I bought the game when they said they were adding atmospheres and space legs, all those years ago when my hope for this boredom simulator was at it's highest. Defend it all you like that's your schtick mate. I'm done with it, have been for years. I'll always come by every now and then and moan though.

Nguyên văn bởi Close:

I bought the game when they said they were adding atmospheres and space legs,

And they are adding it. Did they tell you that they will be adding all this new content for free for those who bought the base game? No. So, unless you bought a lifetime account - you haven't paid for this new content when you bought the game back then.

Nguyên văn bởi Close:

I bought the game when they said they were adding atmospheres and space legs, all those years ago when my hope for this boredom simulator was at it's highest. Defend it all you like that's your schtick mate. I'm done with it, have been for years. I'll always come by every now and then and moan though.

They specifically said "Really big expansions are likely to be paid for while we also intend for some smaller free updates.".

It's right there on the Kickstarter page from 8 years ago: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1461411552/elite-dangerous/description

The base game has also had multiple free updates for almost 6 years now (every update also improves the base game), and the single paid update (Horizons) completed 3 years ago, since when there have been multiple free updates to that as well.

I know VR support may not happen or may not be a priority but please consider it for this upcoming feature. Elite Dangerous is already really amazing in VR.

oh space legs. That should have been something that came with horizons. Yawn.

Nguyên văn bởi Mu77ley:

Nguyên văn bởi Close:

I bought the game when they said they were adding atmospheres and space legs, all those years ago when my hope for this boredom simulator was at it's highest. Defend it all you like that's your schtick mate. I'm done with it, have been for years. I'll always come by every now and then and moan though.

They specifically said "Really big expansions are likely to be paid for while we also intend for some smaller free updates.".

It's right there on the Kickstarter page from 8 years ago: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1461411552/elite-dangerous/description

The base game has also had multiple free updates for almost 6 years now (every update also improves the base game), and the single paid update (Horizons) completed 3 years ago, since when there have been multiple free updates to that as well.

They'll just ignore this outright. They know they're wrong, they just enjoy nagging.

So we can land on all planets except gas giants now? I hope the reason the atmospheric planet in that image looks barren is so that we get more excited when we can land on lush green ones.

Nguyên văn bởi Alex:

So we can land on all planets except gas giants now?

Not now. Hopefully, the next year.

we can probably expect "major updates" every few years and support maybe to go on a long time but snails pace

Nguyên văn bởi Join my group:

we can probably expect "major updates" every few years and support maybe to go on a long time but snails pace

Yes, I don't want to know what level of management is required to allocate resources productively over such a long period of time, to sustain such a specific project. Horizons is a few years old, ED isn't the hottest seller of all time, and one can only dump so much money into ARX.

We need to appreciate that their business model has sustained a very niche title for four/five years, and with these improvements to the game's life, albeit with a price tag, we'll manage another five, and so on.

If the servers are on, I'm happy. ED is a whole world on its own, and a very welcome pseudo-realistic escape from games with more traditional mechanics.

Be out in 4 years at this rate

Maybe not space but definitely legs, very nice.

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, can't wait.

Ha, they're probably going to beat star citizen....

Nguyên văn bởi kilo:

Ha, they're probably going to beat star citizen....

Definitely, and unlike Star Citizen, it'll actually run at a decent framerate...
Though I gotta echo what some others have said...ship interiors and inside of space stations first please...