Moderators !== Frontier Employees.
They are just like you and me on here, but with powers to remove and edit posts and kick and ban people.
No Single Player offline Mode then?
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Moderators !== Frontier Employees.
They are just like you and me on here, but with powers to remove and edit posts and kick and ban people.
I agree with your first statement but the answer to your question is yes and updates can come as expansions on DVD so never update isn't an issue
Over 4300 posts here,already being discussed on Gamespot..and now PC Gamer are involved
http://www.pcgamer.com/elite-dangerous-will-no-longer-support-an-offline-mode/
http://www.pcgamer.com/elite-dangerous-will-no-longer-support-an-offline-mode/
Somewhat amusingly (to me at least) this evening my internet has become rather choppy. Dropping out for 1 to 10 minutes at a time. This doesn't happen often, but it does happen and I've got pretty high end cable internet.
So glad I'm not trying to play an always online game this evening or I'd be getting jolly frustrated right about now.
So glad I'm not trying to play an always online game this evening or I'd be getting jolly frustrated right about now.
However, disagreement is not trolling.
Trolling is something very specific related to harassment. Just be careful of that.
Of course you are right mate, but jeez, I'm just trying to point out to the guy that it is an issue.
Its never too late to reverse a bad decision.
They also used the p word.
Based on the fact that comment was made around Chris Sawyer and royalty payments, but Chris Sawyer is a major shareholder in Frontier (http://www.frontier.co.uk/investor_relations/reports/) I doubt much of that holds true anymore, and is mostly just sour grapes.
After FDEV have finished work on the offline version of ED they can start work on an offline version of the forums! I'm sure over the last few years they have been running profiles on all of us and have developed an AI capable of reproducing realistic tantrums, trolling, bear baiting and pointless arguments that will appear so real you would think you conversing with actual community members and all of it without the need of an Internet connection. 
Hm... I'd watch this graph on the next few days (and particularly after the gamma and release feature sets are revealed, and after the exclusively-online launch crashes the servers as exclusively-online launches are wont to do)...
It's not poor communication it's a complete spin, the newsletter wasn't upfront or apologetic in any way, in fact apparently this is a good thing. I don't think people would have minded as much if he said here's the deal: funds, resources are limited, it can't be done I'm afraid. But it's a month before release and dodging of a half the game, delivered somewhat like a politician and they don't intend on delivering what was promised and had been worked on up till now, a month before release. Or never intended to for a while and didn't make us aware of such.
Will you stop, (I know, I know, I'm feeding him), people were, (rightly or wrongly), led to believe that this play mode, not 'feature', was still in game for the entirety of the development period, said game mode is then axed at the last minute, (in development terms), some people backed based on this mode, some had it as a fall back, a decent number were to receive the disks as part of their backer level, and you do not think there is an issue here, my god.
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Please Theodrid, I am not trying to defend or attack anything. I am trying to make sense. My personal POV has always been that to promise offline mode was a little bit premature and they should have said "maybe" and give regular updates if that will be possible. It has bitten FD hard. I personally don't believe in any kind of shenanigans for this. They tried it, it didn't work. It seems they tried for quite some time.
For all reasons why would FD ever come out with such information just week before premiere? It's nuts. Obviously, they didn't have choice, because announcing that during and after Premiere would be just worst of the worst.
Sure, but there must have been some reason for them to have enough certainty that the game would have an offline mode to tell people so.
I assume it was the same reason most of us assumed the same: that the game had been (falsely, albeit possibly not maliciously) advertised as having an offline mode.
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