You obviously haven't played the game to the depth we have
To me this is still beta
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You obviously haven't played the game to the depth we have
I think the graphics and flight mechanics are great. But the amount of content is really small. I don't know why you think it's unreasonable that there ought to be more variety in missions, or functional multiplayer. Heck, even the influence system is broken. This is the smallest amount of content for any $60 game I can think of. It just wasn't ready for launch. Maybe financial circumstances forced them to launch early. I don't know what the motive is. But the game has not even hit all of its original feature milestones, so it probably wasn't because they decided it was actually ready to go.
I don't think expecting a handful of proper story missions, rather than exclusively RNG-generated ones which require you to fly aimlessly around in space until USS pop up out of nowhere, either containing what you were looking for or not. Considering most content is tied to USS, which is, from what I've seen on the forum so far, one of the least popular and most criticized mechanics of the game, I think it is reasonable enough to feel some disappointment in this regard.
Yes, the graphics and flight mechanics are quite nice, no doubt at all, having a huge universe is also nice. But they could've gone with a quarter of the universe's current size and spent the time on giving the remaining universe some actual content, before opening up more empty space. Nobody currently needs 400 billion star systems. What people do need already, is stuff they can do that isn't so repetitive and grindy that it bores them out of their minds.
Don't get me wrong, the game has plenty of potential, and I'll definitely play it here and there, hoping for improvements down the line. I don't think it was quite ready for launch, however.
Personally, I don't care whether I spend my money on this game now or later, when it has more content to offer. But there are people who do care, who expect some actual content in games they purchase on day one, and I think they've right and reason to.
$60, no subscription, continued updates.... And people still send money without doing research beforehand? Hey, I have this wonderful parcel of only slightly wet swampland down in Florida I could sell you....
Why defend it? Maybe because so far FD has delivered far more of a *working* game with a far smaller budget then some games out there via kickstarter or resorting to subscription like others. So why not defend it? To some of us, who actually enjoy it, it might just be worth defending, considering the potential it holds. I said this before, what you may consider a flaw is someone else's feature. FD is making the game they want, we are assuming for the ride and nobody is forced to ride this train.
So once more, sidewinders anyone?
Why defend it? Maybe because so far FD has delivered far more of a *working* game with a far smaller budget then some games out there via kickstarter or resorting to subscription like others. So why not defend it? To some of us, who actually enjoy it, it might just be worth defending, considering the potential it holds. I said this before, what you may consider a flaw is someone else's feature. FD is making the game they want, we are assuming for the ride and nobody is forced to ride this train.
So once more, sidewinders anyone?
It matters for the same reason I don't buy games in early access. I spent money to buy a game now, not a game that I might get 5 years from now. Maybe 5 years from now they actually make a series of poor decisions and wreck the game. Maybe they go bankrupt. Maybe they just decide they are bored with the game and want to make a new product. The issue is that it's not a completely honest way to market a game, because at least when I buy an early access game I get a big disclaimer saying "this game isn't even really playable yet."
I don't deny the game has a lot of potential. I think they've done far more things right than they've done wrong. I just think marketing an incredibly incomplete game as being 1.0 is dishonest. It's feature complete in only the most pedantic sense, because it doesn't even feel like a lot of effort was put into those features other than just enough to be able to check a box.