You cant compare Elite with NMS, one is a space flight sim with a more realistic universe whilst the other is just a cartoon type mash up.I don't know if I totally agree with that statement. According to steam db, NMS player count has been hovering around 20k while Elite during the end of the goid's war was around 10K. right now Elite is at 4k and NMS is still at 22K.
SC, with all the bugs, scams, being just a broken mess of a tech demo, still pulls more players then Elite. Not only that, both games attract much younger crowd, as oppose to Elite.
my point is, Odyssey wasn't a huge succuss, Ascendency was a complete mess. Like you stated, what brought players back was new ships and the goid war Community Goal. Now that's over, numbers are going back to pre goid war numbers and I just don't feel Colonization will reinvigorate the game.
Yes, we don't know what the full update will include but from what FDev shared so far, it seems B-O-R-I-N-G![]()
I play NMS with my 10 year old, its just not in the same league as Elite.
Having backed SC from the start im not even going to comment on that piece of ...
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