I've noticed a trend in the past throughout the different ménage of games I've played in my life. From NES Super Mario Bros and Dragon Warrior, to the games of today and Elite Dangerous. I do this on occasion, notice patterns of behavior. And (hate starting a sentence with "and") I have noticed this game following an all too familiar pattern of behavior. The moderators of this forum helped me identify the pattern, so I want to tip my hat to them before getting too deep into this. Lately I have seen an above average number of "hot-headed" actions taken by moderators, not only on myself, but against the community as a whole. Threads being hastily moved, locked for anonymous reasons, and an alarming level of infractions being dished out across the board. This leads me to believe that the FDEV personnel is on edge for some unknown (to us) reason.
The last UPDATE was atrocious! Hands down, in my 30 years of video gaming, I have never 'personally' seen any other update do so much damage to its game, ever. The sheer level and volume, and magnitude of bugs introduced was astonishing (I am a PS4 player and understand that other platforms weren't as bad). Then the push-back of any new content for 18 months, the quality of content already received, and the increased tension of the moderator behavior on these forums are all observable, denotable facts that no one can deny.
For the second time inside a 3 month period the full content of the game is on sale for less than the original price of the vanilla content.
Not to mention, the poor performance of Elite on PS4 lately, for example: while out in the last CG (this is next) I noticed that opening the Galaxy map (to plot a route), it lags so badly that on multiple occasions the game HARD-LOCKED and I had to turn off the system. While defending our Home system from PVP'ers, once the instance numbers reached 8+ players, framerate began to drop alarmingly low. And the Galaxy Backdrop won't even fully load once you get within 10k of the Core because the star density gets too high. It begins to show cubes and star patterns, or your current ship's pattern of stars on the backdrop.
The removal of Community Goals, for whatever reason is a huge red-flag for me as well. It's almost as if FDEV has grown to disdain it's own Community. On every facet of it's game.
All of these things leads me to conclude that there is obviously something happening regarding ED behind the scenes that FDEV personnel are aware of, and are unable to express to the community. It feels like 'cut-backs'. Cut-backs to all of the aforementioned game aspects. It makes me wonder if Elite Dangerous is being 'cut-back' all together.
Please share YOUR thoughts of my observations, before this gets locked, or moved.
The last UPDATE was atrocious! Hands down, in my 30 years of video gaming, I have never 'personally' seen any other update do so much damage to its game, ever. The sheer level and volume, and magnitude of bugs introduced was astonishing (I am a PS4 player and understand that other platforms weren't as bad). Then the push-back of any new content for 18 months, the quality of content already received, and the increased tension of the moderator behavior on these forums are all observable, denotable facts that no one can deny.
For the second time inside a 3 month period the full content of the game is on sale for less than the original price of the vanilla content.
Not to mention, the poor performance of Elite on PS4 lately, for example: while out in the last CG (this is next) I noticed that opening the Galaxy map (to plot a route), it lags so badly that on multiple occasions the game HARD-LOCKED and I had to turn off the system. While defending our Home system from PVP'ers, once the instance numbers reached 8+ players, framerate began to drop alarmingly low. And the Galaxy Backdrop won't even fully load once you get within 10k of the Core because the star density gets too high. It begins to show cubes and star patterns, or your current ship's pattern of stars on the backdrop.
The removal of Community Goals, for whatever reason is a huge red-flag for me as well. It's almost as if FDEV has grown to disdain it's own Community. On every facet of it's game.
All of these things leads me to conclude that there is obviously something happening regarding ED behind the scenes that FDEV personnel are aware of, and are unable to express to the community. It feels like 'cut-backs'. Cut-backs to all of the aforementioned game aspects. It makes me wonder if Elite Dangerous is being 'cut-back' all together.
Please share YOUR thoughts of my observations, before this gets locked, or moved.
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