The next update 2.1 Engineers (1.6 to basegame-only owners) scheduled for April release?

[cptdavep]

Seems to me that FD have been listening to feedback on past releases and realised customers are more concerned with the quality of the product than how quickly they get it.
Certainly there were some updates last year that might have benefited from more time and polish, and the initial release of Horizons in particular would have benefited from more content which would have helped sales. Hopefully 2.1 will address many peoples reservations.

The tricky thing is how this impacts the schedule going forward, my guess is that keeping 2.4 a secret may be rather helpful as what exactly it contains can be scaled down without the massive uproar of dropping an announced update.

I think it's wise of FD to put work into getting ED into as strong a position as possible before Star Citizen and No Mans Sky arrive and provide competition.

 

[PeachingTony]

Excellent, I can continue not playing the broken missions for another 3 months. Good job FD.

 

[jgm]

I do hope that 2.1 will be an actual high quality release and they aren't just using "quality" as a way of avoiding the fact that they are running late. An extended beta period where FD communicates with the beta testers and has structured threads for each major feature would go a long way to helping with this.

 

[PeachingTony]

I do hope that 2.1 will be an actual high quality release and they aren't just using "quality" as a way of avoiding the fact that they are running late. An extended beta period where FD communicates with the beta testers and has structured threads for each major feature would go a long way to helping with this.

Hahahahahahahahahahaha

Good one

 

[cptdavep]

FD's share price just dropped 15%... I guess the investors are not seeing this as good news. Reading between the lines Horizons probably hasn't sold as well as hoped, which was probably due to the luke warm reception it received so FD need to make sure the next release is really special to try and regain some favour and therefore sales.

 

[Viking84]

We're just taking some extra time with the 2.1 release to ensure that we're happy with it, rather than push it out sooner.

Michael

I have been somewhat critical of the direction ED has taken lately, but this statement actually gives me some confidence that FDev realise how critical this update is. The changes to the missions, and the looting system will represent the core of the Elite experience for many, and simply has to be as close to flawless as possible

 

[Aeos]

Does this mean we can get that dev update to resume? I was really looking forward to that one about rewards!

 

[SentineI]

We'll disable some of the missions server side as a temporary measure and the next planned client release is 2.1/1.6.

I'm glad to hear you'll finally be doing this... But I don't understand why it wasn't being seriously considered 1-2 months ago (i.e. January).

 

[Barking_Mad]

FD's share price just dropped 15%... I guess the investors are not seeing this as good news. Reading between the lines Horizons probably hasn't sold as well as hoped, which was probably due to the luke warm reception it received so FD need to make sure the next release is really special to try and regain some favour and therefore sales.

Im sure the later is true, although IIRC most of FDev's shares are held within the company(?)

 

[Bobbydylan]

TBH, I'm happy with the delay. I'd much rather get only 2 substantial updates to the game that change mechanics, than 4 versions of 1.5 (which AFAICS did nothing).

 

[tomalus]

All of this is our blame, we keep giving money to FDEV in advance for beta and early access alpha game. This is exactly why the gaming industry is becoming worse every year. Companies get money in advance and dont bother fullfiling promises on gameplay,content and polishing.Then after a few months they put the same product on sales and squeeze the last buck out of the unpolished beta/alpha game.

Kudos to the devs making a worse expansion then warlods of draenor.

 

[Sir.Tj]

There has been an excellent response to the news that many wouldn't have rather heard today but I've noticed that there's been a few of "Loaded" posts creeping in having a dig at The guys at FD.

Mike and the guys are giving as much information as they can so please remember to be nice and at the very least respectful.

Thanks all.

*Mod hat off*

I'd rather FD take their time and tweak, fix and improve the game before such a major release as 2.1.

 

[Bacalao]

• FDev will pay less tax in FY2015-2016, choosing instead to pay more the following year.

This is obviously the real reason. FD made so much money on the Anaconda skins that they needed to defer some profits so the taxes aren't so painful.

 

[[VR] Mad Mike]

I'd rather FD take their time and tweak, fix and improve the game before such a major release as 2.1.

this is defo true for sure. It is probably just doom mongering however I cant lie. the tinfoil hat wearers have got me thinking ..................... Delays happen, and am sure its nothing, fingers crossed it will not mean a delay for the other updates..... or a stealth cut in content for the unannounced 2.4

either way, i am still happy mincing about with mates and showing a few new players the ropes... and hell maybe get back to MGS V and the other 3figure number of untouched games in my library for a bit

 

[Loskene]

I'm not going to complain about the release delay, because I've always said if it came down to a choice between released and buggy or delayed and polished, I would take the latter every time. It's important to see they're capable of learning from their mistakes, and sticking to deadlines no matter what has always been a major weakness of Fdev's. I like to think voting with our wallets has worked to a degree, as the Horizons release was so unfinished (and no, slapping an "early access" tag on it post-mortem does nothing to cover this up or explain it away) that the bean-counters surely got a fright when they saw how poorly it was doing saleswise. I think they got the message that we're in for quality, not quantity (or depth over width if you will).

 

[Lateralus]

I'm not too worried about this delay (hopefully it means 2.1 will be very polished with lots of juicy new content in).

It does mean there will be a lot of releases for FD to cram into the rest of the year though - an update every 2 months until 3.0? ..seems a little ambitious.

 

[Dommarraa]

Good News : Those on the DWE will no longer feel the need to Self Destruct from 65 Kylies away just to get to play with the Engineers

 

[Raile]

I would at least like a bug fix patch between there and now.

 

[Maruun]

If my memory isnt failling me, its the first time that something got delayed to this "magnitude". Thinking how they handel normaly over the past years i assume they keep them self open before driving themself into a corner.

On the otherhand i am rather excited there most be alot of background work for this update. We have some radical changes in how ED works with USS ect, and missions generally. Not just thrown random stuff but logically mission generation and USS placement.
Seeing how much different it is to what we are used to, its important that they give themself the time to get it right in order not to break stuff in the futures or being forced to overhaul it again.

FD keep up the work! For the love of Thargoids you can do it!

 

[Sir.Tj]

Ok,

This is an important subject that people feel strongly about.

I'm going to close this thread for one reason only, the fact that Zac posted earlier on about the Trading update and the delay in releasing 2.1.

The two threads are pretty much discussing the same topic so it make sense to use the one by Zac in the News section of the forum and to keep things in one place you can continue to discuss this over there and at least everyone's opinions and thoughts will be in one place.

Link

Frontier trading update.


Thanks all.