So now Planet Coaster has been launched...

[Spookyy]

on a negative note there may be 10000 owners so far,but its already been banged out on the torrents lol...just like all previous beta versions were.

pc gaming and its open source nature eh?.........best platform in the world.

Atleast 100k owners and this game will not get cracked anytime soon.

 

[cyberchild]

Having pre-ordered PC I have no choice but to try it. Hopefully I will lose myself in it for a while, come back to E D and be pleasantly surprised.

I have no doubt you will lose yourself in it. I played the beta.. it's good. I'm sure ED will get the attention it deserves because it's Braben's baby. Which kind of makes you wonder why it's had the problems it's had of late.

 

[Don_Von_Hulio]

Atleast 100k owners and this game will not get cracked anytime soon.

They said the same thing about DOOM 2016 and its superior anti crackability... it lasted a couple weeks lol

 

[Arka]

why doesnt elite have this

I've heard COBRA engine before, it's cool i never really know its logo till i saw it. Just got the game earlier today, I'm amazed at how powerful Cobra engine is, just imagine those stuffs in planet coaster would be in ED planets

Also is that a viper?

 

[CptSiddy]

Here is what is going to happen.

Planet coaster will beat ED in sales.
Planet coaster will tie down most of the FD's codemonkeys for months for bug fixes and extra polish.
FD will keep adding easy to add "features" (read: menus, horse armor, tweaking skimmer missions to useleness) to ED and call it MAHJUR EXZZPANZION, plz pay 20 goygold for seazunz pazz.
ED will keep bleeding players, especially to SC.
ED servers will be shut down in 2020 following the coronation of Emperor Trump, the God emperor of mankind.

 

[Kubicide]

Here is what is going to happen.

Planet coaster will beat ED in sales.
Planet coaster will tie down most of the FD's codemonkeys for months for bug fixes and extra polish.
FD will keep adding easy to add "features" (read: menus, horse armor, tweaking skimmer missions to useleness) to ED and call it MAHJUR EXZZPANZION, plz pay 20 goygold for seazunz pazz.
ED will keep bleeding players, especially to SC.
ED servers will be shut down in 2020 following the coronation of Emperor Trump, the God emperor of mankind.

Aww you were doing well at first but started to drift away at the end! . Yeah, if anyone thinks the devs will be off of PC tomorrow morning then, well, maybe they need to turn down their imagination. FDev will be totally focused on PC for months. And it's likely the reason for pushing out the remaining 40% of the Horizons update owed to those of us silly enough to buy it. Amazing to see them get away with this - intentionally delaying a delivery that they owe to tens of thousands of players.

 

[CMDR M Kozak]

why doesnt elite have this http://i.imgur.com/373MlmT.png
I've heard COBRA engine before, it's cool i never really know its logo till i saw it. Just got the game earlier today, I'm amazed at how powerful Cobra engine is, just imagine those stuffs in planet coaster would be in ED planets

Its a Cobra MK3

 

[Arka]

why doesnt elite have this http://i.imgur.com/373MlmT.png
I've heard COBRA engine before, it's cool i never really know its logo till i saw it. Just got the game earlier today, I'm amazed at how powerful Cobra engine is, just imagine those stuffs in planet coaster would be in ED planets

Its a Cobra MK3

Oh, yeah I mean the cobra I forgot the "nose" part.

look at these design, looks like something out of Elite would be cool to have these as well here

Spoiler

 

[CmdrJacks]

I'm liking Planet Coaster but I can't help wishing we had the voxel terrain in ED so we can carve our own craters with heavy landings.

 

[dynamicbob]

well perhaps their economics developers can deepen the elite economic model and BGS

 

[Sgt-Major Malfunction]

This is important. Can we get the ED models in Planet Coaster, and build spinning Sidewinder Teacups, Super 'Conda Chase, the Spastic Fed Octopus, and the Imperial Slave Trading log flume ride, which I'm told is quite restful until you get scanned and hit the 200 foot drop.

