Is ED nearing the end of its lifespan?

Einar Donarsson

Einar Donarsson
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 :)
 
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HappyMoonMonkey

HappyMoonMonkey
Dooooooom!!!!

Depends what you mean by lifespan.

No. I don't agree that we're at a point that we'll see a lack of progress. But it's always a money game and FDev will continue to develop the game if they continue to see a return from it. There are plenty of people playing and plenty of people still willing to buy copies and ARX. So the money is still flowing!

And don't let's make this a thread about switching off servers. The advantage of being on an Amazon AWS implementation is that FDev's costs scale with usage. So even if the user base did dwindle to a much smaller base then it could still be maintainable with minimal cost. But at that point (and to be clear, we are far, far from that point) you'd see next to no support for the live game from FDev.
 

CMDR Karrde Sun

CMDR Karrde Sun
It seems absolutely certain elite is in maintenance mode now.

The better question is, do you, and does the overall community need hopium to keep playing the game?

I definitely did it for years, basically playing the game while imagining community content and the next patch, but now its gone, elite definitely works as an (always online) offline simulator.

Noones wrong, but maybe that's a better reality to start looking at. Elite is getting the equivalent of star citizen type fdev issues in 2022, but at least there's a valid alternative mindset available for elite.

EDIT: Its just a different world. No hype. No content creators. Just people playing what's there and no more. The game only advances via the work and merit frontier themselves produce, because dream puff doesn't exist. Would be a relief given how dream selling has turned out? See the other simulator games.
 
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CMDR Von Abrahart

CMDR Von Abrahart
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Old Duck

Old Duck
HRDiagram said:
My impression is that ED's glory days are in the past, but I will be happy to be wrong .
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I think most people will agree that Odyssey has not had the reception that Frontier hoped for. I'd love to be a fly on the wall during those meetings where they discuss, "What next?" I'd also be very interested in Frontier's original plan for the "New Era" back when they thought Odyssey was going to be a smash hit. What would Elite be right now had Frontier not needed to invest almost a year fixing the game rather than advancing it? Is that plan still on the drawing board, or has it been scrapped in a necessary pivot due to Odyssey's problems?
 

HappyMoonMonkey

HappyMoonMonkey
Frillop Freyraum said:
The next best thing for the health and future of the game, right behind the decision to drop consoles and VR, would be to shut down all multiplayer features and focus instead on true single-player content. As if games these days could only survive as multiplayer. Many new games of late are going in exactly the opposite direction and are extraordinarily successful at it. The multiplayer functionality in ED has always struck me as a half-hearted and cheap excuse to avoid real content anyway.
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Multiplayer is the continuing reason for me playing this game. Hollow square encounters may be rare outside of busy systems but knowing that you are playing in a living, breathing, inhabited galaxy is infinitely valuable to the experience.
 
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