As much as I'm not interested in your constant baiting of various users and misinformation, but I guess neither of us will get what they want
Addendum : Forums, prepare ye for the storm of all storms. For we are about to be slashdotted :
http://games.slashdot.org/story/14/11/18/0353240/elite-dangerous-dumps-offline-single-player
If you want to know what slashdotting feels like, it's brought down large scale commercial sites to their knees before, let's just hope they don't all decide to turn up at once >.<
Well it's not going to well so far .....
People really are running out of arguments and relying on make believe at times. It is very sad to pop into this thread and read the same old tired comments and some fantastical views. Nothing is going anywhere, there is talk of how easy it would be to do an offline version when the decision to not do one is staring folk in the face.
You have been given reasons, it doesn't really matter to FD if you accept them or not, clearly they can't go back on the decision and wouldn't have made it lightly in the first place.
Eventually it will all die off as launch approaches and the grumblers will walk away (until the next lot arrive complaining about the bugs of course!). In fact I am more worried about the release state at the moment as now we are committed to a date and online solo it had better be ready for the sake of the game.
The weakest argument is I was promised by kickstarter. There are no promises on kickstarter. You instantly lose credibilty with this one. Or see forum post made by Michael and David on Dec 2013.... Come on guys the reality is there was no conspiracy, FD have put a lot of really long hours and hard work into the game and have been forced to drop offline due to limitations in their core product and time left to deliver. Sad fact is the release schedule is there to meet shareholders expectations. This is their liveihood. If they don't deliver they lose everything.
I don't agree with how they have done it. I don't agree that they had alluded to an offline version until very late and then dropped it. But I can see why it has happened. And I accept it and move on. The game is still brilliant and above what I could have expected.
Are we still getting a version of Elite that we can play? For the majority of us yes! And we should still be celebrating the hard work put in to allow us to play that game. When you backed it or bought the beta you didn't buy the rights to any features. You bought into a version of Elite that FD will deliver to their schedule and design. I am so sorry for the minority that have no internet but I can't fix that issue and neither can FD in this case.
All this moaning is going nowhere and is not doing you any favours at all. Really - go back and read some of the arguments in the thread.
I'm enjoying the game and am looking forward to future improvements and expansions. Try it - it's quite an experience
