Cool, what happened, did ships get destroyed, or were they just shooting at each other until you left?
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Cool, what happened, did ships get destroyed, or were they just shooting at each other until you left?
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I'm assuming that was 35 generic pirate ships circling a freighter that wasn't doing anything? Not 'faction v faction' combat as advertised and shown in the trailers...
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Assumption is the mother of all **** ups.
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True, unless its depressingly predictable as to what the answer is.
Like most things in the game they are just cardboard cutouts that look like one thing until you look closely and then realise its just for appearances. If you repeatedly reload and take off from a planet you will find all kinds of things randomly warp in at the spot where you come out of warp in low orbit - I've seen some weird freighter type ships that I've never seen before and way over 35 ships looking like they were doing battle - only not much was really happening and if you flew down a bit and came back it had all vanished.
What a hot, steaming, gargantuan pile of horse ****.
There you go game devs, advertise whatever you want, feed us ****, punters will buy your **** and no authority will do anything about it.
The videogame industry is one messed up place indeed.
Uuuummm, I read the report, found it insightful. They spent a lot of time on it, answered all the issues and felt the report was reasonable for what is a £40 computer game issue.
Time to go outside me thinks.
To be honest I found it quite fun but then again it seems like my type of game, hopefully the first patch is a sign of good things to develop for this game
The consumer is far more messed up than the industry.
It's now a lifestyle rather than a hobby to some folk and they'll buy anything that promises to fill a niche that the previous 10 games of the same nature didn't fill for them and we the consumer continue to pre-order games for fun.
Don't blame the industry for simply supplying what the consumer is lapping up.
How far into it are you though? I played about 13 hours as much as anything out of an interest of seeing what they'd done with the tech and had some enjoyment out of it but by that point I started to realise fully how much everything is just there for looks and little real substance and then the game totally lost me.
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so they got cleared of false advertising.
I feel they only got cleared due to a bad case brought by the claimants. No offence, but you should never expect to win if you just say " durr this game lied and let the other side defend the one solitary issue".
Reading the letter makes it seem like HG just threw "procedural generation" at ASA (seemingly filled with morons) and that was that.
Reading the letter makes it seem like HG just threw "procedural generation" at ASA (seemingly filled with morons) and that was that.
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To be fair the list of complaints was pretty comprehensive, I'll try and find the original email I had from them.
I tried to get my point across as to what the problem was with as much information as possible. Dunno how the other 22 people worded it though!
Why do people defend a companies wrong doing and just accept that there is no justice when an "authority" investigates?!? I don't get it. A poster mentioned earlier the level of investigation justified the price of a £40 videogame. Multiply that 40 by the number of people that purchased the game and the figure is very different.
Developers can basically run amuck in an industry that's not governed well at all but I agree with the other comments - punters are morons and equally to blame.
Developers can basically run amuck in an industry that's not governed well at all but I agree with the other comments - punters are morons and equally to blame.