You are such a little scamp. Adorable, but nevertheless, a scamp.
Do you mean this bit ?, I made the relevant words big for clarity.
"Q, Can I leave the space ship ?.
Yes, but not in the initial release. The core release of the game focusses on the ships and space. We'll then be working to expand the game. This includes exploring your ship and space stations. The potential content for Elite is huge, so we're keeping a sensible strategy to add to the game in stages."
Source : https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1461411552/elite-dangerous/faqs
The there's this bit from kickstarters own FAQ :
"At the same time, backers must understand that Kickstarter is not a store. When you back a project, you’re helping to create something new — not ordering something that already exists. There’s a chance something could happen that prevents the creator from being able to finish the project as promised."
Source : https://help.kickstarter.com/hc/en-...obligated-to-do-once-their-project-is-funded-
You can put words in large bold text all you like, it doesn't change the fact that FD has no legitimate excuse not to produce space legs when Elite has brought in upwards of $100 million USD of revenue for the company and people are releasing cheap indie games on Steam that provide more gameplay content than space legs would provide.
... and they said they were going to do it, again, in the very newsletter that promoted expansion passes: https://us2.campaign-archive.com/?u=dcbf6b86b4b0c7d1c21b73b1e&id=ac1081437f
And just saying it's rubbish is not much of an argument either mate. You can't have one rule for you and another for others.
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The problem is that most of the expansions we've gotten since 2.0 have been rubbish either due to missing features, bugs or some sort of gameplay limitation or flaw. Even the features I personally enjoy, like SLFs, have been delivered with severe gameplay flaws where we need to grind an NPC pilot up from harmless and then lose them instantly on ship destruction. It's like FD can't even give us an enjoyable feature without tying it to some sort of grind that ruins what could have otherwise been a good gameplay experience.
I guess I have a similar perspective as you, but in my case it's precisely the reason why I *dont* want spacelegs at all. There are so many other things that Frontier could do a shabby, half-implemented job of, and I think would improve the game more than a shabby, half-implemented version of spacelegs.
Postponed indefinitely with no official plans to ever do do it and no announced schedule to ever work on it.
AKA "shelved"
Features have not been missing. And just because they are not feature complete does not make them rubbish. This is all just your subjective opinion.
I can think of far worse implementations for just about every feature in ED.
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You obviously missed the quotes completely, or just ignored them never mind though the truth can be inconvenient.
Which indie games do you mean I'm always on the lookout for quality space games and most of them are absolute trash. In fact I'd say ED has no competition at all.
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Multicrew features that FD clearly described a few months before the feature launched were completely missing. Even the SRV can't be used during multicrew. That is not an "opinion" it is an objectively verificable fact that the gameplay FD described for multicrew was not delivered. That is not a "subjective opinion", it is an entirely valid critcism of the gameplay.
Steam is full of indie games which deliver at least a rudimenary fps perspective. They are inexpsensive and were developed with minimal resources. FD could easily incorporate that level of detail into space legs given the size of their company and the amount of revenue Elite has genreated for them.
Sorry, but no they did not describe multicrew features a few months before it dropped that didn't arrive. They did that a year and a half before that. What was described a month before is exactly what we got.
And I knew it would be pants from the moment they described it and I was not disappointed.
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It was not a year and a half, that's nonsense. You have such a poor recall of the development process that you don't even remember what FD was telling us at the time, do you?
I think you need to go and re watch it. You are wrong. They originally described multicrew when horizons was unveiled a year and a half before multicrew dropped.
Then what was described a month or so before it actually dropped is what we got. I remember the forum posts of woe when people realised there would be no engineering role.
It is your memory which is wrong. Or it's cognitive dissonance in a desperate attempt to justify what your are saying.
You are wrong.
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FD described what they were originally working on and gave the impression that it was being developed right up until a few months before multicrew launched. We had no indication that those features weren't going to actually happen until shortly before multicrew launched and we learned that all of those non-combat features had been suddenly cut. When they were asked about it Sandro straight-up admitted that they "didn't have enough time and resources", which means they knew for quite some time that the plans they originally made were not going to suddenly materialize out of nowhere. They just waited until the last minute to actually admit it to us, because they were still trying to sell Horizons expansions at $45 each at the time.
Yes. Thanks for clarifying what I said. Glad you accept that your were wrong in your statement.
Sorry but horizons was not £35 at that time. This is nothing but a lie. It had been on offer numerous times before then.
You really need to try harder with your untruths. They are not very good.
And its about the only one I can think where it wasn't what they originally said it would be like. But as they said, they ran into some unexpected difficulties.
Is that the only one you can think of, the pretty much universally derided multicrew. At least they intend to improve it in Q4.
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Sorry but I have no idea what you're trying to say here.
It sounds like some sort of deflection from the fact that FD originaly advertised multicrew as having certain features and only told us about the severely downgraded version a few months before multicrew actually launched. Which is exactly what happened. When I purchased Horizons I paid $45 USD for it and the expansion was described as having certain features that have never materialized. Multicrew in particular was described as having several non-combat features that were never implemented and FD has still made no attempt to develop those missing features in the 15 months since 2.3 launched.