Would you buy a single player narrative DLC for ED?

[BlackSpaceCowboy]

Games like GTA V have a single player campaign in their open world sandbox. When you're done with the campaign it becomes a pure sandbox. They then sell a few DLC additional campaigns.

Is this possible in ED? Would you buy a DLC single-player campaign that had a story and was only playable in SOLO?

 

[Kamiyoda]

Sure

 

[Phoenix13]

I never play in solo but i would for this and pay for it, as long as it is long enough and in depth enough without too much repetition.

 

[CMDR Cosmic Spacehead]

Probably. Depends on the price.

 

[Deleted member 110222]

Data-mining suggests something along these lines is already coming...

 

[Dutchman141]

Ugh, I was already drawing my creditcard.......

 

[warlock]

They have this sort of thing in oolite, downloadable add on missions, quite good too and most of them quite in depth.

 

[EISENHORN01]

I’d buy it just so I could see the reaction on the forum from the ‘open only’ brigade. Pull the pin in that grenade and watch the forum explode.

joking aside such content could be highly useful. Case in point I’ve done absolutely zero Thargoid/guardian content, I wouldn’t even know where to begin, so a DLC guardian story that took me through the guardian sites etc would be fantastic.

 

[CMDR Cosmic Spacehead]

X3 (and others) had a story you could complete at your own leisure.

Admittedly the story was utter pants, but it had one.

 

[Deleted member 110222]

To add, yes, I would buy this type of product.

 

[Weps]

Only if it involves saving a princess.

 

[Mengy]

No, probably not. I play Elite to create my own narrative as I play the game, not to follow someone else’s path on rails thing.

But then I’m not usually interested in story based games as a rule, rather I go for sandbox and more emergent style games.

 

[Havvk]

I’d buy it just so I could see the reaction on the forum from the ‘open only’ brigade. Pull the pin in that grenade and watch the forum explode.

joking aside such content could be highly useful. Case in point I’ve done absolutely zero Thargoid/guardian content, I wouldn’t even know where to begin, so a DLC guardian story that took me through the guardian sites etc would be fantastic.

"Story mode open only! EEEEEE"

 

[StuartGT]

Sort of like squadron 42? Sure, as long as it wasnt cheesy storytelling and acting, like the commander chronicles on ED's official youtube page, those are so cringey[haha]

So... not Squadron 42 then? (See the entire Wing Commander series, including the godawful film)

 

[Speedcuffs]

Yes.

 

[StuartGT]

Data-mining suggests something along these lines is already coming...

This

 

[Jukelo]

Nope, not what I'm interested in ED for... incidentally the single player stuff is what I'm looking forward to in SQ42.

 

[dubsdj]

Yes I would buy into this but only when Elite has reached its full potential which is a fair way off.

 

[RamirezKurita]

No, definitely not, assuming you are talking about handcrafted missions and story.

However, I'd be willing to pay a pretty penny for a procedural story DLC that offers significant improvements to the mission system so that actual stories with fleshed out procedural characters with different methods, motivations and goals begin to appear as emergent behaviour.

 

[tolm]

Absolutely. Should have been one for signing up to fight Thargoids IMO.