Is Elite 2014 aimed at 'older' gamers?

[LucyFer]

Hi,

I love the look of the game and I'm aware of Elite's position in gaming history.

I'm simply curious if this game is aimed at 'older' gamers or more 'serious' gamers as a simulation rather than a game.

Some threads on here seem a little 'stuffy'.

I mean no offence.

What is the target market for Elite 2014?

 

[Tay]

I beleive there will be the Nostalgia value for us old-timers who played Elite as kids, but I do believe this game will be aimed at anyone who enjoys this type of open world game where you can make your own destiny.

 

[JeffRyan]

Not really and I expect it won't. The threads around here are 'stuffy' because the forums right now are dominated by those of us who played the originals back in the mid-eighties to mid nineties.

So most of us now are in our mid-thirties to early fifties. And that'll change once this game picks up a playerbase all of its own. We original fans are the seed. There will be more.

 

[Pembs]

Frontier have said they are making the game that they want to play so I don't think it's aimed at a particular age group or generation. It will be interesting though I agree, to see how the game does with a wider audience.

The game hasn't had any significant marketing push yet so the majority of people that know about it or are on the forums are those that remember the earlier games. I for one am already sold on this game because I fall into this group. That group is naturally older because those games are old now.

It will be fascinating to see what the wider games press like Giantbomb make of the game. I believe the coverage and opinion of sites like that will make or break the game from a sales perspective. The gaming press does really weld some significant power these days. It will be interesting to see how the marketing ramps up from E3 onwards.

 

[kilvenny]

First of all welcome to the forums. Its great to see those who never played the franchise taking a look at ED.

Speaking for one member of the Zimmer frame generation! I cannot call myself a silver surfer because I am not grey yet! I got involved in the Kickstarter for Elite Dangerous because I wanted my teenage lads to experience what I did 30 years ago playing the original Elite.

From all that I have seen in the last eighteen months, this is game designed for all ages. Having played for several weeks I wish I was thirty years younger with the reflexes and the time to play it properly. I fully expect to get "owned" as my lads would call it by the younger generation.

 

[BoldRover]

Not really and I expect it won't. The threads around here are 'stuffy' because the forums right now are dominated by those of us who played the originals back in the mid-eighties to mid nineties.

Indeed. ED is a lot more than elite1984 with updated graphics, but we all compare, because we can.

The majority of players will most likely be quite different than the group active on the forums now.

 

[Amos]

Frontier have said they are making the game that they want to play.

I also think most of us who played it as kids are in our 30s 40's and dare I say it 50's shhh I didn't say it lol

 

[Patrick_68000]

The whole world, of course. All generations. And welcome in the great family of Elite

 

[Steve_T]

Eh? What was that you said dear. Hold on while I get my teeth in so I can hear you.

 

[Seonid]

I also think most of us who played it as kids are in our 30s 40's and dare I say it 50's shhh I didn't say it lol

Rubbish, my wife and I have been 23 for years.

 

[Lestat]

I think it going to walk the line of both serious gamers and older gamers.

 

[Amos]

Eh? What was that you said dear. Hold on while I get my teeth in so I can hear you.

I think steve_T might be 70+ lol

 

[Zak Gordon]

Hi,

I love the look of the game and I'm aware of Elite's position in gaming history.

I'm simply curious if this game is aimed at 'older' gamers or more 'serious' gamers as a simulation rather than a game.

Some threads on here seem a little 'stuffy'.

I mean no offence.

What is the target market for Elite 2014?

Have you played any of the older versions? I ask because this will change your outlook in the way you framed your question. In truth Elite was never 'just a game' for most of the people that played it, so that might answer a core part of your question?

Why? is interesting because it is as much about the state of gaming at the time of Elite's release, and the way it captured a whole generation (or two) of gamers imaginations, as it is about the actual game itself.

So if you haven't go give Oolite a spin (it's free, it's almost a perfect modern version of the original game) and see if you catch the bug like most of us did?

In short if you want a 'simple game' of MP (or SP) space blaster then probably Elite is not that game, as it never has been, which is what made it such an industry icon and must have game for gamers over the decades. And with each new version (Frontier, then Frontier First Encounters) it pushed it's design (and hardware) as much as it could.

So yes, there has always been a core part 'simulation' to the Elite DNA, after all this game simulated multiple galaxies with tens of thousands of locations PLUS an actual deep and interesting game, all in 30Kb or so when it came out in the 80's, on cassette tape. It blew all our minds, and hopefully will continue to do so with Elite: Dangerous

And remember we were all kids at some point and that complexity of Elite helped us grow into better, more mature people

 

[Patrick_68000]

I think steve_T might be 70+ lol

He experienced the Elite of origin, in an already advanced age

 

[Inferno]

I wouldn't take these forums as a guide to the makeup of player base when the game is released. When marketing picks up and we get closer to launch I expect a much more diverse group of ages and nationalities. After all its in Frontier's best interest to appeal to the broader market and get as many sales as possible. At the moment as most people have said, the forums are mostly older Elite fans.

 

[Xorr]

There seems to be a growing moan about 'older' gamers on this forum. Don't know how anyone can infer what kind of community this game will have, or what kind of demographic the game is aimed at when we're still in Alpha.

It is what it is, and will be. Trying to pigeon hole everything is futile.

That said I'm 41 and yeh honestly I don't like the assumption that this game will have a more mature community and the borderline arrogant assertion that we're somehow better off for it.
Couldn't give a monkies who plays or where they come from (and what age they are).

 

[Daeron]

I tend to hit people saying I'm old with my walking stick. Now get off my lawn!

With the mandatory joke done, let us proceed...

I don't think "Elite style" space adventures are more suitable for a specific age. For that vast and unexplored universe is out there fueling our imagination, regardless of any age. The hardest part will perhaps be to make the joystick popular again.

 

[Ramireza]

Hi,

I love the look of the game and I'm aware of Elite's position in gaming history.

I'm simply curious if this game is aimed at 'older' gamers or more 'serious' gamers as a simulation rather than a game.

Some threads on here seem a little 'stuffy'.

I mean no offence.

What is the target market for Elite 2014?

Elite is just for old farts, so nothing to see here, move along!

 

[Patrick_68000]

I think there is already has a large number of new players on the forums

 

[Spiggs]

Stuffy.... Stuffy!!! .
I know not of what you refer to young sir/madam, how very dare you, the impertinence of youth! Why I almost lost my tartan blanket from my bath chair

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