If you're wondering where Frontier's attention is directed at...
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The document is public for quite some time (December/January) and can be found here:
Scroll to the bottom and there is a link to d/l the document
The document makes if obvious they had 1.3 million ponds losses for the first 6 months of FY2022
And that was due to the failed EDO launch and the 6-7 months of dev crunching to fix it.
The net effect of the meetings and discussions analyzing the results for the first half of FY2022 are obvious already:
- budgetary cuts for Elite team leading to less CM involvement, less dev costs (console canceled, "fixing" of planetary tiling dropped as being to expensive on resources)
Fortunately they didnt decide to shut down the servers so we still have a game to play - much to my delight and probably to many others.
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Never put all your eggs in one fleet carrierHow many eggs can you fit in a fleet carrier?
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Did she leave after the 12 months communication blackout on consoles was ended or pushed. She was the Senior Comunications Manager at Frontier... or so Linked In says, ha ha ha!
And what is the funneh part?
According to the same Linked in she used to work for the same company between 1y7m and 2y5m, since 2012 to present day having worked for 5 companies averaging almost 2 years at each company
oh its literally on their websiteOr further, how the OP found said video. Her YouTube channel has no published videos and only three subscribers.
If we are tinfoiling, I've been half-entertaining a "conspiracy theory" I made up in my head, out of nothing, that when the communication blackout happened; On top of return-to-office, post mortem on past year, and planning for the next, maybe the CMs made an ultimatum of sorts, along the lines of: "We're not going back out there, until you have something we can tell them!", leading to: "Can you do it? You've got a month to collate your work so far, and find out, and try some new stuff - then we cut our losses". (EDIT:...about consoles, that is.)
(EDIT:...about consoles, that is.)
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If we are tinfoiling, I've been half-entertaining a "conspiracy theory" I made up in my head, out of nothing, that when the communication blackout happened; On top of return-to-office, post mortem on past year, and planning for the next, maybe the CMs made an ultimatum of sorts, along the lines of: "We're not going back out there, until you have something we can tell them!", leading to: "Can you do it? You've got a month to collate your work so far, and find out, and try some new stuff - then we cut our losses".
I concur on the second part; Update 11 was a step up in quality imo.
That's so odd. A link on their corporate website leads to an unlisted video on an employee's personal youtube account. I mean, go off?
Well, the person was Senior Studio Communications Manager (Internal Comms & Corporate Affairs) - serious stuff
I can only speak for Horizons, but I started an alt some months ago. Only played it for a few hours a week, and it was easy to make progress. I got a few good ships, unlocked some engineers, made credits doing community goals..
One-two hours daily is more than enough to enjoy this game. Perhaps it's the ideal time commitment even.
One-two hours daily is more than enough to enjoy this game. Perhaps it's the ideal time commitment even.
I noticed that too. While the base game dev costs are certainly fully amortized by now, I do think we can take some comfort from the fact that EDO wasn't mentioned in the same terms as Lemnis Gate. Between that and DB's comments about steering the ship, it does sound like they are planning on a normal lifespan for EDO. Which, from their "create and nurture" commentary throughout, I guess means they still plan to maintain it (and get revenue from selling copies) for another 4-5 years. That's good!
There was actually one other oblique reference to ED development costs - in the discussion on capitalizing R&D expenses. Ongoing ED development pulls down the percentage of R&D they can capitalize (i.e. turn into sold products) because it goes into free updates. DB said that percentage was abnormally low last half-year because they spent a lot on post-release Odyssey updates, but they forecast that returning to their usual level going forward. From that I think we can read that the intensive Odyssey-fixing push is done, but we can expect to receive the same level of maintenance work that was typical in past years. TBF I'm not really sure what that means in practice - Horizons (and Beyond, remember that?) were marketed as ongoing "seasons" of rolling content releases, but Odyssey was described as a basically feature-complete release. I don't think there's a clear precedent for what a "normal" amount of ED maintenance effort would look like from the outside.
I have just noticed that your avatar is a bald guy in front of a planet.
I thought is was a guy with crazy white hair
It is clear that Elite Dangerous does not generate money for the company. In reality it looks more like a well to throw money in and this makes it clear why it is just mentioned.
Rightly the company goes on, we can only hope for the success of the other games so there may be money to be thrown away for free updates in Elite.
We are at the end of the game, at least until they create paid content, but up to that point Elite is the son who doesn't work and always asks for money.
Rightly the company goes on, we can only hope for the success of the other games so there may be money to be thrown away for free updates in Elite.
We are at the end of the game, at least until they create paid content, but up to that point Elite is the son who doesn't work and always asks for money.
African or European Swallow eggs?How many eggs can you fit in a fleet carrier?
How about those rare famous grouse eggs?
After getting corvette and G5ing it for PvP i noticed that no other ships except for PvP cutters and condas could even hold a candle to it. And even then the corvette is king of big ship 1v1s. I fell back to flying a DBX with 2500 hull (40+%resist all around), 760 shield (30% thermal resist 50+% others) and a 477 m/s boost. Its got LR fuel rails and a LR/TV fixed beam. I have never had more fun in a ship. Its an absolute blast to fly.
Let's start an open letter DEMANDING that FD introduce "Trying Times Eggs" as a commodity (or possibly a rare item found only at Hutton Orbital).
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Hearing David Braben talking on this video, takes me back to a video where he spoke of having Frontier Developments, thereby being independent of the demands that another software company could make of any projects. Now, with so much emphasis on deadlines to satisfy investors, it looks to me that that independence was lost some time ago.