It was said from the start, it is still on the kickstarter page where I bought my "DRM Free" boxed copy which now requires persistant online connection
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No Single Player offline Mode then?
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It was said from the start, it is still on the kickstarter page where I bought my "DRM Free" boxed copy which now requires persistant online connection
And it has been inaccurate, repeatedly.
Offline mode was cancelled because a design / implementation decision was made to move functionality into the server side.
This meant that as an offline player, you would need to host your own server - plus work would be needed to deliver that server functioning on a client PC.
That's it in a nutshell. And money.
I've had things I wanted cut. I lived with it. Not my vision. Honestly. If you want, I'll craft you a list of stuff from the DDA I wanted that didn't make the final game for one reason or another. I guess I just have a bit thicker skin though... Which doesn't explain the space heater and comforter I'm currently wrapped in like a burrito...
You know nothing of his work. Cthulhu always upvotes chaos.
One possible counter to this, is that the vision was, and always has been, a multi-player experience. Except that you and I both know that not supporting multiplayer in this day and age would be an immediate death-knell to the product. The stripping of offline is unfortunate, but not unexpected - but definitely disappointing for those involved.
The length of this thread is evidence of heightened passions. I've not yet formed an opinion on how serious much of it really is, though I have my suspicions where the problem truly lies.
At the end of the day, I trust FD to deliver a class-A game and I am sure they will.
Fly safe, Commander.
apologies if this has been asked before, I have neither the time nor inclination to read through a further 141 pages of this thread- but what happens when the servers go down in the future? will the game just *disappear*?
Everything is finite, but I know for a fact that my original bbc copy of elite still works, as does frontier:fe with a few OS workarounds. What exactly are frontier doing to address this, and to address the customers who backed this development with an offline mode on the table?
Everything is finite, but I know for a fact that my original bbc copy of elite still works, as does frontier:fe with a few OS workarounds. What exactly are frontier doing to address this, and to address the customers who backed this development with an offline mode on the table?
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Great point..ok let all those that are complaining about needing offline and having no internet access post up their stats and lets see how much time you have spent online in game.
Hey, who am I to argue with a Dev. Oh, wait, you aren't a Dev? Strange, it's almost like the Devs themselves have stated that offline would directly hinder the final product... Weird... It's almost like this could be verified with little to no work... Strange...
So if FDs vision was to make a game that you judge to be poor, you'd just accept and love it anyway?
I skimmed through the KS page and the only thing I saw was a reference to solo player mode, but that was under the multiplayer heading i.e. that would need a connection.. Have you got the direct quote, or say where on the KS page you saw it..
Of course he wouldn't, he's not stupid.
i have downloaded every alpha and beta, the jerkyness in combat is a joke, the jerkyness in SC around systems since beta 3 is horrid, I backed originally because an offline mode was offered, great for when the game has run it's course we can still play, we're now a month from release to date i have 8 npc kills for the whole of alpha/beta due to my cross hairs going all over the place when anywhere near another ship in combat, offline stood a chance of making the game stable enough to play, I wish I could believe they could sort the network issues but they have failed so far, £200 is a lot to pay for something that I can't see being playable anytime soon
Yes, because accessing a 1000k static webpage is like playing a permanently online MMO.
I'd try the pizza see how it tastes and if terrible i'd then complain.
I certainly would not whine and moan for hours to a chef about one ingredient missing from what could have been a amazing tasting pizza without even tasting it.
Did the chef do it on purpose to lose a customer, i very much doubt that.
I think that if enough customers missed out, and things started to look bad, it would be sensible to offer an olive branch.
Depends on why there's no olives. If it's because the olives would completely wreck the pizza, then I guess you'd either eat it without olives, or simply go somewhere else for your pizza. It's almost as though that's basic economics...
Logging in... and... Christ on a cracker... 423 hours... Wow. Still never even owned an Anaconda though lol... That cobra.
So you let one experience in one game, know for it's dark unforgiving gameplay interactions with players, define every multiplayer game going forward for you.
So if you cracked one bad egg open, would that stop you ever eating eggs again?
If you had one bad date, would that stop you ever wanting to date again?
Then the "THEIR VISION" argument goes right out the window. It's not a valid defense. People either like something or they don't, and have a right to be upset, vision or no vision.
Dear Michael,
I saw your other posts regarding staff, amount of work, game structure/mechanic and that offline will "Probably not" happen. I understand all that and i'm just slightly sad about it.
Your promise to keep supporting the game for years in all honors and no doubt about the next 10 years. But for the love of god start a "galaxy mechanic offline backup" or whatever you want to call it in the next few years. Something that ensures us we can play the game should the servers ever shut down. There should be a place for it in the next 3 to 5 years? Something along that line seems doable in my unexperienced view.
I'd really hope this will be considered or brought up at a meeting.
cmdr kaotical
I saw your other posts regarding staff, amount of work, game structure/mechanic and that offline will "Probably not" happen. I understand all that and i'm just slightly sad about it.
Your promise to keep supporting the game for years in all honors and no doubt about the next 10 years. But for the love of god start a "galaxy mechanic offline backup" or whatever you want to call it in the next few years. Something that ensures us we can play the game should the servers ever shut down. There should be a place for it in the next 3 to 5 years? Something along that line seems doable in my unexperienced view.
I'd really hope this will be considered or brought up at a meeting.
cmdr kaotical
The thing is I have a great internet connection and play group play now.
But it is the fact that FD can and probably will force me to stop playing this version of the game in a number of years in the future.
I may have to buy into elite 6 to continue to play, I may not have the option to play my Elite Dangerous.
They should offer a refund
But it is the fact that FD can and probably will force me to stop playing this version of the game in a number of years in the future.
I may have to buy into elite 6 to continue to play, I may not have the option to play my Elite Dangerous.
They should offer a refund
This is comedy gold and a true sign of the times. People like you are the reason developers get away with always-online-DRM and butchered games like Sim City.
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