Time to abandon it

Riverside

Riverside
jasonbarron said:
Well, Minecraft is probably the best video game ever created, so I'll grudgingly make an exception to my statement:)
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I don't own many games, maybe 20 bought over several decades. I have old PCs I use to play games I bought 20+ years ago & still use them regularly, occasionally buying used components or servicing a motherboard to keep old stuff running because some of those games don't work on modern hardware, or aren't the same. Mostly racing or driving games but Elite+ is among them.

When I bought ED I was pretty sure it'd be my kind of game, and that I'd play it a lot. And it was, and I have. But my playstyle doesn't depend on a multiplayer aspect, although it certainly adds to it. Some racing games are no longer practical to race online. The servers are gone (I have my own in some cases), the playerbase has moved on apart from a few die-hards who all know each other & don't run open races I can join on a whim as I used to.

I think you have a point, about multiplayer games. You gotta go where the pack goes if you want to play with lots of people, particularly to meet lots of random strangers. But as Mengy says, a good game remains a good game forever :)
 

Stigbob

Stigbob
Mengy said:
I disagree, there are a few games I've been playing for a very long time which I still find fun today. Master of Magic, Minecraft, Diablo II, for example.

A good game is always a good game, and some good games have nigh infinite replayability. :)
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WR3ND

WR3ND
jasonbarron said:
Well, Minecraft is probably the best video game ever created, so I'll grudgingly make an exception to my statement:)
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For what it's worth, my servers are still on v1.8.9.

Tough to say whether or not my ED version would still be on 2.0, if it were up to me. :unsure:

Hoping 2020 helps sweeten the deal a bit. We shall see.
 
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Ezren

Ezren
WR3ND said:
Unfortunately though, I generally go exploring in a Vulture.
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WR3ND

WR3ND
Mengy said:
I only play on the Windows 10 Bedrock version of Minecraft now. It just runs so much better than the Java client, and the huge draw distance is awesome.
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I can run up to 32 chunks render distance at 4K vanilla 1.8.9 fine on my rig, though it does take a while to load it all, and on the servers it seems to occasionally cause some chunk corruption. I limit them to a render distance of 12 chunks anyway though, so as not to cause some unfair disadvantages for people running the game on lower spec rigs with Intel HD CPU incorporated graphics.

That's perhaps getting a bit off topic here though... :giggle:

Cheers.
 
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Wrecked

Wrecked
Vandaahl said:
Steam charts or it didn't happen!

[drums fingers]

Ok, times up:

Game Discussions - Well.. looking at Steam charts..

It seems ED has twice the number of players on average than NMS. ED: https://steamcharts.com/app/359320#7d NMS: https://steamcharts.com/app/275850#7d Not too bad considering NMS had a major content update recently, while Elite only had the ARX shop update with (allegedly ;))many metric tons...
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Huh... guess that other dude was right about No Man's Sky having more players now... Well, they deserve it at this point. Hello Games has gone above and beyond (no pun intended) to make up for their shortcomings... and with a tiny fraction of the resources of FDev as well.

This 2020 update better blow our minds or else only the hard core apologists and complacent '84 players will be left.

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Kelster87

Kelster87
Wrecked said:
Huh... guess that other dude was right about No Man's Sky having more players now... Well, they deserve it at this point. Hello Games has gone above and beyond (no pun intended) to make up for their shortcomings... and with a tiny fraction of the resources of FDev as well.

This 2020 update better blow our minds or else only the hard core apologists and complacent '84 players will be left.

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That's a week of stats, hardly earth-shattering.. I think the comparison when you click on 'All' is more interesting.. ED has a nice, fairly stable line across the whole time period, whereas NMS has a number of quite high spikes all followed by an equal or greater dip..
 

Ezren

Ezren
Wrecked said:
Huh... guess that other dude was right about No Man's Sky having more players now... Well, they deserve it at this point. Hello Games has gone above and beyond (no pun intended) to make up for their shortcomings... and with a tiny fraction of the resources of FDev as well.

This 2020 update better blow our minds or else only the hard core apologists and complacent '84 players will be left.

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As we all know, Elite Dangerous is only played through Steam. And one of those games had a well-publicized update recently...

If the 2020 update doesn't blow our minds, do you promise to go?
 

babelfisch

babelfisch
Wrecked said:
Huh... guess that other dude was right about No Man's Sky having more players now... Well, they deserve it at this point. Hello Games has gone above and beyond (no pun intended) to make up for their shortcomings... and with a tiny fraction of the resources of FDev as well.

This 2020 update better blow our minds or else only the hard core apologists and complacent '84 players will be left.

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It's not the first time, we'll see in a few weeks.
 
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