Always fascinating how people can write hundred of lines to articulate one simple thought they have in mind. It doesn't make the thought more substantial and accurate.
Well you use often lot of argumentation. But apparently you got nothing so I must be right.
So instead taking on my limitation with foreign language. Btw my native language is also bad. And I do ramble a lot. To get my point out.
I really don't understand SC. Whether or not something is delivered at the end of the fund raising drive I just don't understand how it's going to work. You buy ships, and upgrades to the ships - with real money? That's a great way to build a mountain of cash, but how will the game work if and when it's actually released? I can't help but see it as a giant cash cow for CR right now. Their site just has "money, money, money" running through it. I don't feel the urge to throw great handfuls of cash at the man and hope for the best.
Well it normal to have that feeling. Trowing so much money on it. But then again is there hard proof they are a fraud. There is proof that a large team and external are working on it.
49m changes the GDD and also the technical DD and with that planning.
It takes a lot of more time with lot more funding.
Also CR explanes what ALFA and BETA means. In essence you cant speak of beta untill everything that is planned for release comes toghether. So it possible the beta is set back by one of the modules. Beta means feature complete. But not content. but it needs all the planned modles in place. Alfa and pre-alfa is interresting but not something for regular public. It is something that more for inhouse game testers or external test team.
If you want refined game sooner you more into public beta. Wich is better stage where critical bugs are already smashed by close betas. And full featured and functional. With so much mire funds it set back much more.
So as I am not into game testing. Getting exposed to very unfinished limited incarnation of part off core features. I rather ignor these fases. And wait for public beta or just the released game. Which could be far into 2015. That hiw it is. Not much can be done about it.
Ed takes a other production take. To not do to much into the first felease. Wich means it getting much faster together. And it reminds me of the Americas Army game wich iterate from 1.2.1 to 3.x added lots features even new engine version. This model is also common for MMO.
But then again a much feature packed first release if done right has a much bigger impact. Elite D misses planet side landings. Which is a key franchise feature. It will greatly missed by fans. Not me. Expansion done right. Seems better way to do it. So it al has it pro and cons. But I prefere ED take on production. It is less risky and more focused. But that production choice is inspired by AA 1.2.1 a FPS game.
That there choice. And to me it is good thing the arent released the same time.
If ED is first , play it for a year or so. If SC feels different in style and gameplay focus. It might not compete directly but more be a complement. So after year I give it a try. And might play both depending on the mood I am in.
Alfa mean not much to me they are not the game we get in the future.
But this trashing of SC and analising the early state and judge a game that does not exist yet. Make no sense to me. To me alfa means this. Its not gaming. It is testing and giving feedback. I rather game.
I recal this slogan. Something like this: " Do you want to be part of development of this game "
Alfa pass
Beta pass.
So to be a game tester. Or not.
Going by the accepted norms of their forum, in general it's a very 'different' community anyway, and there are equally 'different' tastes in terms of skill, difficulty, level of required patience, controls, pay to win, etc. I think average age rather than nationality is the key factor here. As such I doubt a mass exodus from SC to ED would be a good thing for ED in the medium to long term, anymore than a mass migration of fanatical HAWX 2 players would be a good thing for the fanbase of an upcoming IL Sturmovik game.
Rather than a benefit, I suspect such a influx would lead to conflict, and any influence they brought to bare on the direction of the game would almost certainly be perceived as an act of vandalism from the point of view of the existing fanbase. At the end of the day, for a PC-only game, SC ironically in general has a fanbase with much more in the way of console gamer sensibilities. By this point, in large part almost certainly it is a cross-over audience, with ingrained console gamer tastes that are being pandered to rather than in any way challenged by way of introduction to PC gaming sensibilities. For example I have little doubt that if CIG were developing the new Civilization game the x-box controller would very quickly become the preferred controller and the pricing model would be EA inspired leading to 'pay per race' from the get go.
Exceptions and long since marginalised minorities aside, if you accept this view about the SC fanbase, rather than encourage a break out, for the good of PC gaming in general, let alone ED, a level 10 containment field is more in order.
Elite is franchise of 2 to 3 decades back. But SC franchises where it is the spiritual based on. Are also a decade up to two old.
So ED fans might be older. But the SC crowed might be not that much younger.
No kid no teens. If so they new to the franchise. Those people who played privateer. Wingcommander freelancer. Are now far into adulthood. Also both games are PC exclusives for now. Wich is often a what older group of game.
But both have there fans and they don't take critics on there idolised game.
Be older then doesn't make that you are right.
If DB vision is making the game he want to make. And stick with specific audience. Then so be it going for the niche market. Wich also it won't or cant be great sucses compared to more massmarket games. But within it niche it can be.
So who is right a 25 year old vs 40+ both with arguments. I look at the arguments not the age.
The more people the greater the sucses. My take on it the CR franchises are much more well known by younger generations. So thats why SC does so well. Getting much more high profile. Atrack lots of gamers. Doesnt mean SC is there perfect fit. ED might be it. But they need to discover it. And then they choose.
But on the released version.
It is also a thing that gamers discover ED trough SC forums and if ED comes out before SC that they go for it and like it. SC comes later. But those SC eD gamers might stick to that first game. That the down side to release later.
As ED is a MMO ish thing that bind gamers for many years expanding in to greater thing. Those part of EX SC might be lost forever. Also those SC that comes to ED would be the much more openminded of gamers.
So why make that if it is a doom scenario.