 

[iFred]

I must say it´s a really great game - of course I bought the thrillseeker edition (mainly to support Elite), but as a fan of the old RCT - franchise I have to say: Wow...it´s simple a great game

 

[babelfisch]

I highly doubt planet coaster will beat ED in sales. ED has sold well over a million copies not because of the fact that its a good game but because of the fact that its a space sim style game.
I think the sales figures from Frontier on Planet Coaster were seeing it barely break 100k

People will buy games that they are desperate for despite quality, or reviews.
Take myself for example, after the NMS massive letdown, I got my refund and bought ED shortly after not because I thought it was a good game but despite that I knew it was a bad game.
I saw the reviews, I knew people who played it and got bored/burnt out and bought it anyway.
ED is SO MUCH like NMS. You get into the game and you're overwhelmed by the SENSE of it having a large scale and massive universe.
And I will say, that's the ONE thing ED got right. It FEELS like a massive universe even though from a programmatical standpoint it's just 1 single instance that reloads and recreates itself every jump. It's a VERY clever trick and one we saw implemented in NMS as well. They actually use fairly similar ways to randomly generate planets too using generate keys, but I degrees.

After that awe wears off and you get your feet wet in the game and see the SAME station 10000 times and the SAME missions over and over you start to realize that ED is a very well thought out foundation and universe with a very poor thought out gameplay loop. It's a massive awesome universe with nothing meaningful to do in it.
FDev has proven themselves incompetence time and time again with their recent actions, nerfing the only real reason to keep playing which is making money.
Maybe if there was more to do with credits they'd actually be worth the time FDev is trying to request of players, but there simply isn't anything meaningful to do with credits except buy ships...It's a lot like a racing game, you race bad cars to make money to buy good cars and after you have the best car you do time trials til you're bored and quit.
Terrible loop.

Fdev needs to revamp the BGS, add player-bases, (I'm going to call guilds Co-operatives since I've found that most players are against guilds because of Eve and pvp, if guilds aren't PvP and competition oriented I think the ED player-base will welcome them) So with that we need to add cooperatives, groups of players that can work towards a common goal such as doing missions to donate money to their "fund" to build themselves a large research station AKA player-base.

With a gameplay system even that simple I think ED would gain a lot of traction. People would buy better ships not to have better ships but to allow them to make more credits so that they can then take those credits and put it towards a real tangible goal with their friends.

According to steamspy they already sold 100k copies. Stopped reading there, you could've easily checked yourself.

On topic:
We know that they are already working on a new franchise...

 

[Kayweg]

That's a bit of a strange request, OP.
Just because planet coaster has been released doesn't mean it's "done" and everybody at FD can just "go back" to work on Elite.
It will require no less post release support than ED, there are bugs to be fixed, dlc to be developed etc.
And i'm sure the planet coaster team at FD want "their game" to be the best it can be too.
And then there is the next game FD will work on (whatever that is) to be released in 2017.
ED is one game in their catalogue, and probably their flagship for now, yes, but it's not their only and far from their last game.
If it will remain their biggest game, none of us know.

 

[LameoveR]

Oh i see the "10-years plan" now!

2014-ED release
2015-post release patches, features
2016- Horizons DLC, Planet Coaster
2017- Another game
2018 DLC for "another game"
2019 new "another game"
etc...

hahah nice

 

[Cosmo]

Planet Coaster will probably beat ED in sales, not so much of a niche market.

When Fdev adds first person shooter content, survival game content and first person walking (spacelegs) then ED will not be a niche market, it will appeal to big untapped markets of those genres.

According to steamspy they already sold 100k copies. Stopped reading there, you could've easily checked yourself.

On topic:
We know that they are already working on a new franchise...

The new franchise is Planet Safari.

 

[Zeeman]

A lot of people seeming to be blissfully unaware that E: D, PC, and whatever other games FD may be making, have their own teams working on them...

Z...

 

[Ydiss]

..maybe FDev can put 100% manpower into making ED the best it can possibly be?

Maybe?

No?

Well, one can wish...![big grin]

The team working on ED isn't the same as the team working on that game though. So it's neither true that they reduced resources for ED nor that they'll suddenly put more resources into it now.

 

[CMDR M Kozak]

When Fdev adds first person shooter content, survival game content and first person walking (spacelegs) then ED will not be a niche market, it will appeal to big untapped markets of those genres.

If its anything like Star Citizen - then no thank you: Spend time walking to a button to click "use" when that can be handled in a UI.

I haven't seen any good reason for "walking around" yet. The novelty will wear off super fast, and FPS is not a game style I like at all. And I doubt that the FPS crowd would like a game where they have to fly for a given time to do FPS. COD does this much better already.

 

[Swan Electro]

Separate devs teams, and they will not be combined. Look up Brooks Law.

Well thank goodness.
I've seen This Dev team's handy-work, and I don't want them anywhere near Planet Coaster.

I think they should stay right here...floundering in their own debacle.