That's a road map leading to maintenance mode.
Hope I'm wrong, but seriously, look at it.
Is ED nearing the end of its lifespan?
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That's a road map leading to maintenance mode.
Hope I'm wrong, but seriously, look at it.
I already said this a few times on different channels but ... this is unbelievable...
Everybody will want different things out of a game, of course.
What rekindled the embers of "hope for the game" for me, resuscitated from a state of suffocating, to at least barely glowing, was not Odyssey, but the return of Galnet, before it. Others have meanwhile been quite clear about their heartfelt contempt for people who care about the background story.
New ships? -The game has more than I am ever going to use, but more power to those who want them, and the same goes for, say, Powerplay, which was always wierdly discordant and ill-fitting to me (and I loathe multiplayer stuff anyway) -- I'll still be happy for our local gutta-percha encased fissile bomb, and their friends, if they turn out to get what they want with that nebuluous "key featureupdate overhaul" next year.
What rekindled the embers of "hope for the game" for me, resuscitated from a state of suffocating, to at least barely glowing, was not Odyssey, but the return of Galnet, before it. Others have meanwhile been quite clear about their heartfelt contempt for people who care about the background story.
New ships? -The game has more than I am ever going to use, but more power to those who want them, and the same goes for, say, Powerplay, which was always wierdly discordant and ill-fitting to me (and I loathe multiplayer stuff anyway) -- I'll still be happy for our local gutta-percha encased fissile bomb, and their friends, if they turn out to get what they want with that nebuluous "key feature
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Nah... that's not a roadmap leading to maintenance mode.
THIS would be a roadmap leading to maintenance mode would look like:
Call me crazy, but I've always thought maintenance mode was one step away from shutting down an online game's servers completely. No new content, no bug fixing, no optimization passes, no balance fixes... just the minimal effort to keep the game's servers up and running.
Now, I will grant you that their plans for 2022 are rather light on specific details. But that isn't too surprising, given the last ten years. Disappointing to be sure, but not surprising.
The clickbaity 'content' creators are going to love this, expect lots of videos analysing the announcement with not a shred of fact behind them.
The only people who know what the long term future of Elite is is Frontier, and they are not telling, beyond saying they are Not turning off the servers, and making new content this year and early next year.
The only people who know what the long term future of Elite is is Frontier, and they are not telling, beyond saying they are Not turning off the servers, and making new content this year and early next year.
which content?
Do you mean the "narrative content"? Don´t get me wrong I would be the last one who doesnt want find any news that would be positive for me.
Wow you guys are incredible. Luckily, the studio works on real data, not what a small, tiny little minority of people who complain about everything think. Yikes.
what elite has is probably a gradual move to maintenance mode (in so far as anything like ED can be hands off maintenance only).
ED relies on a heavily modified cobra engine, that seems for all intents and purposes, to be effectively a unique branch of the engine that differs significantly in many ways from the vanilla branch other games are using. This meant for much of the early development of elite dangerous, most new features or even what the game considers "normal" features required development beyond just standard "game development on top of an engine" type of work. This is expensive and requires expertise that takes time to learn.
They have gradually pulled back on anything requiring such engine work. So they can leverage lower costs and headcount and rely on just game developers who work off the existing engine and tools and dont have to make lower level engine changes. We're seeing that in this roadmap i think and really it's this that players are considering maintenance mode.
in any case, i think the general complaining is about the end of significant changes / features / addressing "suggestions" etc. And so if you're not happy with how things are working now in the game, you have no hope of this changing unless it's something that can be changed without engine modification or a major bugfix impacting gameplay.
tldr; You're not gonna hear about 'NMS' level new feature/content updates in ED. If that means maintenance mode to you, then it's confirmed to be in such a state.
You're just messing with us right? Gotta be. No way you've convinced yourself to believe that. A studio literally says "we have lots of updates already in the works, more to come, not dead" and your response is "yep, proof that its' dead"? That's crazy town yo. I'm outta this thread, got my answer, it's not dead or in maintenance mode, you all have fun in here...
to be fair (within the last year), they also said there was a better more, optimized branch of odyssey that was going to be released during the alpha/beta test. Then they said we'd have an armstrong moment but gave us teleporting. Then they said they were improving communication and transparency. Then they spent 9 months not giving anyone any communication about where console was heading (even though we all knew it almost from the start).
I could see why players might not believe fdev statements ...but also, reading into them things that were never said or ignoring what was said is a time honored tradition going back to the start of the game. So not really a surprise. We've been living in crazy town for 7+ years here. We play a game where supercruise time sinks are intentional and we care more about the plausibility of irrelevant stats on objects in the game we can't interact with than actual interesting gameplay.
That was absolutely not the case
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Right, there's a new mission type too.
I wouldn't worry about it mate some folks clearly think they know better than the developers, maybe he knows the cleaners cat.
And if D2EA says the games ending then it obviously is ..................
O7
I mean, it's preposterous to think they'd say the game's dead regardless of its state or future plans. The proof will be in the pudin.
Obviously some day the doomsters will be right! Just as I have to face my death someday..
Still being told that the game is not dead, isn't enough for some..
Still being told that the game is not dead, isn't enough for some..