There’s always a question of why do anything in a video game. Repetition, tedium, lack of player control of her circumstances, scripted behaviours with little choice- it’s a dream to some players that don’t actually want open world freedom.
Hmmm that’s a good description of a Prison.
Players enjoy having a bone no other dog has-but rely on time invested rather than skill to get it in farming focussed games.
Let’s be honest, skill based combat flight sims have small player bases. Too hard, no ganking,too realistic- for all the braggadocio, bad talk here about Git gud or get ganked, ELite is very arcadey, saved only by the Stellar Forge, VR and a more thoughtful tea drinking player base. Frontier has antagonized these players and only recently dropped the hammer on belligerents but it may be too late with so little content and more modern projects coming out. There will be no longevity for Elite, my coming to 2000 hours will be a quaint memory as the dev. Resources go to the production of Dinosaur worlds.
Prolonging the death of Elite is fine for me but the method is a bit more tiresome than it has to be.
If it ain’t broke don’t fix it? It’s pretty broke.
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