Haven't played for weeks. First came on board during PB and thought the game showed enormous promise to become something very special. What it actually became, as I got warned for saying too often, is a game that is a mile wide and an inch deep. Such a colossal, almost absurdly vast arena and yet precious little content. I come back now to see if there's any gameplay coming in the latest patches and to browse the forum remembering when I thought ED could be as important and visionary to gaming now as Elite and Frontier were then. As it is, graphics and sound aside, it's a step backwards from Frontier. It's so... dull. Empty. Lifeless.
Is that going to change? Quite probably, but I think everything that's wrong about ED can be found by simply seeing what's in the patches. I always thought patching was for rectifying problems and bugs, but this is the first game I've paid for where I feel the game will only come after release, and a long time after at that. That's what beta is for and this is a released product that should be far, far more complete than it is, and what there is really isn't up to much anyway unless looking at different coloured spheres floats your boat.
I find SC having no auto-pilot to be one of the most short-sighted, badly designed and terribly implemented designs going, and in a game that features an almost comically shallow mission and reputation system, that's no mean feat.
And while we're on the subject of the rep system, I love that this organic, ever-evolving universe actually needs FD to pull the strings behind the curtain to make it all work. And that they need to do that entirely undermines their decision to can single player.
And speaking of that, dumping the single player version in such a sneaky, underhand way and so late in the day gave me every reason to doubt every single promise FD made about this vapid piece of coding.
Other than that, this post says it better than I could...
The announcement that the game was going to be coming for the xbone was the final straw for me. Its more of a principle towards buying any game that is for consoles. Been burnt and dissapointed way too many times. Enough is enough.
And honestly, i've lost faith in this project since release. So im not that bothered really. I just pop in here to look for news and such.
I think we wont see anything new and awesome in this game until this time next year.
Little content, no communication with the community, no roadmap, no ingame tools to do whatever "Job" you choose.
Flying in the dark most of time. No matter what it is you are doing...
I got what i paid for when i bought the beta. But in the long run i feel it will be a long time before i start this game up again.
-No market trade tools.
-Mining sucks. No seriously. It sucks.
-Combat payouts are demotivating.
-No missions with a slice of passion. (Just randomly generated, extremely low paid, sad jobs.)
-Horrible in-game chat system.
-Most unsafe way of conducting traffic through a spacestation that i can think of.
-No paintjobs, decals or other cosmetics to aqquire ingame. (Paid content not included.) ...and what already is ingame is so miniscule and boring it doesnt count. Not for me.
-No NPC faces/characters or voiceovers, anywhere. No connection to your mission in any sense. Beyond the credits you are paid.
-Too many NPC spawns, all the time, all over, no matter where you are, with no purpose beyond being there for you to see.
-Background simulation doesnt really seem to work.
-Becomming allied with a faction is completely anti-climax. (You basically get a new color on the hud)
-Completely moronic programmed A.I. They want all of your cargo, even tho you dont have any or have dropped it all. They always just start shooting. Regardless of anything.
News and events, mostly created by someone from FD and not from player activities. Some player created experiments have made it to Galnet.
Community goals... seriously. How lame. Also the payouts from taking part in them are so low i dont know why anyone would.
-The bobblehead. In beta i had a bobblehead. Now i dont. Definitely the worst decision they made. Im guessing that will cost me 5£ from the store down the road if i ever want one again.
To the +
+Looks beautiful.
+Sounds great.
+Feels and plays smooth.
+Good atmosphere.
+Fairly addictive. (Trading in my case. The reason i bought it. 250+ hours maybe)
But in all those hours playing i sat with the sensation that something was missing. Everywhere.
As i said earlier. I got what i paid for when i bought it but as a RELEASED game that has now been out since 16th dec and in light of recent news, (Consolifization) i've completely lost all faith i had in this game.
Im not saying: "I wont ever come back." But im pretty sure i wont come back in quite a while.
Reading up on whats out there on the DLC/Update "Wings" i feel like, that stuff should've allready been in the darn game ok!
Im a supposed to be excited about wings!? For what?
In the end it doesnt matter what we think.
FD will ALWAYS follow the money above anything else. They are a company after all.
The urge to dogfight in space is too Strong!!
