money.
There was Beta testing once, it was 5£ in FD store to access Beta.
Ppl were complaining so they removed Beta testing before releasing the update!
But hey that Blue STORE button in station menu could be preparation for bringing back BETA testing
Kudos to the forum, it's fun to see whiteknights in full action....much more fun than actual game is!
Ppl were complaining so they removed Beta testing before releasing the update!
But hey that Blue STORE button in station menu could be preparation for bringing back BETA testing
Kudos to the forum, it's fun to see whiteknights in full action....much more fun than actual game is!
Yep, nothing like a good old fashioned bollicking to sort out a wayward employee! Betcha someone/several someones are gonna get a rocket after the dust settles!
Either way it is at least concerning from a customer's perspective.
At least they stopped releasing those broken patches right before leaving into weekend.
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Well, that case you could be thankful...I guess.
True, but if people don't complain how does FDEV know that there are problems?
Thanks to this kind of forum threads (with more than 30 likes for the OP) that things come up and get the proper attention from the devs.
I'm just furious. It is necessary to be so disabled to release a patch that breaks half a mechanic. Breaking so it is impossible to play. Did you want the money - have you entered what players least need? I’m silent about the time when players have been fed promises for many years. I am silent about the content. Spit on their requests for minor improvements, at least on the interface - for example, to adjust the colors of the cockpit. Poor brain invalids.
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I'm not quitting but suddenly my motivation to begin working on my tank in ESO has increased by a factor of infinity.
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I'm not an employee, so if I screw things up at work my client is well within their rights to let me go if they feel like I'm not up to the task. It's ok to make mistakes, but not more than once ideally. I'm not saying that staff should get treated badly, but you need to review what went wrong, and address it accordingly.
Wow, so you have NEVER f@#$ed up at work! Please enlighten the rest of us: how do we imperfect mortals become perfect like you?
Oh, FYI: it's "paid", not "payed"!
I agree, in my company we always make some brainstorming at the end of big projects to review what was good and what was bad to enrich our "Lessons Learned" experience. I don't think FDEV got anything like that. How come they even broke things that were not supposed to be part of this update...
no, never. i've read about some notorious cases but those were usually blockbuster type games i'm not interested in.
i've been playing games for over 40 years. i've hundreds of games. about a dozen of them get updates every week, small and large. nothing like this, ever. frontier's incompetence is truly noteworthy but please go on telling me that "making games is sooooo difficult" and "elite is soooooo complex", these attempts at whitewashing are truly pathetic but still hilarious.
I was good all the way up to VPN’s, then you lost me. That’s not Frontier’s problem, and they don’t do anything for you, except create the illusion that your connection is better because they lie to you and show you the connection to your host. But if you still have a crap connection to the VPN host, you still have a crap connection.
I played last night running passenger missions and doing some RES combat and didn't run into any issues BUT I didn't try anything you mentioned, and really appreciate you sharing these bugs with them!
Hopefully they will be fixed quickly.
Alright, so I've played plenty of games right around big patch drops. Stellaris, Civilization, Final Fantasy XIV, Minecraft, Titanfall 2, and so on. None of them are as bad as this. This is absolutely unacceptable quality control from FDev. My day job is a quality control engineer, if one of our suppliers gave us something this broken we would literally sue them.
My gold standard for "Excellent online game patch deployment" is the MMO Final Fantasy XIV's update this summer, Shadowbringers. There were no noticeable bugs, exploits, or issues. The deployment's only hiccups were the long wait times and a couple DDOS attacks. This is not "normal" this is straight up incompetence.
My gold standard for "Excellent online game patch deployment" is the MMO Final Fantasy XIV's update this summer, Shadowbringers. There were no noticeable bugs, exploits, or issues. The deployment's only hiccups were the long wait times and a couple DDOS attacks. This is not "normal" this is straight up incompetence.
You don't need to be perfect to spot the obvious flaws in this release.Wow, so you have NEVER f@#$ed up at work! Please enlighten the rest of us: how do we imperfect mortals become perfect like you?
Oh, FYI: it's "paid", not "payed"!