Is Elite Dangerous and Odyssey reliable on Steam?

Hooplah

Hooplah
Greetings,

Hard to tell. For all I know throw a number out say 500,000 Odyssey players across the world have no issues installing the game, DLCs and updates as they become available on Steam. In this specific regard they are happy and don't post much on the Forum. Other issues per bugs or game design etc they often post about them.

Then there are the players who have issues getting Odyssey to launch and run on Steam and many of them post on the Forum looking for help. They don't always get answers because the happy players never have these issues nor can Frontier provide solutions for every type of computer old or new running Odyssey on Steam. How many have issues? One percent, 30 percent or more of all Odyssey Steam players? Who knows.

The problem with any game Forum is that it is designed to be negative. Maybe it helps the programmers to make the game a little better with us being Beta testers in live mode. If Odyssey was an absolutely perfectly designed game (which would be a major accomplishment in humanity better than us going to the Moon) where everything works, there are no bugs and even plays on your five decades old Acorn Electron, BBC Master or Commodore 64 Frontier might get 10 percent of praise and 90 percent of complaints. Humanity has a long way to go.

But perception is often mistaken for reality. We cannot help it as we are imperfect humans who often cannot agree with each other much less the games we play. So when players post on the Forum that they cannot get Odyssey to work on Steam should I purchase any game from Frontier Developments where it can only be purchased on Steam? What do you think?

I did a thread for moving Odyssey From the C:\Program Files with admin requirements drive to another hard drive from the Frontier direct download version. Locally loading files it works much faster until it connects with the Frontier servers. It may help Epic and Steam users knowing where the files go.

I found this video on YouTube generally with all game problems on Steam that might help or not.

Meanwhile with all these great people at Frontier Developments trying to make a real life in this silly game business all the best to them. Can you find Braben? :)

Regards

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CMDR Karrde Sun

CMDR Karrde Sun
Just in case, its incredibly easy to move games around from steam. You don't even need to use the backup and restore function. Just make a new library on a different drive, shut down steam, move the acf file and the folder in common and its good to go.
 

John Stoutbeard

John Stoutbeard
Hooplah said:
should I purchase any game from Frontier Developments where it can only be purchased on Steam?
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You already own ED, correct? And it's working for you? Is it Steam, Epic or Frontier?

Steam (or any other Provider) tend to be reliable as long as all your internet & network factors are in working order. As well as a healthy PC/device. The reason you see people having problem is that they tend to have something out of working condition, or an odd PC config, Internet provider, network devices, or other related factors.
If the majority of the issued accounts are on Steam, you will hear more from Steam users than Frontier account users. And frontier account users already know how to work with their frontier account and contact Support there. Steam users don't, they tend to be bewildered about who to contact (Steam, Frontier), hence more forum posts.

The common thing for them is they don't (yet) have the knowledge and understanding (of complex PC/Data) issues. Not a surprise, we all start with no knowledge. Some tend to go ask for help in a reasonable fashion, others may unreasonably fingerpoint and blame a company (FDev, Valve, Google, Microsoft etc) for their troubles. That's a cultural & maturity difference I assume. Myself, I used to be a blamer back in the days when I didn't know better about these things. I just know a bit more about these things now.

As for the rest of the OP .. it kind sounds like an anti-corporate thing, not sure what to make of it. I apologise if I got the context wrong. This is not my native language. o7

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Rat Catcher

Rat Catcher
Hooplah said:
How many have issues? One percent, 30 percent or more of all Odyssey Steam players?
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Does it matter to you personally? Have you checked the Steam community pages? What about games from other studios on steam? Why are you asking as question that nobody here is likely to be in a position to answer?

These questions are of paramount importance and the world may end as we know it without answers, particularly the last one.

If you are so unsure of steam, perhaps you should avoid having it installed... Better safe than sorry, you know!
 

DrinkyBird

DrinkyBird
What's the point of this thread, exactly? Yes, you're more likely to see complaints from the few for which stuff doesn't work, instead of the many for which it does. Why does this need seven rambling paragraphs and a years-old photo of Frontier employees?
 

Florenus

Florenus
Seriously, I have no idea what's this thread is about.
These forums are not the only place Elite players post looking for help if they need it. There's discussion space for Elite on Steam, there's Frontier support active on social platforms afaik. People are encouraged to use Issue tracker and send crash reports if they occur for them. These forums are mostly for reading same people posting the same things all day long, seven days a week.

I'm not a big Steam fan, but I accepted it with time and while I'm actually happy I got the Elite on Steam when they sold Frontier version (so my game launcher doesn't require Steam to run) I have f.ex. benefit of fast and automated Steam updates, so I don't have to bother with using said launcher for that, which always proved beneficial.
Btw Steam makes it super easy to move game folder to another drive. You just select "move install folder" option and wait a little while for the files to get copied.
 

MickyG1982

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Always found it to work fine.

I directed steam to install the game to a drive of my choosing, it did, without any fuss.

Linked steam to my Frontier account without issue.

I then played, & it worked fine.

Updates happen automatically via steam.

Literally no fuss.

Only blip that I did have was when I bought ARX on steam, but I wasn't using steam to actually log into the game, so it didn't appear. FD support pointed me in the right direction, I logged in with steam instead & my ARX appeared.
 

[VR] Mad Mike

[VR] Mad Mike
the meat of the thread does not seem to match the thread title.

I would say the bugs and issues with elite are not related to steam and exist on epic or frontier.
all the versions of the game are essentially the same.... the only difference being the oculus store version which is limited to only supporting oculus VR headsets and also supports better in ship 2D screen pinning. (and that is moot now anyway as oculus version is 3.8 only afaik)

other than that they are functionally identical.

games bought on steam you only own a licence to play so if valve go bust you do lose access to the game potentially ..... however I would suggest valve are less likely to go belly up than epic or Frontier themselves, and as there is no DRM free GOG version (all games rely on frontier) then that is a none issue too

TLDR steam is as safe as any platform you can get elite on.
 
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