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biglittle456 You do realise that with each illogical conjecture you make, in each comment you post, you continually increase the likelihood that other investors question your credibility and integrity as an astute and objective investor? Other investors have already noted, also, that despite many people having asked you directly, over a period of many weeks, you still haven't answered the question as to whether you hold any stock at all in FDEV, or are in fact just an offline-refunder who is blatantly attempting to deramp FDEV shares, and call into doubt a company, and director, with whom you seem to have some kind of personal vendetta.
biglittle456 The fact that (not for the first time) you feel the need to ask another question regarding the nature of share price fluctuations of the order of a few percent on a dedicated investor/share forum, once again speaks volumes about your investor credentials. Can you actually confirm, finally, whether you hold any FDEV stock, or are you in fact just a refunder? Hopkirk gave a more than adequate response to you and others in their post from Friday 20th March @12:45 "Has the share price dropped from the high? Yes. They all do. It's the nature of shares." Here's the rest of Hopkirk's reply for your edification. Note that Hopkirk has been an investor for quite a while now: 1226 posts since September 2012, on a number of shares, not exclusively FDEV. Also note that their posts cover a multitude of different topics regarding each company (rather than an almost exclusive focus on a specific aspect of a specific product that they seem to have a somewhat vested and emotional attachment to) In short, Hopkirk's posts show a far more balanced perspective than displayed by the majority of your 51 posts since you joined LSE following refund-gate around Nov 2014 - from which point onwards you focused, with an obviously and repeatedly negative perspective almost entirely on the minutiae of the solo/offline decision - and also, solely from your viewpoint. Hopkirk: "I must say, there has been some odd comments on here. Is ED the best game ever? It depends on what type of game you mean. Personally it has supassed my expectations so I'm happy. Has the share price dropped from the high? Yes. They all do. It's the nature of shares. But look at what is coming up. Xbox and PS have doninated game sales (PC games are more for the hard core gamer) and David Braben has said it will be released on both. So, more sales, more revenue. More profit. Higher SP. The only criticism I have so far is in relation to advertising. I, like countless other kids played it. But we grew up and don't tend to play games anymore or read PC mags. I know dozens of people who weren't even aware that ED was released but have bought it (and usually a new PC) when they knew it was out. Hopefully with it being released on more platforms there will be more money for mainstream advertising. GLA"
RandomElement On the contrary... The link(s) I have posted regarding Rock, Paper, Shotgun its comments thread, and the Elite:Dangerous Reddit pages (33,000+ subscribers) - to mention but a few - are absolutely relevant to investors in FDEV. Investors are extremely interested in current players' perceptions of the game. It is obviously very valuable information to any investor: Current players don't like what they're experiencing = bad news for the game's future prospects Current players really enjoy what they're experiencing = good news for the game's future prospects The evidence from the open-forums I've linked to points to many, many satisfied customers, and increasingly so with each .x (free) expansion. Conversely, the link you posted (and especially its comments section) regarding 'fan anger' for a small minority of Kickstarter backers represents an extremely polarised view of the game, and the comments section is highly likely to consist of axe-grinding malcontents who wish to discredit the game, its creator, and his company. Additionally, the majority of these posters either have not ever played E:D due to having received their refund, or have only played the four-months-old 1.0 version and have since received their refund thus precluding them from commenting on the 1.1 and/or 1.2 release. Their views are therefore out-of-date and, especially from an investor's perspective, increasingly irrelevant.
