“Look at Elite Dangerous. It’s now in its fifth financial year since it was released and every day there’s been a new story in the game, every week there’s been new content. Roughly every quarter there’s been an update. A lot of those have been free, some have been paid.
“It really builds a community because the game is continuing to change.”
More than 100 staff continue to work on Elite Dangerous, a massively multiplayer space epic in which players take control of their own spacecraft in a cutthroat galaxy.
The number indicates that Frontier has some big surprises in store for players, but David is coy.
My takeaway :
- every day there's been a new story in the game (??!) More like once or twice per year on average. Does he mean GALnet Articles by any chance? I have no other explanation.
- every week there's new content (Eh what?) There's only new content after a Client Update, typically after major Updates. That's normally once per Quarter. Or what Game is he referring to, did the Interviewer mix something up?
- more than 100 staff continue to work on Elite Dangerous? Not seeing that, not since a long time. Maintenance mode. I guess those "100" work on other projects most of the time, otherwise I wouldn't know what they're doing.
- David is always coy, nothing new. "Winter is coming(tm)... sometime... maybe. No ETA, no promises, no guarantees"
[He's a good salesman at it, can't argue with that. He's a shareholder. Enough said.]
- Company as a whole is doing very well and will introduce new titles. Which means Elite is likely to repeatedly encounter idle phases and maintenance mode where the main regular updates are Store items and sales.
Good for FDev, potentially not-so-good for Elite.
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