Nah man, sorry but this is a pile of poorly constructed <stuff>.
(1) ED is a tough game
It is and almost everyone criticising it embraces this fact. By calling them out to be easy-game players you are dismissing them without having actually gotten remotely close to what their point is.
(2) Wrong. Most people do exactly what you say when they hate a game. They stop interacting with it. People who are active on the forums show that they are quite deeply connected to the game, and most of the criticizers have multiple 100s or 1000s of hours played. This and the fact that they try to make in influence on forums shows that they love the core of the game and want to see it furthered, instead of endless stagnation that a few old men and a vocal minority (...) seem to promote.
(3) What? This is what you think of the people around you? What kind of person are you even?
(4) Offline only is usually only embraced by older guys who dont value competitive gameplay and think that the "internetz" is just a trend that will go by in a few days. I've seen nobody making valid points actually being butthurt about Offline, as they are usually only interested in online play, which is why it is so important to them to have core gameplay elements in place.
(5) Frontier charging a lot of money for actual promises of a finished game. ED is out of beta over a year now and still feels like other games in pre-alpha in almost all aspects other than cockpit-sim/ship-flying. They produce trailers that show situation that will not actually naturally happen in the game.
FDs development direction is plainly wrong, and they know it. I work in games, i know many game designers/devs, and FD have pulled quite some stunts. So they showed they are capable. But there development priorities are completely insane and maybe, just maybe, they are forced into this direction by the people in the backers forum who payed a lot of money, but actually dont know jack about game design, and are therefore ill advisers.
Pl. landings, character creation and all that is just nice eyecandy with no gameplay value whatsoever unless the game world, all that stuff thats already there, gets really interconnected and for players to grasp so they can actually "carve a meaningful way" in the galaxy. Not possible, even with a lot of RP redconning, in current CZs etc.
Every piece of criticism and feedback is valid, dismissing it shows unprofessionalism (not expected from the average customer though, so you're forgiven) and unwillingness to improve - no matter how good some aspects of the game may be.
And you believe that using poor filtered out language and referring insultingly to older players, is a professional way to act, merely because the way they enjoy their gameplay is not the way you enjoy your game play. Online play PVP, Group and Solo play are all recognized forms of play in this game and make up the full player base
I would be very interested to know which games you have worked on that are so much more than ED. I have played many games Solo, MMORPG, RP, PVP, PVE, PWP, worked on none, but experienced many hours with them which gives me a good wealth of experience to call on when forming my opinions.
In the end nearly every game I have played has resulted eventually in some form of grind and what could be termed as a lack of depth. But quite a few of those games with so much depth only seem to be that way because the number of hours before you reach the grind conclusion can be quite short and have a strong back story that sustains them through that novelty period masking the soon to come grind, and then you come to the point where you grind the same things you already have been doing before the game lost its novelty. Often that time of novelty even in triple A games can be less than month.
My argument with those who are criticising the game constantly on the forums, and using dubious sources to back their claims, is the fact that the game is what it is and they are not happy with it when many others are. But rather than voting with their feet and their wallets they come here not to try to change the game for the better, as they frequently offer nothing but criticism but to try to garner support for their poorly researched and minority supported views.
I am not some old man as it happens I am an old woman, I am not butt hurt as you so rudely put it, my butt is in perfect health I think. And male cows muck reference is an unneeded embellishment of your arguments that lends absolutely nothing of consequence to them.
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