Trouble Getting Friends into Elite Dangerous?

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AtrociKitty said:
No, that there needs to be a sense of scale. Travel needs to take a while for the rest of the game to work.
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I bet your friend didn't like it because the jumping mechanic (press button and wait) is not worth the time. Its because the gameplay, the mechanic and not because the map is big.

If traveling the map needs to be boring to make Elite what it is then something is wrong.
 

DaveB

DaveB
I've personally introduced eight or nine people to the game. One put it aside when the GW2 update dropped because he's a total GW2 fanatic but he'll be back eventually. One dropped it altogether because he just didn't like the flight model, which is fair enough. The rest are still playing, although they mostly do it in our "RL friends" private group.
 

Shackram

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I have one friend that was interested enough to play the game.

She was having fun with it and had worked up to a Type-6, then she found a good paying (compared to what she had) passenger mission, to Sag A*. I told her to not do it, but she did. Went there and back in the unengineered T-6, in a week, promptly burning herself out.

I have other friends i tell about the game and they like the pictures i take, but they haven't tried it yet.

Cosmos said:
lol I don't yap.. I am however allowed to express an opinion arent I? Perhaps you'd prefer it if I joined the many others who've left and never looked back.
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Yes.
 

TheSynopticVision

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I come from the PS4 forum, was curious to read this. Gee, there's a lot of pretty bitter people here. I remain hopeful: I fit the "gamer in his 30s not interested in FPSs and really into hard sci-fi" profile, and that, I guess, will make it easier for me to like the game. I know what to expect (the PS4 trailer was...well, kinda misleading) and that's precisely what I want. But I guess time will tell.
 
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Infiltrator_2K

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Reading all the criticism of ED and people's grievances to why they believe their friends don't fake to the game, it's obvious they think they know what's needed to make the game more appealing to other people, but IMO, if you don't like Elite Dangerous now you'll never like it regardless what changes are made, and trying to pressure Devs into changing parts of Elite that makes Elite so unique will only push its current fanbase away
 

Weps

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I have a friend who bought Elite at the same time as I did (we were planning on playing together). Other games and real life got in the way of things, and he didn't play much in the first year.

Last year around spring he asked me about the game and if it made any progress. He asked me if it was about time he finally got into the game, as he only had the vanilla version. I made a brief and, in my opinion, objective summary about the state of the game and about Engineers, which was freshly released at that time. He decided that wasn't worth his time or his money.
 

kmwmtd

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Ironically, rather than me introducing a friend to ED and the friend quitting, in my case, it was a friend who introduced me ... and he quit ;) I still remind him of this when he's playing something like Clash of Clans or Happy Street [wacko]
 

dayrth

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My trouble is that I don't know any gamers to recommend the game to. If I did I would though as I'm still enjoying it more than 2 years in. My son is a gamer, but only on console. He does have a PS 4 though and when that releases I will be buying him a copy. Hope he like it. :)
 

Bryan K

Bryan K
I recruited two of my best friends a while ago. I managed to get one of them into a Cobra before he gave up, and the other never made it out of the tutorials before losing interest. I think the amount of time investment required is the major turn-off for a lot of people.
 

Agony_Aunt

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LOL, love some of the comments here. Some people saying their friends left because its too arcadey, some because its not enough arcady.

Those who will not find enjoyment in ED will always outnumber those who do. It is pretty niche. But there again, i'm sure that even the most popular games out there have more people who don't like it than do.

Barely a week goes by on the Steam forums where we don't get a "Should i get this game?" thread, and ill offer the same advice to any of my friends that i give in those threads. Don't ask me, i'm not you. Personally i love the game, but i cannot say whether you will or not. Check out youtube videos on gameplay, read positive and negative reviews, read the forums a bit and see what sort of experiences people have. If you read something positive, think, is that something that is positive for me? If you read something negative, think, does that bother me? Then make up your own damn mind.
 

dynamicbob

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more clan and social identity , its why i bang on about the background sim doing more stuff, more options, more depth, but frontier have their own plans, i guess the spread of console sales makes up for the limited player retention. Its not all about shiny graphics and varied mechanics, its also about a story, procedural generation could play a bigger role and the spread of ruins is sort of starting that process aleady
 

krylite

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ED is doing well considering, in its general genre. The fighters update gave it a boost. The NMS after-update fizzle just for fun :)



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Bryan K

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krylite said:
ED is doing well considering, in it's general genre. The fighters update gave it a boost. The NMS after-update fizzle just for fun :)



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Unfortunately, as has been stated in previous threads, Steamcharts is not very representative of games not exclusive to Steam. I play several games on that list, but never on Steam, including ED, which I bought through Oculus Home. Sure, I still use Steam for some games, but mainly just a handful of unique or early-access titles.
 
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BurnyBurns

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krylite said:
I'm shocked. I didn't know you could get ED outside of steam, wow.
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Funnily enough, ED arriving on Steam initially was a bit of a shock itself. :p Frontier refused to put it on Steam initially and the forum argument went that this was for the better, as Steam asks for a roality for games sold. But you simply don't reach Steam people so well by insisting on your own web-store as sole means of distribution. During the game's first year, pretty much out of nowhere, it was then put on Steam. The game still requires it's own launcher and a separate sign-on with Frontier's backend in addition to Steam's (as is normal for MMO-ish games) and you can launch it using its own launcher without starting steam, even if you installed it using Steam.

I don't think this has hurt Elite too much. ;)
 
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Starkiller_

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Cmdr Eran Mintor said:
@OP if he's more keen on action packed games you should already accept defeat. ED had very little action and the action it does have is very repetitive unless you manage to find a good PvP wing. I would stop trying to convince him to get the game because he's probably not going to play for long.

My experience is of the 3 friends I recommended the game to, one of which is my brother, none of them play anymore. Main reason being it's a huge time investment for little reward. So again, if your friend is the type who wants action he's probably in the same boat as my friends and won't want to invest time in it when he could, say, log into some fps and get his joy. Stop trying to pressure someone to spend their money for selfish reasons (or you could buy it for him if you really want him to try it and see how "good" it is).
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Yup, everyone I recommended the game to stopped playing, found it boring and went back to playing other fun games.
 
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