that is fine, great for you!.... but despite your sarcasm there are players who are not interested in playing with other people, and CIG were just as happy to take our money and npc equivalents were part of the 1.0 release.... now they are not.
put it this way, i would not be so flippant if they had done it the other way and said for 1.0 there will be npcs with multiplayer stuff coming at some point after release even tho personally they would effect me a lot less.
note i am fine with multicrew ships..... i think it is a real loss that in elite dangerous we have these massive ships bigger than an aircraft carrier and you can fly with out any crew
but multicrew =/= multiplayer only crew - or it didnt until now.
Sorry but there are loads of things not coming with 1.0 either. There no ship customisation for internal/external, there are no alien races, there are no alien planets, there are no alien settlements, no pets etc. Oh and there clearly wont be all the different jobs and roles based on what shown there still missing things that have been discussed.
You can still play single player, in your single seater you can do everything anyways, in a multicrew ship you can use AI blades. So there is still some ability to solo a multiplayer ship, even without another player you can use such ship it will just not be effective. They haven't taken anything away and blades will add more to the game to not have to have anyone else.
It flippant because the reaction misses that there clearly is a way to play solo now even and going forward. There also was never till Sunday anything confirming what they are aiming for with 1.0 at all. 1.0 is the first release and features will be added after. CP2077 sold with saying multiplayer would come and that has been dropped forever or the destruction system or wall climbing etc and now they all gone. Things happen but they have said it will likely come later than 1.0 is all.
If there was no multiplayer in an MMO it isn't an MMO is it and clearly we would have to magically go back a decade to note have multiplayer since it has been in since day 1 in terms of people on so that is not really a relevant point trying to be made.
Edit: should note I basically fly solo and play random missions when I pop on by self like FPS stuff at min, no interest in anything until at least 1.0 drops to put proper effort in with others. When I do jump on with
@humbug @pete910 @FloppyPoppy @Raumarik it always messing about sessions and just silly stuff. Not really playing the game or missions. Solo play is fine and really isn't going to hugely change.
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