@gamerfiend: I tend to agree. I had good fun, think it's a decent game but I'm not losing my mind about it. I'm still deciding whether to buy it or not and if so what platform.
Also, whether a game is overhyped or not doesn't depend on if you had a chance to play it.
I'm genuinely surprised by that, I kinda figured the unusual release schedule (spreading it across months) meant that they had decided to release what they could this year rather than wait until end of next.
@johnnyhalo666: Not everything increases your mental level (or whatever that reddening is called). I seem to be able to rob stores fine, killing players definitely effects it and I think npc's do too.
With the Wanted level there is a cool down, if you go on a rampage then yes you'll keep popping back up to the previous stars but give it some time, go do a mission or something, and it will reset. I thought it had always been like that?
The cops also seem to be able to use routes they didn't seem to before.
There is a PS crew, GBPS (GiantBombPS3), if there is an active PS4 crew I'd be interested myself.
@fisk0: You'd have to take a very close look at kick starters terms. I would wager that in fact no, it still does not constitute a promise.
I've used kickstarter and what I say to anyone else is, don't. If you insist on doing so then you really do have to just say bye bye to whatever money you put in. There's literally no other way to approach it.
Speaking for myself I'm all for offline games and I still insist on buying most of my software on disk because I like to have something physical for my money. So I can fully understand some people being miffed at the final decision to drop offline.
As I said though it's two different issues here, kickstarter and fdev. I'm not at all anti-consumer but if you're aiming all your ire at fdev then you're going after the wrong target.
I've actually been thinking that what the industry needs is for developers to get together at something like GDC and talk about do's and don't with crowd funding. frontier have definitely made a poor job on occasion but also there have been times when the customer base have been almost willfuly ignorant of the development process and I can't help but feel that there must be a better way of conducting these things.
@tomba_be: if you want to complain about the kickstarter system, then complain. Imagining that a feature was promised, when it wasn't, and then complaining about the t's and c's that people opted into when that's a kickstarter issue not an fdev issue is just muddling your own points.
@bollard: To be honest the whole tone of the article makes me scratch my head. I wonder if klepek was playing catch up on what was basically four day old news and so just rehashed other sites, losing the thread in the process. Pretty poor effort.
Speaking for myself, I'm unlikely to ever back a game again because Elite was an exception that I just can't imagine happening again. Ultimately if the game is as good as I hope then that's great. If it isn't though, well those are the breaks. Since as we all know, if you decide to fund a project you're kissing the money goodbye.
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