Promises made by Elite Dangerous developer Frontier to develop an offline mode of their upcoming space trading and combat sim have been broken, according to early adopters. In it’s current state, the latest successor to 1984’s Elite uses a buy-in system similar to Steam’s Early Access: here, consumers purchase the game with the assumption that the developer will hold its goals for future releases. And like so many other cases, Elite’s goals are beginning to fade away.
Early Access was never a perfect system to begin with and backing out on developer-made promises because of a lack of developer research or funding or time only highlights the imperfections with gambling on these developers to deliver the games we want them to. Concessions need to be made to fans that are upset over feature losses. We’re asking Frontier now to reconsider its stance on making unavailable an offline mode for Elite Dangerous. And if it’s simply still not feasible despite the massive outcry for just that thing, then alternative goals need to be made to appease the backlash.
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I would like my little universe with pauses and preservation with a choice of saving.
Inet wery slow.
Please return.
Amazing idea guys!
It would be great to have an offline mode in Elite: Dnagerous! Gonna send the petition link to my friends.
Sure, I'll vote for an offline mode. But I'm pretty sure FD are already well aware of the outcry, so I doubt one more petition is going to come as a surprise to them. Moreover, I think calling this a bait-and-switch is emotive and antagonistic, and doesn't reflect what this actually is: an unpopular decision communicated very badly.
Sad bait and switch money grab by Frontier Developments. They really should deliver on their promise of an Offline mode.