Goodbye Elite Dangerous

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Good Death

Good Death
Exiledkhallisi said:
With thousands of hours invested.

A merge from PC to console years ago. A wonderful dquadron. Friendships formed and bonded. Over 1200 pvp kills, over 25 billion credits earned. Maxed out all materials, over 20 individually min/maxed ship builds, not a single thing I havnt done in this game. To support the game i also own every single cosmetic in the game on console. It saddens me to say this but I officially, and with great resentment, hang my tags.

Frontier, you held the market for so long with this niche game. But your poor decisions and bizzare focus and failure to listen to a large portion of the community created a drop off in player base..we still had the game in high hopes on the back burner waiting for your update on odyssey for console. But because of your delay, people began losing interest. And then you slap us in the face with an ultimatum. All development is to end on console. I know you came to this decision because you saw the drop in activity....the drop that you created. I love your game, i love what you've done. Please take this as a learning moment. I am sorry to say, I wont be the last to leave a dying game. This could have been prevented with integrity and open and punctual communication but there was none. We played on and played your guessing game. But it dragged on to long.

I wish you well frontier, i hope maybe you release a new version of ED some day. But as it stands, the game is dead to me and many others share the same sentiment. It isnt just about Odyssey, arguably, we could do fine without it, we have for years. What we cant deal with though, is being abandoned.

CMDR Exiled
"Over and out"
o7
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Gorlami.
 

gorankar

gorankar
I the end, it looks like OP got their moneys worth. Thousands of hours OP says. I do feel bad for the console guys, and this is another black mark on Fdev, but, at the very least, they came out and let us know when it became clear they were never going to be able to fix the game on consoles.

I do understand though. It's tough when a game you love goes into maintenance mode. Tougher still when it happens on your gaming platform of choice, but not others.
 

TrollhunterX

TrollhunterX
Exiledkhallisi said:
With thousands of hours invested.

A merge from PC to console years ago. A wonderful dquadron. Friendships formed and bonded. Over 1200 pvp kills, over 25 billion credits earned. Maxed out all materials, over 20 individually min/maxed ship builds, not a single thing I havnt done in this game. To support the game i also own every single cosmetic in the game on console. It saddens me to say this but I officially, and with great resentment, hang my tags.

Frontier, you held the market for so long with this niche game. But your poor decisions and bizzare focus and failure to listen to a large portion of the community created a drop off in player base..we still had the game in high hopes on the back burner waiting for your update on odyssey for console. But because of your delay, people began losing interest. And then you slap us in the face with an ultimatum. All development is to end on console. I know you came to this decision because you saw the drop in activity....the drop that you created. I love your game, i love what you've done. Please take this as a learning moment. I am sorry to say, I wont be the last to leave a dying game. This could have been prevented with integrity and open and punctual communication but there was none. We played on and played your guessing game. But it dragged on to long.

I wish you well frontier, i hope maybe you release a new version of ED some day. But as it stands, the game is dead to me and many others share the same sentiment. It isnt just about Odyssey, arguably, we could do fine without it, we have for years. What we cant deal with though, is being abandoned.

CMDR Exiled
"Over and out"
o7
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Has there been an FDev announcement about this?

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxqgAnaLvRM
 

Sashamorning

Sashamorning
Paul Eddington said:
Not so quick, BH. Most console players stand to gain from this, even though they don't see it right now.
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Uh... unless we don't/can't migrate to PC. That's not an insignificant proportion.

PC has so many more features than console. If I could have played on PC from the start, I definitely would have. I can't.

Console or die.
 

Exiledkhallisi

Exiledkhallisi
Oztig said:
it's from Yamiks isn't it - why would they waste their breath replying to that 'person' (was most polite word I could find).
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Yamiks is a huge community contributor. Its one thing to just not be entertained by his content or sense of humor and an entirely other thing to refer to someone like that throwin hatershade from that haterade mug.
 

Gosht

Gosht
I stand with Commanders who now transition to PC. Please FDEV, David, approve full account transitions!
Anyone who is transitioning and needs a squadron to assist feel free to join The Hive. PM me.
Gosht
THE HIVE
 

Zak Gordon

Zak Gordon
Triptych said:
You might, almost. I recall when Frontier decided to drop the standalone version of the game while in development. The furore went on for days and days, 24/7.
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My GOD! Now you got ME started! Yes i remember that very well, we were promised a real Elite sequel to FFE that could be played without being online, and i was champing at the bit to try out mods and all that awesome stuff that makes games like TES such long-tail and commercial successes, then at the very last minute David (i can't call him 'Sir' in my current rage) said "No sorry, no offline mode available".

I was furious and that is in part why i have not been playing ED these last 7 years. This disgrace and betrayal must never be forgotten, and it harmed the game more than people could have thought.



Edit: this is NOT actually a joke, but my salt mine is nearly empty after 7 years.
 

NoVR - What_The_X_F_Dev

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NoVR - What_The_X_F_Dev
Exiledkhallisi said:
With thousands of hours invested.

A merge from PC to console years ago. A wonderful dquadron. Friendships formed and bonded. Over 1200 pvp kills, over 25 billion credits earned. Maxed out all materials, over 20 individually min/maxed ship builds, not a single thing I havnt done in this game. To support the game i also own every single cosmetic in the game on console. It saddens me to say this but I officially, and with great resentment, hang my tags.

