Tinfoil hat says the Club wants more control over Aegis. Not that I’ve got much of a way to prove that, but I would not be surprised.
Or I’m just way too distrustful of any megacorp, especially in Elite. And I’m sure Sirius has two towers somewhere…
I'm actually very distrustful of FDev. Sometimes I wonder why they like to make that game, that Elite universe, so deceptive, opaque, dishonest and manipulative?
In fact, I could compare such game management to politicians (in some very undemocratic country) who tell half-truths or half-lies, keep silent about a bunch of important things and overemphasize the little things that suit them, all for the purpose of manipulation.
All these latest Galnet news are a bunch of nothing, or a bunch of semi-information, in order to create excitement and the appearance of some kind of events in the absence of real gameplay.
Well, just look at the last two CGs - first, human greed is rewarded for the senseless purpose of building monuments that we will never see, and then support for the humanitarian purpose of rescuing captured people is not rewarded?
And there is not even any meaningful information about what the goal of this CG is?
Let's be aware that such ugly and absurd situations were not created by the players, but by FDev.
And not to talk about how we can't even trust the patch notes after every update, but we have to spend hours ourselves to check what is true and what is not, and what has been changed without being mentioned in the notes. And then from this lack of transparency and honest communication comes the question that has already become chronic: "Is it a bug or is it a feature"?
(I'm intentionally mixing in-game and out-of-the-game things here, because that's exactly what Fdev often does)
So, I will repeat the question - why? Why build such an atmosphere of mistrust?
Do they think it's interesting and fun for the players? Or challenging?
I don't know what your opinion is, so I would like to hear it.
To me, it's sad and ugly. I didn't come to a space science fiction game to participate in stupid manipulative games. But well, dystopian novels and movies are also part of science fiction, so maybe we live in the Brave New World of Elite Dangerous? But I'd rather say we live in an Elite Idiocracy.