I always thought offline singeplayer in this game was a dumb idea. It's like playing a MMO alone. The biggest MMO ever created.
This game always was meant to be played online.
That would be great of ED had features of an MMO.
I didn't say it is a MMO. It would be like playing Borderlands solo, pointless and boring. No dynamic economy or events, no player rivalry. A perfect example of a game that gets old after few days.
You wanna talk about scale? You'd never come across other players if they didn't have that hand-holding matchmaker system in place, that apparently doesn't even work all that well according to shihonage's link.
It's just DRM, pure and simple. Fuck their "vision", devs always like to drum up these excuses when it's really all about the money (instead of RNG setting up prices of goods in system X, 0.1% of the time it'll be player #43827 affecting them - wow, muh immershun!). And why would you limit the amount of systems for SP? There's simply no reason to. There's plenty of valid reasons to prefer SP over MP and there's no need to list them all here.
No, it's not DRM. This game was built around online based economy and persistent universe. In order to make a 100% offline singleplayer game you'd either have to compromise and deliver a dull, static game world, or you'd have to add entirely new mechanics, exclusively for the offline singleplayer mode.
oh, you mean like the original Frontier: Elites?
No. Like i said above, this game was built around online features, therefore it's totally unlike the original games.
and wtf does the size of the universe have to do with it being single or multi? are you implying that to "win" the game or have fun with it you have to explore everything? then how does "mulitplayer" change it? you'll explore as much in SP as you would in MP, it's not like your mind is linked to others over the internet.
You won't explore the entire galaxy, but where you won't go someone else will. And that impacts the whole game world and every player, to a bigger or lesser extent. Unexplored systems can be explored, then colonized, then new trade routes become available, factions may clash with each other over resource rich planets, etc. That's how the game was designed, and that's the shit Braben was talking about since the Kicstarter days.
the only fucking difference between multi and single (other than the dynamic economy that isn't all that important or hard to do on the clinet in offline) is that from time to time you'll encounter real players instead of bots, and considering the size of the universe, you might as well be playing in singleplayer
Just like i said above, you really show how clueless you are. It's not only the economy, it's everything from colonization and resource extraction to faction rivlary and wars.
So, most of you haven't been following the game at all, but now you jump in because you smell some kind of "conspiracy", and proceed to flood the thread with inane bullshit. The best part is, none of you motherfuckers have actually played the game. Those who have, Bradylama, Blaine, Ulminati, SuicideBunny, Mortmal, J_C and me don't give a fuck.
it's obviously a D3 situation where they went with the shittiest, most obnoxious DRM available to mankind
Bullshitz. R00fles.