biglittle456 Opinions: Those are your opinions and you are, of course, entitled to them. Most readers of this forum, however, are most adept at assessing the validity, or otherwise, of others' opinions. (after all, everyone has them, and most of them stink) Readers of this forum are especially adept at assessing the opinions of those who: 1) hold no stock in the company 2) repeatedly post misinformation... 3) in a blatant attempt to de-ramp a share due to 4) personal and emotive reasons relating to a Kickstarter campaign for a product that the company developed. Facts: Frontier own the rights to the 'Elite' trademark. Frontier have the sole right to decide what is officially sanctioned as the official sequel to 'The Dark Wheel' Elite:legacy "expands upon (the) earlier work" of 'The Dark Wheel' and furthemore "portrays events set in the same fictional universe as (the) earlier work" 'Elite:Legacy' fulfils the objective criteria of a sequel. Frontier state that 'Elite:Legacy' is the sequel to 'The Dark Wheel' Conclusion: 'Elite:Legacy' is the officially sanctioned sequel to 'The Dark Wheel'
biglittle456 Your obviously deliberately disingenuous posts are beyond tedious. Repeatedly you state what you assert as facts, yet anyone who takes some time to research your misinformation can quickly discover the untruths in your statements: 'Elite:Legacy' by Michael Brookes is the officially sanctioned sequel to 'The Dark Wheel' The Kickstarter campaign stated that this would be made available by digital download and a paperback copy to be included in the Premium Boxed Edition of Elite:Dangerous. Kickstarter backers have now received their digital downloads and Boxed Editions which include a physical copy of the book 'Elite:Legacy' Please feel free to view the following screenshot from the Elite:Dangerous store relating to Kickstarter rewards which states, extremely clearly, that 'Elite: Legacy' is the sequel to 'The Dark Wheel' http://j.mp/EliteLegacyIsTheDarkWheelSequel Facts: Frontier own the rights to the 'Elite' trademark. Frontier have the sole right to decide what is officially sanctioned as the official sequel to 'The Dark Wheel' Now, given the above facts, it is highly likely from the pattern of your previous dispute that you will continue to dispute the very meaning of the word 'sequel' With that in mind: "A sequel (also known as follow-up) is a narrative, documental, or other work of literature, film, theatre, television, music, or game that continues the story of, or expands upon, some earlier work. In the common context of a narrative work of fiction, a sequel portrays events set in the same fictional universe as an earlier work, usually chronologically following the events of that work." Elite:legacy "expands upon (the) earlier work" of 'The Dark Wheel' and furthemore "portrays events set in the same fictional universe as (the) earlier work" Frontier state that 'Elite:Legacy' is the sequel to 'The Dark Wheel' 'Elite:Legacy' fulfils the criteria of a sequel. If you were to assert that 'white' is 'black' all anyone would be able to do would be to object to your assertion and present clear evidence to the contrary. Whether you accept the objective evidence is a personal matter for you.
biglittle456 As stated very clearly in my previous post, the Premium Boxed Edition includes: "Paperback edition of Elite: Legacy - official sequel to the original Elite novella 'The Dark Wheel' " Please explain to the forum how this is in any way, "...lacking the promised Dark Wheel sequel" ...as you so confidently assert? ;-)
biglittle456 Sad to see a non-investor Kickstarter Backout such as yourself still tediously trolling this share forum. Mac Beta 31st March 1.0 release likely to follow in the weeks after for regular customers. Since you've complained about it repeatedly in the past, you will no doubt have noted that Premium Boxed Edition, A2+ star-map and signed posters have now shipped and are being unanimously well-received by backers, along with many comments of the type, "Well worth the wait!" being posted. Strange you didn't mention it - but that's most of the rewards done and dusted now, except for the physical copy of the Elite:Dangerous music, the third-party-produced die-cast models and perhaps a couple of other low-volume rewards. Remember: Offline and DRM-free aren't ever going to happen, so do yourself a favour and save yourself the effort of going on another rant about it (again)
Elite: Dangerous backers are currently receiving via ParcelForce in the UK: * A2 glossy Galaxy Map posters * Premium Boxed Editions of Elite:Dangerous ...which includes: + DVD copy of Elite:Dangerous game and manual in DVD gate-fold jewel case + Paperback edition of Elite: Legacy - official sequel to the original Elite novella 'The Dark Wheel' + 'Official Merchandise' branded Elite:Dangerous T-shirt/polo shirt + "We made Elite:Dangerous together." card from David Braben: "I would like to extend my personal gratitude to you for your backing and for helping to bring Elite:Dangerous to life" + All the above contained within ~[36cm x 28cm x 4cm ] Gatefold Box Overwhelming consensus seems to be that backers are very pleased with the high-quality products: Premium Boxed Editions https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/2zt9pc/premium_boxed_set/ https://twitter.com/phpGargoyle/status/579978096109096960 https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=130218 A2 Galaxy Map https://twitter.com/SteveL_NZ/status/576537574317031424 https://twitter.com/katerussell/status/579993591428325376/
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/03/16/elite-dangerous-career-guide/ ...and for an objective look at the engagement levels and opinions of current players of the online version of the game: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/03/16/elite-dangerous-career-guide/#comments
