There's been a lot of threads this week about absolute crap. People trying to stir the pot with unfounded allegations, taking facts out of context, or just outright deliberate lying. From the phrasing of some of them, I doubt if they've even played the game they are trashing.
I've been a customer of Frontier since Jan 2015 (v1.0.) Since buying Elite, I have encountered a few major bugs that were fixed relatively quickly. Certainly nothing that affected my game play for any significant time period. There's been some disappointing releases that could have been implemented better and they are being addressed in Beyond. There's been a few controversies because of communication foul-ups, but they were sorted out, usually to the customers benefit.
Some players have bashed and harangued the devs over the smallest pieces of information in the past and up to today. Just one example: Three words in a livestream, "Winter is coming" caused a spew of verbal diarrhea that went on for over eighty pages in one thread alone. If a dev mentions anything off-the-cuff in a livestream the forums explode with speculation based on few, if any, actual facts. And you wonder why they don't communicate with us anymore?
People who criticize Frontier need to go buy games from other companies to see just how well they have it here. I owned a computer games company and I would have killed to have a motivated staff like the Frontier devs. Talented, forthright people who truly love what they do. Well, until they read some of the drivel generated on these forums. Maybe they think negativity will somehow speed the devs up. Good luck with that.
Today, I have three accounts, two of them with LEP's and I'd buy a third in a heartbeat if given the chance. I do appreciate the fact Frontier are giving us a year of FREE updates in Beyond. Thank you for that ladies and gentlemen. As a multiple LEP owner I don't feel "cheated" or "sold short" by any means. The LEP's are long term investments and I know that Elite will be developed for many years to come. The value of my LEP's will be eclipsed by what gets delivered to me in time. Yet, there are some here who feel a years worth of upgrades for nothing is a bad thing? Good lord.
People have called me a fanboi in the past, because of my optimistic posts. A fanboi sees no faults in the thing they promote. I've been critical of some Frontier decisions and I see faults, take a look at the list of bugs I've submitted, but I also see them being fixed and improved as time goes by. Elite isn't perfect, but I'm not expecting perfection. I just want a game to take my mind off the real world for two hours a night. Elite does that, because it's a damned good game, getting better all the time.
I prefer to think of myself, and I'd like Frontier to consider me, a satisfied customer to date.
Haters, trolls and the eternally negative are entitled to their opinion. That's mine.
I've been a customer of Frontier since Jan 2015 (v1.0.) Since buying Elite, I have encountered a few major bugs that were fixed relatively quickly. Certainly nothing that affected my game play for any significant time period. There's been some disappointing releases that could have been implemented better and they are being addressed in Beyond. There's been a few controversies because of communication foul-ups, but they were sorted out, usually to the customers benefit.
Some players have bashed and harangued the devs over the smallest pieces of information in the past and up to today. Just one example: Three words in a livestream, "Winter is coming" caused a spew of verbal diarrhea that went on for over eighty pages in one thread alone. If a dev mentions anything off-the-cuff in a livestream the forums explode with speculation based on few, if any, actual facts. And you wonder why they don't communicate with us anymore?
People who criticize Frontier need to go buy games from other companies to see just how well they have it here. I owned a computer games company and I would have killed to have a motivated staff like the Frontier devs. Talented, forthright people who truly love what they do. Well, until they read some of the drivel generated on these forums. Maybe they think negativity will somehow speed the devs up. Good luck with that.
Today, I have three accounts, two of them with LEP's and I'd buy a third in a heartbeat if given the chance. I do appreciate the fact Frontier are giving us a year of FREE updates in Beyond. Thank you for that ladies and gentlemen. As a multiple LEP owner I don't feel "cheated" or "sold short" by any means. The LEP's are long term investments and I know that Elite will be developed for many years to come. The value of my LEP's will be eclipsed by what gets delivered to me in time. Yet, there are some here who feel a years worth of upgrades for nothing is a bad thing? Good lord.
People have called me a fanboi in the past, because of my optimistic posts. A fanboi sees no faults in the thing they promote. I've been critical of some Frontier decisions and I see faults, take a look at the list of bugs I've submitted, but I also see them being fixed and improved as time goes by. Elite isn't perfect, but I'm not expecting perfection. I just want a game to take my mind off the real world for two hours a night. Elite does that, because it's a damned good game, getting better all the time.
I prefer to think of myself, and I'd like Frontier to consider me, a satisfied customer to date.
Haters, trolls and the eternally negative are entitled to their opinion. That's mine.
