Why does Fdev seem to put the fewest resources possible into their most successful and lets not remind them "backed" game by the community..

StuartGT

StuartGT
Nutter said:
I thought it was well known that a couple of years ago (I'm sure someone has the dates) they annouced that they were moving the main ED Dev team onto a new project (Now known as Odyssey or internally 'Project Watson') Since that time Horizons has had minimal Dev time. This stacks up with the poor quality, delays and lack of comunication.
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-VR- Max Factor said:
It's so widely known that only you know about it. ED has a dedicated Dev team of over 100. Whether you like what's been added or not it purely subjective.
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Nutter is correct - in Summer 2018 the large majority of the Elite devteam began full production of New Era (now announced as Odyssey):

News - Important Community Update

Greetings Commanders, First of all, we would like to take a moment to thank you all for the continued support and making Elite Dangerous the incredible, community driven, phenomenon that it is today. We started our Elite Dangerous journey over 6 years ago and today hundreds of thousands of...
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Ozric

Volunteer Moderator
Ozric
Ralph Vargr said:
We funded the company, and got dumped for a younger person...
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While that's slightly amusing, it's not true. Given how many games Frontier had already released before Elite I hope that no one backed the game expecting for them to only focus on this one game for the rest of time. Because that would be crazy.
We certainly gave the company the boost up it needed, but I doubt the majority of that came from selling copies of the game.
 

-VR- Max Factor

-VR- Max Factor
MishaTX said:
Dedicated? To what, exactly? Because I could do with a bit of dedication to, I don't know, the actual game I'm playing.
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We've just had fleet carriers and the rest of the team are working on the next ED paid for expansion. There is some information about it on this forum, it's called Odyssey, look it up.
 

-VR- Max Factor

-VR- Max Factor
StuartGT said:
Nutter is correct - in Summer 2018 the large majority of the Elite devteam began full production of New Era (now announced as Odyssey):

News - Important Community Update

Greetings Commanders, First of all, we would like to take a moment to thank you all for the continued support and making Elite Dangerous the incredible, community driven, phenomenon that it is today. We started our Elite Dangerous journey over 6 years ago and today hundreds of thousands of...
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I misread.
 

Wrecked

Wrecked
Ozric said:
...The reason I think that an FPS shooter is so far removed, is that I just can't work out how (sorry) CoD in space fits in to the way the game has been structured in the past, or even in the current Elite: Dangerous. And that's the thing that concerns me the most about it all is that it seems very much like. FPS games are popular, let's stick one of those in...
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Why is it that people believe if you can get out of your chair that the only activity possible will be a fragfest bloodbath? As if the first step you take off your ship anywhere there will be a CoD match going on. Is this what people imagine for elite feet:

You’re 40k lys outside the bubble. You land on a remote, unmapped planet. You look out your cockpit window and see a cave that you’d like to explore. You leave your seat, head down the exit ramp to... BOOM! Out of no where, 30 commanders are going at it on foot! Bullets flying all over the place! Explosions from grenades! You run back to your ship, go to the bridge and look out to the planet... nothing... desolate... you go back outside and.... BOOM, the 30 commander fragfest is back on!

I mean, really? There is nothing else possible on foot that could bring a new level of immersion and experience to the game other than death matches? Imagining that this is the only implementation for feet is actually amusing.
 

sqzbox1

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Alien said:
I have actually met Sandro, and some of the other devs .... I am a pretty good judge of character ... I think I can safely say Sandro understands Elite better than most people, including you and me.

EDIT: I'll go one step further, I think it's you who doesn't understand Elite considering how much you disagree with. You're just another one who wants the game tailored to what they want, not what works for everyone.
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I would have been prepared to accept your point - and then you had to go and throw that edit in. Don't you go telling me what I understand and what I don't understand. I've played every version of the game since the original. Yes - I am that old. I evolved along with it. Yes I disagree with a lot. But I didn't list what I DO agree with, did I? Because that was not the point of my post. So you cannot, good judge of character or not (I suggest NOT) - make a statement such as you did without the benefit of full disclosure on my likes and dislikes. Your comment is offensive.
 
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MishaTX

MishaTX
-VR- Max Factor said:
We've just had fleet carriers and the rest of the team are working on the next ED paid for expansion. There is some information about it on this forum, it's called Odyssey, look it up.
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You missed my point entirely, or perhaps I missed yours. That's fine.

I'm very well aware of what they're focusing their dev efforts on, I'm equally well aware of what they'd been half-arsedly focusing on with their FC "update" which broke just about everything that used to work just fine, at least as far as I was concerned.

Now we have a broken mess with servers that strain under the load and crash people left, right and center and things that used to work just fine but don't anymore, carriers stranded in the black because hot spots don't have anything of the materials they're named for and... I could go on.