biglittle456 It is beyond clear by now to regular readers of this forum that due to your anger about the solo/offline mode you will cast derision on any opinion that anyone makes that is at odds with your world-view. DDDragon has made it very clear that they are a current player of the game Elite:Dangerous (v1.2 'Wings') and also, I understand, a shareholder in Frontier Developments. We can make our own judgements about DDDragon's comments and motivations by comparing and contrasting the comments with multiple sources (such as the ones I listed at length in my last post) Turning to you, biglittle456, will you disclose your own position? You may recall that it has been asked of you many times before, yet it has never been satisfactorily answered. So, once again... It really would be helpful for you to answer the following questions in order for other investors to decide whether or not to listen to your opinions - The reason being that from your history of posts here it is quite likely that many investors now simply ignore everything you type. 1. Do you own any shares in FDEV? 2. Do you/did you ever - own the game Elite:Dangerous? 3. If 2. applies, have you played any version since the original 1.0 release over three months ago? 4. Did you apply for a refund for E:D due to the solo/offline decision? 5. If 4. applies, were you successful in your refund claim? 6. Are your continually negative posts on this forum, in fact, an act of spite towards Frontier/E:D/Braben due to 4. or 5. i.e. solo/offline?
FDEV investors (and RandomElement) In the interests of objectivity, do bear in mind that an interview with Braben on the subject of 'fan anger' in which solo/offline is specifically discussed is *highly likely* to have a *disproportionately large number* of offline-refunders posting to its comments section (...not least as the article can clearly be seen to have been linked to on various forums in which offline-refunders hang out such as the Kickstarter thread, and in all likelihood the Elite Dangerous Refund Group, too. So, for a broader, more balanced view, take a read the comments for these publications and forums/channels: http://www.pcgamesn.com/elite-dangerous/elite-dangerous-wings-update-to-promote-co-op-space-adventures http://www.pcgamer.com/elite-dangerous-12-wings-update-goes-live-today/ http://www.techtimes.com/articles/37357/20150304/is-elite-dangerous-xboxs-answer-to-no-mans-sky.htm http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-03-12-how-elite-dangerous-new-wings-co-op-works https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6esSwCQtzP8 Comments posted in response to the above YouTube gaemplay clip: "Holy **** - that has to be one of THE most epic things I've ever seen in ANY game" "It's one of the coolest features in any space sim.. Period." "This is such an epic feature. I hope they will build upon it. The jump alone gives me chills." "Holy **** that was ******* awesome, the sounds and atmosphere in this game is incredible."
biglittle456 Please try to remember that this is a stock market discussion forum specifically intended for those holding shares in a company to discuss the prospects of those shares. It is not a place in which to repeatedly (and tediously) highlight your personal grievances (which in this case can all be traced back to a minor design decision change in a crowd-funded project) Quoting other people's individual posts does nothing except turn this into a verbatim repeat of opinions that can be viewed elsewhere. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, naturally. However, as stock owners, we are interested in the *general consensus* regarding products that a company develops. It is therefore much more balanced to post general links to, for instance, the huge Reddit community that has developed around Elite:Dangerous and allow other investors to make up their own minds by getting a feel for the word on the street, rather than laboriously quoting an individual view-point which may or may not in fact chime with the majority of people. biglittle456, it is looking increasingly likely from the content, tone and focus of all your posts that you are in fact most probably not an FDEV shareholder at all, and are far more likely (based, amongst many other factors, on the date that you opened your forum account - interestingly, in the days after the solo/offline announcement...) to simply be someone who was very upset at that valid decision, and are now attempting to do everything in your very limited power to somehow discredit FDEV/Braben/Elite:Dangerous/+any other aspect of E:D that you interpret through the lens of someone who has become extremely prejudiced against Frontier Developments for a reason that the huge majority of the original backers are just not bothered about in the slightest. Other investors: To balance biglittle456's post, please feel free to take a look at the Reddit community for a far broader perspective (...remember also, that Reddit is a self-regulating and completely open forum in which redditors may upvote or downvote comments as they see fit - this means that however vocal a tiny minority may be, the general opinion of the majority is much more obvious to see) https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/ NOTE: 32,707 users subscribe to this sub-reddit It is highly unlikely that *all* of these are what biglittl456 might describe as: fan-boys, Frontier employees, or paid-shills. Instead, this is a large number of genuine, current players of the game who are engaged and integral to the burgeoning 'always-online' community surrounding Elite:Dangerous
biglittle456 you either know very little about the software development release cycle, or else you deliberately misconstrue in the hope of scaring investors who know little about the software development release cycle. Immediately following .x release, it is entirely expected for .x.0x updates to follow in quick succession to fine-tune the .x release. By releasing these .x.0x releases so promptly FDEV in fact demonstrate their rapid reaction to reported bugs. Remember how we went through the Ladybird book of software in which we discovered that Buggy Bugs are impossible even in principle to predict or entirely eliminate? Great news on the +10% share price recovery at the end of last week, wasn't it? Interesting that you didn't mention that, or the extremely well-received 'Wings' update that's going down a storm with players, the gaming press and Reddit...
