Frontier’s silence can really work against them at times.
They know peoples 2 biggest wants are Earth like planets and spacelegs. If it ends up being 1 or both then people will be satisfied.
If it’s not those things they should manage expectations well in advance.
This just sounds like the inverse of what we have.
thargoids attacking, and we use gaurdian tech to defeat them.
Frontier’s silence can really work against them at times.
They know peoples 2 biggest wants are Earth like planets and spacelegs. If it ends up being 1 or both then people will be satisfied.
If it’s not those things they should manage expectations well in advance.
Yup ... that was entirely the point: big twist, Guardians turn out to be bad guys and we have to steal stuff from the Thargoids (who will obviously defend said stuff) to fight ‘em ... except, Story Led with proper Multi-Player missions (Raids) as clarified in my later post.
Frontier’s silence can really work against them at times.
They know peoples 2 biggest wants are Earth like planets and spacelegs. If it ends up being 1 or both then people will be satisfied.
If it’s not those things they should manage expectations well in advance.
But... they have nothing to announce right now...
they might do a much more prolonged hype run + beta than Horizons.
I can think of no better way to overhype and underdeliver. I'd hope they've learnt their lesson.
Approx: 2.5 Years
In May 2014: Speaking of the 'Elite Dangerous team' Braben said 'between 70-100 people are closely involved'.
I don't give a 'furry crack of a rat's behind' anymore about this 2020 "update"
When Frontier start to give us ACTUAL information, instead of silence or 'announcements of announcements' it's all just meaningless to me.
Will I be 'super excited' like Frontier staff are when they FINALLY announce something concrete?..............given FD's track record, probably not!
The 2020 Dev Run: Bigger Than The Launch Run (?)
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It might as well be "Fleet Carriers Development: Bigger than the Launch Run (?)"
And then you can start to think about all the implications of that - especially in regard to what sort of expansion they can produce in 2 years if they can't even get FC's working in 2 years.
If the 'majority' of the 100 were on Carriers, you'd be right Stealthie. But we're told they're not. They're on the DLC. And that staffing focus makes a difference.
(Granted it'd be good to know the split, and whether it's fluid. Is it roughly 70/30 for DLC/core? 80/20? Have devs been shuffled in either direction? Etc).
Alternatively, FCs are likely ready to go, but they've pulled them out in case New Era doesn't complete at the end of 2020. They've got to have something to show next year.We were also told that FC's would be part of Beyond.
We were also also told they'd be released this December.
We know, for certain, that FDev's entire dev' team was working on Beyond because they told us that "The new Era" only entered pre-production in Q3 of 2018.
By that point, it's reasonable to assume the content of Beyond was "locked in".
And then they encounter problems with FC's which meant they couldn't be delivered and which, presumably, couldn't be resolved quickly regardless of how much extra brain-power was applied.
So, we move into 2019 with the majority of FDev's team working, allegedly, on "The new Era" and a smaller team overseeing content scheduled for release in 2019... including FC's.
Once again, it's reasonable to assume that the content for 2019 was "locked in" and considered deliverable by the team involved.
After all, a company doesn't make promotional video's about features it plans to introduce - especially ones that have already been delayed previously - if they have any intention of maintaining their credibility.
And yet now we're told that FC's are going to be delayed again in order to focus on fixing bugs.
That tells us that FC's aren't just "not quite ready yet" but that they're so far away from "not ready" that, once again, the application of extra brain-power for a short period wouldn't get them across the line.
Does anybody really think that FDev's office currently consists of, say, 90 people all beavering away on an amazing update while there's 10 stressed-out coders locked in the basement, desperately trying to complete FC's, fix bugs and deliver updates in isolation and they're being denied any assistance that might help them succeed?
Let's face it, if a company ever has to choose between achieving a milestone now and delaying something that's a year in the future, they're ALWAYS going to choose to do what's required to achieve the imminent milestone.
If they don't do that, it's because they can't achieve it, regardless of how much effort it takes.
We were also told that FC's would be part of Beyond.
We were also also told they'd be released this December.
We know, for certain, that FDev's entire dev' team was working on Beyond because they told us that "The new Era" only entered pre-production in Q3 of 2018.
By that point, it's reasonable to assume the content of Beyond was "locked in".
And then they encounter problems with FC's which meant they couldn't be delivered and which, presumably, couldn't be resolved quickly regardless of how much extra brain-power was applied.
So, we move into 2019 with the majority of FDev's team working, allegedly, on "The new Era" and a smaller team overseeing content scheduled for release in 2019... including FC's.
Once again, it's reasonable to assume that the content for 2019 was "locked in" and considered deliverable by the team involved.
After all, a company doesn't make promotional video's about features it plans to introduce - especially ones that have already been delayed previously - if they have any intention of maintaining their credibility.
And yet now we're told that FC's are going to be delayed again in order to focus on fixing bugs.
That tells us that FC's aren't just "not quite ready yet" but that they're so far away from "not ready" that, once again, the application of extra brain-power for a short period wouldn't get them across the line.
Does anybody really think that FDev's office currently consists of, say, 90 people all beavering away on an amazing update while there's 10 stressed-out coders locked in the basement, desperately trying to complete FC's, fix bugs and deliver updates in isolation and they're being denied any assistance that might help them succeed?
Let's face it, if a company ever has to choose between achieving a milestone now and delaying something that's a year in the future, they're ALWAYS going to choose to do what's required to achieve the imminent milestone.
If they don't do that, it's because they can't achieve it, regardless of how much effort it takes.
Alternatively, FCs are likely ready to go, but they've pulled them out in case New Era doesn't complete at the end of 2020. They've got to have something to show next year.