So..... is it worth it?

[Insomnia]

First of all, there was a demo. But FD removed it. There is still a way to aquire the demo though.......
Anyway.

Elite: Dangerous is not a casual 'game'. It is more of a space flight trading and combat simulator.
It is what it is, and you're the only one that can make the game your own experience.

You start off with a starter ship, the Sidewinder, and that's it. Whatever you feel like doing only limits by your ship.
The only common objective goal in the game is to get rich. This simplicity is both its strength and its weakness. It will get boring sometime.

Also remember that things like HOTAS controllers and/or the Rift (I haven't play with one yet) will scale up the fun.

I only play the game a few hours every week, but this way it doesn't get boring and I can still appriciate the big, vast, empty space.

 

[Ydiss]

Yes, it's the best space simulation I've played. And it's more fun to play than eve, for me (I prefer hands on over point and click).

It is a work in progress. As pointed out before by others, don't expect the finished game. But then if you payed eve for years then you'll understand that.

1.3 promises to introduce a great foundation for content. It's a good time to be joining us. And this is still only just the beginning.

Before you play, I recommend you read the manual (sticky on this forum) and learn as much as you can. Ed doesn't hand hold.

 

[xondk]

Lastly, I wanted to buy this game on STEAM, but on release, the developers swore up and down on all they considered sacred that STEAM was off the table. See above. I'd buy this game on STEAM rather than here, and the first deep sale 75% off or so, I'll buy it again on STEAM if they don't make nice with supplying me a key. Frontier head office does some good work, but they do seem to me hell-bent on re-inventing the wheel their way: it's costly.

The game is on steam now, however I don't blame frontier for being careful, yes steam is good, but it is not perfect, if you for any reason are banned you lose all your games, all of them, end of story.
Now yes, granted that should be motivation not to do stuff that will get you banned, but even so, it is a single point of fault.
And given that as it is currently you don't actually 'own' the game you purchase on it, you own 'access' to it. The whole thing is tricky, some lawmakers are trying to change these things, so that even a digital product is owned by you, and that once you own it what you do with it is up to you. Yes they can disable any online features and such but the game itself as purchased should never be something you lose.
Add that right now, you lose your game whenever it goes 'offline' too, if steam ever closes or goes down for extended periods of time, you have no access to your game.

Note that this is also why some people wanted an offline version. Distribution and such of digital games, is more tricky then such and things change.

 

[AnnuverScotinExile]

Personally I recommend avoiding it. I have had it since beta and if I knew what I know now about the balance issues among other things I wouldn't have wasted money on it. FD is showing bad customer service as well when it comes to tickets. So IMO it is not worth it. As for PVP you are lucky if you can play with the lag in open. Do yourself a favor and give this 1 a pass

It is good that a negative voice has appeared - a wholly positive rah-rah voice does not reflect the feedback on the forums.

There are lots of people who are very happy, or happy enough with it. Also lots who are very unhappy. It depends what you want, and what expectations you go into it with. Personally, I play it a lot, but am not exactly happy, though I'm not unhappy. I have been along from the ride from the kickstarter days, and was in the DDF (a group of backers who paid extra to be a sounding board for game ideas - see the link in my signature). As a DDF member, I got to see most of the vision that FD have - and it is wonderful. Unfortunately, they are not very far along the road towards that vision. The most important infrastructure is there: the flight model, the stellar forge to generate a 'real sized' galaxy with 400 billion systems (no typo there), and so on. They are now adding content. In many places we have what look like obvious placeholders, so things are rudimentary. The mission system is not very good, mining is poor, exploration is simplistic, the crime and punishment system is broken.

FD are, however, moving things along, though they are far too slow at doing whatever your particular gripe is, or so it seems on the forums. If you liked the original Elite then it is really a no brainer: you can pretty much play like that now. If you buy into the vision it is a no brainer. If you want another Eve, or 'executive' game with guilds, etc., go look elsewhere.

 

[kingchub]

tl dr except the first post

i too played eve, continuously for about 3 years. i loved that game, then i got elite dangerous, havent played eve since. I bought ed roughly a month ago (around the steam release time) and so far have clocked 319 hours.

this IS the best game i've ever played and thers more content to come soon.

when u first start getting a hang of the controls can be difficult if ur kb/m like me ull prolly have to go in and set the controls to something more manageable.

ive set mine so that w is accelerate, s is slow down or reverse, a strafes left, d strafes right, q and e roll the ship left and right, r elevates u, f translates downwards.

but do what ur comfortable with, give it a little time and youll be soaring through space, blasting pirates and collecting bounties (again if ur liek me)

also if u want pvp go to leesti or around there. but id suggest gathering a few likeminded friends first.

 

[lam75]

How much do you want to pilot a Cobra MkIII again?

LOL..... It's all about this. I can not wait to have side and rear guns that I simply can not use but just had to purchase.

I assume that you can't kill Vipers when they are just a little white square 100's of KM's out now

I downloaded last night and had a quick go on the demo this morning with KBM...... yeah.... got instantly worried that it wasnt for me. Will break out the Saitke JS later.

65 replies was expecting a few.