Frontier, you held the market for so long with this niche game. But your poor decisions and bizzare focus and failure to listen to a large portion of the community created a drop off in player base..we still had the game in high hopes on the back burner waiting for your update on odyssey for console. But because of your delay, people began losing interest. And then you slap us in the face with an ultimatum. All development is to end on console. I know you came to this decision because you saw the drop in activity....the drop that you created. I love your game, i love what you've done. Please take this as a learning moment. I am sorry to say, I wont be the last to leave a dying game. This could have been prevented with integrity and open and punctual communication but there was none. We played on and played your guessing game. But it dragged on to long.

I wish you well frontier, i hope maybe you release a new version of ED some day. But as it stands, the game is dead to me and many others share the same sentiment. It isnt just about Odyssey, arguably, we could do fine without it, we have for years. What we cant deal with though, is being abandoned.

CMDR Exiled
"Over and out"
o7
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It's quite obering to go into ant elite community such as the forum or reddit or discord channels just now as they are all full of similar tales of woeful console CMDR's throwing the towel in, writing their CMDR's obituary, often with their favourite screenshots etc. It's really sad. As a VR-ex-player I literally feel your pain, I don't know what else I can say other than I'm sorry bud.
 

NoVR - What_The_X_F_Dev

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NoVR - What_The_X_F_Dev
Gosht said:
I stand with Commanders who now transition to PC. Please FDEV, David, approve full account transitions!
Anyone who is transitioning and needs a squadron to assist feel free to join The Hive. PM me.
Gosht
THE HIVE
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As laudable as that is, being pragmatic, only a small amount of console players will want to move to PC, typically players have one set of hardware or the other, rarely both. And the price of PC componentry just now is exorbitabantly inflated, [hello graphics cards], putting a real financial barrier to anyone willing to make that jump. Who in their right mind will splurge $1500 on a decent gaming PC to play Odyssey when they already have a perfectly good console for playing most other games, especially if that is a current gen console such as a PS5 or XBs/x, so as sad as it it, I expect there will be only a small portion of the console community will migrate.
 

Ted Striker

Ted Striker
$1500 is a 30xx series card alone. How can you get a full decent gaming PC for that?

I agree giving console players a PC account is not a perfect solution but it looks like it's the only one available. It's better than nothing.
 

Frop

Frop
Ted Striker said:
$1500 is a 30xx series card alone. How can you get a full decent gaming PC for that?

I agree giving console players a PC account is not a perfect solution but it looks like it's the only one available. It's better than nothing.
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Bit of a generalisation, there's a big price gap between for instance x060 and x090 editions. Unless you absolutely want top-of-the-line hardware, you can assemble or buy a PC capable of running most games in that price range just fine if you stay away from the Ultra settings and triple monitor setups.
 

TrollhunterX

TrollhunterX
Oztig said:
it's from Yamiks isn't it - why would they waste their breath replying to that 'person' (was most polite word I could find).
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I was referring to the announcement he was referring to. Between his video, and this thread, FDev don't seem to have an opinion, or no-one has linked to it...
 

NoVR - What_The_X_F_Dev

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NoVR - What_The_X_F_Dev
Frop said:
Bit of a generalisation, there's a big price gap between for instance x060 and x090 editions. Unless you absolutely want top-of-the-line hardware, you can assemble or buy a PC capable of running most games in that price range just fine if you stay away from the Ultra settings and triple monitor setups.
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Pretty much this, highend GTX cards are a fraction of the price of RTX30 cards, and still punch almost as hard in most raster rather than raytraced situations, but if you need RTX, you can get a 3060 for ~$700(new) and fill in the gaps with a ryzen 5 3X00 setup. I built my son a Ryzen 5 / 16gb / 500gb NVME / GTX1650ti PC for circa a grand a couple of months ago. My daughter wanted an "all the RGB build", she put christmas and birthday money together and we built a Ryzen 3000 series PC, 32gb RGB ram, 1TB NVME, 4x corsair RGB fans, old GTX970 I had lying around, including the resale value of the '970, corsair RGB keyboard and mouse and we were ~$1500 all in.

So it can be done at that pricepoint, however I want an Asus Republic Of Gamers Strix RTX3090 OC edition, that's about the same money as both my kids PC's combined, compare that to a PS5 which is about a third of the price of a budget gaming PC and the whole pricing paradigm turns into a bad acid trip.
 

Erei

Erei
LeoBartlet said:
What's entertaining about abusive crap towards Fdev staff, homophobia and making a berk of himself at community meets?
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I watched a few of his videos, and while most of them are certainly "colourful" I never heard him once being homophobic. I'd really like to see any source on that accusation. Not saying it's not true, but usually when we accuse someone of something, we tend to provide some proofs of said accusation.
 

Ingram

I
I dont quite understand why it is a thing for cmdrs who own both gaming PC and console when EDO switched to PC only.
Account is interchange-able across platforms, longest 1 month for FC owners who need to retire their FC first.
I play with XBO controller on PC (2070/i7 gaming laptop) on living room sofa. TBH I didn't feel much difference.
 
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