They may not be, but unfortunately the target audience that was around for the original game is too small to keep this game afloat. If this game wants to see it's supposed 10 year road map, it's going to have to face some of it's more serious issues sooner rather than later. The market for the attention of the gamer that makes up the rest of this game's audience (target or not) has too many options that are frankly more polished, less buggy and value their time more than this product.The people whose main issue with the game is the grind aren't the target audience.
You have around 12,000 active players online at a time (might be wrong here but dont think its far off being next to nothing.. compared to some 'highly successful games' out there.. talking 70k active players; up to 500k active players.. you all know of the games im talkin about).
You have Steam review of 'MIXED' (says it all)
Its so damn obvious! They (FD) need to hire YOU, because YOU have all the ANSWERS.
Have another vodka, you'll feel better and probably post a better thread for me to laugh at.
Well it seems pretty obvious that the devs need to look outside their own team for answers.
I disagree.
There are a lot of ways for decent money to progress reasonably through the ship tiers.
The problem is the lack of knowledge to these methods and the high learning curve.
Also, many are not used to bgs sandbox games.
They just are different and it's easy to get lost in unnecessary grind.
You can even use filters to find a healty amount of HGEs.
All I am missing is some progression in mission rewards facing escalaring costs of high end ships.. but that really is all.
Oh, and I want to trade in Thargoid and Guardian materials at the manufactured and encoded trader.
Except for the broker those are rather useless.
Elite has always been about the grind. Its more or less the same now as back in 84, the core gameplay.
Yep, or any other decent MMO space game, for that matter.They should be concerned that if that other MMO space game ever gets released that there will be a mass exodus.
They should be concerned that if that other MMO space game ever gets released that there will be a mass exodus.
Hooray for the ignore thread function. \o/
Flimley
Hooray for the ignore thread function. \o/
Flimley
Awww....the mods removed the use of critical thinking and self control and made a flag? So disappointed.
Custard is boring????!!!11one11
Custard never gets boring! Wait. I forgot the all caps. one sec...
Custard NEVER gets boring!
#triggered
There, all better now.
But I agree with the bulk of the op.