FD have not come out and gave a direct answer to the question of dropping support for VR. Just that the new DLC won't support it at launch. This doesn't mean it will never be supported.
NMS, Pavlov, Skyrim, Fallout 4 are all supported with a VR version of the game, and work well. Subnautica is another one that requires the user to be sitting using a xbox controller for locomotion.
So for me yes it's upsetting that FD won't support VR at time of release, but they have never came out and said they are 100% dropping their support for VR.
Maybe my sample is incomplete and even biased, but so far every time I've heard a developer say that "they will consider adding VR support later" it has been a euphemism for "We are not working on it and we are not planning to work on it on the future, so no, we won't do it", Mechwarrior 5 is my most recent memory about it. So, personally, I will take it as a fact that there won't be Odyssey in VR ever and I would recommend others to do the same and accept it as a fact and if for some reason it turns out to be false, welcome the news with surprise or joy.
Maybe I'm being cynic but the way I see it, It can't be another way. We already know Frontier at this point, they announce a release date and they push it back 1 or 2 years I could bet all my arxs that Odyssey for flat screen won't be ready until the end of 2021 at least. The amount of developers working 100% on Elite is generally said to be around 100, but I find that amount pretty doubtful and confusing. If the number is true (which again, I doubt), how many are working in programming, art, design, music, sound effects, etc.? But to put it on perspective, it is said that CD Red has 400 people working on Cyberpunk 2077 at full speed and they already have postponed the launch date two times, sure, its a completely different and more complex game, but to expect Frontier to create Odyssey with VR support in one year with less of a quarter of that team during the current pandemic and the immediate economic collapse is an opium dream. Even if they were interested in doing a VR version, it would take them 1 year and a half more at best.
Now, I'm worried if FD would drop support for ED/Horizons/Beyond. I hope they won't, as they already worked on it, it works well as they mess with it little and Elite is mentioned in many game industry articles that talk about which game we should try out if we have a VR headset which it means to me that it had made some significant impact, not to mention that they will lose some of the players that theoretically have the most purchasing power of the player fanbase, on the other hand, maybe keeping us is costing more than the income they get from us, just like what happened with the Mac support.
But on the good news, even if that happens as we already know that the release of Odyssey will take at least 18-24 months more to be released, we'll have enough time for getting ourselves all the joy left that we can get from the current game and to have more options by then. Who knows? Maybe EA won't screw it up and Star Wars Squadrons will be a decent game.
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