Man I'm about to just hang this game up for a few weeks until FD gets all this crap sorted. Persistent universe hardly exists, trading completely broken, exploration not worth the trouble, can't send text messages to anyone in-game, friends not being able to see each other in open play sometimes, bounty hunting is *okay* but the cops attack when you attack someone who's wanted which is ridiculous (cops need to be their own global faction and not spread around a bunch of other small factions in systems)...among other things.
I wanna love this game but frankly right now it's a buggy, hardly functioning mess. Having to force myself to log on lately because I know crap's gonna still be broken.
...erm, I just found this teddy in the corner, it seems it might be yours?
This is week one of release. If you look back into the forums you will see endless people pushing for a release date who didn't invest early and become Beta (or Alpha) backers but wanted in on the action. It seems that many people had an idea for what they wanted this game to be, and clearly you can't please all of the people all of the time. Personally I love it so far and have enjoyed being part of the testing process, while it hasn't got some of the things in my imagined version, it has many things I had not thought of.
I accept that, for this to have the longevity that it needs to keep people interested in sticking around for future expansions, FDev will not have been able to predict how people will play so they will have planned to adapt the game now we are at 1.0 to respond correctly to the way we as a community interact with the world and the factions. The alternative would have been to delay release of 1.0, write a generic narrative that we would all have to fit in to and then just sit back and say "there it is, all done". That would've been worse and the issues identified after release would not have been addressed.
I can see your frustration but this is not a 'buy it, play for 10hrs, complete it' type of game. It is a long term investment of time, of building your own legend and interacting with others. People will progress at their own pace, it isn't a race and there isn't a 'win' or even an 'end'. That was clear to me from the outset and I plan to still be here long in to the future when GTA5 or Call of Duty version 27 has long since been traded in.
Things that are broken get fixed. FDev will respond to the community play-style and the game will continue to develop. I would encourage you to enjoy the journey.