 

[Olmis Aremja]

For the last few years I've downloaded many many games, giving up on all of them after a few days, and telling my wife I think it's just cause I'm finally too old perhaps (44). Then along came Elite, and I feel like I have finally found THE game I've been searching for all this time. To me it's a masterpiece. I got in on Prem Beta, and apart from a gap mainly because of a family bereavement, I haven't stopped playing it. If I'm not playing it, I'm often thinking about it.

 

[excalibus]

with well over 500 hours of enjoyment playing this game so far I would say it was money WELL INVESTED it is a lot of fun if you like seat of your pants flying and fighting

 

[tough boy]

If it's worth of not depends mostly on you, I see you've got plenty of feedback already. What I wanted to say, is that if you wanted a game to play in short burst, you may want to consider it carefully. Generally the content you get for 40£ i'd say is worth it, but this is a game that requires time to get anywhere - although you don't have to pay full attention on the screen all the time.

 

[SCADVID]

Call it what you will, but blowing crap outta proportion is disingenuous at best.

I also believe in truth in advertizing, Remiel. I also not a fanboi to any game, I have no need to defend EvE or WoW (and don't). But I was on the forum and personally saw everything I stated (and yes the Burn Jita stuff IT WAS A DAILY OCCURRENCE in 2013 leading up to that Goon vs TEST fiasco). The hostility was so toxic I defended CCP even, which I don't just do with any studio. It was that sociopathic that even the critic in me had enough of it (almost as bad as the Deus Ex meltdown in the day). I'm not exaggerating at all.

So let's not sweet coat the truth. I was there and reporting what I saw myself and experienced. = So I stand by my statement 100% not the hype.

 

[Yabba Addict]

Yes, it's a niche game. No, CCP are not struggling. You make it sound like Burn Jita is a daily occurrence. It happened once, in 2011, due to outrage at the Incarna expansion, which CCP very rapidly fixed. For the record, even after the immediate loss of subs following Incarna, the year that the expansion was released showed a gross increase in subscriptions, as has every other year the game has existed. For a sub based game that is older than WoW to continue showing growth, niche or not, they must be doing something right. Call it what you will, but blowing crap outta proportion is disingenuous at best.

Continue to show growth? Are they posting those numbers again? I bet not. Plus just looking at Eve offline will show you the numbers don't back that statement up. Don't get me wrong, I wish Eve all the best, put 5 years into it. But I don't think it's growing, no.

 

[CMDR Crustatious Cornelius Pig]

Would disagree there as it has many issues that were not part of the 84 version which I loved. You cant judge it by 84. I made that mistake and bought it

respectfully disagree. I played untold hours on that version and this brings me back to the old days like nothing else. As for issues and software development, development complexity has changed a bit since braben and bell created the original.

 

[xkjacob]

Come back in 6 months.
Basically the design, that I was originally a defendant of, is riddled with easy play defects that ruin game play.
So people can edit their memory values to make themselves invulnerable,
They don't view P2P hacking as an exploit, which basically is the same as combat logging. (logging out when someone tries to kill you)
So lots of cheating and their EULA and country's courts coordinated together may mean very little enforcement.
Community goals are often tilted or slightly defective depending on if someone uses multi logging exploits or uses a valid game mechanic to change the scenario they didn't expect.

Like above, the missions are awful
Building Rank is hit or miss and almost completely random. I'm at 2 weeks waiting for another reputation mission.
Large portions of characters are joining groups and inundating the forums with requests to effectively tone down the game to make it boring.
You will eventually spend up to 80+ of so hours, if you are lucky, flying from one dock, buying commodities, frame shifting, docking at another dock, selling those commodities and buying new ones and going back and fourth.
For hours straight you will do this, unless you want to spend 240+ hours shooting at ships and with how easy NPCs are that gets boring so fast you actually think trading is fun.

 

[highpsiturbo]

Ask yourself this- would you still enjoy the original?

If you would- add 20 or so years of technology etc and enjoy it again.

Standards are higher these days but even if you get bored after say 20 hours of playing its still dirt cheap entertainment. If the game didn't change from this point on I would still play it. But it will change and become more engaging than it already is. So cough up and enjoy yourselves. Don't whinge if you get bored after several hundred hours of game play- because that's a raging success as far as I can tell..

 

[kirkkh]

Hi all,

I'm really sorry to ask what is probably a silly (and already asked question) but..... is this game worth it?

I can not see a demo anywhere so I wanted to ask before I spend the £40 in purchasing it.

Watch a few videos but its the name that has brought me here. First had Elite on the Acorn Electron and then a few other versions. Also, until recently (due to lack of time) been a massive EvE fan.

Will these two previous experiences bear any semblance in this game?

What are the controls? mouse (acorn used to be WASD ).

How long does it take to get out there and PvP?

Regards

LAM

Noooooooooooooooooooo. PVP. Ha.

 

[fobboy]

Unlike Eve, you can cheat a lot easier in this game which is a bonus for me. Game is P2P. Files are stored inside your computer. You can edit at will. The cheating is what I miss most compared to the games in the 90's. Back then, you could just input a code for invincibility (it is a good day to die), map hack (black sheep wall), etc.

I see CMDRs with billions of credits, infinite shields, etc. This is my idea of fun. If I wanted to grind for credits or be gunned down by random people, I'd be spending my time in the real world instead, not play video games.

I'm so glad Frontier brought back the cheating aspect of video games from the 90's. Cheers!