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I hope it’s bloody good!!!

https://store.zaonce.net/elite-dangerous-cat.html?_ga=1.215523988.2025700351.1398407669

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Wow Beer, that had to be some investment, but glad to hear you’re lovin it 🙂 Elite Dangerous and Star Citizen are two games I’m really looking forward to in the next year or so.

yep, I was going to back it on kickstarter months and months ago which was a lot cheaper but I’m going to shell out for the prem beta myself.

Right Steve, here’s what I think of this game. It looks promising but I’m not allowing myself to get too excited about it, because this could just be another quickly developed pile of crap in an attempt to cash in on the DayZ phenomena. I’ve not had a chance to watch that video yet because I’m currently stuck with the crappy net connection here and it’s buffering like fuck, however I’ve seen a few others previously.

I’m glad it’s free to play because I’d not give it a second look otherwise, so when it’s released I’ll be right in there to see for myself how it feels. Having vehicles in it is a plus, and while being able to make your own base is interesting, it does make me a little nervous as I thought that would be good in rust, but then didn’t like they way it was implemented there. I also don’t like how in a previous video I watched, the devs focused a lot on fire, which is a bit meh. If they consider that some kind of selling point, what’s the rest of the game going to be like?

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shame Rocket missed the boat big time!

Yea it’s a real shame, and I’m starting to feel a bit worried by DayZ.

Saying that he missed the boat is certainly true with regards to the game, but on the other hand he has been able to cash in on the mod’s success personally. I don’t know what position he held in the company, but in single handedly transforming a mediocre bug ridden game into a steam top seller, he was propelled to a project lead position, which I think he’s failed badly at. OK building a MMO architecture around a fps game is likely to be pretty hard, but at the very least he underestimated the task at hand by giving us what proved to be an unrealistic timeframe for release, which served only to increase the hype. It could be that the company forced this on him, in an attempt to cash in again before others moved into the same space, but to end up almost a year overdue, with only a bare bones alpha to show for it, is close to unforgivable. During that year we saw Rocket globetrotting promoting the game, as well as fucking off on an extremely expensive trip to climb Everest in the middle of the game’s development. Also in that time a member of the dev team was imprisoned in Greece for something, and this was used as an excuse for the delays experienced! Get someone else in ffs!

My worry now is that having cashed in personally, and having become a name in the gaming industry, he will now be walking off for a lucrative contract somewhere else or to start his own studio. He’s already said that he’ll be leaving his current role at the end of this year. For the rest of us what does that then leave? The game has already been released, and if it is to continue with centralised dedicated server support, it must be an expensive proposition to maintain for whoever controls the purse strings (I think that’ll be bohemmia). They don’t have any kind of subscription model and they’ve allowed 2 million sales of the game at an apparently low price (although very high for what we’ve got), so where will they receive the funds to support development of the game after this year? We might start to see DLC of some kind, but that’ll be extremely difficult to implement without becoming pay to win.

I’m starting to wonder whether this game will be the first popular “get everyone to buy an alpha to support development” game, which then fails to deliver on the developer’s promise.

Eeek, not sure I like the look of that. I guess it’s alpha etc but it reeks of WarZ