Personally i'll just continue in live and let the legacy account stagnate. The FC will sell itself eventually anyway.
Personally i'll just continue in live and let the legacy account stagnate. The FC will sell itself eventually anyway.
This is true, so the best case scenario would be to ask if Frontier can accelerate that decommissioning process for those who haven't gotten around to it after two months, I don't know how hard that would be for them to change it, but at some level it is an arbitrary time frame set in software. However, I do wonder how many people who were actually going to take up the offer of the console account copy to PC have yet to still do it.
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I'm not sure Elite: Dangerous will exist in 5 years, not in active development. Mac, VR, console: healthy games that are doing well and have a future don't continuously remove themselves from multiple platforms. The logic of cutting those things to try and let one aspect of the struggling game survive (Windows PC flatscreen E
) is sound, whatever troubles they have should hypothetically not be as bad with a lower workload. But I've never seen any strategy like this pulled off successfully in gaming, ever. And while they're struggling to make it work, they're generating a ton of negative consumer sentiment, which tends not to go away as fast as so many negative stories in a row can build it up. Plus, it erodes consumer trust: VR users saw Mac get cut off and thought that wouldn't happen to them, it's mostly Apple's fault (sidebar: true) and VR didn't have something like Metal causing issues. Then when VR users got cut off, console users saw it and thought it couldn't happen to them because FDev had promised a console Odyssey release, and anyone concerned that FDev may be on their way to killing off console users was derided as doomsaying, "can I have your stuff", etc. When FDev killed off console, PC users insisted it's not a pattern and it won't happen to them. The rest of the story hasn't been told yet.
I thought about doing the same since it has a few years worth of payments on it.... Maybe park it out in the black near a visitor spot where not many carriers are so people can at least refuel, repair, rearm with 0% tariff..... But then what if Fdev really screws up Odyssey, I personally don't really care for the current first person shooter they seem to be focused on (I'm a VR player), or even killing thargoids, I used to feed them meta alloys and watch them scan stuff... It would really be nice to be able to come back to a billionaire cmdr if I don't like the new direction. or if the game becomes totally un playable in VR.
so Horizons users are forced to used scuffed UI, worse performance, and bloatware if we want our action still be relevant?
what a horrible decision from fdev. i have zero interest to waste 50GB of storage for something i dont care and cant even use.
I'll not bother speculating on "what if FD screws up". Its happened often enough, but somehow things usually muddle through.
I'm not going to maintain 2 accounts, i barely have enough time for one at the moment.
Roll the dice, see what happens.
If FD do somehow blow it, well, shame, but there are plenty of other games out there. I'm eyeing Crusader Kings 3 at the moment, can't believe i've overlooked it for so long.
Doubt much will change, the majority of Players changing to the Live version. Those who can't or won't will be stuck in the Past, essentially living off borrowed time. And nobody is going to keep both sides BGS and Powerplay running, only Live is what matters in the end.
Interesting you mention Powerplay. Will be interesting to see what happens with that on legacy. Will the powers just collapse?
It's futile to appeal for Mercy when the Executioner grabs his Axe firmly in both hands, getting ready for the final swing. You can only hope for a clean cut at this point, to get it over swiftly.
Well, my worst nightmare has come true. EDH 3.8 was cut off from the world, but the bugs in 4.0 were not fixed, which actually made this game unattractive to me. It's time to say goodbye after a short (1.5 year) adventure. I will test it once after update in live version, but if any technical troubles appears I definitely quit play it. One straw too more for camel back. Sorry commanders o7.
I don't know. When surrounded by childish tantrums, it brings out the inner child in me.
You may not have asked for it, but they are actually giving you something, but you don't want that because you want what? Something else?
What are you getting:
1. A continued game server for your existing investment. You paid for that. You get to keep that. Carry on playing that CMDR. No one promised you more than that and you are getting it.
2. The Console Transfer Process that's been up and running since just after U13. A "FREE" upgrade to Horizons 4.0 and a separate account AND you get to keep what you are playing now - that bit that you paid for. That's not going away. Oh, you want to swap now, but you knew Update 14 was going to be big - we've known the stargoids have been coming. We've known that new content was only available in 4.0. But you are complaining they gave you no notice???? Sheesh with extra cheese on top.
You snoozed. You lost. You're grumpy about it, fine I get it. But no one owes you anything.
4.0 is coming with extra bugs.
Bye!
Don't forget the obligatory rage quit post and remember that Bottom Hat will be looking for your stuffs.
"Not in active development" ???? Yet here we are talking about the major update to Odyssey that's as big as the Odyssey release?
I hear ya man. Hello btws. It’s just all crap. Fdev continues to alienate every part of the community in some way just so they can do what they want. This is taken down to such a basic mechanic of the game that has been shared since the very beginning and not even that is left. I really hope whatever they have planned is so worth it to burn so many in the community with such a base gameplay concept because if this is all for another failed plan I really don’t know what to say. I suppose, at this point, how much surprise would there be. Only to succeed in dividing more of us in every way possible.
Even if it doesn't concern me as a PC player I'm baffled about this short term announcement
I mean, really ? You tell all console players that they furthermore can't transfer their full account to PC about ONE week before the "old" service is shut down ??
Nice... really... not !
I mean, really ? You tell all console players that they furthermore can't transfer their full account to PC about ONE week before the "old" service is shut down ??
Nice... really... not !
Rather as undead "zombie" than alive.
I absolutely approve of hard decisions finally being made in order to focus development on one version of the game and resources are not scattered anymore.Greetings Commanders,
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I also get some of the outrage, but to be entirely fair, everyone keeps what they paid for plus all the entirely free updates up to now in Horizon 3.8. Keeping this version as an option is already more than most other devs would have done, to be honest. Most would rather lose all those players (who would complain for a while and then shut up) rather than keep them (for that will generate people interested in the game who still have their reasons to complain about this split) for better outrage-management.
I, who is personally not affected by the split, like a lot that we can instance again with any 4.0 (sorry, "live") player, owning Odyssey or not.
I mean making 2 servers where only BGS is separated is not the same as making completely separated servers. 2nd is much easier. 1st maybe impossible yet. And I don't want to play 2nd version where I should decide what CMDR to keep/play.
I am not too worried on the whole - the game has evolved over the many years it has been running. New hardware needed is expected - same as any other game or game franchise however, the Frontier API and things that rely on it...
Inara, EDSM, etc. Will there be a separate API for each version AT LAUNCH so that we are not losing data?
Inara, EDSM, etc. Will there be a separate API for each version AT LAUNCH so that we are not losing data?