Share Price up 10% since 3rd March For any FDEV investors on this board not completely immersed in Elite:Dangerous (and perhaps a little nonplussed by the constant stream of negativity from the handful of Offline-Refunders whose perception has been altered by their anger at 'Offline' mode being dropped...) Do take a look at the burgeoning online community springing up around Elite:Dangerous: (this is something that FDEV and Braben aimed for right from the start...) For instance, currently 30,000+ subscribers contributing to the EliteDangerous subreddit. These are genuine players of the game (i.e. they cannot *all* be what conspiracy-theorist Refund-Requesters would denigrate as 'shills' ;-) sharing their enjoyment and advice on the game. Undoubtedly, the one or two Offline-Refunders on here will rubbish these hundreds of comments as something like 'fan-boys unable to make an objective judgement' since the comments are in the huge majority positive and supportive of Frontier and Elite: Dangerous and therefore at odds with the world-view of Offline-Refunders. Just remember, games have fans, and such a large number of fans is a very good thing for the long-term prospects of a game, and investors investing in said-game and the company developing the game ;-) It is conspicuously notable, also, that Offline-Refunders have been utterly silent on the issue of this latest release, since a purely 'offline' mode would mean none of the additional co-op 'Wings' functionality would be of any use/interest to those guys. In addition, please note that Offline-Refunders (having never played this update) cannot in any meaningful way comment on these latest releases. Therefore, it is clearly sensible to take into account the majority rather than the cynical minority of naysayers. Conversely, to the *vast* majority (99%+) of players that care not a jot about offline mode, the Wings update (amongst other continual updates with the rolling development) is clearly transforming the game from the basic core functionality to a truly community-driven multiplayer experience. Since the Micro$oft cash injection, Frontier Developments have ramped up developer numbers, and thus far have released regular monthly .1 updates each hugley increasing functionality and introducing stability/efficiency fixes. All of this, notably, in very good time prior to the upcoming always-online console community of the XBoxOne and PS4 consoles - crucially, this is largely a younger gaming demographic free of the Luddite mentality of the less than 100 ex-fanboys who decry the offline decision. Latest update 1.2 'Wings' supporting co-op play with comms https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/ https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteExplorers https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteTraders/
Recent games magazine reporting of 'Wings' 1.2 update and upcoming console versions: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-03-10-elite-dangerous-wings-1-2-update-takes-flight-today "The update brings a huge number of stability fixes and tweaks... Frontier has spent much time on audio-related fixes and updates, too, so hopefully the game will sound better and with fewer obvious glitches and bugs." http://www.techtimes.com/articles/37357/20150304/is-elite-dangerous-xboxs-answer-to-no-mans-sky.htm "Space-sims are making their way to consoles this summer when Elite: Dangerous arrives on the Xbox One." http://www.pcgamesn.com/elite-dangerous/elite-dangerous-wings-update-to-promote-co-op-space-adventures "E:D is a wondrous space-sim, but it always had one thing sorely missing: proper support for you and your buddies to fly around the Milky Way and do space things together. Frontier have answered the galactic call. Inside are new ships, a new friends and communications UI, and AI groups." Below are some user comments for 1.2 'Wings' update regarding the things FDEV are getting right, especially: additional functionality, extensive and informative patch notes, tweaks, efficienciy improvements, and praise of the very modest hardware requirements required to play such a graphically jaw-dropping game (note that even the most hardcore hater of this game cannot with any degree of credibility criticise the graphical prowess of the game despite whatever other issues they may criticise Long-term investors, note also that the game/graphical rendering