#4159722 - 08/20/15 10:01 PM
Re: Wow. Sure is a lot of complaining over at the Frontier forums.
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I remember playing the original Elite and never getting anywhere with it at all.This version has me hooked.Not sure how many hours I have invested so far but I reckon there will be many hundreds more to come.
As for the forum,I tend to avoid game manufacturers forums whenever possible.
EV's are the Devils matchbox.
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#4159726 - 08/20/15 10:16 PM
Re: Wow. Sure is a lot of complaining over at the Frontier forums.
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Every official forum ever is full of nothing but whining. People who think the game's 'ok' aren't going to post about. People who think the game is great might might tell their friends but they aren't going to the forums unless their really freaking out about how god damn amazing this game is.
That leaves the haters, whinger and entitled pricks. 'I paid $60 dollars for this and after 500 hours of gameplay I've decided I don't like the font in the options menu. Totally gamebreaking, I want, nay demand my money back! Infact I demand the devs pay me to compensate for my time or I'll burn their houses down!'
Interestingly most of the people complaining about ED seem to be from the MMORPG crowd (a most wretched hive of scum and villainy) while those from a sci-fi/flight sim background all seem to love it.
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#4159728 - 08/20/15 10:23 PM
Re: Wow. Sure is a lot of complaining over at the Frontier forums.
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One of the best official forums I have seen is the BoS one.Never any complaining there...
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#4159802 - 08/21/15 08:50 AM
Re: Wow. Sure is a lot of complaining over at the Frontier forums.
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I remember playing the original Elite and never getting anywhere with it at all.This version has me hooked. Same here. I'm too young for the original Elite but I did play First Encounters* thought it was the coolest game ever but I never got anywhere and it just didn't 'click' with me. Along comes ED and I've put in at least one session every week since preorder. Don't even want to think about how many hours! *I almost skipped over ED completely because the name Elite didn't mean anything to me. Wasn't until I saw a vid posted here that I became interested.
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#4159891 - 08/21/15 03:17 PM
Re: Wow. Sure is a lot of complaining over at the Frontier forums.
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I had never heard of the Elite series before seeing "Dangerous".
There are a few interesting and informative posts over at the official forums. I read there and learn a good deal.
As for the complaints, well I'm far newer to ED than many of those players, so I likely have a different perspective. Thus far, I am beyond satisfied with what I've seen. Sure, there are thin areas where content or interaction could improve. But with two updates to the core game plus a new expansions announced, I feel like things will only be getting better, based on the quality of what I've seen so far.
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#4160033 - 08/21/15 10:25 PM
Re: Wow. Sure is a lot of complaining over at the Frontier forums.
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I think I played Final Frontier for some time, was for free on a CD coming with a game mag. Wasn`t bad, but for the time the graphics were already dated, so I didn`t play it a lot.
When I heard about ED, I googled a lot and was fascinated about te idea of simulating our whole galaxy. Just my cup of tea. So I bought the Premium Beta.
And never regretted it. I already spent hundreds of hours i the game. Currently I´m on my way to Barnards Loop. Exploring the cold darkness.
Happy camper here.
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#4160326 - 08/23/15 12:29 AM
Re: Wow. Sure is a lot of complaining over at the Frontier forums.
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Never played the original Elite. Even watching videos and looking at screenshots, I did not want to play with flying shapes, trying to dock with what looked like a d20 dice. I made the mistake of trying out the demo. As for the vitriol, well, I guess they never heard of Star Citizen.... or BoS.....
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#4160374 - 08/23/15 10:08 AM
Re: Wow. Sure is a lot of complaining over at the Frontier forums.
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If anyone remembers Starglider (Jez San) that was pretty awesome with its wireframe vector graphics. I played that on my Spectrum 128K. I thought I had died and gone to heaven when I saw Starglider 2 on my Atart ST with its solid shaded 3D polygonal graphics. Like you said,ignorance was bliss
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#4160386 - 08/23/15 11:01 AM
Re: Wow. Sure is a lot of complaining over at the Frontier forums.
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I appears that PowerPlay is currently the main cause of a lot of angst at the moment.
I also like to keep in touch with the latest news on FD Forum, but all of the negativity can be a bit depressing at times.
I have been playing ED since April and I am really loving it so far - since I have a long flight sim background (Falcon 4), I like the feel of the flight model and of course the graphics and sounds (in space?) are just awesome.
Its also great to be involved with a sim thats being developed and the promise of new updates on the "horizon"
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