"players do whatever it takes to earn the skill, knowledge, wealth and power to survive in a futuristic cutthroat galaxy and to stand among the ranks of the iconic Elite. In an age of galactic superpowers and interstellar war, every player’s story influences the unique connected gaming experience and handcrafted evolving narrative. Governments fall, battles are lost and won, and humanity’s frontier is reshaped, all by players’ actions. "
"Massively Multiplayer
Experience unpredictable encounters with players from around the world in Elite Dangerous’ vast massively multiplayer space. Experience the connected galaxy alone in Solo mode or with players across the world in Open Play, where every pilot you face could become a trusted ally or your deadliest enemy."
it's all in Elite

angerous "about the game" which everyone can read on the store page Lures in new players with the immpression that they will get to play with other players(co-operating together towards a goal, co-operating to stop a player/group of players in achieving their goal you name it) and then people like you roybe or Ziggy come in and demand that players play only against NPCs since you don't like.
Another direct Quote from Braben:
“There are missions out there I know almost no players have seen,” he says. “But we haven’t communicated it properly. There’s so much in there, and what we see from play patterns is that many do the same thing over and over. In that cycle, they just don’t get to see some of the variation. I’m not blaming players. We got it wrong.”
and people like you guys just keep enforcing that same pattern Braben and fdev deem as their mistake.
also Mike. if the "vote with your wallet" would really work, Fdev would have to allow people to get a refund at any given time and you would see how fast we would get new content stalled just to modify the current enviroment that we have now.
Also to all those people that claim that they are in "mobius" "13th legion" or whatever player-group "with a minor faction in-game" Ask Fdev to implement proper CMDR Guilds(fleets) and introduce system permits to the system that a guild is in charge of(also introduce travel/trading/security/bounty hunting permits to non-guild players) and There and only there you can enforce a choosen set of rules given by fdev.
Reduce the insurance costs all across the board, increase the bounty given to a player for attacking other players/npcs outside of anarchy/lawless systems and make that person jump into instances with players that a higher and higher combat rank and things like that.
Everything can change for the better(and worse of course, but that too is a part of the ride) but some people need to understand that all of us, the people that want to be pirates, the traders, the solo players, the bounty hunters, you name them. Are part of the community that plays and drives Elite

angerous