So, yesterday we had a very exhaustive preview of some of the upcoming new features of ED. For a single day I was happy to see a relaxed atmosphere here on the dangerous forums. Many happy threads raising everywhere gave me a feeling of peace. Today I fired my browser just to find (again) many new threads about lack of content and bad gameplay despite FD is giving us, step by step, tons over tons of new things to do every time that we log in, plus a continuous work on fixing and tweaking.
So, what am I missing here? is there something as a veteran gamer I'm struggling to catch? why people keep whining about half finished things, no content, shallow gameplay and so on?
Probably power play, exploration, a gazillion of solar systems, piracy, bounty hunting, PVP, stock trading, mission running, player driven content, roleplaying, character creator, multicrew, wings, BGS, ship outfitting, aliens, planetary landing, communication, first person flight model, external and internal cameras, rare goods trading, mining, puzzles, native virtual reality, smuggling, storyline, news & journalism.... are not game content and gameplay, but a mirage. Something that only lives in our bugged heads.
I play and played a hundreds of games in my life (I started in late 1980's) and except for rare masterworks like the ultima series, the elder scrolls and eve online I never (never!) found something like elite dangerous. It has the potential to become an infinite ever growing experience.
At this point I surrender and I kindly ask you modern gamers what's your definition of "content" and "gameplay". Please define those terms and help me to understand the true meaning of your posts. Maybe all this daily threads will start to make sense to me and maybe someone from Frontier will suddenly understand that they are on the wrong road to happiness and success and avoid to waste their energy, while trying to make us happy for 100-500-1000 hours of our miserably short lives.
An old forum dad.
JJ
So, what am I missing here? is there something as a veteran gamer I'm struggling to catch? why people keep whining about half finished things, no content, shallow gameplay and so on?
Probably power play, exploration, a gazillion of solar systems, piracy, bounty hunting, PVP, stock trading, mission running, player driven content, roleplaying, character creator, multicrew, wings, BGS, ship outfitting, aliens, planetary landing, communication, first person flight model, external and internal cameras, rare goods trading, mining, puzzles, native virtual reality, smuggling, storyline, news & journalism.... are not game content and gameplay, but a mirage. Something that only lives in our bugged heads.
I play and played a hundreds of games in my life (I started in late 1980's) and except for rare masterworks like the ultima series, the elder scrolls and eve online I never (never!) found something like elite dangerous. It has the potential to become an infinite ever growing experience.
At this point I surrender and I kindly ask you modern gamers what's your definition of "content" and "gameplay". Please define those terms and help me to understand the true meaning of your posts. Maybe all this daily threads will start to make sense to me and maybe someone from Frontier will suddenly understand that they are on the wrong road to happiness and success and avoid to waste their energy, while trying to make us happy for 100-500-1000 hours of our miserably short lives.
An old forum dad.
JJ