engine 'COBRA' is a proprietary code-base developed exclusively in-house by FDEV and is being licensed to third-party developers - Elite:Dangerous being a superb demonstration of its incredible efficiency and portability thus making Mac, XBoxOne, PS4 versions far simpler, less time-consuming (and hence cheaper) to port than traditional software development practices. User comments: "One of the things they snuck (or at least didn't promote hugely) in the 1.2 beta was an external view "debug" camera. They've said its not a gameplay camera, and you can't fly the ship in 3rd person, but finally we can get to see our own ships! Love it." "Mac & XboxOne players will be in for a real treat come this Summer (and us PC CMDRs of course)" "A dev that provides extensive patch notes. Something that should be standard practice across the industry, in my opinion. It never ceases to amaze me that some devs spend many hours/days/weeks updating games and yet don't bother to spend a few minutes to type a log of the improvements so to inform their customers." "This is a great update. Wings is a huge improvement and there's a ton of other tweaks. Combat should be more profitable now" "...even something basic can play ED well at 720P or 900P, like a Triple Core CPU & GeForce GT 630 :)"
Eurogamer: "Elite: Dangerous Wings 1.2 update takes flight today" "Dramatic co-op assist." http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-03-10-elite-dangerous-wings-1-2-update-takes-flight-today
Elite:Dangerous: Total units sold to date: 300,000+ Total number of Kickstarter backers: 25,681 Total number of known offline-refunders: < 100 offline-refunders therefore represent less than 0.5% of the original Kickstarter backers... ...and less than 0.05% of *all* current units sold to date. XBoxOne console potential user-base: 10,000,000+ PS 4 console potential user-base: 20,000,000+ offline-refunders increasingly represent a *vanishingly small* percentage of units sold. It is extremely telling that this board (which related to FDEV as a company/entity) is regularly visited by a couple of posters who resort to gish-gallop distraction techniques referring almost exclusively to offline mode and refunds. Similarly telling is that these posts, in their entirety, come from posters whose LSE accounts were opened in the days following the replacement of offline with solo mode. Hmmm... Facts: FDEV are indeed honouring the offline-refund requests from the less than 0.5% of individual backers who have made requests. FDEV always included an alternative to offline in the form of Solo mode (as required by Kickstarter Ts&Cs) TL;DR offline-refunders are generally disgruntled ex-fanboys attempting to discredit FDEV as a company due to their personal grievances over a feature that was altered in a game that they backed. Furthermore they backed this in the full knowledge that Kickstarter campaigns are best-effort endeavours and "promises" *not* "guarantees" - as is made clear by Kickstarter themselves. Hell hath no fury like a disgruntled ex-fanboy ;-)
IMHO: This is great news, especially for shareholders looking at the medium to long-term for FDEV. "I would like to see me building on it forever. For a very long time. There is so much more we can do, that I've already talked about - we've talked about landing on planets, walking around inside your spaceship, ship to ship boarding, all of those things. We've also said we'd have free updates, and paid for updates. It's all very exciting!" http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-03-06-elite-dangerous-xbox-one-console-david-braben
"Elite: Dangerous to touch down on Xbox One" "Elite: Dangerous is coming to Xbox One as a timed console exclusive, Microsoft has announced. The ambitious space trading game, a sequel to the classic BBC Micro title from 1984, was released on PC last December. In an announcement at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco on Wednesday, Xbox chief Phil Spencer said that the new version would be released this summer." David Braben: “More players across more formats means we can devote more resources to development. The more players we have, the better the game will become. Elite: Dangerous is a living game and it will keep growing on all our formats so long as people are excited to play it.” http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/mar/05/elite-dangerous-xbox-one-microsoft