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hatefulpeace
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I keep reading a lot of bad stuff about these kick started games. After watching these videos, about trade, and just the sheer size, and how interesting that will make trade. I am against my better judgement really really considering getting the 150 dollar premium beta. I am so impressed with game, from that you can over shoot places, to you have to dock, but mainly I am interested in trade.
it reminds me if uncharted waters, just a lot better, and I love trade in that game. My question is would I have any worries giving this company 150 dollars? Will they take it, and just not finish the game? Use it to pay the good people working on the game, or waste it all? If I buy this and the game doesn't come out I would be so heart broken I would give up on gaming. Thanks for any help.
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David Braben has a proven record within the gaming industry (check all the old Elites) and he has said in the past he had to wait for technology to catch up before he could publish his vision.
I am waiting till launch, not too bothered about enticements to join early
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I don't like playing Alpha/Beta either. I think they will deliver, but I'd rather wait until the game is complete to avoid spoiling the experience for myself.
But to each their own. Bear in mind it's not "early access" but access to the beta test. So your stuff will probably be wiped before release, possibly many times.
I have a lot more, and I mean a LOT more hope for this game than I do Star Citizen. This is where I am putting my space gaming desires for the time being, and the level of detail and procedural stuff demonstrated so far looks pretty damn cool.
Yep I knew it would be deleted. I just wanted to be sure it will be released, I wanted to play and get all expansion for the 150. Thanks muchly guys.I don't see why Frontier isn't trust-worthy. They are one of the most focused development teams I've seen.
Well I haven't actually "seen" them.. but I've been following Elite's progress for some months now.
Bare in mind that when you pay the 150 dollars you also get EVERY expansion for free.
Thousands of people are already playing and there's going to be a lot more come the 30th.
The current beta client is many builds behind the alpha client, so if I were you I'd wait until the 30th to play with the updated client (I've heard RIFT support is phenomenal).
Bear in mind though that even though many of it's features are already live, hundreds of features aren't. Trade has been enabled as a simple mechanic right now which will probably change quite a bit until release.
The devs know exactly what they're doing and they're very good at doing it. Small stable steps without over-promising stuff.
I'll also like to say that Elite: Dangerous has some of the best sound design I've ever heard in a game.
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I should think you can trust the man who invented Raspberry Pi.
" In May 2011, Braben announced a new prototype computer intended to stimulate the teaching of basic computer science in schools.
Called Raspberry Pi, the computer is mounted in a package the same size as a credit card, and has a USB plug on one end with a HDMI monitor socket on the other, and provides an ARM processor running Linux for an estimated price of about £15 GBP for a configured system, cheap enough to give to a child to do whatever he or she wants with it.
[11] TheRaspberry Pi Foundation, a charity whose aim is to "promote the study of computer science and related topics, especially at school level, and to put the fun back into learning computing."
Pardon my English as it is not my 1st language
There is no certainty a game will be released until it has officially been released... and even then, it may or may not be the game you are expecting.
Best bet is to not pay to play a beta and just wait. You've waited this long, you can wait a little longer. At best, playing early only makes you want to move on sooner. So while your friends are just trying it out, you're already tired of it. Wait. It's the prudent decision all around.
Put it this way, frontier Developments are one of the companies that Microsoft and Nintendo trust to develop some of their launch titles. That is work with a defined deadline that must be met.
There may be delays on Elite as they will be setting their own deadlines and they want to get it right. They raised £2.2m out of an approximate £25m budget via kickstarter so it's not really a kickstarter funded game, they used it to gauge the interest in the game and to show other funding sources there was a demand.