Got the refund for Odyssey a couple of days ago... here's the main reason. Support asked me to post it in the Suggestion Forum so here"s my original mail to them:
Good morning,
For Raxxla's sake, i"ll try to make it short.
Gaming for me is a way to relax, to get my mind off the daily life/routine and usually i play a lot, timewise.
I set myself a goal and when i go to bed i'm normally satisfied with sometimes only small progress, but progress ( light at the end of the tunnel ).
As Elite Dangerous has no real story or game given objectives the player needs to create her/his own objectives.
Fully ok with me, i knew that when i bought the game. Also the grinding for Credits is, in my opinion, comparable to other games, but less variety.
With the introduction of Engineers more grind came to the game but hey, new goals to achieve.
My objective is currently to buy some new ships, engineer them and having fun with them.
Data grinding, go to Jameson Chrashsite, scan the data points, log off to main menu, log in, scan, when full go back to the data trader,
trade data for other missing data, go back and rinse and repeat (light at the end of the tunnel)
Raw materials, go to HIP whatever and the other planet, fill up your materials, go to the material trader, trade for others/lower and rinse and repeat (light at the end of the tunnel)
Manufactured materials........find in EDDB a system with the desired faction state e.g. Outbreak for pharmaceutical stuff, go there, scan the Nav beacon and HOPE to find a HGE from the affected corp with the desired faction state. As nearly all systems have multiple faction states and multiple Coorperations that chance is ....small. If youre lucky to to find the right HGE with the desired faction state and corp, HOPE that is has a timer of more that 30min AND is not a 140000ls away. If you are so lucky, get in the HGE, scoop the material, exit the game, restart the game, fire up your FSD, go back to the HGE and rinse and repeat. As that grind system is purely luck based there is NO LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL.
In the lase week(s) i spent around 30hours flying around finding HGE...wrong corp, wrong state...3 HGE in one system - 2 with the wrong Faction/state and the one i was looking for with 2:30 min left on the timer....
That game mechanic is simply broken, its an Endboss who doesnt show up to the Bossfight.
And if i need to convince myself to log into the game to have the same feeling like i have after work, 8 hours present and nothing achieved/changed than i stop playing that game.
As Odessey has new Engineers i expect the same grinding for other materials. I dont need that.
Ill wait what i can find on Youtube, what bugs there are, hows the grinding and than i decide if ill buy it.
In that context, please proceed with the refund
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...one more thing... when i saw that i had the option between BUYING an Alpha Key and the normal Odyssey i just thought ...what...paying for doing their job ???
And when i later heard that the Alpha was just a liitle part of the to be released Odyssey .... that's a slap in the face for eveybody who paid for it.
So let's see if this game will be still worth playing for me in the near future.
Good morning,
For Raxxla's sake, i"ll try to make it short.
Gaming for me is a way to relax, to get my mind off the daily life/routine and usually i play a lot, timewise.
I set myself a goal and when i go to bed i'm normally satisfied with sometimes only small progress, but progress ( light at the end of the tunnel ).
As Elite Dangerous has no real story or game given objectives the player needs to create her/his own objectives.
Fully ok with me, i knew that when i bought the game. Also the grinding for Credits is, in my opinion, comparable to other games, but less variety.
With the introduction of Engineers more grind came to the game but hey, new goals to achieve.
My objective is currently to buy some new ships, engineer them and having fun with them.
Data grinding, go to Jameson Chrashsite, scan the data points, log off to main menu, log in, scan, when full go back to the data trader,
trade data for other missing data, go back and rinse and repeat (light at the end of the tunnel)
Raw materials, go to HIP whatever and the other planet, fill up your materials, go to the material trader, trade for others/lower and rinse and repeat (light at the end of the tunnel)
Manufactured materials........find in EDDB a system with the desired faction state e.g. Outbreak for pharmaceutical stuff, go there, scan the Nav beacon and HOPE to find a HGE from the affected corp with the desired faction state. As nearly all systems have multiple faction states and multiple Coorperations that chance is ....small. If youre lucky to to find the right HGE with the desired faction state and corp, HOPE that is has a timer of more that 30min AND is not a 140000ls away. If you are so lucky, get in the HGE, scoop the material, exit the game, restart the game, fire up your FSD, go back to the HGE and rinse and repeat. As that grind system is purely luck based there is NO LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL.
In the lase week(s) i spent around 30hours flying around finding HGE...wrong corp, wrong state...3 HGE in one system - 2 with the wrong Faction/state and the one i was looking for with 2:30 min left on the timer....
That game mechanic is simply broken, its an Endboss who doesnt show up to the Bossfight.
And if i need to convince myself to log into the game to have the same feeling like i have after work, 8 hours present and nothing achieved/changed than i stop playing that game.
As Odessey has new Engineers i expect the same grinding for other materials. I dont need that.
Ill wait what i can find on Youtube, what bugs there are, hows the grinding and than i decide if ill buy it.
In that context, please proceed with the refund
************************************************************************************************************
...one more thing... when i saw that i had the option between BUYING an Alpha Key and the normal Odyssey i just thought ...what...paying for doing their job ???
And when i later heard that the Alpha was just a liitle part of the to be released Odyssey .... that's a slap in the face for eveybody who paid for it.
So let's see if this game will be still worth playing for me in the near future.
