I believe I've participated to varying degrees in every beta Elite Dangerous has has had.
People say that Frontier doesn't listen and learn from betas and looking back, this seems to me to be largely true.
BUT, Frontier has actually on one or maybe two of the betas which I view I view as the best the game has had. One of the betas which was very productive was the one which, among other things, overhauled engineering. During the beta we helped turned a monstrously bad redesign of engineering which would have been worse than the original engineering mess into something quite good.
During that beta, Frontier gave structure to the beta and listened better than they ever have. It was a low bar to beat, but I credit Sandro Sammarco for that. I often ask myself if he left Elite Dangerous because he listened too much?
Yes, yes I know that some people really didn't like Sandro at that time either, but I kind of wonder if some of them might want him back now!
Anyway, I hope Frontier will treat their unpaid testers with the respect and heed Sandro showed in these coming betas.
I, for one, miss Sandro compared with what we have now!
People say that Frontier doesn't listen and learn from betas and looking back, this seems to me to be largely true.
BUT, Frontier has actually on one or maybe two of the betas which I view I view as the best the game has had. One of the betas which was very productive was the one which, among other things, overhauled engineering. During the beta we helped turned a monstrously bad redesign of engineering which would have been worse than the original engineering mess into something quite good.
During that beta, Frontier gave structure to the beta and listened better than they ever have. It was a low bar to beat, but I credit Sandro Sammarco for that. I often ask myself if he left Elite Dangerous because he listened too much?
Yes, yes I know that some people really didn't like Sandro at that time either, but I kind of wonder if some of them might want him back now!
Anyway, I hope Frontier will treat their unpaid testers with the respect and heed Sandro showed in these coming betas.
I, for one, miss Sandro compared with what we have now!
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