my little message to frontier....

[jake logan]

with some of the comments i have read about frontier losing the original programmers of their game engine and no-one understands it in depth anymore.....all these instances of patches screwing things up more and unintended side effects, really begin to make sense.

Mr. BRABEN....gather up your senior managers, eat the large slice of humble pie odyssey has served up to you, and do whatever you have to in order to get that original programming talent back in your stable. because it truly looks like no-one there knows the code anymore.

 

[raven9ine]

I always loved ED, I supported the game with Arx, and I very much looked forward to Odyssey. It is sad to see the game crumble, to see the games positives being ripped apart, because of people involved seemingly not knowing what makes the game great or because of sheer incompetence. I back the game up as much as I can. The original parts still are one of a kind, the flight model and ship HUD, but the devs or whiever seem to try to reinvent the wheel with the UI and obviously failed tremendously. It gets harder and harder to appreciate the game.

Mr. Braben, we know, your plans are different, you want Frontier being a publisher now, but let me tell you this, ED is and was always will be the forefront of Frontier, and if it gets screwed, I sure won't bother checking out anything Frontier has to offer. ED is unique, it fills a huge gap, and so far SC isn't even close to fill some things ED offers. It's an incedible game, lasting for almost a decade soon, that's noteworthy. But at the moment, it sure doesn't seem that it will keep it up to the end of that decade. But think about it, a successful main IP is an advantage even for a publisher.

EA has Battlefield, Star Wars and all those sport IPs like FIFA, Activision has CoD and Ubisoft has the Tom Clancy and AC games among others. What does Frontier have? ED! And ED has probably the most passionate player base I ever came across. Don't screw that up!