The shareholders are partially responsible ?

[CMDR Karrde Sun]

Well so far this community has blamed:

• Ourselves
• A select group who stated they speak for us
• FDdev naturally
• FD management
• EDIT: Tencent (thanks go to Commander Factabulous for reminding me )
• Other games made by Frontier

And now the shareholders. Is there anyone left we haven't blamed for this mess?

Well then stop taking junk seriously and think about what's going on.

It has to be a Frontier management decision if frontier are remotely to function as a working company, all of it.

 

[Hanerib]

It's just accumulated frustration from pretty much all aspects of the game having some sort of problems last year.

 

[The Nephilim]

Come on, we can't blame poor Doris, isn't she the only one still fully employed and working on ED?

I thought FDev just 'rented' her. Along with the building?

 

[M00ka]

I thought FDev just 'rented' her. Along with the building?

One just doesn't rent Doris, one pays full price for her services - umm cleaning that it

 

[Stealthie]

Look guys bethesda release a $100 subscription for fallout 76 an lo and behold fleet carriers are delayed...... its time to wake up people we all know who to blame here.....

Brexit

Bethesda are charging $100 for what is, basically, the equivalent of Private Groups... which we get for free in ED.

I'm tempted to say "I bet FDev's kicking themselves for not thinking of that" but, honestly, I suspect that's the sort of thing FDev's too ethical to consider.

 

[babelfisch]

Well so far this community has blamed:

• Ourselves
• A select group who stated they speak for us
• FDdev naturally
• FD management
• EDIT: Tencent (thanks go to Commander Factabulous for reminding me )
• Other games made by Frontier

And now the shareholders. Is there anyone left we haven't blamed for this mess?

T.j.?

PS
Way too late...

 

[babelfisch]

ED's difficulties come from potential shareholder pressures for profitability ?

I remember that Frontier said it would stay the master of the project, but ...

Care to elaborate? I don't think that releasing free, buggy updates increases profitability. So which difficulties are you referring to?

I guess that ED's difficulties come from the fact that the majority of the team works on the 2020 update while only few devs are trying to release new content, bug fixes and other changes every 3-4 months. It's probably just too much.

The other problem is that they are trying to please the entire player base all the time.

 

[Old Duck]

Is there anyone left we haven't blamed for this mess?

I think you're missing the Elephant Butt Leather in the room.....

 

[askavir]

yeah, that's how companies work

Next we'll have people blaming tencent again...

I can say from experience that Tencent actually has a very "hands off" approach. They buy (or invest in) already successful companies with potential and / or profitable, and basically just lets them carry on doing their business.

 

[sollisb]

ED's difficulties come from potential shareholder pressures for profitability ?

I remember that Frontier said it would stay the master of the project, but ...

Personally I feel they rushed to market with a half-baked game reliant on the acceptance of the playerbase for them to add to it later. This was exacerbated by poor design, poor management and a lack of testing/quality control. They then added more bugs on top of old bugs, then did it again and again and again.

It's not the shareholders fault. If they [fdev] are to be believed, profits are excellent, so why would shareholders complain. This latest announcement while welcome also indicates how bad the codebase actually is. The next release was due Dec? and it's pulled now because a few players complained about bugs and testing? Yeah right.

Or... Maybe it was never going to be ready by december, but they want to lay the blame at the players... yep.. I'm going with that!

It's interesting that Yamik's video thread is the only one that got locked....

 

[Lightspeed]

I'd suggest decals, but that would be outrageously unlikely .........

 

[sollisb]

Bethesda are charging $100 for what is, basically, the equivalent of Private Groups... which we get for free in ED.

I'm tempted to say "I bet FDev's kicking themselves for not thinking of that" but, honestly, I suspect that's the sort of thing FDev's too ethical to consider.

You might be jumping the gun on this...

They could... fix the bugs, give us that release.

Then later create a new title Elite:Futures (made that up) and create it as new title with a subscription based model. They do seem to be in money grabbing mode at this stage.

 

[zombieapocalypse]

Is there anyone left we haven't blamed for this mess?

Bob Geldof?

 

[Rubbernuke]

Bob Geldof?

gIve MEH YHHUR monheyyy

Well, we did that already.

 

[dannysquid]

ED's difficulties come from potential shareholder pressures for profitability ?

I remember that Frontier said it would stay the master of the project, but ...

I don't see how announcing delays and bugfixing is ruthless profiteering.

 

[CMDR J Sparrow]

Brexit is to blame.

 

[CMDR Serra]

Hmmm. We need to find a convenient scapegoat...
Scythe of Panem!

 

[C4R1TON]

As long as everyone has their towel, we will survive this.

 

[Jmanis]

3 pages in and this meme hasn't been done?

 

[nosleepdemon]

Personally, I blame Brexit. #changemymind

Edit: I love how I'm not even the second person to mention this