Newsletters: bring back the Sneak Peak of the Week

Back in the old days I used to look very forward to the weekly Frontier newsletters for one specific reason: the Sneak Peak of the Week. This was a section of the newsletter which often contained behind the scenes pictures of new things in development for Elite; stuff like future ships, new bases or starports, or even just random closeups of something shadowy or unrecognizable, but always something slated to come to the game down the road, something in development. Sometimes they were accompanied by a paragraph or two of a dev blurb, sometimes they were much more mysterious, but they were always interesting to see and often sparked great discussion about things to look forward to in Elite.

This is why I’d like to see the sneak peak of the week return: to give the community hope that Elite’s future is bright, to satiate the desperate hunger that players have been feeling lately due to so much silence by Frontier on the direction of the game. To bring regular positive discussions back to the community, and to give players enough confidence to continue sticking with the game and to keep buying DLC from the Elite Store. And also to make the newsletters great again! Or better at least!

It would be a great step towards improving communication between Frontier and the players. Maybe by learning and returning to what worked in the past we can all improve the future of the franchise?
 
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Have you noticed how the lack of News in the Newsletter coincides with lack of enthusiasm for the game by quite a number of players further down the line.

The News letter (IMO) should be about generating excitement for the game within the community, not get a new paint skin for 60% off etc..
 
Back in the old days I used to look very forward to the weekly Frontier newsletters for one specific reason: the Sneak Peak of the Week. This was a section of the newsletter which often contained behind the scenes pictures of new things in development for Elite; stuff like future ships, new bases or starports, or even just random closeups of something shadowy or unrecognizable, but always something slated to come to the game down the road, something in development. Sometimes they were accompanied by a paragraph or two of a dev blurb, sometimes they were much more mysterious, but they were always interesting to see and often sparked great discussion about things to look forward to in Elite.

This is why I’d like to see the sneak peak of the week return: to give the community hope that Elite’s future is bright, to satiate the desperate hunger that players have been feeling lately due to so much silence by Frontier on the direction of the game. To bring regular positive discussions back to the community, and to give players enough confidence to continue sticking with the game and to keep buying DLC from the Elite Store. And also to make the newsletters great again! Or better at least!

It would be a great step towards improving communication between Frontier and the players. Maybe by learning and returning to what worked in the past we can all improve the future of the franchise?

I second the motion. If you look at what RSI does with SC updates now, it would be nice if FDev could share something a little something new each week.
 
I would love for peeks and dev diaries to return.
I seem to remember that Micheal Brookes said they were suspending the Dev updates while they busy with 2.1
 
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I too wondered where the sneak peak went ? This would bring the newsletters back to life for me.

Flimley

I believe they originally stopped doing them simply because they were too busy to take the time to do it. Problem is they never returned. :(
 
This is more relevant than ever:

http://i.imgur.com/fIyH8lq.jpg


And it's time once again for my stump speech.

What do we want? Peeks! When do we want them? Now!

Justice for Mr Peekson McWeekson!

Fourscore and seven days ago, our forefathers basked in the glory of the Peek of the Week. Now we are engaged in a great disappointment, testing whether that community, or any community so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day participate in a community where they will not be given old screenshots, but instead hot new peeks.

We shall defend our peeks, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.

Ich bin ein McWeekson!
 
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