This article shows how a user of JWE found mentions of the forthcoming 1993 DLC in the current games files...
https://jurassic.report/2019/07/07/jurassic-park-1993-dlc-coming-to-jurassic-world-evolution/
This article shows how a user of JWE found mentions of the forthcoming 1993 DLC in the current games files...
https://jurassic.report/2019/07/07/jurassic-park-1993-dlc-coming-to-jurassic-world-evolution/
I am aware of this. I just mean we can't mark it as full confirmation until it goes up on FDs socials.
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personally i just want FD to do their damndest to make the game they detailed back at the start. maybe a few bits and bobs wont be feasible and were more flights of fantasty (big game hunting ) but some of it was certainly... or should certainly be in the scope of their ability. this DID include space legs . but i do think FD need to get the basics of the space part right 1st before they essentially embark on an entire new genre.
hell there is so much more they could do with the mechanics they have now on planets surfaces and what not which would surely be less mammoth a task than legs.
but hey ho . aint my game so what ever they do i will be along for the ride.
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It's entirely possible that the source of the 'leak' was privy to information about JWE, but not about ED.
Since the leak said nothing about Fleet Carriers or ARX - which FDev consider to be the headline features of ED for 2019 - or about anything else coming before the 'new era' I don't see that JWE has any relevance.
It's definitely still possible that the leaker is trolling on the ED stuff. The JWE & PC stuff is far from irrelevant though, in terms of establishing some form of inside knowledge (from whatever source: employee, hacking, whatever).
This interim period for ED seems fairly ad hoc (not even a Beyond style title or official roadmap etc), so it's possible that details were fluid/light at that point. Or equally plausibly, given the leaker's snarky tone, they didn't think Beyond cast offs merited a detailed mention as a 'new' thing etc.
Be sceptical, sure. But 'keeping ED making money' isn't a terrible synopsis for what's gone down to date. (Heavy noob-onboarding for the playerbase that brings in the most cash, a cosmetics purchasing revamp, and some honey for the vets dangled at the end of the year
)
I guess one could argue that it did hint at ARX when it said that Elite's focus until 2020 will be making money.
Here here! When will we get atmospheric planets and be able to 'leave space'? Why is this so complicated when they did it for Frontier Elite II years ago? Just get it done Frontier - stop messing around. And whilst you are on about it lets have a few new types of visitable bases with new landing methods like entering domes and docking slots with opening external doors, and add some people and ground crew milling around the bases. Loads to do to this game Frontier just get on with it.
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atmospherics and space legs / eva is all well and good, but i would swap it all for a proper npc crew mechanic and npc wingmates for hire / or to be a player wingmate for hire for an npc wing.
Wait, all change! Latest leak just in:
- They found the atmosphere switch at some point in March
- New strategy is advancing way ahead of schedule
- Pink suns added.
Concept art to follow
Man those graphics are amazing. They should put them in now.
So, finding the Atmo switch took eight years?
understandable I guess, sometimes when I'm steaming and I can't find the light switch I have to make my way to bed by heading towards the snoring sounds from my missus!...
maybe they were waiting for the sound guys to release the air... I dunno!
Which is quite logical for a business, if you ask me. If Elite suddenly stopped making any money this month (no sold copies, no sold cosmetics, at all), I bet there would be some talks regarding whether they can afford more development with zero income.
Luckily for us such thing won't happen. But eventually, if your game makes less than it costs to keep it alive, you have a problem and need to fix it in some way - and good upgrade might take too long, at times, while good tutorial and shop remake might be the simple thing to improve first.
You forgot to watermark it with "In engine footage"
to bad they have nerfed the graphics since then
And if they're trying to squeeze more cash out of it I can see 25% off a bunch of cosmetics drawing in a few extra quid (the original Mamba paint job (and FDL) was that hideous I had to hide it with something and couldn't wait for Black Friday) but why exactly do they have the base game and Horizons at 75% off in the current Steam sale?
That seems a little counter productive unless it's aimed at second (and third) accounts or veterans berating their friends into buying it when they'll never play it more than a few hours, at best.
Damnit! They all seemed so excited about legs in the dev diaries...
"Price promotions are an effective sales tool". - Alex Bevis, CFO
Yeah sure, but 75%? Why not just do an across the board 25% off everything?
Marketing works in mysterious ways, you'll have to ask Mr. Bevis for that.
I'd say that getting new players is more important for FD than earning on cosmetics.
Customers are such fickle creatures, which is possibly why the more nefarious developers employ deliberately addictive psychological warfare tactics to keep them fully engaged with the grindstone...
Interesting review on whaling conference / exploiting pay pigs...
Hanlon's razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.