Roadmap after release
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Viajero
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Plenty of examples about actual game mechanics or similar discussions with devs so far. Just search for the ones where Sandro Sammarco discussed FSD slaving and wing mechanics in December for example.
Going forward I would expect at least the same kind of great engagement. No reason to doubt just yet. We just cant expect ground breaking and revolutionary dev posts every minute.
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Come on man, where's your sense of EPICALLDAYERRYDAY? Isn't every single second of your existence just burgeoning with sparkly potential of the highest order? If not then you must be living in that Real World I keep hearing about.
Exactly this. The Dev Diaries did a great job of doing just that. The newsletters have been much more tight lipped, and obviously lack David's personal touch and charisma.
Again, I can use my incredible code-breaking skills for the good of humanity!
Take the first letter of each of Michael's words...
WWBRMIOWICITNFW
Then rearrange them:
I CONFIRM - IT B WWWW
This proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that Frontier Developments is adding a fourth "W" to the World Wide Web! Imagine the possibilities! Mind... blown. And you read it here first!
http://eft.recoil.org/
For those of us who have not the Logitech screen-keyboards with RSS feed displays
https://twitter.com/ED_DevPosts
For those on the twitters and that
Could you include your plans for the implementation of the 'become a founder of the Elite' kickstarter reward?
They will use the DayZ servers -_-
It doesn't need to be an explicit 'roadmap'. Even vague bullet points of 'what we are looking at in Q1 2015', 'what we are looking at later in the year' and 'where we'd like to go in the future' would be better than all of the endless speculation and 'this game is empty - I'm leaving' posts.
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Remember the alpha stages as outlined? (IIRC) '1. Single player combat, 2. Multiplayer combat, 3. Travel and Trade, 4. Outfitting' No timetable, no real details regarding content, just broad headings of what to expect and the order. Surely that is feasible? And we can avoid 'blowing things out of proportion' with some massive 'subject to change' caveats?
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Remember the alpha stages as outlined? (IIRC) '1. Single player combat, 2. Multiplayer combat, 3. Travel and Trade, 4. Outfitting' No timetable, no real details regarding content, just broad headings of what to expect and the order. Surely that is feasible? And we can avoid 'blowing things out of proportion' with some massive 'subject to change' caveats?
Some new stuff this Friday and a road-map right? A growing amount of people complain about the lack of depth and content such as in this highly rated post on Reddit [Rant] I'm bored, and it's a shame. Really.
Frontier has to address this with planned updates to keep people engaged.
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Look, I'm a software Product Manager by day...
The general public will NEVER see a roadmap for ED - I mentioned this before - here - http://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=85063&highlight=roadmap
However I cannot vouch for the public facing team, such as marketing... who seem to have either found the wrong product, or simply have no clue.
It's a new year lets hope for some fresh faces in the ED team as the Product has awesome potential, but I do grow tired of the poor customer facing team who keep dragging the product into the gutter.
The general public will NEVER see a roadmap for ED - I mentioned this before - here - http://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=85063&highlight=roadmap
However I cannot vouch for the public facing team, such as marketing... who seem to have either found the wrong product, or simply have no clue.
It's a new year lets hope for some fresh faces in the ED team as the Product has awesome potential, but I do grow tired of the poor customer facing team who keep dragging the product into the gutter.
If you want to see what a roadmap failure would look like, check the internet for E: D offline mode. That change alone should make ANY company wary of making any statements about a game they are developing.
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or just do some patching and get 1.4 out that will change the tone of the forums. PPl will always find something to whine abot, fix influence that way the metagame and cooperative angle can get going, fix loot from wanted criminals / wanted npc kills so if u kill a pirate u get the loot which can be sold at a station any station
I don't really think there is much of anything they can do that is going to change the tone of the forums. It seems that at its core the tension is between the people that think the bulk of the development time and dollars should go to enhancing the pvp / player interaction part of the game and the people that think it should have been a single player game and want the development focus to be on non player interaction problems and content. In trying to please everyone they have seemingly pleased very few and set the community against itself.
Nope, I manage healthcare software.
I did add to the kickstart though, as I loved Elite as a boy, When DBOBE asked for help in getting a next gen version out it was a no brainer! I did not pick the staff though!
Total craziness. Release = Dec 16, they tell everyone they are off for the holidays. The holidays are over for one day, and people are looking for the Pitchforks and Torches. I doubt anyone posting here would/could be productive enough to meet the demands they put on others. The phrase is: Unrealistic Expectations.
I think if you look at the available info from FD, you will see just what you are looking for, except without the Forum Drama.
I think if you look at the available info from FD, you will see just what you are looking for, except without the Forum Drama.
It's Simple, you have an 'on call' person to keep the customers (who purchased the product) informed - However that never happened and it does frustrate me somewhat
Surely the crazy part of that is the "here's the game, I'm off" part.