I believe he actually mentioned "at the moment" in several ocassions. I think it is just to be expected, at the moment and for the forseeable it is all hands on deck for improving PC EDO and console release.
I hope that you are right. To be honest, I don't remember him saying "at the moment" at all. And if I remember correctly he had a tone of "Forget about this" in his voice when talking about ship interiors. I think his whole attitude regarding the topic was in that direction.
If you watch from this point below onwards you will hear it several times. But I guess it is not even necessary. FDEV will undertake ship interiors probably only if it makes business sense, never a guarantee, so how well or bad EDO sales go will also probably be a key decission factor. The main message is that it is not in the current plan, understandably so because it is all hands on deck for EDO. Given the state of EDO from FDEV´s point of view it is prolly way too early to even entertain the idea.
It just blows my mind how can they not even consider it.
I am pretty sure it is in their minds for sure, they know plenty commanders would like it. But it needs to make business sense too, that only FDEV knows and I suspect how well or bad EDO fares will play a big part in their internal discussions about it. Given all the work still left to do in EDO it is just way too early.
What do you mean - No Donkey Punching !!!!!
- Half the players want Earth Like Worlds, they're not planned
- Half the players want the Panther Clipper, that's not planned
- Half the players want Open Only everything, that's not planned
- Half the players want caves, they're not planned
- Half the players want donkey punching, that's not planned
- Half the players want the moon on a stick, that's not planned
fdev eh, so lazy
It's unlikely to be a case of developers being intentionally lazy, just badly managed.
Eve's attempt to introduce stations lacked any real purpose - there was nothing you could not do in the station 'walking' that you couldn't do simply docked, and additionally where you could walk was very limited and very slow...
People will buy what they like, and vice-versa...
Were you hoping they would make it for free, out of the goodness of their hearts?
In case not already posted:
- Half the players want Earth Like Worlds, they're not planned
- Half the players want the Panther Clipper, that's not planned
- Half the players want Open Only everything, that's not planned
- Half the players want caves, they're not planned
- Half the players want donkey punching, that's not planned
- Half the players want the moon on a stick, that's not planned
fdev eh, so lazy
It would take a lot more than Odyssey not making it's money back. Elite Dangerous is sizable IP and throwing the baby out with the bathwater would be a daft move. Odyssey not making it's money back, which is quite possible, would probably mean that they would end up returning to the drawing board where it comes to the game, not lose an otherwise profitable franchise.Should Odyssey not make its development cost back, we probably wouldn't see any more expansions anyway - the company has to make a profit
If the EDO console launch does not go off, Elite is effectively doomed since the code base is split until that launch. Ship interiors are the last thing they are worried about right now.
If Odyssey loses money, the board / investors will be reluctant to throw more money at it - they are businessmen, not games players.
He also said there would be ELW and more, however there was never a date on it, other than we got a 10 year plan.
Actually, I'm pretty sure none of them said "there will be". That whole video was about what they want. We can only glean, accurately, that we know what they wanted back then, from that video.
......rivetting!!!......NOT!Yes, they're business men, and flushing company assets down the toilet generally makes for bad business.
No idea. But you would have to consider a lot more than development costs - marketing, for example.
sure, it was never a promise, or a ROADMAP of how to get there...wink wink
Every time resources need to be allocated to a project, you make a business case, and from there on you build your project, they had several projects they could do, and spacefeet was the feature that won, and it did not include ship interiors.
And that terrible concept called profit - publicly traded companies require profit to keep their shareholders and investors happy.
As a business decision, getting rid of a lossy product makes perfect sense - it could even be believably remaindered as "End of Life" given the projected 10-year plan for the game, so could be accommodated by switching off the servers a day after the 10th anniversary of launch.
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