I totally agree. It isn't so much about online or offline, it's about promising something and then taking peoples money based on the promise, then reneging with weak excuses and waving bye bye, thank's for all the fish.
No Single Player offline Mode then?
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I totally agree. It isn't so much about online or offline, it's about promising something and then taking peoples money based on the promise, then reneging with weak excuses and waving bye bye, thank's for all the fish.
I feel your pain.
If it helps any (probably not, but hey), rest assured that you are not alone with this.
But you know it doesn't work like that - the close systems will be explored straight away as a sort of free-for-all and the lag to get to the furthest systems would increase the discrepancies between those who play occasionally and those online pretty much all the time.
As an example, we all start out on day 1 and rush for exploration. I have as much chance of finding something new as you, however I would suggest that the systems close to the starting points have already been deemed explored and are common knowledge, so only the real hardcore explorers will find anything new in the first few days. But then, I go off and pay the mortgage, paint the spare room, cook meals and so on and not get back to the game for a few days, during which time you have explored out another couple of hundred systems. By time my game window is over, I've nearly caught up to you in exploration, but then I have to leave for a week, and when I get back you are now twice as far out as before. But I will never catch you and never be able to explore anything truly new.
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It is ridicules to believe that this decision was not made early in the development. Especially when coding X was getting hard and hard to do as the game making progressed. Use that gray matter boys and girls and think we are not dealing with a collage kit working in their mother basement creating something on Kickstart. We are dealing with multinational corporation with hundreds of years of combine experience in the gaming industry.
There is nothing worse then someone treating you like a moron who you helped reach their dream.
And again I am going to underline this.... They can't have it both ways. Either stick to your campaign promises (which are what compelled people to fund the project), or offer refunds to those who ask for it when you bail on those promises. Bail early if you have to, so you shed the people for whom the game you're now making isn't the game they want to fund/play. But you don't get to rattle off a list of stuff, each of which motivates different people to different degrees to decide to fund you, and then just ditch parts of that list at the end.
And I get that development can't be 100% predicted. That's why I'm saying they have to be proactive about these decisions AND allow for KS/Store refunds when requested.
Q: Do you now consider Elite: Dangerous to be an MMO?
A: Technically, it has always been. There are already over 100,000 people playing in the same world. We believe that always-online entertainment is already a reality for the majority. We are delivering a truly huge game using the best technology and designed to stand the test of time, played for many years to come and still be relevant.
If this MMO emphasis was in the Kickstarter campaign many people would be just skip it.
A: Technically, it has always been. There are already over 100,000 people playing in the same world. We believe that always-online entertainment is already a reality for the majority. We are delivering a truly huge game using the best technology and designed to stand the test of time, played for many years to come and still be relevant.
If this MMO emphasis was in the Kickstarter campaign many people would be just skip it.
I have to agree with you with the "Clean Break Part" but that is where it stops.
There was 25,681 backers who gave £1,578,316 to make this project a reality!!!
And not all of them care about offline mode.
Even if they had polled (and my understanding as KS backer was that there was no obligation in their part to ask for my opinion), the majority might still have come down on the side of ditching the offline mode in favour of game depth and complexity --as indeed they appear to have done. So it wouldn't have changed anything.
I think that you are morally entitled to a refund, but sadly that's all you're entitled to.
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Oh believe me, it most certainly is. It's a difficult decision, but it's not one I make lightly.
Hmm. Where have I heard that line before?
See you Saturday.
Diablo 3, was one I was looking forward to getting, right up until they canned offline single player for always online. Not on my PC, xbox 360 however, glorious offline functionality available
funny thing is I made fun of Starcitizen last 2 years and were praising DB and FDs for being better and making better game.
Thanks, I would be giddy with joy if I got the offline Elite that I was promised.
Also, I didn't ask what you would do if you aren't restrained by DRM. Not everyone is like you. GOG.com is doing quite well selling games and content all without DRM.
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You won't be alone over there.
I emphasize but I can see why it is difficult with the posts like the above. Can't you?
At around 7000 posts someone listed a page of posters and there were only actually 67 people posting multiple times...50 were mine..
Anyone know how to get that list ?
I would be interested to see how many now
Anyone know how to get that list ?
I would be interested to see how many now
What would be done about if they did?
Oh, thanks for the tip! Had no time to explore other projects "like Elite". It suddenly turned out that ED is not Elite anymore for me.
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