To be fair, it's still development. Maintenance means nothing new. And only emergency fixes.
Whether it's meaningful development or not, that's something else
Will the game be shutting down anytime soon
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Whether it's meaningful development or not, that's something else
Fair enough.To be fair, it's still development. Maintenance means nothing new. And only emergency fixes.
Whether it's meaningful development or not, that's something else
You have very forgiving way of looking at the issue though
Nope, consoles are not affected by this bug
Which makes it rather weird for FDev to ignore it for this long on PC.
Have they ignored it or just not solved it?
From our perspective it is the same thing from their perspective it is totally different.
Maybe U12 will fix it (well, a Horizons patch released at the same time) so we'll know in a couple of weeks time.
and to be fair, its been in maintenance for a few years now. I think frontier felt they HAD to release a DLC...they didnt want to, and the results speak for themselves.
In reality, they released the last update in the Beyond season, fixed the bugs and then said they would be spending their time working on the DLC and this would require such focus that they wouldn't be able to do any major updates in the meantime. There was never a break on working on new content, whatever we may feel about how this was managed.
I was just being sarcastic, since there are so many comments that have said the game is dead since...a long time now...
Nah.
But make sure you dont extend into last half of 2023, things might start to happen in preparation of the 10th celebration which might conclude with a loud bang, not from the Champagne, but from the Circuit breakers when they turn off the power
"Will the game be shutting down anytime soon"
No, not IMO...it will plod along with minimal development and effort, and the core group of players (who comprise of people who only really play Elite and nothing else), will manage to keep the lights on for another 5 years EASILY.
I think that was Florenus's point.
People don't understand what maintenance mode mean. It mean nobody works on the game. The company keep it running because they have other games. If something goes wrong they fix it, maybe, by diverting someone to it.I think that was Florenus's point.
We do have new stuff. Today we had new logs and lore things. A cg past week. A stream every 2 weeks.
Look at age of conan. No content for years, but the seasonal content (which is just a switch, and they even miss the date at times). Or secret world (same thing). Those are in maintenance mode.
So, no, it's still not in maintenance mode. As I said, whether or not it's "sufficient" work/content, that's another debate.
Sorry to be a bit of word here, but we have console on maintenance mode and I feel it's important to be accurate to prevent confusion.
There's stream every 2 weeks where there were 2 streams a week, which they said is for the better, because... less is more (not that I disagree - those streams were seriously lacking meaningful content).
But they said almost the same thing when they switched from 2 streams a week to 1 stream a week just few weeks before that - it's for the better, they will have more time to prepare more meaningful content, etc. Everything they drop - they make it sound like it's for the good of the game and players. Rejoice, we now have less streams, but those that will remain will be superb. Things in the future are always great. You can't prove they aren't.
Logs, lore things, even paintjobs and other store cosmetics, like f.ex suits - those things were prepared long time ago, even if they didn't appear in the game straightaway. As a proof - elements of recently added vintage suit, NPC's wore from the start. They waited a year before adding it to the store (which is part of their marketing strategy I suppose).
And CG's? If it's not a generic one - it's nothing special. They've made this game so it needs something like Game Master position to organize an "event" once in a blue moon, using preexisting elements. This game doesn't have seasonal content, like other games you've mentioned, but that's what narrative is for. It's written earlier (probably years of content) and then someone just follows the script.
It really doesn't sound like they're working on any new things - they just slowly add things prepared earlier as per schedule. No new DLC is being worked on and there are probably no plans for that; they declared there will be no fix on planet tilling (that's big indicator that no atmospheric planet DLC, or any other, is coming - they would have said that planet tilling will be fixed along with that in the future, not that they prefer to fix other things and it's not worth their time); consoles are no longer worked on - all that probably means general reduction of staff working on the title.
I mean, they were keeping silent for few months since December last year, working "incredibly hard behind the scenes", etc. and then they were gradually informing us of all those things that got cancelled, then published the "road map", which was just... sad. They've mentioned "Narrative content" in there, because without it there was almost nothing to list. Just look at it. "Update 14: Next major narrative phase ,stability". That's like, nothing. Maintenance.
I fear it's exactly what Frontier wants us (or shareholders, or whomever) to think, to not loose more money - that it's not in "maintenance mode". Because it has "road map" (although I think most of the time during those months when they were "working incredibly hard behind the scenes" were spent trying to decide what else they could add to it except "Optimisation" and "stability" to not look so horribly empty). Who would buy ARX if they knew the game is near the end of it's life? They will keep the game in this limbo state for some time, constantly pretending it's fine - but sadly I don't think there's a bright future ahead. I would love to be wrong, but nothing out there makes me optimistic.