Is Elite Dangerous worst than Arena Commander? Is normal a company to call console fans "primitive"?
I am not trying to flame anyone, but I am sincerely willing to know the opinion of the Elite Dangerous community about some of the recent Cloud Imperium statements shared through an animation that opened the most recent Around the Verse show, shared with the entire world through their official website and youtube.
The animation is here:
[video]https://youtu.be/SigVdMd66UU[/video]
The message was pretty simple and clear, even that stated by cartoon methods.
CIG claimed that console gamers are primitive human beigns, that Wing Commander was the best Space Sim ever (ignoring all others of its time and relased later) and following simple logic of their statememts, both Wing Commander and any other Space Sim, was suplanted already by their Arena Commander module in its current status.
I think that they were too harsh with games like Elite: Dangerous, EvE, X series, X-Wing, space sim in general, even with the own Chris Roberts legacy, Wing Commander, when stating through that animation that Arena Commander is already "the best space sim ever".
The worst part is that their community shared through their feedback about the show in their forums, that the animation "was the best of the show", "glorious" and other similar feedbacks.
Curious enough, those fans and even Roberts got used to justify all the problems or lack of advance of that module, or the lack of participation of their own public playing that module, because "it's alpha", but now, contradicting all that, we see this animation stating that they already consider Arena Commander "the best space sim ever" now!
Besides, I think that is far from normal or acceptable what they said about console fans, stating that they are like "primitive human beings".
One thing is to try to hype people, to motivate more ship sales, since they are currently selling ships in a limited form by absolutely expensive prices... but other thing is to try to bad mouth others to make it appear better. Probably are hurting themselves with that attittude. Getting money from a few, but ignoring how their message can sound to all the rest. Closing doors in the medium/long term in my point of view.
Hate or not EA, publishers and other companies, we don't see they bad mouthing PC Gamers through their interviews/shows, or even bad mouthing crowd-funding parties like the made by CIG, while they keep bad mouthing publishers as "greedy".
I think that their attitude was truly pathetic and offensive to the game industry as a whole, to games like Elite Dangerous, to the own legacy Wing Commander and even worst, the high level of offensive attack to the console fans, that deserves much more respect, just because prefer consoles, of been called "primitive".
I think that they do not see any limit anymore to motivate ship sales/cash grabbing (to the point of ridicularizing the own legacy of Roberts: Wing Commander), because I think that they are doing that when stating that AC is the best space sim ever.
I would like to know the opinion of the fellow commanders about that?
I am pretty sure that if anything similar came from EA or even FDEV, against CIG, the Star Citizen community or even its devs would react in some low-level form, but let's just try to keep it civil and give our opinions in a more elegant way, to do not go to the low-level that they were, and worst, that was not an attitude of a fan, but an official attitude of the company, shared by their official means of communication, with everyone through Youtube channel and their own website, so, there is no really excuse valid here, like "closed doors statements" or "only for subscribers to listen".
I am not trying to flame anyone, but I am sincerely willing to know the opinion of the Elite Dangerous community about some of the recent Cloud Imperium statements shared through an animation that opened the most recent Around the Verse show, shared with the entire world through their official website and youtube.
The animation is here:
[video]https://youtu.be/SigVdMd66UU[/video]
The message was pretty simple and clear, even that stated by cartoon methods.
CIG claimed that console gamers are primitive human beigns, that Wing Commander was the best Space Sim ever (ignoring all others of its time and relased later) and following simple logic of their statememts, both Wing Commander and any other Space Sim, was suplanted already by their Arena Commander module in its current status.
I think that they were too harsh with games like Elite: Dangerous, EvE, X series, X-Wing, space sim in general, even with the own Chris Roberts legacy, Wing Commander, when stating through that animation that Arena Commander is already "the best space sim ever".
The worst part is that their community shared through their feedback about the show in their forums, that the animation "was the best of the show", "glorious" and other similar feedbacks.
Curious enough, those fans and even Roberts got used to justify all the problems or lack of advance of that module, or the lack of participation of their own public playing that module, because "it's alpha", but now, contradicting all that, we see this animation stating that they already consider Arena Commander "the best space sim ever" now!
Besides, I think that is far from normal or acceptable what they said about console fans, stating that they are like "primitive human beings".
One thing is to try to hype people, to motivate more ship sales, since they are currently selling ships in a limited form by absolutely expensive prices... but other thing is to try to bad mouth others to make it appear better. Probably are hurting themselves with that attittude. Getting money from a few, but ignoring how their message can sound to all the rest. Closing doors in the medium/long term in my point of view.
Hate or not EA, publishers and other companies, we don't see they bad mouthing PC Gamers through their interviews/shows, or even bad mouthing crowd-funding parties like the made by CIG, while they keep bad mouthing publishers as "greedy".
I think that their attitude was truly pathetic and offensive to the game industry as a whole, to games like Elite Dangerous, to the own legacy Wing Commander and even worst, the high level of offensive attack to the console fans, that deserves much more respect, just because prefer consoles, of been called "primitive".
I think that they do not see any limit anymore to motivate ship sales/cash grabbing (to the point of ridicularizing the own legacy of Roberts: Wing Commander), because I think that they are doing that when stating that AC is the best space sim ever.
I would like to know the opinion of the fellow commanders about that?
I am pretty sure that if anything similar came from EA or even FDEV, against CIG, the Star Citizen community or even its devs would react in some low-level form, but let's just try to keep it civil and give our opinions in a more elegant way, to do not go to the low-level that they were, and worst, that was not an attitude of a fan, but an official attitude of the company, shared by their official means of communication, with everyone through Youtube channel and their own website, so, there is no really excuse valid here, like "closed doors statements" or "only for subscribers to listen".
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