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Totally hear you.
In the end, FDEV has a vision for the game they want to stay with, and there are also some features they won't take on because they want to invest time on other priorities.
I think most will enjoy Q4/3.3, but time will tell
This is why I worry about the future of ED - it's FDev themselves
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Totally hear you.
In the end, FDEV has a vision for the game they want to stay with, and there are also some features they won't take on because they want to invest time on other priorities.
I think most will enjoy Q4/3.3, but time will tell
Why?
Besides, it would lead to an incorrect impression that (a) the game is designed by popular opinion, and (b) that people who demand replies are entitled to get replies.
Neither is true.
Tend to agree, especially the last sentence.
But when you - as developer - found a kickstarer promising features you set a goal about what the customer "need" (even if it'll be debatable using such verb for a videogame but anyway…).
Eating your promises on the other hand isn't definitly the road to the success: quite the opposite. it seems to me the fastest way to fail...
In short: Fd is never wrong...
Why? Because it shows community engagement and is good PR.
I'm not demanding replies either.. I was just countering the argument that nobody is suggesting good quality solutions to the game's shortcomings.. We have been for years.
Far from it, but they don't work for us. We're not their bosses.
Good is relative, for example your incentivizing open suggestion is basically a 25% open profits boost. That would be unfair on x-box players who don't pay the premium and also be pay2win.
Not dissing all your idea's that's just a quick example of one that would create some genuine issues.
I do wonder why you hang around the forums spouting this garbage if this is what you truely think.
But you seem happy enough wasting your time hanging around the forums. Maybe you should follow your own advice.
That's a pretty weak argument to be honest.. I don't think Fdev would ever base design decisions on whether or not Xbox players choose to pay their subscriptions to live. If they did they wouldn't be considering making Powerplay open only. With that logic you would effectively rule out any open-only features for this game which would be a bad thing.
Expecting them to exclude or penalize part of their own paying customer base is unrealistic. They've also specifically ruled an open bonus out already, so you already lost this one.
Powerplay open only was a suggestion made in passing that's not been mentioned again since, I supported it but it looks like another dead idea already.
Latest proposal doesn't consider making PP open only anymore. It consider some parts of Powerplay being conducted in Open which would allow for greater weight towards those actions done in Open.
What proposal is that? I thought they were comparing both proposals to see which one was more popular? It looked like the original one had more support to me.
No, second was published as more weighted and updated proposal, which solved lot of people issues with BGS and PP not being able to work together, or console solo players. As far as I remember they never said it is popularity contest. In most likely scenario there will be actions allowed in all modes, and there will be some of actions which will be available only in Open, and those will carry greater weight toward meta game. At least that's how I understood it.
Not paying for xbox live is in the same ball-park as not paying your internet bill in my mind.. It should not influence the game design.
Because entirely optional cosmetics was the plan instead of a subscription.
You mean this thread? : https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/430713-Powerplay-Proposal-Part-2
Seems like a popularity comparison to me...
er...what?
To get money? You know, like a business is set up to do. Selling paint jobs (or anything else like perhaps another game) doesn't make us their boss.
I don't get your point. That's exactly why these players were invited to the event. FDEV wanted some feedback of a limited number of players with different playstyles for their Q4 update before they announce it to everyone.
And while they were there and had dinner with the devs they had the opportunity to bring up some concerns ON VARIOUS MATTERS, Q4 related or in general.
Again, that's exactly why they were invited.
Because they have paint job I want on my Krait, and that's why I buy it?
Or I am getting confused here somehow.
Not really.
It means with all opinions on both of them how good arguments or counter arguments on both proposals.
FD development proposals have never been about popularity.