"Elite: Dangerous will no longer support an offline mode"

[kane_magus]

News like this makes me glad I didn't back this game, and if I had backed it, I'd definitely be asking for a full refund. And now I won't even be buying the finished product when it comes out, though I'd already been somewhat leery of it to begin with

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[owsf2000]

You know what that smells like to me? Shills posting asap to try to set the tone of comments. Obviously if that's the case it thankfully failed miserably.

If they promised an offline single player, or even hinted towards it honestly, then they should expect angering a lot of people. Personally I hope the project fails at this point. There has to be SOMETHING that teaches devs and publishers not to do this fucking shit.

[owsf2000]

And after reading the actual article and the dev's explanation, it's clear he thinks EVERY gamer is retarded if he expects us to believe that's the real reason for the online connectivity.

If a person wants a solely offline experience then YES the static little world is most definitely acceptable to that player. Whether or not it's acceptable to the developer is IRRELEVANT. They want this as the DRM for the game. That's it. We've heard this bullshit story, this exact same bullshit excuse from countless other attempts to shoehorn multiplayer/required online onto perfectly acceptable single player games.

I really hope enough refunds are demanded that they go broke over it. :P

[kane_magus]

If I wasn't already rather soured on the whole Kickstarter thing, this would definitely have been the thing to push me into sour town. If Frontier Developments (or whoever the hell it is that's making this damn thing) can just up and do a complete about face just before the game is about to be released on this thing (offline mode) that they apparently explicitly and repeatedly promised to backers of the original Kickstarter (which is apparently a large part of the reason the damn thing made it in the first place) and get away with it, then what's to stop other Kickstarter projects from just ignoring their stated goals and promises? It remains to be seen yet if they actually will get away with doing this, but I wouldn't be too overly shocked if they did. I mean, it's not like we haven't already heard about other KS things that also didn't deliver on the shit they promised either (which is part of the reason I was already soured on the whole KS crap

[owsf2000]

I did a bit more reading into it, and checked the links PC Gamer got their quotes from