[Video] Drew Wagar, politely destroys Frontier Developments, (PSA) some highly damning statements.
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GalNet doesn't have stories not linked to gameplay in it anymore (in fact it has near nothing in it now) and that's bad because it lessens the world building of the game, making it less interesting.
Also Lore should never be altered and internal consistency is important.
Was he ever an employee?
Not really, he wrote officially licensed books based on official elite lore guides given to writers they allowed to use the license.
Essentially, he worked with them, to write his books, not for them.
That was my understanding too.
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I think he was intimately involved, and while freelance, did events and had further roles and access that make his insight and comments pretty extraordinary.
What a load of clickbait nonsense. Please, can't we just remove forum posts that are written purely to drive clicks to someone elses revenue stream and preferably also permanently ban the posters?
Not really. He's an author, who wanted to write stories, his interest is rightly plot characters and storytelling. As he explained in one of his recent streams I caught some of, this conflicts with the makers of the game who aren't trying to do the same thing at all.
Drew is a writer, with strong views on narrative and story, which is good. Fdev make games, they don't write books, which is a good thing. Their different paths intersected occasionally.
The idea this should be presented as "pretty extraordinary" or "damning" is, well, over-egging somewhat.
Will watch it over the next play session, thanks.
The last video was curious.. he speaks as in someone clueless in naivety until about 1 hour 55 mins in where he admits to being aware that frontier disappoint every time because they make the decision to do so..
For the white knights is contrast to an indie dev of 3 people without any possible means to keep flesh on the bones on the game. Who might have have an excuse.
And doubly so for the white knights the best outcome is a win / win.. A full experience for a profitable game. Preventing the truth going in your ears doesn't change it.
The last video was curious.. he speaks as in someone clueless in naivety until about 1 hour 55 mins in where he admits to being aware that frontier disappoint every time because they make the decision to do so..
For the white knights is contrast to an indie dev of 3 people without any possible means to keep flesh on the bones on the game. Who might have have an excuse.
And doubly so for the white knights the best outcome is a win / win.. A full experience for a profitable game. Preventing the truth going in your ears doesn't change it.
Just did a little bit of research on Amazon. Turns out Drew isn't the only author of books based in the Elite Dangerous universe - [NOTE ALL PRICES ARE LISTED IN AUSTRALIAN DOLLARS] although he is one of the more expensive. His novel Reclamation retails at $8.07 for Kindle, $34.67 for paperback; Premonition is $6.15 for Kindle and $30.64 for the paperback. To be honest the way Drew has been portrayed here in the forums by some I was expecting all his work to be just a labour of love and free to the world.
In fact there is quite a few novels written under licence based in the ED universe. Hell there are even a couple of 'How To' books available. Why aren't we hearing from those authors like Alex M. Adams, the 15 authors who collaborated for the books Elite: Tales from the Frontier, Kate Russell and Heather Murphy, Gavin Deas or Gideon Defore (might buy his book, it is titled Elite Dangerous: Docking is Difficult, sound like a blast lol).
Just saying there seems to be this aura that Drew is the only one who has written a book on Elite and the only one who created the Lore. Now it appears there are a lot more around ...
In fact there is quite a few novels written under licence based in the ED universe. Hell there are even a couple of 'How To' books available. Why aren't we hearing from those authors like Alex M. Adams, the 15 authors who collaborated for the books Elite: Tales from the Frontier, Kate Russell and Heather Murphy, Gavin Deas or Gideon Defore (might buy his book, it is titled Elite Dangerous: Docking is Difficult, sound like a blast lol).
Just saying there seems to be this aura that Drew is the only one who has written a book on Elite and the only one who created the Lore. Now it appears there are a lot more around ...
I simply do not click on any video embedded by non staff.
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They're only $15 usd. Does that mean my dollars are worth 2 of yours?
I can only quote what was listed on the Amazon site, nothing more, nothing less. Remember there could be different taxes involved etc, so any difference might not be down to just the currency exchange rate.
No, it just means the silly economics rules that rich people have put in place have determined that is the rate of exchange.
And Drew never worked for FD.
I don't have any problem with Drew but I have far better ways to spend my time than watching a two and a half hour video about a computer game.
If anyone could summarise his supposedly damning commentary into something that I could get through in a more realistic amount of time, like say 5-10 minutes, maybe.
I've certainly never heard Drew categorise himself as an employee either.
If anyone could summarise his supposedly damning commentary into something that I could get through in a more realistic amount of time, like say 5-10 minutes, maybe.
I've certainly never heard Drew categorise himself as an employee either.
I got em off amazon too lol but idk. I bought new too
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