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I am not new to planet earth!, I am not new to the concept of games, I am not new to computer games.
I am new to this style of instant peer to peer gaming, I have a buddy (wingman) that is not new to this style of gaming. I had hoped by now they would not be trolling out the same old game in a new skin, And I believe they did not intend to, but shareholder pressure and instant gratification demands by trophy hunters, May have altered the path, and IMHO is heading down the same old way to ultimate short term thinking. The naively expected longevity of this game is fading.
When the rise of computer games started, I was lucky enough to have a mentor who it all came naturally to, He was and still is a computer game designer, and has even been known once or twice to advise DBOBE.
He is a computer game player, He plays computer games and not exclusively one game.
My game playing career is the opposite, If a game comes up that seriously interests me, I will play that game and not play another, It may keep me hooked for a while but they ultimately have an endgame and I then may drop computer games entirely until I hear of something else that might tempt me back.
I have played chess since i was young, Back then we would have to write the move down on a postcard (remember them?) and post it. I would then sometime in the future receive a move back and so it went. Inevitably with the rise of the internet, that whole process became easier and now is instantaneous, enabling an “over the board” game from country to country.
When I heard about ED I had only played 1 computer game in 10 years, (Cold winter) It was 26 days before launch and another cold winter looming, I thought it sounded interesting and I would give it a go. It was a steep learning curve!.
I am not privy to what went before then, But I have picked up a lot of the back story from others both verbally and from the forums and most importantly from my old mentor who, As I found out had ED on his list of games that he had started playing. And he was an 84er.
He joined me three months in and It was a pleasure to repay the favour by teaching him a few things. We became wingmates and caught up on 10 years and inevitably continually argued about the vision of the game ED was trying to achieve, He would too easily shout bug and I would say, Look at it like this etc and point out a very clever way that the game makers had put something in to test you etc, We never knew if it was ever by design or bug because when it changed, I would argue player pressure and he would argue bug fixed.
So the question, Has FD deviated from its original path?, Has it been nudged by the vocal few so many times that it has lost its way? I would tell my old wingmate that he was right all along but he finally left the game after the last almighty error of judgement by FD
Has it become, not a 10 year plan but a 6 month plan repeated 20 times
He is a computer game player, He plays computer games and not exclusively one game.
My game playing career is the opposite, If a game comes up that seriously interests me, I will play that game and not play another, It may keep me hooked for a while but they ultimately have an endgame and I then may drop computer games entirely until I hear of something else that might tempt me back.
I have played chess since i was young, Back then we would have to write the move down on a postcard (remember them?) and post it. I would then sometime in the future receive a move back and so it went. Inevitably with the rise of the internet, that whole process became easier and now is instantaneous, enabling an “over the board” game from country to country.
When I heard about ED I had only played 1 computer game in 10 years, (Cold winter) It was 26 days before launch and another cold winter looming, I thought it sounded interesting and I would give it a go. It was a steep learning curve!.
I am not privy to what went before then, But I have picked up a lot of the back story from others both verbally and from the forums and most importantly from my old mentor who, As I found out had ED on his list of games that he had started playing. And he was an 84er.
He joined me three months in and It was a pleasure to repay the favour by teaching him a few things. We became wingmates and caught up on 10 years and inevitably continually argued about the vision of the game ED was trying to achieve, He would too easily shout bug and I would say, Look at it like this etc and point out a very clever way that the game makers had put something in to test you etc, We never knew if it was ever by design or bug because when it changed, I would argue player pressure and he would argue bug fixed.
So the question, Has FD deviated from its original path?, Has it been nudged by the vocal few so many times that it has lost its way? I would tell my old wingmate that he was right all along but he finally left the game after the last almighty error of judgement by FD
Has it become, not a 10 year plan but a 6 month plan repeated 20 times
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TL,DR
I am not new to planet earth!, I am not new to the concept of games, I am not new to computer games.
I am new to this style of instant peer to peer gaming, I have a buddy (wingman) that is not new to this style of gaming. I had hoped by now they would not be trolling out the same old game in a new skin, And I believe they did not intend to, but shareholder pressure and instant gratification demands by trophy hunters, May have altered the path, and IMHO is heading down the same old way to ultimate short term thinking. The naively expected longevity of this game is fading.
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