Then there’d be so many more things to mindlessly grind for!
(I’m kidding, but I do think what’s holding Elite back is FDev’s insistence to not do game design and to just keep adding mindless busybody work - ended up leaving the game as a result)
They’d crap out a game for 5 mil, spend five years and another 5 mil making the game go from shit to amazing, and then have 990m left over like "uhh, y’all want pizza or sumtn?
Imagine if Frontier Developments had gotten $1B…
Then there’d be so many more things to mindlessly grind for!
(I’m kidding, but I do think what’s holding Elite back is FDev’s insistence to not do game design and to just keep adding mindless busybody work - ended up leaving the game as a result)
But then people would realize it’s as deep as a puddle quicker.
Elite often feels like its just missing something. It’s a good game but feels like there is potential to be so much better.
Given Odyssey more time to bake?
How about Egosoft? Although I am not sure if they would even know how to spend it all.
They’d crap out a game for 5 mil, spend five years and another 5 mil making the game go from shit to amazing, and then have 990m left over like "uhh, y’all want pizza or sumtn?
Y’all? Not a chance. They are German. Ve should go eat ze schnitzel und drink bier, yah?