How many of you don't play anymore?

[Twisted]

I spend more time playing than reading the negativity here.

I particularly like drinking lots of Devonshire cider....turning the lights out and banging out some floyd or Soma Fm.

Of course the game needs some tender love and care- but hell, what a solid framework to build upon.

Patience is a virtue.

 

[SlickReed]

I was the sap who bought it pre-order - apparently it isnt so utterly terrible now and some people seem to think it actually half decent but after the mental scarring of the initial release I have not ventured back to find out for myself heh

Same here. The release of XAfterbirth was so terrible that I just cant go back. Doesn't really matter what they "fixed", that games was just terrible.

 

[NewYears1978]

Same here. The release of XAfterbirth was so terrible that I just cant go back. Doesn't really matter what they "fixed", that games was just terrible.

The station FPS mode was bad wasn't it. I mean performance wise it was HORRIBLY optimized int he first place, but then you just walk around finding some weird random loot. I would definitely much rather have no FPS mode then a very poorly implemented one. That's why I always worry when people keep asking for FPS mode in ED.

 

[Eldrazzi]

Most depressing thread ever.

The reality of it is, it's just a box full of sand.

I think what chaps people who have left (not trying to speak for everyone here) is that FDEV sorta forgot to add the "sand" to the "box".

 

[Hump Johnson]

Patience is a virtue.

Pity FDev didn't have that policy before releasing ED!

 

[brakaton]

I spend more time playing than reading the negativity here.

I particularly like drinking lots of Devonshire cider....turning the lights out and banging out some floyd or Soma Fm.

Of course the game needs some tender love and care- but hell, what a solid framework to build upon.

Patience is a virtue.

Patience is a virtue. It's funny that you mention that. If FD had waited to release a finished product then we probably wouldn't be in this mess to begin with. There would be issues, but they wouldn't be lack of content issues.

 

[Soliluna]

Most depressing thread ever.

It seems a big problem for people these days, is imagination. Frontier gave you a sandbox with a few tools and limitations, and all everyone wants is more strictly defined rules, more pretty tools, and more "FUN".... The reality of it is, it's just a box full of sand. Make of it what you will. Use your brain, use the tools they provided you with (with more on the way) and make your own fun. If you CAN'T, this is your own personal problem, NOT FDEV's.

This being said, I am not a white-knight, and personally have my own issues with the game itself, but instead of coming on here and complaining that theres "NOTHING TO DO", as seems to be echoed quite frequently, I just find something else to do, or I stop playing for the day. If you burned yourself out and straight into boredom, again I would say this fault lies with you, not the Devs.


Personally, I have NOT STOPPED playing since release. Took one week off, because of work, and came straight back. I'm also not a grinder, I'll do ANYTHING to keep my life in the stars from feeling like a grind. Seriously, I'm in space, and I can fly around freely, I've been waiting for this lost genre to return to gaming for the last 10 yrs. I'll take my time, thank you... and not pull the stupid grind-thru-to-the-next-biggest-ship-cuz-theres-no-other-progression-in-this-game whine.

By that same logic, I can pick up any game and make it whatever I want. Clever.

I wish I had known this sooner, all of those films I didn't like when I watched them? Imagine they are fun.
All of those games I didn't like... imagine man. Just imagine.

Sorry but, what you're asking for is that people pretend to like parts of the game they don't. No amount of imagination is going to change that they do not like the mechanisms of trade, the huge disparity between profits earned based on profession, the lack of depth for progression relating to professions (particularly mining and exploring), the apparent lack of any appreciation to the pirate/smuggler professions, the lack of any crafting in the game - the lack of any player owned/partly owned stations or player crafted spaceships. The whole lack of thought provided to anything relating to the players existence in the world save for combat.

The whole game can be summed up as 'Huge, beautiful galaxy; excellent space combat". The other features it boasts are so flavourless when compared to space sim competitors that calling it a sandbox is a bit of an insult to truly sandbox games. Games like Minecraft, where you build whatever you want, whenever you want, wherever you want. That is sandbox. This is not.

Also, 'waiting for this lost genre to return... for the last 10 yrs'.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say nostalgia, I apologise if it isn't but it really sounds like it is.

