shadragon said: They did that for seasons v1.0 and v2.0 and got roundly criticized for it. Impatient lunatics harangued the devs for details to the point where if you see one on the forums today, it's a rarity.



Everyone moaned the Seasons annual model of releases was unsustainable, so coming in V3.0 Frontier is changing the way they do updates and (I assume) their road map. How, we don't know yet, but the serious money seems to be on quarterly or bi-annual releases. You can bet the whining, second guessing and criticism will start right after the 3.0 announcement.



Frontier does an exceptional job of improving Elite. What I had in-game for v1.0 and what I have today are night and day. What has changed is the player base. I have no idea how players came to be this ungrateful, entitled and demanding. One small bug drives them to apoplectic behaviour. Hypocritical players with >1,000 hours raging how much they hate it. I simply can't comprehend the level of miserable you have to be to post some of the stuff I read on these forums daily.



If there's a lack of communication today, it's because idiotic, shortsighted and selfish players killed it. Click to expand...

I remember, I was here for all of that. (I'm a lurker so I rarely post unless I feel I have something to add.) I remember the ensuing feces storm to the road maps and what people felt they were owed based on said road maps, but I think in the end FD might be hurting themselves by being tight lipped.Personally I want them to go quarterly updates as it would mean less time for developing 'new shinies', to pull a phrase from SWTOR, and maybe get more base game bug smashing and overall polishing done. And above all else they need to talk to the community about problems. Instead of releasing this latest patch with all the bugs that were brought up on the test server, they should have made a post with each bug still not fixed and asked the community, 'Do you want us to release this, or let us keep working on it?'.I for one would have responded with 'Wait till you fix them' option. If someone complains about a bug then, it's on the community if it was known prior to release.My question is, was it pushed out to get the sales from the cash shop, or was it pushed because of peoples impatience? No answer will ever be given, but it is a question I ask myself when I see 'Transaction server not reached' lol. No, all my udp/tcp ports are all forwarded correctly, UPnP is on, and my NAT's are resolving correctly so not on my end.