Frontier: Can you please define your understanding of "Limited"
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Im very critical of many things they do with the game. The way the game is build for/as solo with multi lazily thrown in makes me mad just to think about it but the marketing i have no problem with.
Really? Its nothing to do with the flag paint jobs anymore. We've moved on. Keep up dear!
(I realise my last post was talking of that but I was addressing an very specific point).
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it was added to entice more people to buy it, it was never intended to be a true mmo, those cost way too much for them to even try.
Those of us who believed the hardest fell the hardest. Though I had wisened up enough by the time gamma launched that there was no Magic Gold release that would be feature complete people kept going on about....
That "must spread the rep" thing needs to go. You'd have purple bars by now if that was removed.
It doesn't matter what it's about. It's about integrity and keeping (or winning back) the trust of your consumers.
Well I disagree - I've been here a while now and seen Frontier go from blunder to blunder with marketing and comms for this game.
I've worked in PR and disaster recovery (not as PR person but as a developer but I had to learn pretty much everything along the way without signing my soul to the devil), I see the signs and if it continues I don't see it going well.
None of this comes from a place of hate (like some people on here over gameplay issues) but because I have a financial and emotional reason for Frontier and this game to succeed.
For what its worth at this stage, as some of you have made up your minds of what this is about, I only ever bought one flag skin - Finnish one, to impress my Finnish girlfriend. I personally found them garish. This was never about the skins or my exclusivity - it was about how Frontier handle their marketing and communication.
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I was the champion of the "fanbois" and always pushed the "no way that'll happen" cause but, oh my how the mighty have fallen
First time fanboi here, so the lesson is particularly hard and embarrassing for me but, alas, the blinders are off and a last ditch effort to save the ship is in full effect. Really I just want to be the only one with a shiny flag skin (kidding)
How is that possible when multiplayer, MMO, "we bring friends" and all that crap IS the marketing? Every single "marketing" push from FD has championed the multiplayer (virtual lack thereof in reality) aspects of what the "rolling development" (unbeknownst to prospective customers) may eventually bring but, they fail to say that it's not currently in the game and is intended to be added sometime in, what is it now, March I think?
Which goes back to the "departments" thing, one is saying one thing while the other is doing something else. At least we know for sure that (as we expected) that "mood piece" of a trailer was not touched by the game people as that would have just been too much. "Oh it's ok, the other department made that, silly marketing, they don't even play the game so, how would they have known? Good mood piece though"
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We'll start a thread for you in a couple months when this one is resolved. Just kidding
I disagree with that, look at Braben past, it's plain to see, anyone would want that kind of game multiplayer so they tried but hey just didnt have the knowledge to do it. Still, ill never accept that chat does not work with friends between instance because reasons, that makes for a bad game where you need external voip which defeats the whole point of not having it in game in the first place.
Anyways ive derailed this enough im out.
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For what its worth at this stage, as some of you have made up your minds of what this is about, I only ever bought one flag skin - Finnish one, to impress my Finnish girlfriend. I personally found them garish. This was never about the skins or my exclusivity - it was about how Frontier handle their marketing and communication.
It really does show that Elite is the first online (MMO like) game Frontier have released. In so many ways it seems as though the various departments inside Frontier are each treating the game in a different manner. Marketing, Support and PR seem in many ways to be treating the game in the same manner as all other Frontier games; a single player "boxed game". The type of game a company releases and then only has to provide minimal support for, along with a few patches and a bit of DLC.
However the development of the game is obviously on an order of magnitude beyond that! A huge amount of work and resources are being poured into the game.
These two aspects are so completely at odds with each other that it isn't even funny. No good can come of it. There's no offline mode so if the game goes it will be gone for good. I want Elite to still be around years from now, it is now one of my top games of all time. However like you, I don't want to see the fate of the game suffer if Frontier do not get their act together. The game is being pulled in too many different directions and that is obvious by the number of cracks that keep appearing.
Indeed. Hats off to the boys and girls in development.
This we can all agree on. Here here!
Canada has one and we're not even a real country =)
Feedback taken on board. Thanks.