Ok, this I can understand and in all honesty, the game needs life and expansions in order to survive. We have to move with the times no matter how much we dislike that part of the process in order to keep things alive in a much broader scope. These days, it's all about the online, social, teamwork fun. A group or gathering, shall we say. I've never said what others feel are invalid, but to throw it all away on mere prinicipal or pouting, come on. Few game designers achieve what they promise on release, look at all major titles and patches that follow. I might be wrong about that part, but wasn't solo mode singleplayer, it was last I checked. Things just update to reflect changes in the galaxy or factions.
Shok.
From my understanding some people don't want nothing else than a sandbox universe.
Theirs, fully, untouchable. They want to find it the same as they left it.
NPCs and whatever else is in there should be pure decoration.
I can understand that to a certain point.
Transport Tycoon is such an example, imagine someone else interferred with your complex, well thought out system. (even its 2 whole different genres, just to make a point)
They want to be the first to see a star, a system, a station, you name it.
In short, their game.
And they have every right to wish for that, no matter how anyone else i thinking about it.
Is it likely FD will deliver something like that? Who knows? Someday maybe.
Do I think it would be boring as hell? Yes but no one cares.
Could i try to be reasonable and show them, they might miss an opportunity? Yes but it'd be pointless.
Everyone wants, what he wants.
After alot of pages here i learned, that only few care for the other and it's pointless to try to explain something to someone who does'nt want to listen.
Do i like the game? Hell yes!
Do i feel for the dissapointed people? Yes Sir!
Do i understand the decision? Yes.
Do i want to defend FD? Hell no. I think their refund policy is unfair. Advertising to upgrade a preorder (refundable) for 15 bucks to beta access (making everything un-refundable) is beyond my logic.
The right thing to do would have been an anouncement with a parallel refund offer, because of a feature change. (no matter if it was the decision to not implement offline, bountyhunting, mining, trading or whatever) until the moment of the final release. That would have been a fair and friendly thing to do.