 

[NewYears1978]

I wonder how many people who did play, no longer play, and how many still play. Would be nice to get some exact or close statistics on the matter.

 

[Globusdiablo]

So by your logic im also guessing that you don't play too?!

[video=youtube;UJS3a20rUVM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJS3a20rUVM[/video]

Stopped reading right there champ. I get it, the games great, it's the players that are rubbish. Right?

Thank you.

Since the sound issues? No.

It was perfect, and they somehow managed to wreck it. Quite a feat.

 

[mojonaut]

Interest waned after launch with lack of any new content other than what we'd had in Gamma, the final nail in the coffin was the 'Seeking Luxuries' there just seemed no point after that.

Not interested in Wings so won't be updating, maybe the Powerplay whatever-it-is, will entice me back.

all in all a very big disappointment.

 

[Soliluna]

When you consider how little this game costs it really is fantastic value for money.
A love for and fascination with astronomy certainly helps and of course plenty of imagination.
Just wish at least half of the whingers on this forum would leave and find something that suits them better, there's plenty else out there.

Little the game costs and fantastic value for money? Based on... what. You're going to have to draw some comparisons to other games, genre specific or not, that offer less gameplay for more money.

 

[NewYears1978]

I wonder if the OP can add a poll, or maybe someone could do a new thread.

Be interesting to collect data of those who played on release, who still plays and who does not.

 

[Soliluna]

Honestly, I don't play much.

And it's for the simple reason that in order to get any ships beyond a cobra, you'll have to grind alot of trading.

I don't play this game for the space trucking simulator part, I play it to have epic space battles as a bounty hunter.
But you can't make a living that way.
At least not enough to get an asp, clipper or python.
The asp is 6.5 million+ credits... for just the stock version.

With bounties averaging in the tens of thousands (and often less, rarely more), I'd have to do hundreds upon hundreds of bounty kills before I could get even the stock Asp.
Thousands to get the Clipper or Python.

That kind of thing just gets you down.

I'll pop in now that the new ships are coming, but I suspect that they (or at least the Fer-de-lance) will be just as pricey.

It's funny, you will destroy TRILLIONS of credits worth of ships, just to buy a ship worth 6.5m

 

[Commander Azriel]

I wonder if the OP can add a poll, or maybe someone could do a new thread.

Be interesting to collect data of those who played on release, who still plays and who does not.

A poll would be useless, since no doubt many of those that quit would not be here to be polled.

Frontier knows exactly how many games were sold, and how many people log on now. I doubt they want to share that information.

 

[Twisted]

Patience is a virtue. It's funny that you mention that. If FD had waited to release a finished product then we probably wouldn't be in this mess to begin with. There would be issues, but they wouldn't be lack of content issues.

I take your point absolutely.

I'm not sure it's a 'mess' though. It's a work in progress. Most people understood that from backing stage.

I agree totally it needs substance- and I believe that Frontier have a fantastic foundation to build upon.
I also believe they will.

 

[Cradle2Grave]

I believe that Frontier have a fantastic foundation to build upon.
I also believe they will.

That was nicely put, can I just say.

 

[NewYears1978]

A poll would be useless, since no doubt many of those that quit would not be here to be polled.

Frontier knows exactly how many games were sold, and how many people log on now. I doubt they want to share that information.

Yeah, this is true. I bet the numbers are not "favorable"

 

[Varrag]

Currently playing few hours a day, but I am on my third long-range exploration voyage which should promote me to Pioneer rank, perhaps even Elite. I am not sure how much will I play once I return because, to be honest, I find all other in-game activities rather... let's put it this way - uninspiring.

 

[BellatorMonk]

Have not played since two weeks after release. Ship blew up inside Station, trade routes were a waste of time (not including rares..but running the same routes over and over for hours to grind is just as bad), AI ships all made inhuman nose flips every battle and asteroid mining was just plain mind numbing.
I check the forums every other day hoping to see a glimmer of hope related to my $70 expenditure.

 

[{SAS}Stalker]

My life doesnt revolve aroud ED thus im still more than enthralled by how great it is, ill never tire of it like I never tired of the original. It has its frailties but Wings Will ust makes it even better!