Progress on the death of the game.

[Bottom Hat]

It ran on a very conservative platform, and I think that's pretty self-evident from all the murdering it did

Oh my, how naughty!

Here we see the Falcon escaping after deploying a patch to Death Star on PS4:

And that's the reason we are waiting kids - you saw it here first!

 

[xzanfr]

What other platforms did the death Star run on? I hope it was pc only.

It ran on linux.
Stormtroopers guns were a secondary attack, boring enemies to death about the benefits of linux was their primary weapon.
Much like mac users but without turtle neck jumpers and a soundtrack by Air.

 

[Sysmon]

It ran on linux.
Stormtroopers guns were a secondary attack, boring enemies to death about the benefits of linux was their primary weapon.

The second Death Star was taken down by clusters of Raspberry Pis connected with twine and tin cans.

S

 

[Bottom Hat]

Well you can see why the death Star kept failing.

 

[Chaparral]

How many new games came out? Oh yeah more COD a new HALO, and more, of course we're gonna see less players with those two franchises having big releases.

Some also like to spend it with family, rather than gaming. I have many friends who play Elite who are currently taking a break from it for the Holidays so they can spend time with their family, and friends in RL who didn't test positive for COVID (I haven't to clarify; I just am not close to anyone in my family aside from my mum whos 800+ miles away and I don't have the funds to visit nor was Canada allowing non essential travel).

To me it is, then again I've done a ton of first footfalls, witnessed some amazing sights on planets, had tons of fun in the combat zones, switched it up on when I'm sneaking and stealing stuff from shooting my way through, to seeing how far I can get without getting caught. The amount of time I've spent on Odyssey has made up for the 40... then again like my original and horizons copies, it was gifted to me so I haven't had any RL cost in the game yet, my Epic account I'm debating on getting it ody.

The other part as well with those numbers, those were steams numbers, do we have the number from Epic? Or Standalone players? Prior to Ody launch I actually was using Standalone with my main account, since it's an older account that can switch between steam and standalone.

Steam charts are never referenced as a measure of absolute player numbers.

Steam charts are a sample used as an indicator of trends in the overall population.

Imagine you are an actual biologist trying to get a handle on the population of birds in a geographic area. You don't capture every bird. You capture several samples over a period of time, look at the number of recaptures of previously caught birds, then estimate the total population based on the ratio.

Steam charts is never referenced in these forums as an indicator of absolute numbers, and anyone suggesting that is an absolute dope.

Samples like this can be applied to the entire steam player base:

You can see an oscillating pattern based on a 24 hour cycle pretty commonly across all steam users.

Here is a trend for the year:
https://backlinko.com/steam-users

It is my speculation that a contributing factor to increased Steam participation are the widespread lockdowns and movement of people to more insular lifestyles due to the pandemic.

If EDO was truly a successful offering, we would not have seen the overall decline in users since release.

There has been a recovery, and the improvements in the product have certainly contributed to that very modest recovery.

Sales on Steam can't have hurt either.

 

[metatheurgist]

"Only Sith deal in absolutes", and (if you forgive the obvious irony) we all know how that one ended!

With 6 terrible movies?

 

[Bottom Hat]

I thought this thread was a parody... wasn't it?

Don't be crazy, you crazy fool!

 

[Nic727]

I will only be back in the game when they will add Odyssey on console and when we will get a revamped Powerplay where players would have a greater influence on economy and factions choices like politics/expansion/alliance/story driven choices with weekly polls/etc.

 

[He$$eeTant]

Sorry where are we on the chart???

1) Wow you play that, I heard it’s an awesome game.

2) Oh yeah everyone plays that, even Gran’s nursing home has a copy

3) Can’t believe you still play that old carp game.

4) Oh yeah super retro I remember that game have you done the wazitcalled…. Rum Tar thing, great in a panther clipper.

Got the grand kids coming over and want to be sure.

 

[optiplex]

So looking at the above steam chart i am making this game even more doomed by not playing through steam. I will buy it on steam so i can make the game even more doomed.

 

[Rat Catcher]

I will only be back in the game when they will add Odyssey on console and when we will get a revamped Powerplay where players would have a greater influence on economy and factions choices like politics/expansion/alliance/story driven choices with weekly polls/etc.

Oh well.... Enjoy whatever else you choose to play

 

[CMDR M Kozak]

Numbers increasing during the past three months, as shown by the OP:

Still... even 4500ish of december only about half'ish of february 2021. Months before release.

 

[Rat Catcher]

I thought this thread was a parody... wasn't it?

It was, then the ones who cannot have anything good said about EDO piled in...

The very same ones, incidentally, that complain about the forumites, like myself, who have a sense of humour, and accuse us of derailing threads...

Irony in the extreme!

 

[Barking_Mad]

Interesting that OP decided to cut off the part of those stats that show the +/-

View attachment 282915

Here it is in full so you get a better understanding instead of following OP's crap interpretation that the game is thriving.

It's doomed get all your stuff given to Bottom!!!

To be fair if you go back to the start of pandemic (March 2020) the numbers of last month / this month are pretty comparable. That said the Frontier bean counters would surely be disappointed they aren't higher given Odyssey release. I wonder how many refunds they made after its release? Either way FDev haven't given up on the game and won't for a good while yet.

 

[[PS4 Pro - PC] earthtone99]

Of course it is failing... I've not played since yesterday!
(and I don't show up on that there steam thing either!)

Same, with both my PlayStation CMDR and my PC EPIC CMDR.

(He’s nowhere near EPIC with anything he does, but that’s another story).

 

[Darth Wonko]

I will only be back in the game when they will add Odyssey on console and when we will get a revamped Powerplay where players would have a greater influence on economy and factions choices like politics/expansion/alliance/story driven choices with weekly polls/etc.

ED will never die.

To be clear, I'm talking about Elite Dangerous. I think the other 'ED' will be around forever. Fortunately, we have pills for that.

Anyway, ED will never die because of three types of people:

1. The people who play the game and enjoy it
2. The people who play the game so they can come on the forums and describe why they hate the game
3. The people who claim to not play the game, but still show up on forums to point out exactly why they don't play and provide their list of demands. It's like having a little kid come into the room to remind his parents why he's still holding his breath.

I've never run into a fan base like this. It's remarkably entertaining.

 

[Viajero]

Still... even 4500ish of december only about half'ish of february 2021. Months before release.

Concurrency figures were propped up quite significantly around Q2 in 2020 thanks to a combination of both the Fleet Carriers update and the subsequent expectations about EDO coming up "shortly after" once it was announced. Lots of players joined or came back at that time, in anticipation/preparation of EDO and rode the Fleet Carrier wave all the way to EDO release. If you want a more normal/regular level of concurrency in Elite but without the hype of the original Fleet Carrier launch and without the hype prior to the EDO release you probably need to look at Q1 2020 levels and earlier (i.e. before FC or EDO announcements), and which is quite consistent with the levels we see today of a period in between big updates.

 

[Deleted member 110222]

I thought this thread was a parody... wasn't it?

Some folk have a rather perverse fascination with waiting for a game they claim to enjoy reach its closure.

 

[denispage]

They've made many mistakes, but they're fix them.
I think when they release the REAL NEW content (aka Thargoids and Guardians on foot) the game will get back the mojo.
One thing is IMPORTANT even with the new content: make more things to do on foot in the explore part, like add more thinks besides boring petrified vegetables

 

[goxy_serbia]

About this kind of posts:
Player YOU need to find the way or interest to play this game and enjoy playing! Fdev gives us so much already.There is so much things in game, i hardly manage to follow up all.
I m still hope for Panther Clipper yet