Here we go again...did someone mention circles?
No Single Player Offline Mode then? [Part 2]
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Here we go again...did someone mention circles?
Newbie view point ,yea thats me, lol,
To add to my last post the community is the game the game is the community, fractured community bad game, players constantly fighting between themselfs as to who is right and who is wrong dont make a good impression to the outside ,ppl are now looking in towards this community and seeing the backlash and in fighting and are,
a)laughing and shaking there heads yet ur all in the same boat,
b) thinking if thats the sort of community that i want to be a part off,
please please for the sake of the community and the game help each other to resolve the anguish that some ppl are feeling at this ,and not attack or stick ur head in the sand attitude because u like one thing and others like another.
PPL have a right to complain and voice there concerns even if you dont agree with what they say , just put yourself in there shoes and ask yourself what would you do in the same position.
Yes i am a newbie,noob and yes i do have the game,no i want be asking for a refund even though i wanted offline, i just feel that this community has a whole is fantastic, but the last week as been and showed what it as become nasty and horrible to ppl looking in.
For the sake of the community HELP EACH OTHER, just like you would help others in game.
I think i have said to much for a noob, but this is whats showing to the outside
phil
To add to my last post the community is the game the game is the community, fractured community bad game, players constantly fighting between themselfs as to who is right and who is wrong dont make a good impression to the outside ,ppl are now looking in towards this community and seeing the backlash and in fighting and are,
a)laughing and shaking there heads yet ur all in the same boat,
b) thinking if thats the sort of community that i want to be a part off,
please please for the sake of the community and the game help each other to resolve the anguish that some ppl are feeling at this ,and not attack or stick ur head in the sand attitude because u like one thing and others like another.
PPL have a right to complain and voice there concerns even if you dont agree with what they say , just put yourself in there shoes and ask yourself what would you do in the same position.
Yes i am a newbie,noob and yes i do have the game,no i want be asking for a refund even though i wanted offline, i just feel that this community has a whole is fantastic, but the last week as been and showed what it as become nasty and horrible to ppl looking in.
For the sake of the community HELP EACH OTHER, just like you would help others in game.
I think i have said to much for a noob, but this is whats showing to the outside
phil
Actually, they're not refunding those that want their money back if they downloaded the alpha/beta, that's one of the problems. Plus, a promise really is a promise. They were looking forward (as I was) to an offline game. That's why you're seeing all the "drama queens" as you put it that are "whining and crying" about it.
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And it is now a generic MMO.
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But, as others have said, we'll wait when something the staunch onliners like gets removed or not implemented, maybe then we can start saying: "It doesn't effect me so I don't care. It was never promised. Get over it. If you don't like it, then...."
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Basically this. Call it Elite Dangerous Lite, give it for free as effectively a demo, and just make it occasionally remind you, "Hey, wouldn't this be such more cooler with other players, exploring a dynamic universe with more secrets and special missions? Try Elite Dangerous MMO!"
No need to reject this mode based on "vision" at all, if you market it as being a free version that will understandably be missing features.
I've said this before, but I don't want a refund. I also don't want anyone at all to suffer, at all. Like ever.But I do want an offline mode, I want to be able to disconnect and just ... zone. Just me and the "static" game. It's my dream since Frontier First Encounters. I even wrote one or two design documents for a follow-up game while I was at Massive Entertainment for that very reason. Man that was ages ago. Point is: I'm not some wild angry drunk, I'm not out for vengeance, I'm not in this to hurt anybody. I had a dream and that doesn't seem to be happening. I am hurt and sad and a little bit fragile. Other people express those emotions differently. Some even turn paranoid over it. Me, I'm mostly sad and trying to deal with it.
Same here. For what it's worth, I also have a 40-page draft for what I wanted an Elite 4 (or Elite 2 really, wasn't a fan of the Frontier games) to be, basically sketching out how additional features would work but essentially tacked-on to the original Elite.
That's all I need, and why I still play Oolite.
I've had run-ins with the mods here in the past, but I have to say I respect this stance. While I hesitate to call anyone a liar, at some point everybody has lied for various reasons, and as such everything should be assumed suspect given reasonable doubt. And it's always better to argue against points than against people.
I said this before, but it's relevant again: I believe that Frontier did want to implement offline mode initially. I don't believe that it was removed because of technical difficulties, or because of "vision"; neither stand up to scrutiny in my personal opinion.
just out of interest, I count there are 6,434 (count open to correction, was never that good at Maths) physical copies of the game being sent out round or about the 16 DEC, that's just from kickstarter, was the physical box set ever for sale on the web store? reckon it would be fair to surmise a high % of those we're under the belief they would receive a stand alone version of the game. I'm beging to worry that there is a possibility that quite a few of them don't know what's happened! add to that people who may have thought, can't be bothered with the DVD, "I'll just get the download version" and then play it offline! : (
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Eh, I'd rather no more features were cut.
As I've said repeatedly, I bear no ill will whatsoever towards any community members (or mods, or any Frontier employee, or even Brookes and Braben themselves), unless they're professional politicians (a man has to have his principles).
If (when) something similar to this fiasco happens again and affects other people I'll stand by them, if I'm around, and in the worst case tell them "I don't want to say «I told you so», but I told you so".
Not that I might not get some sick satisfaction from seeing some of the most staunch Frontier apologists on this threads do a one-eighty when they're the affected ones, but that'll just be the primate brain doing its thing, and I won't be proud of it. *shrug*
Oh, most definitely.
I myself read the newsletter and didn't notice anything, till I saw it on Reddit, and I doubt most backers even bother reading the newsletters, and even less this forums.
Yes, the news have appeared on a lot of places, including the BBC, but with the saturation of news on the internet, and gaming being a rather niche topic, I'm sure there are a not insignificant number of backers that'll get a nasty surprise when they try to play the game for the first time.
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Does anyone know why FD after getting £1,578,316 from 25,681 backers stopped weekly updates on Kickstarter? I think some many people are going to be pleasantly surprised in December that the game is not DRM free and playable in off-line mode!
Brett C
Frontier
Hi all,
After lengthy discussion with the moderation team, we have decided to go ahead and close this discussion thread.
We are not closing this discussion in an attempt to shun out people regarding offline mode, but more or less due to the following list of issues that have arose in this thread.
We kindly ask that you do not create new threads/discussions about this moderation action or the offline issues at this point in time. Thank you for understanding.
After lengthy discussion with the moderation team, we have decided to go ahead and close this discussion thread.
We are not closing this discussion in an attempt to shun out people regarding offline mode, but more or less due to the following list of issues that have arose in this thread.
- Extensive circular discussion.
- Verbal attacks to employees of Frontier and the volunteer moderators.
- Harassment and threats, to moderators and employees.
- Continuous baiting and trolling of one another.
- Numerous off-topic replies.
We kindly ask that you do not create new threads/discussions about this moderation action or the offline issues at this point in time. Thank you for understanding.
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