Its starting to dawn on me that somehow, one of the unexpected highest outcomes has actually occurred for elite dangerous.
There were a few heady conversations in the beyond year where it was joked that because frontier were, upsetting, every feature they were redoing bull china shop style, it may have been a community wish for them to leave our pet features alone. The only things not doomed to some new element of worse were the things frontier has abandoned.
Well, we may have indirectly got our wish from frontier cancelling consoles. They've committed to both keeping horizons around, and critically not making any more change than critical patches.
... So that wish has come true. We have horizons as is, and its completely safe from any further hacking (code term) up of the game.
This is a great and unexpected outcome. I'm loving it. Been playing again now that the threat of odd everywhere is gone.
ps. Before you quote brabes, put your frontier hat on first:
- It costs zero development time to keep horizons around, and its been committed for the foreseeable future. Building in a feature to keep horizons players out of odd is potential non zero, and they made life difficult for themselves when they chose to mindbogglingly put odd content on horizons planets, not just odd planets.
- If there is a material percentage of horizons only pc elite players running under a 2070, they would have to assume that percentage would erode down to nothing soon after any merge.
- Any player that subjective prefers horizons space and planet tech would have to go on console or leave, creating another unnecessary complication to playing the game.
Pending confirmation of course. Its frontier, so this is also just musing into silence and remains true until the day its not.
But the point is, im genuinely happy about having a locked, saved version of elite forever that safe from future changes. Remember when they tinted the entire screen, destroyed everything, and didn't even say anything until months later where they changed it again without saying anything. No more. No more random fss replacing instead of adding. Its good, thanks i like it.