Horizons The reason I uninstalled a second time, and then wrote a formal complaint to Frontier.

[GJ51]

So what is the "formal complaint" about?

The opposite of the casual complaint?

 

[TrixX]

I read this thread and what I see is a whole lot of people with no empathy. So many of you should be ashamed of your selves for acting this way. None of you treated the OP with respect except CMDR_Cosmicspacehead, Lunchmoney, and Artemis Zodiac.

You do not have to like the OP's opinion. But it does not give you the right to treat that person as a target for bashing. If you can not provide constructive posts. Do not post. Go somewhere else.

TrixX - This is a game. Not a job. No one should have to go to google to learn about problems.

Elite Dangerous is a complex bit of programming. But there are flaws in the programming. Frontier is not competent enough to keep the community aware of problems in its game. They avoid informing the community on whole about problems they are working to fix. When they know there is a problem they write patches to fix them. But how often do those patches get slated for delivery when the next content push into the game is made? The answer is over 90% of the time they are held onto. Possibly for months till the next content push.

Games are not jobs, well done for pointing out the obvious. However if your first problem is a lack of knowledge on a subject (something the OP clearly has in spades) then first thing should be to educate yourself on what the problem is. I guess this is why I'm an IT Tech and normal people ask me to fix their computers. Hell I'd be out of a job if the avg Joe learn't to use google properly!

It's amusing that you bash FDev so readily (even on their own forums) when a simple and very quick search found me the answer to Cpt Numpty dcforeman's problem's. Funny enough there was a server patch to fix the piracy missions which occurred pretty quickly after FDev were notified by gamers playing the game there was a problem. Oddly enough Bugs are a part of gaming, so reporting them generally gets them fixed unless you're playing STO. Then you're boned...

Why exactly should I respect frustrating gameplay plagued with network issues, with a system designed to beat you down faster than it rewards you?

If I wanted that, I'd just go do my job!

Because most of the issues you have are spurious at best. You lack detail in the explanation, you lack courtesy towards others and demand respect when none is given. So Please go do your job instead of being a rude and arrogant     on here. OR you could start dealing with problems with a 'let's find a solution' mentality instead of a 'WAAAAAGH it's not working' mentality. You might even get some positive responses then

 

[CMDR Cosmic Spacehead]

Games are not jobs,

I found Eve Online to be more like a job, than my actual job is...
A job you pay for too. The worst kind!
Hehe.

 

[Moonax IRL]

Why exactly should I respect frustrating gameplay plagued with network issues, with a system designed to beat you down faster than it rewards you?

If I wanted that, I'd just go do my job!

Btw, i'm a programmer myself. JavaScript, C++ and PHP. In program design, you produce software that focuses on core features and then delivers them well. I'm having trouble seeing what exactly Elite Dangerous does well. Surely it's not designed to create player frustration? what designer would make it that way? I'm not the only one who is frustrated, there's more than enough posts like mine going up.

when the kickstarter was going on they were talking about damage models, cargo spewing out, and other OMG features that were really unrealistic. Sure we might get it one day but only if you buy season upgrade 5 or something. They were discussing walking around the station and all that kind of stuff. Which does look like it's coming.

But you know what? The core features of Elite, aka the gameplay, the balance, the overall design feels cobbled together. It feels untested and unrefined. They overpromised, their didn't have the cash or man power to pull off the features they advertised, and updates are rolling out so slowly.

I dislike the "we'll develop it, once the customer has paid for it" approach.

Elite Frontier First Encounters was described as "the biggest lump of beta code ever installed on a customers PC", it's not quite so bad that you crash the game just by buying a ship. But you know what? With the constant network issues, it's not far off.

The game is medioca, it's not fun. It doesn't engage, it fails to tell a good story, and it is so unfocused in all it's features that they feel under developed and spread too thin.

Given another 3 years development this may be a game worth having. Right now. We're just playing another First Encounters.

You just posted here to rant with no interest in developing your ability or heeding any advice given, so just skip along and play something else if ED is too much for you, you have nothing constructive to add to the conversation.

 

[Modgier]

Btw, i'm a programmer myself. JavaScript, C++ and PHP.

I doubt it. If you were that'd not be the languages you'd list. 2 of them are scripting languages and C++ seems way out of place next to JavaScript and PHP.

Also. Programmer is not a word that's used anymore. We prefer developer.

 

[Slopey]

I think that'll do ladies.

OP has made his point (again! *sigh*). And nothing good can come of this thread.

Happy Trails all!

Your friendly neighbourhood moderator.
S.