Posted November 20, 2014
tomimt: I think Frontier might have avoided this whole current shitstorm they're in right now if they would just have made to offline single player anouncements like this:
"We are sorry, but offline is not going to happen. We are refunding for everyone this is a dealbreaker."
I do think had they announced it like that they would have far less people asking for refunds than they have now, as I do believe some people are asking it because Frontier has managed to come out from this looking like total asses.
Now how the things are turning out they are doing more damage to themselves by not agreeing to those refunds. Everywhere I've seen news about this the discussion is very negative towards Frontier and the situation right now is such a PR disaster for them that it could potentially drive the whole company down.
To be honest I think Frontier might have avoided all this mess altogether if they had mantained an offline mode. Regardless of their excuses I don't think it would be so hard to create. "We are sorry, but offline is not going to happen. We are refunding for everyone this is a dealbreaker."
I do think had they announced it like that they would have far less people asking for refunds than they have now, as I do believe some people are asking it because Frontier has managed to come out from this looking like total asses.
Now how the things are turning out they are doing more damage to themselves by not agreeing to those refunds. Everywhere I've seen news about this the discussion is very negative towards Frontier and the situation right now is such a PR disaster for them that it could potentially drive the whole company down.
In fact, in my humble opinion, it probably wouldn't be too different a gameplay than that which we can see in Elite 2.
I think Braben (who, in the past has proven to be an asshole in certain matters) is just stubbornly refusing to have it offline, "because he can".
MaGo72: I remember a time when developers where looking for Beta players and had to employ people for stress tests of the servers and to find bugs.
So people played the game to help the developers and this is the rope that prevents them from getting a refund...nice FD.
Better yet, I remember a time when game developpers used to distribute free playable demos of their games on gaming magazines. So people played the game to help the developers and this is the rope that prevents them from getting a refund...nice FD.
Nowadays, they sell the demos on Steam and call it "early access".
Post edited November 20, 2014 by karnak1