And still their focus is on a vapor-ware update that may or may not come any time next year (Soon™) instead of making sure that there are still anybody around even remotely interested enough at that point to even give half a hoot? You put 99% of your resources into something that is a vague promise of "things to come" (and I'll be the first to say that I was incredibly hyped when the Odyssey trailer dropped by mistake before the FC fuster cluck dropped a spanner in the works) while completely ignoring the base that you rely on to even want to buy your next offering?

That has all the markings of idiot suits and bean counters being put in charge of something that was, when I backed it 6 years ago, a labor of love bringing back something that I'd been praying for for 20 flipping years. It was the ONLY reason I backed it, because I'm not enough of an idiot normally to pay money for a product that hasn't been produced yet.

If ever a virus comes around that specifically targets short-sighted, selfish, next quarter bean counters and suits, I'll build a temple to it and start worshiping it.

TL;DR: To those 100+ devs working on an expansion that I was incredibly interested in and now don't give two farthings about:

What. Have. You. Done. For. Me. Lately?

I have been one of the most hardcore backers of this project since its inception precisely because I felt like it was the implementation of a vision, not just another way to milk a cash cow and yes, I know how capitalism works, I'm a big fan of it, it's all about offering something that nobody else offers and cashing in on it. All good.

ED is, the way it looks to me, transforming into something that is indistinguishable from all of the other instant gratification crap games flooding the market, and I don't want that. But if I'm a minority and that's what it is, then I guess I'll just have to accept it. I'll spend my money elsewhere. Won't make a difference to the bean counters because I'm just one person, but it won't make me shut up about it either.
 
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[PS4] Filthymick420

[PS4] Filthymick420
ZeeWolf said:
To be fair, the marketing material they've teased us with had guns..lots of guns
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unless there's all kinds of new marketing material available, I've only seen two people with one gun each. I feel like we have very different opinions of what lots of guns is. Also there's a large selection of weaponry available for your spaceships how many people are exploring in unarmed vessels or mining exclusively with mining lasers and ssd and whatnot? The SRV comes equipped with a gun I would hardly say that the SRV is combat-oriented, primarily it's an exploration tool.
 

ZeeWolf

ZeeWolf
Filthymick420 said:
unless there's all kinds of new marketing material available I've only seen two people with one gun each. I feel like we have very different opinions of what lots of guns is
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On my local high street, one gun per person is lots thanks

Elite being a game about many aspects of space, you would expect it to be part of an overall experience rather than the main focus
 

Alexymus

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Wrecked said:
Why is it that people believe if you can get out of your chair that the only activity possible will be a fragfest bloodbath? As if the first step you take off your ship anywhere there will be a CoD match going on. Is this what people imagine for elite feet:

You’re 40k lys outside the bubble. You land on a remote, unmapped planet. You look out your cockpit window and see a cave that you’d like to explore. You leave your seat, head down the exit ramp to... BOOM! Out of no where, 30 commanders are going at it on foot! Bullets flying all over the place! Explosions from grenades! You run back to your ship, go to the bridge and look out to the planet... nothing... desolate... you go back outside and.... BOOM, the 30 commander fragfest is back on!

I mean, really? There is nothing else possible on foot that could bring a new level of immersion and experience to the game other than death matches? Imagining that this is the only implementation for feet is actually amusing.
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I personally would be happy with ME:Andromeda style missions, and trailer suggests something like that is coming
sneak in a base, kill guards, hack terminals, grab materials and data
 

Factabulous

Factabulous
Filthymick420 said:
unless there's all kinds of new marketing material available, I've only seen two people with one gun each. I feel like we have very different opinions of what lots of guns is. Also there's a large selection of weaponry available for your spaceships how many people are exploring in unarmed vessels or mining exclusively with mining lasers and ssd and whatnot? The SRV comes equipped with a gun I would hardly say that the SRV is combat-oriented, primarily it's an exploration tool.
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Yeah, imagine the EDO trailer reviews if it was two figures walking across a barren landscape - one with a wheelbarrow and one a metal detector :ROFLMAO: Guns is just a handy thing to make it look cool :)
 

[PS4] Filthymick420

[PS4] Filthymick420
ZeeWolf said:
On my local high street, one gun per person is lots thanks

Elite being a game about many aspects of space, you would expect it to be part of an overall experience rather than the main focus
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Your power of selective reading is impressive /s. please do go on and comment on what I said following that, about how there are numerous guns available for ships yet no need for any of those guns in exploration or mining or trade unless you so choose to. I'll wait.
 

ZeeWolf

ZeeWolf
Filthymick420 said:
Your power of selective reading is impressive /s. please do go on and comment on what I said following about how there are numerous guns available for ships yet no need for any of those guns in exploration or mining or trade unless you so choose to. I'll wait.
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Sure, the conversation was concerning my comment about the trailer though so the rest is assumption do you see?
 
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