I wanted to say that I've been impressed by the attitude of these studios and their management. As much trash talking as you may find, if you really pay attention to the responses of all three of these studios when asked to comment upon the others all of them have had professional and competitive business responses. And I appreciate it. Because all three of these studios are making games for the same reason we want to play them. They love space just as much as we do. They have supported and lauded the efforts of their competitors. They seem to understand that this is business, but also a love. And it's good to see that. Even if you don't enjoy the game of whichever studio, you have to give them credit for trying to give us a tiny hint of how amazing our universe could be. It's an attitude I wish more businesses shared and I want to thank all 3 of these companies for putting up with so many of our expectations, our complaints, and our pettiness at times. I know that I get frustrated and so do many others, but it simply means that we really want to play. lol Anyway, thanks.
Frontier, CIG & Hello Games
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Chris Roberts backed ED on kickstarter the day it came out (David Braben backed Star Citizen in return) and has said that the original Elite was one of his inspirations to get into game development. When ED was released he put up this post on the Star Citizen site congratulating Braben and Frontier. He's done several joint interviews with Braben and there's no bad blood between them.
What you're confused about is this one Kotaku article where the reporter really grilled him over Star Citizen's delayed development status. When the reporter asked him why he didn't release a baseline version of the game quickly like Frontier did, Roberts said that he believes that it's more difficult to add in new features after a game is released, and that he thinks his development methodology of getting all the major parts of a game integrated first will turn out to have less problems than Frontier's in the long run. That's the most negative thing he's ever said about Elite.
On, and Hello Games are the makers of No Man's Sky.
Regardless of anything else one might say about Chris Roberts, and whatever his motivation, he has a good record of not only treating other games and their developers with respect, but of actively promoting kickstarter projects that are in the "space game" genre. His promotion and support has had a positive impact on the kickstarters for Infinity Battlescape, Dual Universe and Elite Dangerous.
Pfft. He was momentarily charitable four years ago but ever since then the only context Elite is ever mentioned in by CR is to when he's bragging about how his way of doing a certain feature will be richer, deeper, better, smarter, etc. Unless you can find any examples of Chris saying nice things post Horizons, say. As I recall that just led to procedural planet insecurity.
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No, I'm not confused. CR started off very magnanimous but that has changed as time went. His criticisms weren't overt, just little quips here and there. I can't access the quotes anymore as I was banned for criticising the almighty on the now paywalled CIG forums, but from PGC to development styles he's made quite a few passive aggressive remarks. No biggie though, I'm too busy with ED to really get all investigative on this.
I wouldn't read too much into it. It's just braggadicio about his own product rather than criticism of anything else. That's a far cry from overt unflattering remarks. You could just as easily accuse David Braben of being "notably silent" with regard to Star Citizen
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Yeah I do agree it's nothing overt nor that big a deal, but it is enough to keep me from giving him props in the way OP does.I wouldn't read too much into it. It's just braggadicio about his own product rather than criticism of anything else. That's a far cry from overt unflattering remarks. You could just as easily accuse David Braben of being "notably silent" with regard to Star Citizen
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