Is ED nearing the end of its lifespan?
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You're right, of course, but usually if a company has a loss leader product, it serves a different purpose that benefits the company as a whole. And usually such loss leaders represent a tiny fraction of the company's overall revenue (either that or they have an endgame like Amazon destroying their competition). Do you really think Frontier will keep Elite Dangerous running indefinitely if it loses them money? If so, for what cause? They are a public company, so "It's close to Braben's heart" won't be reason enough.
BTW, the only absolute truth I state is my own. I very clearly state in the first sentence that Frontier's condition is NOT clear, so stop with bad debate tactics, as they do you no favors.
Ok, yes I'm going to agree with you there because there's nothing to actually disagree with. I'm not sure what this has to do with my point which is that threads like this are in some ways a justification for the decision they've made to focus their efforts and that how well the game will do in future will depend on what is added in.I'm all for the story going forward.
I'm just wondering what kind of MASSIVE story stuff need to cut on consoles development, VR and major bugfixing.
Not even the Thargoids invasion needed so much development focus.
Who said I think so ? They have their own metrics and datas and goals I'm not privy on. Fdev is a company. If they think ED has no purpose anymore and shut it down, they will not be wrong (probably), but a lot of people including myself will be disappointed.
When they say they can't handle consoles or bug fixing, they have their reasons to. And I'm not privy to those either. Once again, I'm disappointed, but can't say if they are wrong.
Because, yes, company CEO make their decisions on a whole lot of datas and stuff other than "people were mean on the post I did on the forum".
As a reminder :
Even though in the case of Fdev, there are been some debatable design choices over the year and some debate about how they may have been able to prevent ending up in a situation forcing them to take those hard decisions.
Threads like this don't have any meaning or purpose, no-one important to the game cares about them. However for us looking in from the outside it's a reminder that, actually yes, there is some focus going on into future development when you look into what has been said.
Pre-Odyssey, during the Horizon days I was happy to buy cosmetics to support the game and got a lot of stuff for all my ships.
Now with support for VR stopped in Odyssey along with all the game improvement resources being stopped.
I lost all motivation to buy cosmetics
Now with support for VR stopped in Odyssey along with all the game improvement resources being stopped.
I lost all motivation to buy cosmetics
I've played ED long enough to get used to the bugs. Yes, they sometimes made me rage-quit at times (invisible solar exclusion zones, etc..). I always returned after quickly calming down, so no biggie. Along with getting used to the bugs, I also developed a method of navigation in supercruise. My way of navigating relies heavily on orbit lines, which are broken on my new hardware. See https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/46983 for details (RX 6900 XT in my case). That particular issue affects all curved lines seen in space during supercruise, not just orbit lines. Instead of an occasional missing solar exclusion zone, all of them are now broken.
I did my best to adjust to odyssey. Everything (except performance) was going smoothly for me until I built this PC last summer. Although I no longer had the performance issues (compared to a pair of GTX 770's in SLI), I just couldn't deal with this last issue. It was time to move on, but I still try to stay in touch.
Yes, I see what you mean. I wonder if this is a manifestation of the poor anti-aliasing? I've not really been able to get orbit lines looking great either. And playing around with the different AA options has yielded different results.
The only solution I've found is super sampling, already x1.25 looks a lot better, x1.5 ought to be good! Of course x2 is out of question on my system..
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For me it is...it`s a question time when they reveal the eol of EDO. What they delivered so far is an indicator that Fdev developers have no clue about their product anymore. Maybe the experts already left and the poor rest keep it running and avoid to touch the code base.Not a doom thread by any means, more like a serious question.
Many Bugs, some that have existed for Years, some even Game breaking, are not adressed, do not get fixed or get failed fix attempts never to be mentioned again, cost to much ressources to fix.
Console is canceled, many, MANY cosmetics are still broken after a year. Lighting is still broken. Heck not even the normal combat Music in space works correctly after almost a year.
No new Ships, no playable (or rather somewhat playable) Story like with the Guardians or the Goids. The Performance is still down the toilet.
Is Frontier not willing to put enough money into Elite to get it into a good state anymore? Is the Code just to broken to be fixed?
What are your genuine opinions on this matter?
Have a good day
I hate threads like these.
They leave me wondering in dread that somewhere there's a thread debating whether I'm nearing the end of my lifespan. The players in my game have been in-game for 48 years now and I suspect are really hacked off with how things have turned out; very little new content, no new cars, no roadmap whatsoever and absentee devs. I suspect my servers could be switched off at any point, the only question I have is - do I want the devs to tell me when they're going to do it or just flip the switch on a whim one day.
They leave me wondering in dread that somewhere there's a thread debating whether I'm nearing the end of my lifespan. The players in my game have been in-game for 48 years now and I suspect are really hacked off with how things have turned out; very little new content, no new cars, no roadmap whatsoever and absentee devs. I suspect my servers could be switched off at any point, the only question I have is - do I want the devs to tell me when they're going to do it or just flip the switch on a whim one day.
Haha, I love the smell of nihilism in the morning...
But yeah, we're all just killing time on the unrelenting march to the grave
End of shelf life maybe. Not end of lifespan.
Now that's some peak doom. That's the ultimate doom.But yeah, we're all just killing time on the unrelenting march to the grave
I enjoy the game and will play it until they turn the servers off
Also, all this is speculation based on no evidence to back up these claims
This is my "genuine opinion"
After my morning poo, I always feel that I'm dying on the inside both literally and figuratively
I just bought an alt (ed+edo) at the Frontier site sale.
Don't, you are just prolonging the inevitable.
At least I'll have 2 commanders that I can send into the sunset when the moment inevitably arrives.