Normally I'm not one of these #DOOM people but I am worried.
It's the 'Reviewing the future of the Elite: Dangerous Franchise' line that got me from FDev stockbroker. Add to that;-,
- The company has lost 1.7 in the last six months and I hate to see what that's going to be for the whole year.
- The radio silence from the CMs.
- No new cosmetics in the store / no news letter.
- Obviously no news about Updates 10, 11 or consoles.
It makes me wonder if we're looking at the game being put into maintenance mode, which will probably mean finally sunset before the end of the year. You only have to look at the features they've launched and then let to stagnate because no one played them (mostly because they weren't implemented properly) to know they will not follow through on a project if they don't think its worth it.
I do hope I'm wrong, I mean the number of steam players are up, the updates have put the game in a much better place than it was on release and thankfully the plot is still going strong. However, I've been involved in too many MMOs being sunset that I can see the pattern. (Practically following SOE's 'How to shut down a MMO' handbook). I'm willing to bet they won't even implement the offline mode they promised when the game was launched.
